The Original Smith Bros. Fish Shanty Restaurant
The original Text from back of Post card reads:

Smith Bros "Fish Shanty" Restaurant
Famous for Fish Dinners
Port Washington, Wis. On Lake Michigan
This unique restaurant, located on highway 141 25 miles north of Milwaukee and near Smith Bros. fish docks, reproduces the interior of a Great Lakes fisherman's shanty. Six artesian cooled dining rooms, with nautical furniture and the knotty pine walls, hung with relics of the sea, lend a distinctive marine atmosphere. The "Fish Shanty"restaurant serves fish exclusively, banquets excepted. Each guest order is specially prepared from fish direct from Smith Bros. fishing fleet. Free Parking. The Fish Shanty is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas.
They also operate Smith Bros. Fish Shanty, Walteria and 4th at La Cienega, Los Angeles California.
Official AAA Restaurant
Recommended in Duncan Hines "Adventures in Good Eating".

This is the original Smith Bros. Restaurant founded in 1936, which burned down in the late 1950's. The location is the same as the present day restaurant- right on the corner of Wisconsin Street and Grand Avenue, although the size of the restaurant is much smaller than the modern restaurant which replaced it.

Miss Evelyn C. Smith started the restaurant selling french-fried fish served in a hard roll bun from one of the fish-shanties. After the flood of 1924 the restaurant was moved to a rented storefront on the corner of Wisconsin St and Grand Avenue, on the site of the current Fish Market on the corner Franklin and Grand Ave.                                            

Eventually the Smith family bought the building and land, and expanded to the building next door.
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In those days if they wanted to expand the restaurant they would buy out the building next door and then punch holes right through the walls to anex the new dining room. This was one of the first air conditioned restaurants in the US. A natural artesian well that runs beneath the building was fed through a series of pipes running inside air vents. This well-water based air cooling system  is still used today for air conditioning. 

The restaurant business was run by Evelyn, who was a friend of Mr. Duncan Hines, chef of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. "Aunt Evelyn" Smith was known as the matriarch of the family. She served in WWI as an Army nurse in France, and lived for a while in New York City.  Much of the nautical brick-a-brak that decorated this restaurant and the replacement restaurant  was bought by Aunt Evelyn during the depression of the late 1920's.