Fried chicken and birch beer

Every once in a while we’d go to A&W for a frosted mug of root beer

always talks about the Ice Cream cones.

…seeing as they were more of a family restaurant. But they were, indeed, all over Massachusetts, and my parents and I regularly visited their Wellesley location in the ‘70s for the clam roll platter.

A hot dog place where hot dogs were 50 cents, K of C for deep fried cod, vinegar slaw, & fries are 2 that immediately come to mind. Oh, & a dairy for ice cream cones. The dairy frequently had the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile visiting. Lol. Drove folks nuts with those little weenie whistles.

Super yummy!

Funny, I was just thinking of these places this afternoon.

This is my second entry but my little KS town had one of these too. Papa and Mamma and Teen Burgers with fries or rings were excellent. But the Root Beer Floats made it into fast food heaven....

I grew up in a Happy Days/American Graffiti world. Yaw's was the place to go with my '56 Chevy, and drive around and around the block with the other hotrodders. There was a Portland cop monitoring the situation, and he handed our tootsie rolls as we drove by R.I.P Bob Svila.

boyfriend and I would go to McDonald's several times a week for lunch. I also liked Taco Bell, but that's because I worked there and got free food 😂

Too many yummy hot dog places to name.

but taken over by other fast-food restaurants. They were shaped sort of like a shrimp boat appropriately enough. My sister and I loved fried shrimp as kids and those offered some pretty inexpensive offerings. There was also Shakey's pizza which had a great shrimp pizza as one of their offerings (yeah, we loved shrimp)... LOL

The Brazier Burger with fries. Heaven!

We'd ride around picking up discarded glass bottles...
Redeem them at the little store... + buy lip-smacking tacos
made while we watched...

We could also get strawberry shortcake from the Japanese family's
strawberry farm when berries were in season... yumm!!!

Strawberry shortcake still floats my boat...

+ killer tacos steal my ❤❤❤ away...

I just remembered the little abuela who lived next door... Kids would line up in the morning on their way to school... She would
hand off fresh grilled tortillas w/ a smear of butter to each child on their way to school... So good...

10 cent burgers and 25 cent milkshakes!

Baltimore sandwich shop run by Harley Brinsfield, a jazz nut who also had a nighttime jazz radio show.

The Original or the chicken salad were to die for.

and Ohio. We still have Frishes Big Boy around Columbus.

Well I think the Eat & Park is still there. There is one in St. Clairsville OH near me.

of the building. Needless to say the Big Boy was stolen.

A Pennsylvania (and Maryland I think) chain that went under many years ago. Great burgers and KFC in one place. 🎶 Everybody goes to Gino’s, cause Gino’s is the place to go 🎶

when I was a kid, but I remember Carrols Hamburgers was the first fast food place that opened here. They had good hamburgers, but closed down pretty quickly once McDonald's came in.

Neither's hamburgers could compare though to the ones made at the bar and grills. A cook at one of them would season them just perfectly and put on mustard and finely chopped onions. Then after he retired we started going to a different place and the owner's wife convinced me to try a hamburger with her signature tomato sauce on it. It was love at first bite. I miss those days. We used to know most all the local business owners and they knew us.

Great memories!

cent hamburgers.

If there was still a real one open, it would be mobbed.

car. Thank you NBachers for bringing back memories.

in the early 1960's. during summer vacation we'd swim everyday at 'The Fort' public swimming pool, then on the way home we'd stop at Bard's Dairy Store and I'd get an orange sherbert Frosty (like a thick sherbert milkshake) and a 25 cent bag of barbeque potato chips. YUM!!!!

There was this place on the north side of town on the road to Oro Grande, but before you turned off to the road to George AFB. I don't recall its name and can't even remember a sign on it with a name. Just a gravel parking lot, a low stucco building with a window where you placed your order, and a string of bare yellow light bulbs. A place that looked like it would have to go some to qualify as a greasy spoon. But they had the BEST TACOS EVER! Drippy, greasy, and Big! Dad never let us eat them in the car (we never got to eat anything in the car), but we'd spread an old blanket over the trunk of the car and sit on it to eat them.
Nowadays I am not sure such a place is even possible.

There were several locals in the 60's.

We had no idea that a world existed without Wendy’s. No Pringle’s either

We waited, and it does, the world came to us.

Some might remember that chain.
Then there was a restaurant named Sno-White, that had a stand alone location plus a small lunch counter uptown on the North side of the courthouse square. The burgers were about the same as a Krystal burger. The one uptown was within walking distance of the public library and when we could get one of our mothers to drop us off at the library, we'd stash our books in a corner and walk down to get a snack. I remember that as about 7th to 8th grade when we did that.

library.Thank you House of Roberts.

We'd pull up in the Chrysler, a car hop would come and take our orders (usually a hamburger deluxe, fries, and a cold, frosty mug of root beer. Heaven on a warm summer evening.

Except the time my dad got a big piece of butcher paper in his burger. He was not amused.

Best chili dogs or chili cheeseburgers.

I remember it well, though.

If you've never heard of it, I'm not surprised, and I feel sorry for you.

It was THE hangout for teens when I was a teen. It was not a chain, and it no longer exists.

It was a place called the Bob Inn Grill next to a bar by the same name.
Not really a fast food place but they had great burgers with a basket
full of fries.

It was a chain, similar to McDonalds's. I grew up and lived in upstate NY. They opened in 1965 or 1966. I didn't go to any fast food till I was a senior in HS. They were less expensive than McDonalds, and their milk shakes were really good. I think they have gone out of business.

Oh man I could sure go for one of those grease bombs right now!

Twin Burger 🍔

Made you happy to be hungry.

Their burgers were nothing special, but you could get a hot fudge sundae for desert, with cherry ice cream!

Good Food. Long Gone.

... The burger was unbelievable good.

If not there, Bob's Burghers from the seventies, before the yuppies discovered it. Or the Blue Fame. Or the Flagpole, the original Bob's Big Boy or, jeez, how could I forget a Swenson's, dragged through the garden - even my vegetarian friends had to have one once in a while .......

... Nevah hoid of 'em. Once a week for almost twenty years. Hot sauce. There was a place that I loved, small and I can't remember their name, close to Village and Hopican Gardens that had popperkosh.

There was a road on Wadsworth Rd call the Trockadiro, that had good burgers and chicken.

I think it was a mid-atlantic franchise. They had a competitor to the Big Mac called the Gino's Giant.

A&W Root Beer stands - they had the best root beer floats and burgers and were cheap. They are long gone from here. I also loved Dairy Queen and there was one a couple of miles away! The A&W was much further away.

Home made root beer floats.

to a sundae at the locally-owned Dairy Delight. Later. Mr. Quick came to town, offering hamburgers @19c in 1971

burger was very good.

Right across the street from the high school. But it didn't last long, for some reason

I still vaguely remember one of their commercials:

"It was a hot afternoon in Springfield. The "troops" (kids) were hungry and thirsty. Then their "leader" (dad) uttered those immortal words....

(in a Milton the Monster voice)
'Six root beers. Six Coney dogs'"

1968 or thereabouts

Tacoma, WA 98403
Landmark quick-serve spot with retro style & a choice of drive-thru or walk-up ordering.

fountain at the local pharmacy or to the hoagie shop.

..along the way there was a corner drive in had the BEST tacos with tons of shredded cheese. I think they were about 35 cents.

Their Hickory Burger was to die for.

Pizza hut, and a mom and pop taco place. All long gone, the dq is currently a wine bar, the pizza hut is a Mediterranean restaurant and hookah bar, and the taco place was torn down.

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Was called Pastori's.
One of those joints where the family lived upstairs and the restaurant was on the first floor.
Looked kind if like Louie's from The Godfather where Michael shot Sollozzo.
They closed when I was in 7th or 8th grade. None of the kids wanted to take over the business, so when mom & dad wanted to retire, they just closed the joint. There were always people eating there, from noon until close.
Lots of people were bummed when they closed. There was some surprise that somebody wasn't willing to buy the place, recipes and all, but that didn't happen.

About Pastori;s

Hamburgers were 15 cents in 1965.

We had a drive in called Gilles (pronounced Gill eeezzz)
Still there, still great.

Tuckers Twofers was a great place too.