Comments on: Some more drive-in restaurant images and info http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/ Diners, Drive-in Restaurants and other roadside stuff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gunnar Johnson http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-433 Gunnar Johnson Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:07:18 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-433 Larry, I haven't been that way in some time but my brother tells me he was in the area last year and the whole thing had been torn down (Dandreas had a motel there too) and now a Starbucks (!) can be seen from the parkway. Now that Starbucks is having their own problems, maybe they will get torn down too! Larry, I haven’t been that way in some time but my brother tells me he was in the area last year and the whole thing had been torn down (Dandreas had a motel there too) and now a Starbucks (!) can be seen from the parkway. Now that Starbucks is having their own problems, maybe they will get torn down too!

]]> By: dinerhotline http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-432 dinerhotline Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:54:18 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-432 Gunnar, Thanks for sharing the memories! Do you know if there is anything at the site anymore? Gunnar, Thanks for sharing the memories! Do you know if there is anything at the site anymore?

]]> By: Gunnar Johnson http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-430 Gunnar Johnson Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:00:10 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-430 Hi Larry, I grew up in Hamden, Conn., next to Woodbridge and and I have very early memories of seeing that "EAT" sign of Dandreas while looking out the back of the family station wagon before entering the Wilbur Cross parkway tunnel. We never got off and ate there and I think by then they had modernized the archetecture (this was in the mid-60s), but they kept that EAT sign. Thanks for the cool pictures! Gunnar Johnson Hi Larry, I grew up in Hamden, Conn., next to Woodbridge and and I have very early memories of seeing that “EAT” sign of Dandreas while looking out the back of the family station wagon before entering the Wilbur Cross parkway tunnel. We never got off and ate there and I think by then they had modernized the archetecture (this was in the mid-60s), but they kept that EAT sign. Thanks for the cool pictures!
Gunnar Johnson

]]> By: Glenn Wells http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-428 Glenn Wells Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:41:50 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-428 I wanted to say Tamarack Drive-In for the Lakes Region drive-in (on Route 3 near Weirs Beach) but their web site says it was founded in 1962! (BTW, the photo on their web site http://www.tamarackdrivein.com is of the auxiliary dining room to the rear of the property, not the building with service windows to the front.) Unfortunately, I don't have my own picture. Interesting how Hardee's stole the Stanley Meston McDonald's design almost exactly, including the striped tile motif, merely substituting a big letter H for the golden arch. At least the McDonald brothers fared better than Mr. Hardee- as I recall, Ray Kroc bought them out for $2 million (still a pittance considering what McDonald's would later become.) I wanted to say Tamarack Drive-In for the Lakes Region drive-in (on Route 3 near Weirs Beach) but their web site says it was founded in 1962! (BTW, the photo on their web site http://www.tamarackdrivein.com is of the auxiliary dining room to the rear of the property, not the building with service windows to the front.) Unfortunately, I don’t have my own picture.

Interesting how Hardee’s stole the Stanley Meston McDonald’s design almost exactly, including the striped tile motif, merely substituting a big letter H for the golden arch. At least the McDonald brothers fared better than Mr. Hardee- as I recall, Ray Kroc bought them out for $2 million (still a pittance considering what McDonald’s would later become.)

]]> By: dinerhotline http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-427 dinerhotline Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:15:16 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-427 Nick, thank you for catching that minor error. I had the cards with me when I wrote it but used my memory instead of actually checking the info right in front of me. Nick, thank you for catching that minor error. I had the cards with me when I wrote it but used my memory instead of actually checking the info right in front of me.

]]> By: Nick Caratzas http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-426 Nick Caratzas Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:57:08 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-426 Just found your blog and love it. One minor thing -- you reference the Wilbur Cross's "Black Rock Tunnel" but you probably mean the West Rock Tunnel. AFAIK it's the only vehicular tunnel in the state and certainly the only one on the Cross/Merritt Parkways. Just found your blog and love it.

One minor thing — you reference the Wilbur Cross’s “Black Rock Tunnel” but you probably mean the West Rock Tunnel. AFAIK it’s the only vehicular tunnel in the state and certainly the only one on the Cross/Merritt Parkways.

]]> By: Tom Stanley http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-more-drive-in-restaurant-images-and-info/#comment-424 Tom Stanley Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:56:06 +0000 http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-424 I was on Yahoo and found your blog. Read a few of your other posts. Good work. I am looking forward to reading more from you in the future. Tom Stanley I was on Yahoo and found your blog. Read a few of your other posts. Good work. I am looking forward to reading more from you in the future.

Tom Stanley

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