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RICH MUISE · 2016-03-21 20:29

Hey Jay..one of the guys on the Hamb posted this pic. It was taken a bit before our time there, '54.

Ecode70D · 2016-03-26 03:50

Rich
That's Richard's Drive in for sure. It would have been about two years before I got my drivers license. By coincidence I was scheduled to take my driving test in Somerville which is next to Cambridge where Richard's was located. Thank You J >>>----------->

djfordmanjack · 2016-03-26 04:31

you know what's cool Jay, they also have cArb service, so now you know where to take your 57 when the gas starts getting stale again....hahaha...

Ecode70D · 2016-03-27 12:36

Rich
I just emailed the picture of Richard's drive in to my wife's computer.

Guenter
My wife was a car hop at that same Richard's drive in about 1964-65 right around the time when Rich was a customer there and was living here in Mass. This was before he abandoned our fair state and moved to the west coast for more sunshine.

RICH MUISE · 2016-03-27 14:10

Ha...just following orders...your wife may have been the one there that told me to get as far away from her as I could, lol.

djfordmanjack · 2016-03-27 14:59

hahaha....both of you guys still have your delightful sense of OEM Mass humor....haha

.... I miss that over here !!!

djfordmanjack · 2016-03-27 15:11

boys, I did a little online search. Happy Easter !

Jay I hope you can show this to Gerda on the ipad. Otherwise I'll send them by mail.
the b&w have high resolution. you can clearly see that they had cArb service.

Now I know why Gerda likes old cars so much...haha....

Ecode70D · 2016-03-28 13:58

In those days I was driving my 56 Ford with 292 Y block I would like to imaging my car in one of those pictures.
Rich what were you driving in those days?

djfordmanjack · 2016-03-28 14:47

want to pull in that drive-in with my 57 too!!!!

RICH MUISE · 2016-03-28 15:41

Wow, you did do some research. A big thanks for posting those. I doubt it's still there. Jay??
Also, there was another car hop place not to far from there which is actually where I spent most of my trips. Can't remember the name of it, but when you got to the end of route2 from the west, there was a rotary where you made a right turn then over a bridge. I think there was a big Purina dog food plant there, and Arthur D. Little Company was on your right across from that other car hop I can't remember the name of, just over that bridge on the left as you were heading into Boston / Cambridge. The Arthur D. Little company was a big think tank where alot of the MIT grads worked. One of my science teachers worked there in the summers. I asked him what he did there one day. He said, "what did I do? It's a think tank. We think".
What was I driving? A brand new 64 Galaxie 500 Convertible. Rare car...6 cyl. 3 speed manual on the tree!! Bought it my senior year in High School. Had to borrow 200. from my parents for the down payment. The 6 cyl. was what convinced my mom to lend me the money. I never would open the hood for my friends to see. I just told them it was a 6 and they never believed me for months, so the cool factor remained.

Ecode70D · 2016-03-28 21:10

Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2016-03-28 15:41
Wow, you did do some research. A big thanks for posting those. What was I driving? A brand new 64 Galaxie 500 Convertible. Rare car...6 cyl. 3 speed manual on the tree!! Bought it my senior year in High School. Had to borrow 200. from my parents for the down payment. The 6 cyl. was what convinced my mom to lend me the money. I never would open the hood for my friends to see. I just told them it was a 6 and they never believed me for months, so the cool factor remained.

Rich
"It's only a six" I haven't heard that expression in 50 years. You were a sneak.
Guenter is the person that did all that research. I can't run a computer. Jay

hiball3985 · 2016-03-29 07:46

I sure miss the drive in days, did mine in 57 & 58 Fords. My first wife worked at one for a short time in 1968.

BWhitmore · 2016-03-29 08:19

Jim - do you ever cruise the "Harvey's Broiler" in Downey? They had car hops. Although the place has been remodeled and is now a Bob's Big Boy they still had car hops up until a few years ago. I think the car hops finally went away because of a lack of business.

djfordmanjack · 2016-03-29 09:32

I was there 2 years ago. I think they have a car cruise every Wednesday evening.
and they have delicious HUGE milkshakes

hiball3985 · 2016-03-29 10:01

Quote from: BWhitmore on 2016-03-29 08:19
Jim - do you ever cruise the "Harvey's Broiler" in Downey? They had car hops. Although the place has been remodeled and is now a Bob's Big Boy they still had car hops up until a few years ago. I think the car hops finally went away because of a lack of business.

Yes, we would go to Harveys on Friday or Saturday nights. We also cruised between Bobs in Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena. The Burbank/Toluca Lake still has car service and a car show on Fridays, Jay Leno shows up quite often.

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