Hey Jay..one of the guys on the Hamb posted this pic. It was taken a bit before our time there, '54.
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 >>>----------->
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...
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.
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.
hahaha....both of you guys still have your delightful sense of OEM Mass humor....haha :003:.... I miss that over here !!!
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. :003: Now I know why Gerda likes old cars so much...haha....
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?
want to pull in that drive-in with my 57 too!!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
I was there 2 years ago. I think they have a car cruise every Wednesday evening.
and they have delicious HUGE milkshakes
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.
Another place was Arthurs, which was converted to Arnolds for the Happy Days show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rk1r6M0G8I
This is full of our old cars from my old neighborhoods and goes by the Bobs in Burbank briefly.
And the only damn foreign car was a VW :003:
Jim
That's a great video and the cars look like cars that I know. I can't figure out what kind of cars are driving around these days.
Quote from: Ecode70D on 2016-03-29 23:08
Jim
That's a great video and the cars look like cars that I know. I can't figure out what kind of cars are driving around these days.
Well you are not alone, they all look the same to me. I can spot a Mustang, everything else just looks like a plastic box :003:
My grandfather started the first drive in restaurant here in the late '40s. It was in the boonies but the city grew up around it. I grew up in it. It closed in the early 60's (Burger King). Folks around here still remember it if they are still kickin'. My dad worked there for my grandfather and cars were a huge part of the culture in that time. Interestingly enough beer was legal to sell to anybody who could drive so it was on the menu. Teenagers would come there, park there, stay there and whatever... The pics are few and far between but I will post one (the only one we have) as soon as I can. Here is a pic of an old "ticket" written on a menu in the meantime. I carry it in my '57...
That's really cool Lynn. I like the prices. It sure was a different time.
I just happened to think...any Muises or Muizes in your area? Back in the 1800's my ancestors moved out of Canada during the wars and settled in Louisianna for some time. Most of them moved back to Canada, but I recently found out some remained in La. Apparently there was some "mingling" we'll call it to be nice, lol, with the local indians and I apparently ended up with distant relatives in an indian tribe whose name I have forgotten.
Very cool Lynn..... I want 3 Jucy Pigs and 1 Grapette...... to go!
WOW! Lynn
Thanks for sharing that bit of history with us. It's also nice that you have that old ticket with the prices on it.. Stories about drive ins are always interesting especially when there is a connection like your family. Jay
This post is making me hungry :003:
I want a root beer float, please ! :usa2: :toothy9:
Jay asked me to resize and post these pics. It is old Star Drive In Taunton, Ma.
I have heard old stories about hubcaps getting stolen in the drive in cinema back in the day, but what are these guys doing anyways? :-\
Thanks Guenter When the season starts I'll go there and get you a root beer float and sit under the tree and think about how I can send it to you. If I can't think of a way to send it , I'll find something to do with it. My computer will not let me do resizing among other things. Computers stink.
Rich That's one of the places that we are going to when you come out here to see your family. It's real old and still in business.
Pretty awesome pics. I can't tell how old the pics are.... So many wearing the 50's garb now with the rockabilly thing. That was definetly someplace I've never been. That would be awesome Jay...now I just need to get back there!