carhop

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After class, she would take everyone home before heading to her second job as a carhop at Sonic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Klusmann thinks roller-skating is America’s unsung national pastime, a sport that every few years gets a burst of media attention, even if the media spotlight equates it with ’50s carhop culture or ’70s disco balls.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

The Valley’s self-regard also sustains the Valley Relics Museum, where the Valley of yore and lore, of carhop drive-ins and a celebrated honky-tonk called the Palomino, live on in their neon signs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021

Three years ago, he was a carhop at a Sonic Drive-In in Garland, Tex.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

The young carhop turned slowly, as if puzzled, then said something to the boys in the Firebird and moved reluctantly toward him.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien