drive-in restaurant
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Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a drive-in restaurant in Pasadena in 1937, a few years before starting the first McDonald’s in San Bernardino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
On Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, Tesla is building a combination drive-in restaurant, movie theater and charging station.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
His second wife, Lee Roberts, was more amenable to his racing, supporting him with money from her job as a carhop at a drive-in restaurant.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
In the late 1950s my mom and her sister ran a drive-in restaurant in a small town on the west side of Michigan.
From Salon ● May 23, 2019
“People with cars are so lazy they don’t want to get out of them to eat!” said Jesse G. Kirby, the founder of an early drive-in restaurant chain.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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