They are opening a restaruant in Franklin NC(about 45 minutes from home) that is designed around the fifties. It looks really neat and is called the old motor grill. How many of you have something similar in your town?

Had a local 50's joint up untill about 7 years ago not but 20 min. from me. Didn't make it though...
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Anyone that goes to the Goodguys in Rhinebeck should check out the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park NY. They took 3 old dining cars and put them together. Neat place.
But the food is better at Petes, right down the road.
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Not the same thing, but.... we have an old time drive in movie about 30 minuts from my house that has a couple of car shows and all night movies 2 times per summer. It is very well kept and has the grass between the rows, speakers play ground for kids and your allowed to bring lawn chairs.It even has the old time concession stand.

Vic
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We also have a movie theater here in Baltimore (2 of them actually) that are still in business after 50+ years. Bengies Drive in..about 10 min. from me. Movies every weekend during the summer, no car shows though. Big M/Bel Air Drive In in Churchville (Harford Co.) has car shows and cruises weekly and movies weekly.
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We have an active drive-in, Sky-View, in town (the same one we used to sneak into in the 50's). But there is a 50's style dinner where my oldest and her family lives in Orland, FL. I think it's called Angel's. .... good food and memorabilia all over the walls, black and white checker-board patterns everywhere. (Lots of Chrome, Dudes!)
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Two restaurants have opened recently in the Cleveland, Oh area, Quaker Steak and Lube. The original QS&L is in Sharon, Pa about an hour+ ride from here. It is in an old Quaker State service station that specialize in chicken wings. FULL of memoribilia from original 3" hub caps covering a wall to real cars [corvette, Talbot, front engine dragster, etc] and motor cycles hanging off the ceilings in all the dining rooms and a 37 Chevy on the pedestal lift.
The ones here are new buildings designed as old service stations with he same themes as in Sharon. Really neat and the food is good.
mike
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Hey Mike; Hope you have good luck finding a job. They never had any thing like that when I ran around that country in the 50's. I was born in sharon general. Biggest thing was hickory drive in (now a shopping center)& sharon speedway ( Blaney owns it now ). Whats the addy of QSL in sharon? B-O-B*********DSRA
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Bob..Quaker Steak & Lube is on the corner of Chestnut and W State, next to the railroad tracks. Right behind it is the Hot Rod Cafe, owned by the same people. If you make it back there you'll have to check it out.
Thanks for the encouragement on finding a job.
mike
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I've been in the Quaker Steak and Lube in SHaron, COOL PLACE! Hot wings! Hurt me for three days. All of our drive ins are gone around here. We have a few original 50's era dinners, and, a few reprop's. We have a big bar called THe Hop, that's 50's themed. Has a 48 Plymouth DJ Booth. A couple of Ice Cream joints still left.
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Hey Mike; Don't forget Swensons on Broadview. To you out of towners, it's a drive-in, eat in your car and known for it's burgers. Being on the other side of town I'm not sure if any rods show up or not on any given evening but it's a drive-in.
There's a joint out East of me by 25 minutes that's a car magnet on the weekends. It's called Annebells in Mentor Oh, if it's still open. I haven't been there yet this rainy year. After a Sat cruise a lot of folks head out there to old fashion sit in there cars, eat burgers and generally parking lot party. It's a old stainless dinner with history. It used to be on the Eastside of town at one end of what was a strip of drive-in restaurants. What a "trip" this area was from the late 50's to the mid 60's. The strip, Euclid Ave., was in Cleveland proper but you couldn't get to that area directly without going way around or through East Cleveland, a suburb. This made this strip extremely tough to police. Can you say street racing? SBC 283's bored to 301 or better yet 1/2" stroked to 352. Olds and Caddy powered hot rods and Pontiac tri powered stockers. Late model J2 engined Olds' along with a bunch of small block powered 49 thru 56 Fords. You could hear one guy coming from blocks away with his chain driven 471 over a 283 stuffed into a 50 Ford convertible. Maybe it was the welded up rearend dragging it's tires around turns that got our attention.
I remember a guy who ran his 34 Ford 3 window in B/GS with a 265 under a 471. Only raced it at the track until one day he took so much guff from the owner of a new 61 409, about his race car being a dog that the statement "I can beat that 409 with my tow car", slipped out. Well the race time and location was set two days hence. The tow car, a 56 Chevy 2D 210 sedan, V8 3 speed on the floor, was hurriedly wrenched on to remove it's power plant for replacement by the 34's blown job. A lot of work/fun to prove a point. The 56 would now be scared with a scoop for the rest of it's days as a reminder. Anyway the big nite came and on green the 409 just churned rubber. He had never expecting the engine swap and just couldn't handle that he might lose. The 56 walked off the line, slow shifted to second and before he got to third, blew both stock mufflers and I think one left the car.
Ah, those were the days!!! But I digress, back to my Big Boy burger, french fries and a coke for 99 cents.

We have one of those 50s styled McDonalds here.My daughter had her 5th birthday there,the kids all dressed up in 50s clothes,they had a big time. Jim

There's a couple of Rockin' Robin restaurants here in Calgary Alberta. Not a bad 50's theme, occasionally they have a show n shine and a couple of car clubs use them for their meetings.
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