Monday, April 3, 2023

Carhop. You don't see these anymore.

 


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  1. There is an Italian restaurant in Mt Vernon, OH, that is a converted carhop. They kept the parking lots with the canopy. I don't know if the carhop girls ever had roller skates. That's before my time. But the town did have a roller rink until recently.

    The original Big Bear grocery store near Ohio State was originally a roller rink. Now replaced by a hotel.

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    1. I was an OSU student when that Big Bear closed. Just months before, I had shopped there with a girlfriend who lived in a nearby dorm. The place was unmistakably a roller rink with a magnificent wood floor. I try not to think about what happened to all that fine wood.

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  2. There is a seasonal (summer only) A&W stand in Middlebury Vermont that still had carhop girls on skates a few years ago. Not sure if it survived the plandemic.

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  3. Yeah! Yeah! YeahI I found this one; I found her! I found her at her 85th birthday party at an assisted living facility in Florida.

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  4. Sonic still has carhops on skates.

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    1. The ones we have in southern Oregon are still drive thru only since the plandemic.

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    2. The ones here in Pueblo still have skates, but very few of the hops will wear them because I don't think the average young kid knows how to skate.

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  5. If I see an overweight blue/purple/green-haired gender-confused creature in a tight outfit wobbling along on weak cankles any where near my food, I will put the car in reverse and GTFO.

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  6. Don't recall roller-skated delivery but Hot Shoppes restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area had carhops. A teen's ongoing right-of-passage was a Mighty Mo burger, onion rings, Orange Freeze milkshake and a hot-fudge cake for dessert. Many a starter set of dishes included a set of Hot Shoppes stackable coffee cups. Hot Shoppes drive-ins were a territorial gathering spot for teens while the sit-down restaurant component was an excellent family style eatery on par with HoJo's.

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  7. When my son was about 8 we stopped at a Sonic. Girl on skates is coming out the door with 2-3 drinks on a plate. She starts to spill them and spins around a couple of times trying to make the save, she failed and smoothly went back inside.

    My son laughed his butt off at this.

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  8. I bet if he could find one Miss Dylan Mulvaney would apply for a job.

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    1. But only if they serve Bud Light.

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  9. Carlson's Drive thru in Michigan CIty Indiana.

    No skates, but carhops.

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  10. Sonics all over central Texas offer employees the option of skating, but few are willing.

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    1. If they offered them a dollar an hour more they might.

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  11. a handfull of bb's thrown right outside the building door ended up as the beginning of the end at our rollerhop place.

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  12. Last one I went to was Bessingers BBQ in Charleston SC. Still have a couple of the serving trays.

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