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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 18, 2017 0:59:09 GMT
According to Wikipedia "The first drive-in restaurant was Kirby's Pig Stand, which opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1921." So that it could have spread since then, and then 1937 certainly doesn't sound impossible. By the mid-'30s, Los Angeles and environs were rife with drive-ins: multiples of Carpenters, Dolores, Scrivners. Simons, Carls and dozens of one-offs. Even the Brown Derby on Los Feliz offered drive-in service when it opened in 1940. A scene in 1944's Double Indemnity (which takes place in '38) depicts Fred MacMurray being served a bottle of beer in his car at a drive-in. I've not yet been able to ascertain if that was ever the actual case anywhere in the state of California. All I know is I never got one at any Bob's Big Boy, A&W, Tiny Naylor's or any other drive-ins we used to go to in the early '70s. |
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