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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 17, 2017 11:47:48 GMT
In one of Buster Keaton's short films (I believe it to be Three on a Limb, 1936), Keaton's character visits a drive-in food place. He orders a hamburger and malted milk. The food is served on a tray which connects to his car door. I may be wrong, but this seems a lot like fast food to me.
I'm wondering if anyone could name some early examples of a film featuring fast food or something resembling it?
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Post by london777 on Apr 17, 2017 12:36:23 GMT
Easy Living (1937)
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 17, 2017 13:26:17 GMT
In one of Buster Keaton's short films (I believe it to be Three on a Limb, 1936), Keaton's character visits a drive-in food place. He orders a hamburger and malted milk. The food is served on a tray which connects to his car door. I may be wrong, but this seems a lot like fast food to me. The great Busby Berkely-directed production number "Let That Be a Lesson to You" (1937) from Hollywood Hotel (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) is set at a similar hamburger joint. I guess around this time we started to see car-oriented places. Previously it had been diners or urban "short order" establishments. Which reminds me -- when did hot dog stands disappear? As late as the 1950s Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton pooled their money to buy one on The Honeymooners. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 17, 2017 19:29:23 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.
In nearly all western movies when the go into a bar and they want to get something to eat, there always seems to be a pot going on with beans, pork and potatoes, since they usually get's served rather fast. In a way that's fast food too LOL.
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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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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 18, 2017 1:03:24 GMT
Management trials a fast food "feeding machine" to improve worker productivity in Modern Times (1936)  |
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