Reply #151: Another: Tastee-Treet Drive In in Russellville, Kentucky. Best soft serve ice cream ever

[yellowdogintexas]

and these wonderful burgers which everybody just called 'Tastees' which I now believe were a variation of the Iowa Loose Meat Sandwich.

The little envelopes the Tastees came in had a little map on them that showed other locations in Nebraska and Iowa with a big arrow swooping down to Russellville.

I would kill (well almost) for a Tastee cone right about now, and a Tastee Burger. I have never eaten anything like them although Made-Rite in Iowa looks a lot like them.

If I recall correctly, either the husband or the wife of the couple that opened it shortly after WWII was from Iowa and this was the family business up there. The other half of the couple was local.

We think he came from up there, was based at Ft Campbell, met her and decided to settle in Kentucky and open the shop. It was a true drive in like Sonic, and they hung the trays on the windows of the cars. NO roller skating carhops though.

Now it is possible that he was the local, was stationed in Nebraska or somewhere, met the girl, got into the family business and brought it home to Russellville.

Either way, he must have made a fortune, that place was always busy.

I was very sad when they closed down, sometime after I finished college in 1969.