When Fast Food was young.

[SoCalDem]

I still remember the first time I ever went to a Fast Food place.

It was called Sandy's.


It was a typical "American Graffiti" type of place. All the high schoolers would drive there after school, park, and "be seen"

There was no drive-thru. No one wanted to leave.. In fact the managers would actually come out, and tell us to leave for a while, so others could park.

They had one size only food.

For 50 cents you got a hamburger, a small sleeve of fries (probably about 8 or 9 fries) and a small coke (probably 6 or 8 oz).

The burger was probably the equivalent of a "baby-burger" by today's standard, but it was plenty for us.

We also had a place called "The Cozy Inn" that only served "cozy-burgers" and chips & bottled pop. It was a "walk up", although it did have 6 stools at the rickety little counter. You could smell the Cozy Inn blocks away.. (In fast we girls would remove our coats and leave them outside, so our Moms would not know we went there...it was in a not-so-nice part of town, and the guys who worked there were famous for hitting on high school girls :evilgrin:..)


I still recall the time we drove from KU (Lawrence KS) to Kansas City to SEE the "chicken place" with a giant bucket on the roof) It was not open yet, and we all were eager to go there when it finally opened:rofl:

There were no Denny's.. there were only truck stops..REAL truck stops.. the kind that were open 24-7-365, and the waitresses really were like "Flo"..and took NO shit from unruly teens who were a bit tipsy :)

The point is this..

The FOOD was not the goal.. it was the camaraderie. The food was small and cheap, and probably not all that "good for us", even then...but it was not a solitary person doing a "drive thru-gobble-run-back-to-work", or a "drive-thru-get-food-hand-sack-to-kids-for-dinner"

It was a treat...something a little fun,and just a part of a fun evening/afternoon.