Burger joints, Drive-ins and Car Hops in SoCal(incl, SB)

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Negative. Wendy's = Ohio.

OK, I stand corrected...I was always told, even by council members that the Wendys that sat in the center of downtown was the original.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Gandalara

I lived in San Bernardino while that was going on!

[Morphous01]

Cool video! I use to drive by that McDonalds in Downey and the In & Out in El Monte all the time!

Anyhow, the 50's REALLY seemed like a fun time to be alive in Southern California. Hmmm, my grandparents were stationed at Edwards Air force base in 1953 and I wonder if they made a trip or two to L.A to get a burger..lol

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Nita, both McDs and Taco Bell started out in San Berdoo.

San Berdoo, boy I thought I was the only one left that called it that!!!

[Fontucky]

There's a few of us fossils left that do. I also still persist in calling Rancho Cucamonga just plain Cucamonga, or, if the mood hits me, Cuuuuuuuuuc......camonga. I think I'm one of the few people left in the area who knows why Rochester Ave is so named.

[Gandalara]

Rochester van Jones.

"Who, me?"

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

There's a few of us fossils left that do. I also still persist in calling Rancho Cucamonga just plain Cucamonga, or, if the mood hits me, Cuuuuuuuuuc......camonga. I think I'm one of the few people left in the area who knows why Rochester Ave is so named.

And for those of us who really go back generations, La Puente and Puente is another one. Of course I remember when Puente was almost in the desert.

Nita

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by nmnita

And for those of us who really go back generations, La Puente and Puente is another one. Of course I remember when Puente was almost in the desert.

Nita

This kind of stuff is worthy of its own thread.