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Thinking back to the ‘60’s

33 IMP said:
Used to love the A&W root beer freezes, and the orange freezes. Never thought to mix em tho.....
Looks like the A&W locations are gonna close. Can't say I'm surprised, I have no idea where the nearest one is.
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Ours in Middlebury, VT is going strong.
 
moparedtn said:
As kids, our family typically manned the Little League concession stand for the local league
while we boys all played up through the seasons.
When we didn't have practice or a game, we were expected to help with concessions...

The standard Coke fountain in those days had Coke, Fanta Orange, Root Beer and Sprite choices.
Of course, we kids almost immediately started experimenting with "mixed drinks"....
I liked all the drinks together and soon, word spread about my "suicide" soda concoction.
At least, that's what they started calling it.
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The Rochester Cafe in Rochester, VT has had a continuously operating soda fountain counter since 1941. They have a drink called the "Graveyard" with every flavor mixed in it. lol. Have NOT tried one. Yet. I like the Black Raspberry malted.
 
We always used to make our own rootbeer when we were kids. Hard to find now but I still have two bottles in my cupboard.
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I loved A&W, I met one of my longterm ladies friends there
me & a buddy used to go to get (this would be in like 78-79)
chocolate/chocolate dipped ice-cream cones, freaken' delish
in our (my) 68 & he had a 69 RRs or in my 68 Charger R/T
way back when, in Concord Ca.
We pulled in & asked where's the nearest KFC was, (it's right next-door)
broke the ice :bananadance: she laughed & we struck up a long conversation
she ended up, dating me & then living with me, in my house for 4 years...
Vicky, I miss her 'some'

I loved the rootbeer floats too, fresh cooked burgers, fries etc.
not really fast food, car hops were always decent looking ladies
I liked the service & atmosphere there

Sonic was sort of the same too

We don't have either anywhere near here

I never tried the 'swamp water' or what the OP called it...
 
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Up here in Ontario, every moderate sized town has an A&W. Bigger cities have many; pretty much like Wendy's. A lot of them have Tuesday night car cruises in the summer.
 
I thought this thread was supposed to be memories from the sixties? The OP starts off with a root beer comment and it hasn’t varied since….. Yeah you guys must all be burned out LSD or other variety pharma dudes from back then if that’s all you remember is the root beer……Lol

Speaking of root beer tho we rarely if ever got a float from A&W or elsewhere. What with 9 kids we had plenty of them - but always supplied by mom…. Just too expensive to buy outside.
 
GetX'd said:
I thought this thread was supposed to be memories from the sixties? The OP starts off with a root beer comment and it hasn’t varied since….. Yeah you guys must all be burned out LSD or other variety pharma dudes from back then if that’s all you remember is the root beer……Lol

Speaking of root beer tho we rarely if ever got a float from A&W or elsewhere. What with 9 kids we had plenty of them - but always supplied by mom…. Just too expensive to buy outside.
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Some of us are “focused”!!! Lol
 
On a instate road trip with a couple of my kids I spotted an A&W in a smaller town about 60 mi South of the cities. Still doing the outdoor ordering from old style intercoms. My kids were. "Is this the same as the A&W retail sodas sold in the stores? I had to explain it was the other way around. It started with these drive up soda shops then went to retail sales.

Burgers/fries and floats were very close to what I remembered. I had mixed feelings eating in my '69 GTX. But too bad. It was what we did in 60s/70s. They still bring up that stop in their conversations from time to time.
 
Ghostrider 67 said:
The Rochester Cafe in Rochester, VT has had a continuously operating soda fountain counter since 1941. They have a drink called the "Graveyard" with every flavor mixed in it. lol. Have NOT tried one. Yet. I like the Black Raspberry malted.
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Black raspberry, oooohh yum! Hard to beat homemade shakes from a blender, with French vanilla and strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, or blackberries, and whole milk......
 
Dave6T4 said:
Up here in Ontario, every moderate sized town has an A&W. Bigger cities have many; pretty much like Wendy's. A lot of them have Tuesday night car cruises in the summer.
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Lol, now I know what happened to the old A&W in my hometown eons ago...reopened it up by you. We also had a Dog 'n Suds drive in with good root beer floats. Remember the hot summer nights pulling under the canopy with the yellow florescent lights in my 67 GTO vert (later my '70 Cuda vert) and the car hop setting the tray on the window. Well, they closed down a few years later too...as did our two outdoor theaters. Then came no more back-in parking at our Mac's to shoot da breeze with fellow car guys over a gut-bomb & coke, with rent-a-cops enforcing it. Posted signs 10-minute limit. Later came a cruising ban. In my case I was done anyway, going to college a couple years post HS, getting married becoming a responsible adult (for the most part then). Fun while it lasted.
 
Not to change the subject but I used to own an Ice cream store. I have made a LOT of shakes and malteds. I miss Dairy Queens.
 
Thinking back about the 60's......we seldom used seat belts back then. :rolleyes:

Nowadays, wouldn't give it a second thought....always wear them now.
 
My favorite memories from back then (60’s were a little early for me) were the early 70’s - Sun Drive-in down on Central Ave in NE Mpls. NE was don’t f@-$k with me town so we rarely got visitors from other parts of Mpls. It usually didn’t end well for them if anything started. The Sun was the consummate hangout for the muscle car crowd - Best burgers to this day were the Sun Burgers. At night it was always packed with the best in the area and the owners loved it. You bought their food, drank our beer and as often as not got called out onto Central Ave to see who’s had the biggest balls. Even the Mpls cops were pretty cool back then - little to no harassment. We just loved going down there and - it was something right out of the movies - only real and twice as good. I remember drag racing somebody one night on Central - had a half empty case of Old Style ponies in the back seat and a couple open in the front. Cops pulled us over saw the beer and just said “c’mon guys time to cool it. Go home before something bad happens.” No drag tickets, didn’t say much if anything about the beer and let us go off on our way. Back then the city cops were cool they had better things to do than jam up some young guys out having a good time in cars they wished they owned. We weren’t smart assed punks giving then **** like kids today - mutual respect. Completely opposite story in the surrounding burbs -Keystone Cops. Those were the days that will live on for all of us who were able to partake. A great time to be young in America.
 
WileERobby said:
You ain't nothin' 'till ya had a good 'ol New York... Egg Cream View attachment 1281876
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Wife and I grew up in Bronx. As a young kid, egg cream at the candy stores was 7cents. If you didn't have 7 cents you could get 2 cents plain (seltzer). If you didn't have 2 cents, a penny would get you a gum ball or a few pistachio nuts. If you didn't have a penny just keep on walking. We make our egg creams at home and have done so all 54 years that we've been married. Nothing like an egg cream on a hot sunny day. I do miss the stick ball games in the street though. I had an egg cream today.
 
Thinking back to the 60's ....... Street Racing ! I worked at a Boron gas station that sat at the top of a then new 4 lane concrete road that connected Down Town to the Suburbs. The gas station was like the movie Hollywood Knights hangout every night during the summer.
 
33 IMP said:
Now Dairy Queen, I DO have local.
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Grandkids said they got a coupon the other day because of excessive wait in the DQ drive up window! Never heard of that before.
 
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