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May 10, 2023

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Carhops and owner/manager of **Lund’s Drive In**, Petaluma, CA, 1960.

The ‘drive-in restaurant’ concept began in Dallas in 1921 when Kirby's Pig Stand began sending bow-tied waiters outside to hop on car running boards to take customers’ food orders and serve meals.

[That’s how we got the term ‘carhop.’]

The drive-in concept swept the country and got a boost a…

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