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Stewart's Root Beer stand on Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston, West Virginia. Fifth girl from the left is my Aunt Doris at 15 years of age. This drive-in was very popular in its day. Later a Shoney's would be built here, and then a Captain D's. View full size.
We had one of these stands in my home town of Lima, Ohio, that lasted for years. Stewart's served icy-cold root beer in real glass mugs, brought out to your car on one of those trays that attach to the window by a high school girl. Lima's Stewart's had the best chicken sandwiches I ever tasted. That's no exaggeration. The place was time-warped right out of the past and was a sort of city treasure. It was torn down in the 1990s and is now, I believe, a bank parking lot. That's the way Lima does things. By the way, the sign on the roof would be orange.
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