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Car Hops and Curb Service

A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960 By Jim Heimann

8-1/2 x 11 in; 128 pp ; 124 Full-Color Photographs
Paperback
Published in March, 1996
ISBN 0811811158
ISBN13 9780811811156
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$17.95  

Car Hops and Curb Service -- Travel back to the heyday of the American drive-in restaurant—complete with swinging ponytails, shiny new automobiles, and the aroma of French fries drifting through unrolled car windows. Beginning with the original Texas Pig Stand of 1921, this evocative compendium cruises through 40 years of drive in culture, tracing the history of roadside restaurant architecture and the people who created it. Engagingly illustrated with historical photographs and a rich assortment of related ephemera, from menus to matchbox covers, Car Hops and Curb Service chronicles a unique chapter of popular culture for anyone who sipped a malt, hung a tray, or cruised a drive in parking lot—or wished they had.

Jim Heimann is a graphic designer, illustrator, and educator whose previous books include California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture, also published by Chronicle Books.

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. . . a delightfully campy array of menus, postcards, and photographs to illustrate the rise and fall of the drive-in restaurant. . . Los Angeles Times