Burning rubber not burgers

[Gundy]

Had lunch today at Como Pete's #4. Burger on the burger side with a large order of half n' half. Yummy.
This is the place where, as kids, we'd skip out for lunch in High School. It was something the wild boys would do since getting caught leaving campus for lunch was an automatic suspension.
Weekend nights it was packed with all the cruisers as were all the local drive-in spots. Then we all cruised Main Street.
I noticed today the art work on the building wall and thought I'd share.
The logo on the cups states "Burning rubber not the burgers since 1956".
Man, I bet I left several tires worth of rubber leaving that place in my youthful GTO days.
Sorry for the poor pic quality. Camera phone.

 

[NutmegCT]

Gundy - my brain cells are on strike today ...

What is a "Burger on the burger side with a large order of half n' half."?

Tom

 

[Gundy]

Gundy - my brain cells are on strike today ...

What is a "Burger on the burger side with a large order of half n' half."?

Tom

That would be a burger with mustard, tomato and sweet cole slaw
always cut in half. Half and half is an order of french fries
AND onion rings. Gotta have that sweet tea with lemon too.
You can also get the cheese burger on the burger side. Just add cheese.
The menu is very varied but a burger on the burger side is the staple.
How it got that name no one seems to know but that's how you order it from the waitress.
The place reminds me of the Saturday Nite Live skit where the
guys ( Greeks...like Como's) go "cheeseburger,cheeseburger, cheeseburger...chips,chips, chips. No Coke ...Pepsi".
We all used to swear Pete's was the inspiration for that skit.

 

[DrEntropy]

Nostalgia... good.

Ours was "Jerry's Curb Service". Car hops on rollerskates. And a "Big Boy" like Shoney's. But "up there" they were called "Eat-n-Park". A pal and I schtupped a Rover V8 into a Bugeye, shortened a Chevy rear end and left donuts in the parking lots of both of those places.

 

[Gundy]

Nostalgia... good.

Ours was "Jerry's Curb Service". Car hops on rollerskates. And a "Big Boy" like Shoney's. But "up there" they were called "Eat-n-Park". A pal and I schtupped a Rover V8 into a Bugeye, shortened a Chevy rear end and left donuts in the parking lots of both of those places.

V8 Bugeye.....Geeesh...that HAD to be a blast! You would have loved Senior Burnout. Last day of school the guys would have an unofficial, unsanctioned burnout contest in the school's
Senior parking lot. School officials would just look the other way since school was officially closed that afternoon and the Seniors were...well...Seniors and grads now. I still remember
the tire smoke that would fill the air. The parking lot was on a hill and we'd start at the bottom. I'd bet that V8 Sprite would have smoked 'em to the top.

 

[DrEntropy]

The silly thing was durn-near uncontrollable! It'd spin 360* in an eyeblink. It got sold and a '67 XKE became the replacement.

This guy an' me were well past HS age, both had been thru USAF and stationed at the same base for a while... but didn't meet until we'd gone back to western PA. I sold one of his USAF co-workers an MGB back in the Air Force days (see the "Transmissive Tutelage" essay in the "Member's Articles" section). He became a PA State Trooper, I continued to pursue a Pulitzer. We shared a love of English cars tho.

 

[vagt6]

Dontcha just love the grease burger/choke and puke drive-in nomenclature??

At the famous Texas Tavern in my home town, we ordered "two with and a bowl, walkin'" (i.e., two burgers with everything and a bowl of chili, to go).

Funny, strangers had no idea what we were talkin' about . . .

 

[Brooklands]

The place reminds me of the Saturday Nite Live skit where the
guys ( Greeks...like Como's) go "cheeseburger,cheeseburger, cheeseburger...chips,chips, chips. No Coke ...Pepsi".
We all used to swear Pete's was the inspiration for that skit.

Actually, that was supposed to come from Billy Goat's in Chicago, where all the writers used to go after work at the Tribune. It is below street level, and a must visit place in Chicago. The waiter comes to your table for your alcohol orders, but you need to go to the counter to order food...

 

[Gundy]

The place reminds me of the Saturday Nite Live skit where the
guys ( Greeks...like Como's) go "cheeseburger,cheeseburger, cheeseburger...chips,chips, chips. No Coke ...Pepsi".
We all used to swear Pete's was the inspiration for that skit.

Actually, that was supposed to come from Billy Goat's in Chicago, where all the writers used to go after work at the Tribune. It is below street level, and a must visit place in Chicago. The waiter comes to your table for your alcohol orders, but you need to go to the counter to order food...

I had read that somewhere. At Pete's the car hops would spike the coke with vodka when you ordered a "special" cherry coke.
No ID required, you just needed the "code" word and had
to pay a little more. :cooler:
Now it's VERY family oriented and the drive-in days are long gone. If you cruise Main Street these days you can get a ticket.
It all upscale and yuppiefied. Very nice but something has been lost I doubt will ever return.
Just glad I was there for those glory days of Crusin and
Drive-ins.
At least I can still get my burger on the burger side.

 

[Twosheds]

Now it's VERY family oriented and the drive-in days are long gone.

There's no curb service anymore
No curb service anymore
Don't blink your lights
Don't blow your horn
I hate the day that you were born
There's no curb service any more.

 

[DrEntropy]

Another nostalgic bit:

Just got off the phone with a pal, had told him of another fella's plan to drive "The Tail of the Dragon" as part of his Bucket List.. Pal said he'd ridden it repeatedly as a youth before it was "named", on his Norton Commando. But now the thing has become a crowded tourist cruise.

Be glad we CAN recall some of those experiences... not likely to be repeatable ever again.