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Then: Penny's Drive-In, circa 1964
This 1964 picture of Penny's Drive-In was scanned from a Robert E. Lee High School yearbook from the same year. It once existed where St. Johns. Ave. and Herschel St. come together at Fishweir Creek. I don't remember visiting it as Penny's, but in 1968 or 1969 it became Ray's Drive-In. By then the covered area to the right was gone but the building remained the same. The office on the left was converted into a game room with several pinball machines. In the summer of 1970 I used to go there with two of my best friends, both named John, on Saturday mornings and play the machines. That was what I looked forward to on Saturdays. I was learning to drive at that time and was allowed to drive us there but we had to walk home. I would see people I knew from school there. There was a window where you could order food and drinks from the game room. Sometimes I would order a hamburger and a drink (for 35 cents plus tax) and the burgers were so good I ate them plain!
Unfortunately, about the time school restarted that year Ray's closed down. The building remained empty for several years and was finally demolished to make way for a strip mall which stands on this site today.
Then: Penny's Drive-In, circa 1964
This 1964 picture of Penny's Drive-In was scanned from a Robert E. Lee High School yearbook from the same year. It once existed where St. Johns. Ave. and Herschel St. come together at Fishweir Creek. I don't remember visiting it as Penny's, but in 1968 or 1969 it became Ray's Drive-In. By then the covered area to the right was gone but the building remained the same. The office on the left was converted into a game room with several pinball machines. In the summer of 1970 I used to go there with two of my best friends, both named John, on Saturday mornings and play the machines. That was what I looked forward to on Saturdays. I was learning to drive at that time and was allowed to drive us there but we had to walk home. I would see people I knew from school there. There was a window where you could order food and drinks from the game room. Sometimes I would order a hamburger and a drink (for 35 cents plus tax) and the burgers were so good I ate them plain!
Unfortunately, about the time school restarted that year Ray's closed down. The building remained empty for several years and was finally demolished to make way for a strip mall which stands on this site today.