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Places known for their hamburgers or hot dogs, or with these as a main food item on their menu.
AKA “The Girl Can’t Help It!” Retro Roadhusband and I were making such good time to the airport that we had time for a cheeseburger and crinkle cut fries at the White Rose System. They close at 3 so we just made it. (that’s Retro Roadhusband on the entrance and his Jersey Burger w Taylor [...]
I can’t remember whether it was the Roadfood website or the book Hamburger America where I first learned about the crazy cheesy cheeseburgers that Shady Glen has been selling since 1949. But since I consider them both great resources for cool vintage restaurants and food places, I made sure that Retro Roadhusband and I would [...]
Retro Roadhusband is always more interested in the food than the photos, so that’s why he’s so impatient with me as I try to capture the vintage porcelain steel exterior of the Snow White Grill in Winchester, VA. (C’mon! I want one a buncha them mini-burgers!) A tip of the hat to fellow road wanderer [...]
I totally dig the kismet of the internets sometimes- and our visit to The Very Best restaurant in Pottstown, PA is a result in the “lattice of coincidence” that my neighbor and pal Rich Wilhelm hipped me to. It was a Facebook post from Rich, reposting an article his friend Matt Simmons wrote extolling the [...]
Well you find things out in the darndest of ways sometimes, case in point that I learned about the closing of Papoo’s Hot Dog Show when I saw photos of the sign being dismantled in my Flickr pal jericl cat’s photo stream. Regular Retro Roadmap readers may remember that our intrepid California reporter Anna told [...]
Home of the famous Suzy Q fries (nom) tasty burgers and vintage car nights, Skip’s in Merrimac opens today for the season! Harbinger of spring for sure [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEBJrBX5i_s&feature=player_embedded] Read all about our adventures at Skips here and become a fan of Skip’s on Facebook!
So glad we took a quick detour off the highway near Dallas to eat lunch at Theo’s Drive in in Grand Prairie, TX. If that colorful vintage sign doesn’t get you, the friendly service and delish classic burgers will! We pulled up under the checkmark canopy at Theo’s and initially thought we’d go for the [...]
It was a happy coinkidink that our first stop in Austin TX was just steps away from Hut’s Hamburgers on 6th street – and bonus points for it being 2 for 1 burger Wednesday when it was time for us to eat between shows! As you can imagine Austin was pretty hopping during our SXSW [...]
Hats off to George Motz’s book Hamburger America for hepping me to this hidden gem of a lunch spot – The Northgate Soda Shop in Greenville, SC. Up until we walked in the door I was curious if we had the right place, as it’s the corner anchor of a nondescript strip of storefronts tucked [...]
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