[NorthHillBlues]

The Akron area has a ton. What are some by you? Do you like them? Here is at least a partial list from greater Akron:

Swenson's
Skyway
A & W Root Beer
B & K Root Beer
Dilly's
Wink's
Portage Lakes Root Beer
Retro Dog (the newest in the area)

[19AL63]

The only thing in our area is a Sonic.

[gamauter]

Sonic

[19AL63]

I can remember great drive-ins from years ago.

The Hoop Drive-ins - Lorain, Ohio

The Melody Drive-in - Wilmington, Ohio

[troy_boy73]

Sonic in Springfield.
Root Beer Stand on Woodman in Dayton
BK Root Beer on 25a between Troy and Tipp City
Wot a dog in New Carlisle

[ringer]

Woody's Root Beer in Canton.

[wgh_raider]

in warren they closed an A&W and they merged it in with a KFC by eastwood mall.

[Tom.OH]

Middletown has The Jug ( great burgers , waffel fries ) also the K&W rootbeer (used to be an A&W) stand. There is a Sonic out by I 75. That's about it anymore.

[libbey1963]

Not many drive in's, more drive through.

[CowboyBob]

At one time Toledo had quite a few:
White Hut
Mel's
Don's
Frisch's
Kewpee

[CountryKnight]

The Madisonburg OH area near Wooster used to have a good drive-in restaurant called Bishops. Their Onion Rings were the best.

[ohiopup]

Canton . '50s, 60's, early 70's
Crusin' (ala American Graffiti) the Car-Hop Stops was a weekend ritual.

On Cleveland NW (just north of 30th street) you had...
Manners (licensed for the Big Boy)
The A (Avalon) home of the Big Sis
Lujan's (sp) - HQ was in Akron

There was also a Manners on NE of town on US 62

on West Tusc - the Lincoln H.S. hangout was Ekerts (sp) 12" coneys.

Woodies Hires Boot Beer was still on Fulton

N.C. had Maxie's
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[NorthHillBlues]

Are there any still open? All of the ones in the Akron area that I listed are still open today. I'm pretty sure there is a drive-in in southeast Ohio called Sum Burger.

[NorthHillBlues]

Today I tried Retro Dog. I liked my dog..The White Hot" (veal and pork with Stadium mustard) and the root beer float. I loved the tempura battered onion rings. This place is in Cuyahoga Falls and less than 5 minutes from Walsh and CVCA. It is less than 10 minutes from Woodridge and an easy drive from Cuyahoga Falls or Stow High. I'd recommend going there before or after a football game. It has car hops, out door seating (with a fire pit) and indoor seating, It has a very cool and retro vibe. I was stunned by the amount of concrete and brick work. This place had to cost a ton to build.

[19AL63]

Ate at Manners many times when I was young. Remember a Big boy costing 45 Cents.

[ohiopup]

Only Woodys root beer stand at Fulton and Monument Road is still open.



Manners on Cleveland avenue was razed and a fast food place built (Burger King)
The A burned down - was replace by a Wendys
Lujans closed in the late 70's.

The Manners on US62 was sold to another restruant chain and remained sans the Car Hops
now closed

Ekerts was razed, a steak house was on the site for a while - I believe there is a bank branch there now. (the cook from Ekarts opened a restruant at the corner of Duber and W.Tusc his last name is Linsey - no car hops)

Maxies in N.Canton closed maybe about 10 years ago.

All of this is from memory - My home is now in the Columbus area (I'm doing some DOD work for the Marines now) There are no independant car hop operations in the Columbus Ohio area - Sonic has opened several in the Columbus area
- also in Stark County a Sonic in the Belden Village area

No Drive in theatres in Stark County at one time there were several


Columbus has 1 - On S. High ( a little on the rough side)

Nice Drive in Theatre on US 40 in Springfield / Sonic down the road.

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[NorthHillBlues]

Are there any still open in southern Ohio? What about the Toledo area?

[NorthHillBlues]

bump

[Gz1up 2 Down]

There's a breakfast place on Main Street west of James, east of Gould in Columbus. Pretty good.