I remember a drive-in hamburger chain in Dallas called Kellers (one on Samuels Blvd., one on NW Highway and I think there was one on Harry Heinz Blvd. too) where you could sit in your car and carhops would bring your beer to you in a frosted mug. I'm sure that doesn't happen now, but it did as recently as 1983...the year I left Texas.
Driving while drunk is of course a very irresponsible (and criminally negligent) thing to do, but I mention this only as a gauge to what children we've become to our government(s). Presently I live in Washington State, and we recently wrested the liquor business away from the state (grocery and convenience stores could always sell beer). Our governor, Queen Christine Gregoire made sure we were punished (at AFSCME insistence I'm sure) for our insolence by adding to the already high taxes on alchohol.
I remember a drive-in hamburger chain in Dallas called Kellers...
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Kellers is still there, I believe. Their burgers were great and so were the cold beers. ....Until Oak Cliff (a very large portion of Dallas at the time) went “dry” in the 1950s, Sivil’s Drive In served beer as well as all kinds of food. All of the carhops were on skates. There was a 2nd Sivil’s in Houston, and a photo of their carhops made the cover of LIFE magazine.