Just recently I was looking at my dad's Benson High School yearbook. Inserted in the front cover was the Tik-Tok menu below:
We never went to the Tik Tok that I remember, but my dad and mom dated while she was a carhop there in 1943-1944. So, we have heard about it all our lives.
The menu is one half page (front and back). Interesting that you could get a burger, fries and milkshake there in 1943-1944 for 55 cents with an extra 5 cent charge to have it taken to your car. Kind of neat to see what the full menu was.
Awhile back I found a Scotty's ad from a 1955 Oregonian. When I was a
kid my parents would take me and my older brother to Scotty's for a
special treat of hamburger and french fries. It was more a McDonald's
sized burger and fries. We never got the milkshake. But, my dad would
order a number of hamburgers, and he would eat enough of them to fill
him up. My mom, older brother and I were usually satisfied with one
hamburger and fries. It was a fun time.
Later, when McDonald's came to Portland, I remember you could get a hamburger (15 cents) and fries (10 cents) for a quarter. I don't remember how much a milkshake was. It wasn't a special family place though we did go there, but I went with my teenage friends there quite often for a cheap outing.
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Funny, isn't it? When the Mickey's came to town, they killed the Mom&Pops because they turned burgers and fries into an assembly-line and were able to peddle meals for around 30 cents. No indoor seating, either.
You may find this of interest as well: they tried setting up as dining cars on long-distance trains,which they managed to mess up.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/38221/the-mctrain-the-rise-and-fall-of-mcdonalds-ambitious-plan-to-conquer-the-railroads?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Thanks, Max! Interesting about the failure of the dining car try. When you stop to think about it, McDonald's prices are no longer cheap. Even the dollar menu is a dollar each item. So simple hamburger and small fries is $2.00. They are living on the reliability of their food taste and some perks like in happy meals. But, are no longer a cheap meal.
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