Here’s a slice of ‘50s Americana for you: the opening day of a Dairy Queen at the corner of Moorpark St and Bakman Ave, Studio City in 1957. This photo was sent to me by David G who was there that day (but not, unfortunately, in the photo) because DQ were offering free ice creams to celebrate the opening. And that explains why the place is swarming with kids. If I had been a kid back then, I’d have jumped on my Schwinn bike and pedaled like a fiend for my free ice cream too. And cue music: “Sunday! Monday! Happy Days…”
How that corner looks now, March 2019. It’s a Peruvian restaurant called Los Balcones.
I like the Dairy Queen better for the corner than the Peruvian Restaurant. There was a Dairy Queen similar to the one in the photo close to where I lived in the 50’s in the San Gabriel Valley and I used to hop on my J C Higgins bike to go there for ice cream.
Here’s a slice of ‘50s Americana for you: the opening day of a Dairy Queen at the corner of Moorpark St and Bakman Ave, Studio City in 1957. This photo was sent to me by David G who was there that day (but not, unfortunately, in the photo) because DQ were offering free ice creams to celebrate the opening. And that explains why the place is swarming with kids. If I had been a kid back then, I’d have jumped on my Schwinn bike and pedaled like a fiend for my free ice cream too. And cue music: “Sunday! Monday! Happy Days…”
I like the Dairy Queen better for the corner than the Peruvian Restaurant. There was a Dairy Queen similar to the one in the photo close to where I lived in the 50’s in the San Gabriel Valley and I used to hop on my J C Higgins bike to go there for ice cream.
Actually, that Peruvian restaurant is very good but, of course, a completely different atmosphere to a DQ!
There was another similar establishment in those days called Foster’s Freeze. I remember it well.
Jim – did you have a preference? Dairy Queen over Frosters Freeze?
Well, I like Dairy Queen’s Blizzards, but back many years ago my family went to Foster’s Freeze. We went to one down on Highland Ave.