{"id":19391,"date":"2020-01-09T07:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=19391"},"modified":"2020-01-09T07:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:14:28","slug":"drive-in-restaurant-selling-burgers-steaks-and-spanish-mexican-food-los-angeles-circa-late-1930s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/01\/09\/drive-in-restaurant-selling-burgers-steaks-and-spanish-mexican-food-los-angeles-circa-late-1930s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-in restaurant selling burgers, steaks, and Spanish (Mexican) food, Los Angeles, circa late 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drive-inGoing by the 1936 Dodge peeking out from behind the sign, this photo from Life magazine probably dates from the mid-to-late 1930s. This was a time when restaurants selling Mexican food called it \u201cSpanish\u201d because of anti-Mexican racism. You could still call them enchiladas and tamales but just don\u2019t refer to them as Mexican food. This place sold a bit of everything, including sizzling stakes on metal plates and burgers with fries for 15 cents. And it gave you the option to \u201ceat in your car\u201d which would have still been quite a novelty back then.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going by the 1936 Dodge peeking out from behind the sign, this photo from Life magazine probably dates from the mid-to-late 1930s. This was a time when restaurants selling Mexican food called it \u201cSpanish\u201d because of anti-Mexican racism. You could … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-19391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-52L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19393,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions\/19393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}