Dairy Way

[nolgreen]

I remember a Dairy Queen type drive-in on State Street call the “Dairy Way.” I had my first hamburger and French fries with a chocolate milk shake there. The chocolate shake was the important part of the sentence. Very good eats as they say today.

It was a small building with drive–in car parking behind and they had carhops that brought the food to the car. It was operational in the late 1950s and through the 1960s; I remember going there with my father and he died in 1958 so it might have been there much longer. I think the building was moved to provide parking for others in the area and open in another location. It seems like it was reopened on State Street about where the donut shop is now.

[David Sechrest]

nolgreen said:

I remember a Dairy Queen type drive-in on State Street call the “Dairy Way.” I had my first hamburger and French fries with a chocolate milk shake there. The chocolate shake was the important part of the sentence. Very good eats as they say today.

It was a small building with drive–in car parking behind and they had carhops that brought the food to the car. It was operational in the late 1950s and through the 1960s; I remember going there with my father and he died in 1958 so it might have been there much longer. I think the building was moved to provide parking for others in the area and open in another location. It seems like it was reopened on State Street about where the donut shop is now.

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This is a running source of debate between an old grade school friend of mine and me, nolgreen. He remembers the Dairy Way being between the old Franke's Dairy (corner of State and Cherry), and the old Jay-C Store, which is now the Yellowbrick Road.

I don't remember it that way. I remember a Dairy Way being across the street in close proximity to where the donut place is today.

As you say, maybe the place changed location. The time frame here would have been the late 1950's through 1965 when we moved to Rosstown.

[nolgreen]

I remember its location as you do. It was on the South side of State. It was in the area of the west parking lot of the restaurant just west of Cosco’s plant. I believe the building and the business moved to the location of the donut shop you refer to later in the 60’s. That whole area has changed so much sense that time it is hard to remember. The building’s concrete slab and foundations were still visible in the parking lot for a long time.

[mb]

I worked at the Dairy Way in the summer of 1954. It was owned by the McQueens. Ther son, Dick McQueen graduated in 1954.
He was a class officer in his graduating class. There was an A&W root beer stand behind the Dairy Way, on the next street west. Their daughter, Ann McQueen married Tom Thompson; he owned the Camera Shop on Central north of 25th for many years. MB

[jabaker]

The Dairy Way was originally in front of Franke's Dairy. In the summer of 1972 or so the business was sold and the new owner moved it down the street across from the old State Street School.
The first two rooms of the building (there were three located one behind the other) was actually a prefabricated building made to be moved if need be. The back room was built on.
The new owner also bought a similar building/ice cream business located on 25th street across from Lincoln Center. I'm not sure but I think at one time it was called the Twin Kiss. It had been closed down for a very long time when he bought it in the late 70's. I'm not sure how long it remained open.