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The American Drive-In: History and Folklore of the Drive-in Restaurant in American Car Culture
Michael Karl Witzel
- List Price: $29.95
- Used Price: $7.18
- Publisher: Motorbooks International
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 Stars
Product Details
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks International
- ISBN: 0879389192
- Dimensions: 10.41 x 10.4 x 0.85 inches
- Weight: 2.74 pounds
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Customer Reviews
- Only Grade A Beef
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
- Unlike many coffee table books on pop culture phenomena, The American Drive-in Restaurant supplements its generous use of photos with material from regional archives and 1950s restaurant trade industry journals, resulting in a pop history with a strong seasoning of well-researched facts. Interviews with former carhops also provide an interesting slice of life effect.
Witzel's copywriting background intrudes most in the brief portraits of major drive-in chains, which read like corporate marketing pieces. The serious researcher needs to handle this book with care: not only are there numerous typesetting errors (including mislabeled dates and places), but some corporate biography facts don't match those presented by the same corporations' official Web sites (though it wouldn't be surprising if the corporations were the ones who had it wrong).
All in all, a good read packed with interesting material.
- lot's of great color pictures
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- I have several of his diner and drive-in books. If you are a fan of diners, drive-in eateries and burgers and shakes; you will not be dissapointed. There are many, many beautiful color pictures.
