During the 1950s and 1960s, drive-in restaurants reached their peak of popularity in the United States. Workers enjoyed unprecedented prosperity in the post-World War II years, and with their rising incomes, people enjoyed eating out more frequently. Drive-ins conveniently combined America’s love of food and automobiles. Evansville’s first drive-in, Austin’s, was in operation by 1945, and others soon followed, including the Dubl “R,†Biff-Burger Al’s, Leo’s Big Boy, Calico-Gal, and the Parkway Drive-In on New Harmony Road, pictured here in 1968. Large fast-food chains, with drive-through lanes, eventually led to the decline of smaller drive-ins.
I was looking for info on Austin’s drive-in restaurant in Evansville, In, one of my favorites to eat at. Then I also noticed you had another place that was close to where I lived, loved their burgers. Leo’s Big Boy
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