Eulogy For a Dying Breed

The last free-standing A&W Restaurant, open since the early 1960's on Dixie Highway near Kosmosdale, unceremoniously closed its doors a few months ago. The building now is a location for a Hawaiian hamburger chain called Kahuna Nui Burger and Fries..

This is a sad development.  One of my earliest memories is of my parents driving us from Fort Knox for frosty mugs of root beer.  I remember hot summer nights and the yellow neon lights of the drive-in.  The car hop delivering our food and drinks.  My brother and I would be in the back seat and would greedily handle our cold and frosty mugs of root beer.  The mugs seemed so huge in our small hands!  My mother was particularly enthralled with their phenomenal pork tenderloin sandwiches. and would stop by every time she was in that part of town.

Another part of my childhood has now faded away.