I found this FB entry from Jan Dabkowski on Massey’s You Know You’re From St. Mary’s If page:
To tell the truth, I had forgotten that Monk’s had even had a drive thru. But then again, I do recall that just about liquor establishment had a drive thru back then. I can vaguely remember my buddy Robbie and me in his 59 Studebaker buying a six pack at the Pink Elephant’s drive thru. Buzzy also was trying to install one at the store but he never could do so because he didn’t have the space nor the driveway for it.
Drive thrus were eventually outlawed in the County in 1987 by the powers that be. However, there was an exception that if the liquor license was transferred, then the drive thru privileges could be grandfathered in.
Today there are only a handful of drive thrus left in the County. This is from a 2007 Enterprise article discussing how Big Dog’s Paradise Bar in Mechanicsville lost their drive thru privileges:
Today the term drive thru is more than likely to be referring to take out chicken dinners where you don’t have to leave your car to secure your selections. I’m not so sure that that is a sign of progress.
As a folowup to Valentine’s Day, do you remember this Steve Earle tune in Talladega Nights? Neither did I (click here and go to 1:10 mark.)