Didn't Top Hat Drive-Ins change their name to Sonic?
There was a Top Hat next to the East Side-Drive In that we'd go to; I remember it was a rather art moderne looking building. I remember that drink too...I thought it was tutti-fruti, but now I'm not sure.
My first job was at a Big Boy on Van Dyke somewhere around 14 or 16 Mile Road in in early 70s; I later got my boyfriend a job at the Big Boy's in Grosse Pointe on Mack. Oddly, my last job in Detroit was at a Big Boy's too, on 8 Mile near Mound, I think, before I graduated from WSU. I don't know if any of these buildings are still around.
They have a couple of Big Boys here in Texas, but they are different from the Elias Brothers. I miss them a lot.
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