car-hop
Roller-skating server
A car-hop is a server at a drive-in restaurant who brings food to customers waiting in their parked cars.
The term evokes mid-twentieth-century American roadside culture—roller skates, trays hooked to car windows, root beer floats.
As a verb, to car-hop is to work in this capacity: She car-hopped at the Sonic on weekends.
drive-in
Casual American eatery
- A&WRoot beer restaurant chain
- SonicBlue gaming icon
- curbsideAdjacent to the street
- canopyOverhead protective covering
intercom · outdoor · neon · roadside · restaurant · fast-food · cruising · awning
diner
Casual American eatery
canopy · intercom · outdoor · neon · roadside · restaurant · fast-food · cruising · awning
tray
Shallow portable platform
- roller-skatesWheeled recreational footwear
- uniformIdentical throughout
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
tips · menu · curbside · apron · delivery · drive-up · smock · visor · serving
1950s
Decade after WWII
- jukeboxCoin-operated music player
- rockabillyHillbilly-influenced early rock
- greaserMachinery lubricator or fifties tough