ROADSIDE AMERICA - Hot Shoppes Drive-In Restaurants

Description: ROADSIDE AMERICA - Hot Shoppes Drive-In Restaurants - Washington, Philadelphia: J. Willard Marriott, who had moved away with his business partner Hugh Colton and his wife Alice from Utah to Washington, D.C., in 1927, where he operated a curbside food stand selling A&W Root Beer in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington at 14th Street and Park Road NW. He would later rename the food stand The Hot Shoppe, adding Mexican food items to the menu. Marriott's business expanded to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1934, shortly after which the company started its food services division. During Second World War, the business expanded to include the management of food services in defense plants and government buildings, such as the U.S. Treasury. They introduced popular items such as the "Mighty Mo", a double hamburger served in a bun covered with sesame seeds and divided into three slices that was stacked with a dill pickle stripe in the top layer and tomato, lettuce, and a distinctive sauce on the bottom layer, and very thick milk shakes served with a long-handled spoon and an unusually wide straw. Then in the 1950s, Hot Shoppes, Inc. started providing food services to public schools and to Children's Hospital in 1955, a contract which they held for 35 years. The company went public in 1953. In 1957, the firm expanded into the hotel industry by opening the first Marriott hotel (actually a motel), the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel, in Arlington County, Virginia. In 1964, Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. The company later became Marriott Corporation in 1967. In 1967, Marriott acquired the Big Boy family restaurants chain from Bob Wian. This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. Embetone. Frederick, Md.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2024-12-02T04:02:24.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD