This is my grandmother, Frances Dibbens, and one of her nieces in front of her drive-in restaurant on the far east edge of Garden City, Kansas. This photo was taken in the mid 1950's. Dibbens Drive-in sat in the middle of the divided highway, next to the skating rink. Many of us got to serve as curb-hops in the summer. I just followed my older cousins around as I was quite a bit younger. That ended the first time a customer handed me the tip!
I remember her fixing cherry limeades with a little plastic animal (giraffe or monkey) to hold the cherry, and of course, chocolate Cokes! 400's were milk with strawberry syrup.
Grandma lived in a farmhouse to the north of the highway; just across from the restaurant on a sheep farm.
