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The carhops are moving Bugattis, Lamberghinis and Corniches in a long snaking line down the driveway.

The scene will include a car canopy and carhops on roller skates.

For 65 years, Sonic has delighted guests with signature menu items, 1.3m drink combinations and friendly service by iconic Carhops.

(27) The opening of a franchise of the A&W fast food restaurant in the spring of 1961, replete with a genuine "A&W cook from Winnipeg" and carhops, reinforced the image of Thompson as a "modern" city, despite its location on the fringes of what many might have viewed as civilization.

Then, there was Louise's on the north side of Belzoni, with carhops in front and a Delta speakeasy in the rear.

The Drive In Restaurant takes diners back to the 1950s with homemade root beer and old-fashioned, hand-packed burgers served by carhops in poodle skirts.

THE GOODS: A latter-day version of '50s downtown Sarasota icon Smacks Drive--In, minus the carhops on roller skates, has opened under the auspices of the folks behind Gecko's Grill Et Pub.

Carhops attend customers in a broad parking lot, and there is a U-shaped counter with padded stools inside.

"Then with his bride, demure, olive-skinned, sari-swathed starlet Anna Kashfi, 23, almost as unknown as any of the carhops and hat-nappers he has dated while snubbing the screen's more famous ladies, 'Hollywood's most eligible bachelor' vanished in a cloud of idle speculation."

He described plans for the Springfield Sonic restaurant as having "a '50s feel, although a modern '50s feel," with carhops on roller skates but a contemporary design.

Henry Franz had the right idea: "drivers who let others turn without flashing the one-finger salute; restaurants that employ carhops; cashiers who can compute and deliver change due; courteous people who open doors and hold them until one has passed through; and a face-to-face message or conversation instead of e-mail."