{"product_id":"oscars-san-diego-1960s","title":"Oscar's, San Diego 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamous for its massive malts and double-deck hamburgers, there were six Oscar’s drive-in coffee shops in San Diego where carhops - servers on roller skates - would bring food to your car.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack and white photographs on the internet show the Oscar’s at El Cajon Blvd with candy striped awnings and - we’ve no idea why - a parade of elephants embossed on the entrance wall. Apparently, locals nicknamed it the ‘circus,’ due to the animal posters inside and out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert O Peterson was a founder of the Oscars hamburger chain and later went on to create the Jack in the Box restaurant chain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA native San Diegan, former traveling salesman and WWII intelligence officer, he founded Topsy’s drive-in in 1941 and it later became Oscar’s. In 1951, Peterson opened his first Jack in the Box and is credited with being the first to pair a drive-through with an intercom system. The speaker to take orders was hidden inside a plastic clown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1967, with 300 Jack in the Boxes, Peterson sold the chain to the American conglomerate Ralston Purina, which later merged with Nestlé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’ve also found information about Oscar Soledad, a former chief of police of the town of Santa Cruz, who has been credited by some as being another founder of Oscar’s, along with his partner Stephen Ashley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAshley’s father Jack was also a fast-food pioneer, opening the first drive-through bakery on Point Loma in 1909, correctly guessing that people in automobiles wouldn’t want to get out of their cars and walk just to pick up bread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere were six Oscar’s in San Diego at 12th and C streets, Midway and Rosecrans, Pacific and Rosecrans, Euclid and El Cajon, Mission Blvd and Garnet, Pacific Beach, and 16th and National, National City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe believe this menu is from the late 1950s or early 60s when a double-deck hamburger cost 44c and the famous extra-rich, extra-thick malts and milkshakes topped with whipped cream cost 25c.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEach order includes a print of the interior menu.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll printed in USA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage Menu Art","offers":[{"title":"8.5x11\" Archival Print (Unframed) $25.00","offer_id":57491953189030,"sku":"qpc1790052888838","price":19.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11x14 Archival Print (Unframed) $30.00","offer_id":57491953221798,"sku":"eep1790052888839","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"13x19 Archival Print (Unframed) $40.00","offer_id":57491953254566,"sku":"bwi1790052888840","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00","offer_id":57491953287334,"sku":"fhv1790052888841","price":36.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x24 Archival Print (Unframed) $85.00","offer_id":57491953320102,"sku":"xkf1790052888842","price":51.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00","offer_id":57491953352870,"sku":"oax1790052888843","price":98.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/9133\/8662\/files\/oscars-san-diego-1960s_1.webp?v=1790052893","url":"https:\/\/coffeetamper.shop\/products\/oscars-san-diego-1960s","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}