Old Chester, PA: Business: Restaurants: Shooster's Drive-In

Painting courtesy of the artist, Stephen Shooster, shoosty@bellsouth.net, 800-557-8383

Presidents:	Frank Shooster, founder [Obituary] Harry Shooster Herman Shooster
Other Employees	Claudia Chandler Dee (Sommers) Garvey Dee Wanner Hazel White
Company History:
Recollections:	"In 1950 /51, there was a nightly radio broadcast called "Wieners Nightwatch," which originated at Shooster's Drive-in. We could call up and request a song and dedicate it to someone, and they would announce it on the radio. In those days, there were a lot of party lines, and all the lines would get crossed, and instead of reaching Shooster's, we would be on the telephone with 4 or 5 other people who were also calling the radio disc jockey. It was a lot of fun, even if you didn't get to request a song, you got to exchange phone numbers with others. I wonder if anyone remembers that. -Carole Gelnack Mullen, CMullen528@aol.com "If I recall correctly, it started out as a round white building. It has been a long time since I thought about the word "carhops" but Arnolds on TV had nothing on the real Shoosters. Later a larger building was built with sit down booths, etc. but it was never the same as the original. I am not sure about the color of the new building but I think it was brown. The building was later torn down as the land was used for an exit ramp off the Commordore Barry Bridge. If I recall correctly one of the local Chester radio stations used to originate a broadcast from there." "Joker" Jack Chambers, jokerjak908@yahoo.com "The first drive-in in the area"