Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant, Dayton, Ohio, Collection (SC-156)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant newsletters, two newspaper clippings, and eleven photographs of the restaurant. The Jul-Aug 1966 Parkmoor newsletter is a special 20th Anniversary Issue. This newsletter, along with one of the newspaper clippings, provides a history of the restaurant. The collection spans the period 1953 to 1988.
Dates
- Creation: 1953-1988
Biographical / Historical
The first Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant opened in a rebuilt open-air root beer stand 1947 on Linden Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It was owned and operated by Wallace and Virginia Monschke. In 1950, a second Parkmoor Restaurant opened on Salem Avenue. A third Parkmoor opened in Fairborn, Ohio in 1952. Overall, between 1946 and 1961, the Monschke’s opened 16 Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurants in the Dayton area. The restaurant was famous for its “Dixie Golden Fried Chicken.” However, the popularity of the restaurant waned during the 1970s, with the last Parkmoor closed in the 1980s.
Extent
1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Photographs, newspaper clippings, and newsletters concerning the Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant chain.
- Title
- Guide to the Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant, Dayton, Ohio, Collection (SC-156)
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2021 July 29
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
