More than a hundred-year-old ice cream parlor, Doumar’s, is just a mile away from the downtown Norfolk Virginia. Doumar’s takes you back to the 50s America, where cars and fast food drive-in like this dominated the American landscape. Waitresses no longer wear roller skates to deliver your meal, but still don iconic 50s style uniform (hat) while serving your food. This drive-in restaurant serves classic sandwiches such as burgers, pork barbecue along with shakes, floats, and other traditional ice-cream desserts. Most items are classic and made in traditional way.One of the main attractions is its homemade ice cream cones. World’s first ice cream cone machine Drive-in vs. Drive-through Dumars is a drive-in restaurant, not a modern drive-through, ones found in place such as McDonald’s. Contrary to drive-through restaurants, where you buy a meal and eat somewhere else, at a drive-in restaurant, you are served by a waiter in your parking space and encouraged to dine in there. Nowadays, you can barely see drive-ins except in the movies set in 1950s, where they symbolize the entire era of post-war America.Even the neighborhood of Doumar’s is dominated by drive-through chains. So how can I avoid not savoring this piece of American culinary history during my every visit near it?
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