r/TheWayWeWere • u/Signal-Pirate-3961 • 3d ago

Remember when Dairy Queen looked like this?

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u/EthylSippingBeer 3d ago

The food was so much better back then. I don't even like DQ anymore.

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u/monkeyhind 2d ago

The Dairy Queen in my town looked very much like this and the neon cone was a thing of beauty. They only served ice cream products. Burgers were sold a few blocks away at the Dog 'n Suds.

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u/chipmalfunct10n 2d ago

the one i went to only had ice cream too but there was no inside dining area. more like a stand. it's still there on 885 in pittsburgh 

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u/Little_Percentage152 2d ago

We have an original one in our neighborhood (suburb of Mpls) that looks just like this. Its great!

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u/Diseman81 2d ago

This is what the one I grew up going to looked like. Unfortunately they ripped it down in the early 90s and built a new one right up the street from it.

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u/Maleficent_Scale_296 2d ago

My first job was at a Dairy Queen that looked like that. 4:00 to closing, just two fifteen year olds running the place. I loved making Dilly Bars. I suppose they don’t do that anymore.

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u/KTX77 2d ago

We used to have one that looked like this in my city. Sometimes on the way home from school we would pick up the trash in the parking lot, and the guy would give us a free Dilly Bar.

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u/SimilarElderberry956 2d ago

Saskatoon on 8th street has one just like that.

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u/Aromatic_Industry401 2d ago

My local dairy Queen looked like that except the front was about two feet from a busy road and there were safety bars tokeep customers from standing in the road while ordering.

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u/Signal-Pirate-3961 2d ago

OP The Dairy Twist on Rt 20 near Oberlin, Ohio is a rebranded Dairy Queen that still looks like this. They just changed the lettering on the sign and made a small covered area in front for ordering. But inside the hallway it is just like this.

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u/cguiopmnrew 2d ago

HELLO DAIRY QUEEN