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| The busy scene at the restaurant on snowy Saturday, December 29. |
The small restaurant at the intersection of State Route 60 and State Route 113 dates back to the days when Dick Goddard's Woollybear Festival was still held in Birmingham (before moving to Vermilion in the early 1980s).
It opened on May 9, 1981 with Zelma Hughes as the owner-operator.
What first lured me to eat there was the fact that the Woolly Bear was the only place besides Midway Oh-Boy that used the secret Oh-Boy mayonnaise-based sauce on their burgers.
The Woolly Bear Drive-in had its devoted legion of fans (just read some of its online reviews), and it's always sad when a family business shuts down. It's still open today until 4:00, so if you are hankerin' for a Big Bear sandwich, you'd better hurry!
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| The restaurant's mascot |
4 comments:
Awwwwe! I enjoyed Woolly Bear. Once I took a friend visiting from Cols, something was lost in the translation. She still laughs at the copious amts of mayo on her berger.
We were actually there - our car is in the picture! We got their last Strawberry-Rhubarb pie to go. It will be missed!
That's funny that you were there, Mark! I would have gone in and bought something, but I hadn't been to an ATM yet and only had 2 battered & tattered bucks in my wallet that afternoon!
I'm crushed. I've been going there since childhood. I've had many "dates" there with my childhood sweetheart/husband. We love Woolly Bear.
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