Here’s a nice ad for the late, great
Hoop chain of drive-in restaurants in Lorain. The owner,
Richard Head, always seemed to have his finger on the pulse of what his customers wanted – in this case, a huge burger. The king-size steakburger was in addition to the Super Hooper, a double-decker burger (similar to a Big Boy) which was already on the menu.
As usual, Head was right on target.
Burger King (who wouldn’t enter Lorain County until the late 1960s) had only added its iconic Whopper to its menu four years earlier. And McDonald’s wouldn’t roll out its Quarter Pounder nationally until 1973.
The Hoop ad above ran in the Lorain Journal on April 25, 1961 – sixty years ago this month.
