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{{quote|'''Brian (Manager of ''The Greasy Fork''):''' ''Britta, you promised that this private party would be done by eight. You're doing this during the peak business hours for nostalgia-themed diners.''
'''Annie:''' ''Oh, is that true? Has that been researched?''
'''Brian''': ''It has, Annie. After they get frightened by the evening news, many seek the comforting foods and soothing music of a pre-racial America.''|'''[[
Obligatory bit of [[The Fifties|1950s]] [[Popular History]]. All the kids [[Local Hangout|hang out]] here and listen to the jukebox play [[Nothing but Hits]]. Carhops are optional. The Malt Shop may also be referred to as a diner, a soda fountain, a drug store or a café but the general look is always basically the same. In a [[Time Travel]] story ending up in [[The Fifties]], often the first place gone into after the [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]] (as in ''[[Back to The Future]]'', for example).
The [[Greasy Spoon]] is the
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== [[Film]] ==
* Mel's Drive-In from ''[[American Graffiti]]''
* Lou's Café from ''[[Back to
* Naturally, one of these shows up in ''[[Pleasantville]]''.
* One is included (free of charge) in the 1957-set ''[[Indiana Jones and
* A futuristic version of one of these appears in ''[[Star Wars|Attack of the Clones]]'', complete with a robot waitress and a fat Italian-American-sounding alien in an apron in the kitchen.
** [[Word of God|George Lucas]] has stated that this is an homage to his earlier ''[[American Graffiti]]''.
* Parodied in ''[[Top Secret (
* The film of ''[[The Music Man]]'' sets one of its scenes in an ice cream parlor. The movie is from 1962, though the musical is set 50 years before that.
* ''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' is narrated by a character in a malt shop, which also plays a minor role in the story.
* This is where [[Gun Fu|Smith]] and the [[Hooker
* [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', Vincent takes Mia to Jack Rabbit Slim's, a nostalgia restaurant designed to resemble a 50's diner/malt shop.
* Naturally, a setting for several scenes in ''[[Grease]]''.
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* Arnold's from ''[[Happy Days]]''
* The Pie Hole in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' resembles one of these, in keeping with the show's [[Retro Universe]] aesthetic.
* The Groovy Smoothie in ''[[
* Parodied on a [[Mad TV]] sketch with a "nostalgic" diner which for the sake of period accuracy refused to serve black customers.
* Bizarrely, the first round of time travel on ''[[Supernatural]]'', where Dean sees his youthful parents-to-be on a date to one of these...in ''1973''. Possibly the influence of her protective father.
== Music ==
* "...[[Weird Al|And I]] [[Kill It
== Theatre ==
* Shows up in the musical ''Reefer Madness'', which is technically set in [[The Thirties]] [[Anachronism Stew|but has more of a 1950s feel in general]].
* Not shown in the opera ''[[
* One of the later scenes in ''[[West Side Story]]'' is in Doc's drugstore. The jukebox plays [[Theme Tune Cameo|the same "Mambo" heard at the gym dance]].
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* [[Futurama]] had this in their time travel episode to 1945.
* An episode of [[Family Guy]] features a restaurant with a retro 50s malt shop motif. Cleveland, being black, was not allowed to enter.
* Seen in the ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** They've kept the visuals, but the music's all over the place now, including stuff like the B-52's "Love Shack" and Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville".
* Sonic Drive-In is a chain of drive-in diners that began in the '50s and has survived and thrived into the present day, complete with carhops who wear roller skates. In Northern cities, they're known primarily for the fact that they advertise even though the nearest Sonic may be tens or even hundreds of miles away (Northern weather isn't that conductive to drive-in diners).
* In modern times, malt shops as such are pretty
* The Classic 50s is a one-of-a-kind drive-in in Norman, Oklahoma that is more or less identical to Sonic except even ''more'' nostalgic of the 1950s. Kids meals even come in cardboard replicas of classic cars!
* There is one down in Hillsboro, OR or it was there last time I visited. That area is the sort of place where specialty businesses crowd around.
* The A&W's chain of fast-food joints have become known for marketing based on nostalgia: They base many of their commercials, and even the interior on the "classic fast food joint" look of [[The Fifties]]. Of course, it's not a
* Route 66 lives and breaths 50's nostalgia, so there are plenty of old drive-ins and malt shops along the route to cater to tourists.
* [http://www.niftyfiftys.com Nifty Fifty's] in Pennsylvania and New Jersey deliberately recreates the malt/sodashop aesthetic, right down to soda jerks who'll mix a custom soda for you from your choice of a couple dozen syrups and seltzer water.
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