DAIRY-MOR DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT
E.O. "Bud" Rodberg

The following is based on an incomplete set of City directories from the 1950s and '60s.

E.O. "Bud" Rodberg opened the Dairy-Mor Drive-In in 1952.  It was located at 5060 Excelsior Blvd.  In 1953, that site became the S&K Drive-In, and in 1960 it was the Park Drive-In.   

In 1953, the Dairy-Mor moved to 3877 Wooddale.  This was in a strip of buildings just north of the old Lilac Way shopping Center.  The area is now the Park Nicollet parking lot.  The drive-in was a memorable hangout for teens in St. Louis Park and other surrounding areas, particularly Edina. 

The Drive-in shows up in the St. Louis Park directories through 1967.  The building was probably razed in 1988 with the demise of Lilac Way, although it may have been sooner.



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                                                            1960

Bud Rodberg requested permission to build a new drive-in restaurant on Highway 7 in December 1957.  He hoped to erect the new establishment at 7012 Highway 7, just west of the Cheese Mart and east of the Twin City Biscuit Co.  That might not have happened - we see a building there built in 1968.  Rodberg did own Wagner's Drive In in the 1950s until Rodberg died in 1960.  Rodberg was also a school teacher. 






 

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