Tip Top & Winns Drive In
The
Tip Top Drive -In started out as the Tip Top Barbeque on Washington
Street East near the bridge. It became so popular that
Charlie Winn decided to build a new place with more room, about where
the Charleston Moose Lodge is today in 1941. He later added a
canopy for cars, and a Motel. Part of this was sold to the
Wilans (Rock Lake Pool) about 20 years later.
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Later, during the 60s, the place would be renamed
Winns Restaurant
Notice all the
changes over the years. Winns was later known as Cle'ments.
But in 1964, Alex Schoenbaum of
"Shoney's" fame bought it and called it the "Galexy". For some
reson, that didnt last a year. Meanwhile, the
Winns also owned and started the Tip Top Drive in at the same time they
opened "Winns". Later, the Tip Top was changed to the "Park Drive
In".
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Today
Charleston Moose
Top photo courtesy of Rob
Ryan
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