Opened in 1964, Chick-N-Burger was originally an east-end drive-in known for great food and fun. Old-time Scarberians tell me the place was especially joyous during the 1960’s muscle car era.
That was when exuberant teens and young men would sip Cokes, eat burgers, and pose with their chariots to the sounds of The British Invasion. It was kind of like how I picture the Happy Days show if it were set in mid-century Scarborough.
But, like Fonzie and the gang, the joint jumped the shark.
By the time the current owner took over in 2010, Scarborough and Chick-N-Burger had seen 40 years of a manufacturing exodus, growing welfare dependence, widespread familial breakdown, ever-increasing drug use, and, worst of all, their chicken rotisserie broke and was never fixed.