The Hansen-Atlee Dairy once offered home milk delivery in the Oklahoma City metro area, promising in newspaper advertisements of the time that its milk was more pure and richer than that of its competitors. No visible remnants of the dairy remain in the neighborhood today, which is a mix of warehouses and modest bungalow housing. The Dairy Boy Drive-In chain was founded in 1957 in Oklahoma city by businessman Harry Atlee and Leonard Hansen, owners of the Hansen-Atlee Dairy near SW 18 and Pennsylvania. This summer, her daughter, now 8, also helped out at the restaurant for a few hours. Tallent learned math by counting the money from the till and went into labor with her first child in the Dairy Boy kitchen. “I started as young as I can remember, opening boxes of napkins and straws,” Tallent said. Route 66 later followed much of the same route.īobbie Sue Tallent was just three months old when her parents bought the Minco Dairy Boy and spent much of her childhood behind the counter. The Minco Dairy Boy sits just off Main Street near the center of town on the route of the old Beale Wagon Road, a popular wagon route for settlers in the 1860s and and 1870s. The restaurants all feature the mascot of a little boy in overalls carrying an oversized soft-serve ice cream cone. Another Dairy Boy Drive-In in Lexington closed its doors last year. There is also a surviving Dairy Boy restaurant in Okemah. Newspaper advertisements from the chain dating back to 1958 show Roy and Dee Ann’s Dairy Boy in Minco as one of several Oklahoma locations. “I had a little boy - he looked about 10 or 11 - order one, stand right out there and eat it and then come back and order another.”īratcher is unsure if the Minco Dairy Boy, which she and husband Bobby Bratcher purchased in 1983, was part of the original Dairy Boy chain. “You’d be surprised who orders one,” said Dairy Boy employee Rachel Weaver, the 18-year-old granddaughter of restaurant owner Karen Bratcher. Wearing lipstick and baseball hats decorated in sequins and rhinestones, the Dairy Boy workers - there are no men or boys here, only women - serve up 2-foot-tall “giant” cones of soft-serve ice cream. The walk-up burger and ice cream stand on Minco’s main drag is one of the last remnants of the Dairy Boy Drive-In chain that once had restaurants in small towns across Oklahoma. MINCO - Operated by the same family for the past 31 years, the Minco Dairy Boy Drive-In still offers soft-serve cones in three sizes - small, medium and giant.
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