My mother worked there the first day it opened in Beckley as a teenager. That had to have been 1977 or 78. She's since passed so I can't ask but she would have been 16 in 1977 and driving. She moved from Beckley in 1980 so it had to have opened before then.
I'm 53 and can remember going there as a kid
I don't know but, I've been married to my wife for 37 years and we have stopped there for a meal several times a year when we go visit her parents in Ohio.
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