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Not to be confused with Bishop's Restaurant downtown! Bishop's "Driv-Inn" near downtown Tulsa. Neon lettering must have been expensive, because ordinary words were often truncated in the titles of business establishments. Bishop's Driv-Inn (not to be confused with Bishop's Restaurant) was located on Route 66, at 10th and Boston in Tulsa. It is unclear when it went out of business. Around 1951 or 1952, Bishops Driv-Inn building was used as a car dealership. Bob Burch recalls that there was a Kaiser automobile on top of the building! One of our paralegals, a native Tulsan who nevertheless really isn't all that old, thinks she remembers it, and claims there were singers on the roof broadasting through microphones to the in-car diners! A former Tulsan, now retired to the farm, sent this memory to us:
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