Saddle up at Roy Rogers - Life in America
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I grew up very poor and we rarely if ever ate out. There was a Roy Rogers near the house and I signed up for the Buckaroo Club. Every year on your birthday they sent you a postcard for a free platter. I couldn't wait to get that postcard. When I started earning my own money, Roy Rogers was a favorite place to eat. Love the Double R Bar Burger, Roast Beef, Fried Chicken. Their fries and coleslaw are awesome too. I go there every time I go back to Maryland. The folks working there are always so nice. Class Act!
Sounds like a great memory.
Ah! The Double R
It’s so funny you mentioned the buckaroo club. A few weeks ago I was going through some old boxes, and there it was my Buckaroo member card. I definitely will be keeping it in a safe place
that was one of my regular choices at RR was the double R burger, had to google it cause I coudnt remeber what was on it, all I could remeber was getting a cheeese burger that had sliced ham on it and I would get extra bbq sauce on the side, their fries were great too
Is Roy Rogers still there?
The Roast Beef sandwich with BBQ sauce was the best. And who didn’t like the Fixins Bar.
Bacon double cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, and mayo:
the perfect burger.
With a holster of fries!
Horseradish sauce
The parent company of Hardees / Carls Jr. bought and then destroyed two of the best fast food companies of all: Roy Rogers and Burger Chef.
So true
Yes that's right.
You got that right. Hardees should had been named "HardEats" and I have no comment about Carls Jr. as I never graced their store.
Burger Chef also had that great "fixins" bar.
@@duradim1 they should pretty much tell you how sad Our Town is we've had Hardee's since 1967 and it's still going strong
I loved Roy Rogers so much. When I lived in DC, I would go to their location in Upper Northwest next to a Metro Stop. Their food never disappointed and was a treat for me.
I don't remember the restaurants.
@@nickhill8612 Did you live in DC at one time? There was a Roy Rogers at the Van Ness - UDC Red Line subway stop. When I ate out, I preferred to eat at the wonderful Sholl's Cafeteria downtown or the Hot Shoppes cafeteria in Friendship Heights, but it was "fast food" they Roy Rogers was the first choice for me!
The first Roy Rogers I ever ate at was near Andrews Air Force Base in DC where I was stationed in 1979 and 80. It was always a tough decision between the burgers or the chicken because both were delicious.
Man I miss Roy Rogers! The fixins bar was great!
I think I ate at a Roy Rogers once or twice in the 80s. When we visited my uncle in California in 1989, he took us to see Roy's house and to the Roy Roger's Museum (he and Dale were there several times a week greeting guests... sadly we missed them by a day and my grandma was SO mad because she adored Roy).
Leonard Sly
Roy Roger's hamburgers was so good and we got fried chicken alot 🍗
I love American food.God bless USA.
I remember every lunch day from work I would walk across the street to have a a roast beef sandwich and drink. On my tight budget it was all I could afford. Thank you Roy Rogers restaurant for the memories! P.S. and the paycheck savings 😉😍😁
They had the best roast beef sandwich, I ate those 3 times a week. Not that weird meat from Arby's.
@@LasVegas68 tell me about it I don't know what kind of meat Arby's serves . Now they're trying to make it come back Roy Rogers we'll see what happens
The Golden Age of Fast Food.
I'm so glad to have these memories. Roy Rogers was one of a kind and missed.
Loved the Horsey Sauce, the fries, the burgers, and everyone loved the Fixin's Bar. The Chicken was good too.
Loved Roy Rogers and Dale Evans! Miss them both!!
Lenorad Slye & Francis Octavia Smith came a long way .>>>>>>>>>
@Derek Jackson Larry DeWein did.
I moved to Arlington, VA in 1975, and the first night there we ate a Roy Rogers in Falls Church. I had never heard of this chain at the time and I just learned that was the first RR restaurant! Moved away from there yrs ago and always missed those RR hamburgers!
I grew up in McLean and one of my sisters worked at the Tysons RR. Good times. 👍
...miss these; Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois; best burgers and fries anywhere; actually met JW Marriott Jr in Chicago for a meeting when I was working for the Pediatric Academy.
@Beelzebot ... not anymore; this was in the 70's and 80's.
I grew up in Hinsdale and Lagrange in the 1970s, I remember Wood field Mall and Oak Brook Mall.
@@Mark.G475 I grew up in Hinsdale too. The RR in Woodfield was a nice place to go!
P.s Chicago area in the 1970s, miss those days, Bozo, Ray Rayner, Wgn, Schwinn bicycle...
@@jeepgirl6225 ... it was on the mid level near Lord and Taylor, if I recall...
It's great that Roy Rogers is still around and the current owners are dedicated.
Roy rogers been dead quite a few yrs
@@roberthill8757 not in Maryland
It’s not really around - see my comment above
I apologise for my comment i realise now what you meant
I worked as a cook at Duff's Smorgasbord in the '80s. One time the supplier accidentally dropped of a bag of Roy Rogers chicken breading with our weekly shipment. We couldn't use it on our fried chicken due to copyright infringement, so we bagged it up and took it home for ourselves. We impressed everybody with our home cooked chicken.
So you did not even bother to give it back?
@@returnofthebrotha That chicken already crossed the road. No going back.
Would doing so be a copyright infringement or a patent infringement?
I used to love Duffs. always great food there then.........gone!
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@@samanthab1923 Thank you 😊
@@nickhill8612 Thank you 😊
Used to go quite often as a kid to the first one on Route 7 near the long-ago Washington-Virginia Airport. I still stop at these every chance I get. BTW, at 4:13, the guy in in the background in a Forest Ranger uniform is Hal Shaw, "Ranger Hal", star of of the kidvid show of the same name that aired for years on WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C.
That was the first Roy Rogers, across the street from Toy R Us at Bailey's Crossroads. That was originally called Crossroads Airport. I think that Roy Rogers is a McDonald's now. My mother took me there when it first opened in 1968. They only sold roast beef sandwiches and off-brand sodas, No brand name sodas. They might have had chicken, but the first chicken was Hot Shoppes chicken. I think chicken came later and burgers much later.
I remember seeing Roy Rogers in Metairie LA on Veterans Blvd back in the 60's in the summertime. Loved that place!!
Happy Trails! Oh yeah Roy Rogers on the Jersey Turnpike. I used to drive from Ft. Meade MD to Queens NYC. Would stop at a rest stop with a RR and order a regular burger and just load up at the free "Fixins" bar. Tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles top it off with Roy's BBQ sauce. What a burger! As a young Airman making no money it was a great way to fill up for lunch or dinner.
I feel like Vince Lombardi was always the one we stopped at.
@@samanthab1923 I think I stopped at one before Lombardi from what I remember Lombardi was near the end of the Turnpike. Too many years of ago 1982, 1983. However I can still remember the BBQ sauce. Delicious!
Had so many roast beef sandwiches and always asked for it “branded” ! Their mocha shakes were the best! “Happy Trails To You”
It’s kinda misleading to say they still exist up here in NY (or NJ) - the only stores left are stripped-down counters with pre-made sandwiches sitting on racks located inside interstate rest stops... 😞
I was going to say the same thing. I was at one on the NJ Turnpike. It was just like you said, a burger sitting on a rack. The burger was barely warm, probably had been on that rack for hours. Anyway, point is, they are not the same burgers anymore. Back in the 80s, they were better than McDonald's or BK, at least I think so.
Thankfully the filthy one that I had the brief misfortune to have worked at in Vineland NJ got shut down. I only lasted a week before I quit in 1985
I’m from Chicago and I went to the rest stop yesterday and it was still good , I saw the employees cooking the burgers they looked so good but I got a bucket of chicken
Exactly.I live in Jersey and the ones in the rest stops are not the same as the restaurants.It is kind of misleading.
There is still one in South Tom's River, stopped in the other week and it's still great.
35 years ago, when I was pregnant with our daughter, I CRAVED Rog Rogers hamburgers with extra, extra pickles on them! The local place closed down a few years later, and became a KFC, then wastorndown to make some type of mega gas station place. I was sorry to see RR go.
Oh was so sad when Roy Rogers Restaurants closed. They had the best roast beef sandwiches. Also loved the "fixins bar" It was great.
Still have them here in MD. Their headquarters is near me too..
I used to live near the Roy Rogers on Belle View Boulevard in Alexandria, Virginia, and boy did I eat a lot of that fried chicken! I try to stay away from fast food, but I went to Roy Rogers at least a couple times a week. Nothing on the menu was bad. Nothing. It's still there, so be sure to stop in!
I used to live in Alexandria years ago and I remember the Roy Rogers you're talking about. That Roy Roy Rogers is still there?????
There was one on the east side of Yonge Street, near St. Clair Ave., in Toronto, Canada. In about 1972, we ate there before going to the Hollywood (a 1930s movie theatre) to see a re-release of "Mary Poppins". It was the first movie I ever went to. The Roy Rogers closed a couple of years later.
1972 I think that's when I first saw Mary Poppins in Chicago area.
Roy Rogers still exists in my state lol
I live in Hagerstown MD and grew up near Frederick, MD so we still have them around here and go to them all the time. Always will be my favorite.
I liked Boston Market, previously known as Boston Chicken, in the Sacramento area. A go-to place from the mid-‘90s to the 2000s along with El Pollo Loco.
It's also a chain that's struggling.
@@carolyncarter2615 Sorry to hear, but that doesn’t surprise me. The location in my area converted to Chick-Fil-A.
I'm from Sacramento, Ca. Loved Boston Market...in Texas now and none to be found where I'm at in East Texas!
I remember Roy Rogers Franchise all over my native DMV Metropolitan area in the 70's & 80's. I loved the commercials on tv all the time, the food was worth it, & I enjoyed my 1st Cherry Coke from there, also worth it. I was sad to see Roy Rogers as it did. Last time I saw such was somewhere in Virginia from My Greyhound Bus on the way to DC for the holidays in 2000 & never again.
Roy Rogers was a worthy franchise & Celebrity of his time & can never be replaced...EVER😭.
When I finished school and moved to Pittsburgh for my first IT job in 88, there was a Roy Rogers right around the corner from my office. Hands down the best hamburgers and chicken dinners downtown. The place was a two story restaurant and had a line out the door every day. Then suddenly in the early 90s it disappeared, and a Panda Express took it's place. A couple years later they were gone. It's pretty much vacant now.
I used to eat at the Roy Rogers back in 1988 in New Jersey, Paramus Garden State Mall. Absolutely Loved the fixing bar ... pickles onions .... burgers were wrapped in a aluminum foil which gave the burger 🍔 that mushy feeling
East of Cincinnati in Milford Ohio there's a Roney's which was at another location as a Roy Rogers since 1969. Two brothers have operated the restaurant all these years. When they moved to Milford a few years ago from another building, they were so busy there was a bread truck sitting outside in the parking lot for weeks. They were so busy you couldn't get near the place. Same great food and the fixing's bar too. It has all the old pictures of Roy etc...on the walls
I live in Hagerstown MD and grew up near Frederick, MD so we still have Roy Rogers here. Go there all the time. It will always be my favorite fast food place.
In my opinion, they had the BEST fried chicken 😋!! Was by one yesterday at a rest stop on the N.E. Extension of the Pa. Turnpike. I'm a vegetarian now, but was thinking 🤔, man, if I wasn't!
Many years ago, I went to a RR in Washington, DC. I was really disturbed to see old folks packing up tomatoes, lettuce, etc., at the fixings bar which they took home to eat later. Sad. On the day that Roy Rogers's death was announced, I went to breakfast at a RR in Northern Virginia. I asked the kids working at the counter what they thought of his death. They did not even know who he was. Again, sad. That particular RR is now a McD's, sad.
That is truly sad.
Beautiful video
Roy co-owned a little C & W radio station in Victorvillle, Ca. It broadcast from the Holiday Inn there. Forgot where the transmitter was, but out in the Mojave dirt. I worked there a spell. " Rollin' Country " KCIN. A Roy Rogers restaurant out there would have been a success. Roy was a great guy.
Roy Rogers chicken was AWESOME 😎
The only Roy Rogets left in Pennsylvania are along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in thier Service Plazas last time I checked.
In the 90s we had a Roy Roger's open up. Might have opened late 80s. But after a few years it became a Hardees. But I could never remember if it was a Hardees first or the Roy Roger's first. Thanks to your video that answered my question. That building was torn down by the mid 90s and replaced with a Sheetz convenience store and gas station that is still here today.
In 1977 ate a Roy Rogers in Alexandria, Virginia, the only time I was East of the Mississippi. Liked it. Always wanted them to come to California, where I live. I thought they were long gone. Still hope, I hope, for them to come to California, preferably to the fifth largest city in California, Fresno, where I live.
As long as the franchise doesn't make the same mistake as the much hyped Steak-n-Shake and place it in the Sunnyside area. That restaurant didn't last a year. Location is everything here in Fresno.
I remember going to Roy Rogers many times back in the day, my favorite was the Double R Burger.
We currently have two RR's in the town about 5 miles from us. Other than that I have no idea where any are. My sister was hostess in the late 70's at one. Short skirt, vest, cowboy hat and boots. Our university had on in the student union when we attended in the late 70's. Loved the roast beef with bbq sauce.
Where is it? Which state?
You are lucky. I wish we had one here in Houston.
I think they would greet you with howdy pardner.
I remember when the first Roy Rogers opened at Baileys Crossroads, VA in 1968.
In high school we would sneak out for lunches. My record was 10 buckaroo burgers (with their awesome bbq sauce). On a trip back home a couple years ago we stopped at RR in PA. No more buckaroo burgers. Was really looking forward to re-living the past.
Another good soundtrack selection pacing is well done.
2:17...my folks had this very same station wagon!
I live in Maryland and still enjoy Roy Rogers 😋😋😋
Do you live in Frederick?
@@mikecxx yes
My parents didn’t take us out for fast food very often, but we occasionally got to eat at a Roy Rogers, and at the time, the staff were issued smart neat uniforms, and I really loved the burgers. They tasted like no other.
Double R Bar Burger 'round the corral, partner!
I'm glad I still have a Roys right down the street, I need my Double R Bar Burger fix, now if the delivery people would stop forgetting the Roy's BBQ sauce.
I remember as a kid seeing the wagon sign like the one at 3:52, it had neon lights and the wheels flashed back and forth. Don't know why I remember that so well as I never ate there but I def remember that sign! 😂 Man I love this old stuff, so glad I came across this channel!
During my youth, there was a Roy Rogers restaurant one town to the east of my hometown. The building now houses a Wendy's restaurant. I didn't realize until seeing this video that they featured roast beef sandwiches! I knew it as 3rd fiddle to McDonald's and Burger King as a kid.
Went to Roy Rogers in White Oak Maryland and Bob's Big Boy in Wheaton Maryland both were great places, grew up going to both.
Roy Rogers was right next to my 1st part time job I worked at for 5 years W. Bell & Company back when we completed with Best Products & Evans Jewelers in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia & beyond when Baltimore Maryland still had Blue Laws where stores couldn't be open on Sundays even in the 1980s
There is a Roy Rogers further down Rockville Pike now, towards the courthouse. My kids love that place.
Used to love W. Bell & Company too. You could buy a gift for just about every occasion there.
We also went to Hot Shops in Langley Park Maryland
dont remember what is was called on the menu but we called it the "trigger burger"...a combo hamburger with roast beef on top. it was yummy.
Oh really?
A Trigger burger?
Haven’t heard that term in a long time 😂😂
Double R Burger- my fav
At 5:20 is a coupon that appeared in the Houston Chronicle for all the Roy Rogers locations. Just FYI.
i noticed that. i ate at two of those locations haha
@@jamani1086 Me too. Once at gulf gate and many, many times at the Galleria location.
I was born in 05' in maryland and i grew up and we still have roy rodgers
I live on the West Coast and the RR franchise didn't make it west of the Mississippi which I find odd because not only did Roy Rogers live in CA, he's buried in the state. The only reason I know anything about the RR restaurant chain is because of Gary "Ba Ba Booey" Dell'Abate from The Stern Show. Ba Ba Booey worked at a New Jersey RR in high school and college and has talked about his days working there extensively on the show lol.
...two reasons; population density change west of Kansas city or so, and the fascination with the old west, which the new west abondoned.
If I remember correctly he had a huge home in Apple Valley.
@@dennishough3709 He did, and a museum.
Great Burgers and Fried Chicken. Always stopped with my brother at either the Vernon, CT or Sturbridge, MA locations on the way back from Hartford Whalers games.
Denver's burger market collapsed, we had tonnes of burger joints, Larkburger, Smashburger, Fatburger, GoodTimes, McD, BK, Wingdings, Jackn' the Box, and now In'n'Out burgers. Bring It Roy! We could use another burger barn out here,
RIP Fuddruckers.
Denver needs the The Texas chain, Whataburger.
I am lucky, I grew up in MD and had a RR's around me up till my late 20's and early 30's, they then all closed. I live in WV now and on my long commute, I pass one near Burkittsvile MD and I have one about 15 minutes away from me in Ranson WV. I go there still at least once a month. Glad there are a couple still around! They still have some great fast food! Love your channel, brings back a lot of memories, it is a bit depressing that the majority of the episodes I have watched are mostly defunct companies now. It's a sad nostalgic trip down memory lane! Thanks for bringing back some joyful times of my youth and interesting facts about these great places!
my mom worked for Roy Rogers starting in baltiomore, md, then located to PA she was there for long time. food was always good.
It's unfortunate that they closed all of their New England locations. 10-15 years ago there were still a few to be found in MA and CT but those are long gone now.
The only Roy Rogers restaurant I remember was when I lived in the Hartford, CT area from 1991-1993. I think it was in Manchester. Unfortunately I never took the opportunity to give it a try.
@@cdfreester There was one in Stratford for years. It’s now a Boston Market.
There was one on the other side of the state as well at a Pilot truck stop in North Stonington. I also remember the one in MA just over the CT border off I-84 in Sturbridge.
@@biIIyballLoved Roy Rogers in Connecticut. The ones I knew about were Norwalk, Westport and Guilford.
Great food, the best fried chicken and fixings.
We moved to West Caldwell, New Jersey in 1968. Not long after, Roy Rogers became our favourite take-out and one of our favourite restaurants, besides Bonanza, Friendly's and IHOP. We moved to Ohio in 1972, and sadly never saw another RRs. I hope the one in West Caldwell is still there!
I remember going to the Roy Rogers in East Hanover NJ as a family many times in the 70’s I loved the Roast Beef Sandwich
The RR roast beef sandwich was exceptional as it was made from actual beef roasts thinly sliced, and not the "formed" beef of the other chain.
Worked at Roy’s all through high school. Early 90’s. Closed in 94. Grab some Roy’s when I go on trips on the east coast. Mostly find them at highway rest stops.
When I was in high school, I had a summer job at Roy Rogers as a short order cook. Everything was made from scratch including the cold slaw. I had to greet customers with a “Howdy Partner” and inform the cashiers that the customer’s food order was ready to be served by calling out “Burger is in the corral, Partner” or “Fried chicken is in the corral, Partner”. The fried chicken was delicious, but I can’t eat that type of food anymore. Thanks for the memories.
I remember watching Roy Rogers commercials on WWOR-TV when I was growing up.
That's the kind of happy ending episode I like!
Except it’s not true...
I remember Roy Rogers WELL. Every time me and my family would go on a trip, we'd stop at a rest stop w/an RR and I'd get either a burger or the chicken. And yes, that Fixins Bar was my favorite thing, LOL! Wow, last time I ate at Roy Rogers must've been around 17, going on 18 years ago when I was a kid. It's amazing how the years go by, but those little details stick out in your memory. My roadside food memory was Roy Rogers, my mother's was the old Howard Johnson's chain (anyone remember those?), back when HER family went on road trips. Now, I think every single one of them is gone but she can still tell me how she remembers that ice cream of theirs!
Around 1973 I worked at what is the first RR @ Baileys Crossroads. The original building was some kind of space themed restaurant they converted and had a overhang roof on the back where you could park. Had a lot of fun working there. I did meet the real RR when they converted the Hot Shoppe Jr to a RR at 7-Corners.
My family went to Roy Rogers when my brothers and I were small back in the early/mid 80s. I don't remember it, but mom always says they were great!
And yes I know who Roy Rogers is! I've seen a bunch of his films on the late night tv back when I was a kid, I'd stay up late to watch them and all the crazy scifi movies from the 50s-60s.
I only went to this restaurant a few times when it was in Washington DC. This was in the late 1970s. I liked this place. It was always clean and the food was good--compared to the other place--Burger Chef and Jeff. When it closed I had moved to Atlanta and from their to ALASKA so I never really missed it.
I remember as a little kid going to eat at a Roy Roger's Chuck waggon which was a Chuck waggon themed small restaurant it was also rather filthy.
When I was a teenager I'd go to RR every Thursday and have a Roast Beef sandwich and apples crumb dessert with cheese. So good! And I actually met Roy Rogers once.
I live outside of Baltimore and I make a twice a year trip to Frederick MD to a book store i like there. Roy Rogers is almost always part of that trip. The food is still good, the restaurant very clean. Here's hoping they come back strong.
Roy Rogers was a staple for us back in the day. Roast Beef and Double R Bar burgers were my favorites. Many locations in Montgomery County, Maryland. When Marriott held the reins the food and quality standards were very high. 👍🇺🇸
they used to be along pa turnpike I stopped before and got a burger meal there a few times years ago
There was still a Roy Roger's along route 32 just east of Cincinnati as late as 2012. I think it got closed and then bought by someone else. They half-assed the sign and it was just 'Rogers' the last time I saw it in 2015.
They may still have a location or two along the Turnpike. @xaenon, speaking of half-assed and fast food, do a search about the Burger King on the South Side of Pittsburgh. It's pretty crazy.
Restaurant suggestions: Grandy's ("Fast food that doesn't taste fast!") and PoFolks.
Pofolks had The late Burt Reynolds as a part owner.
Omg...we had a PoFolks in Sacramento, Ca when I was a kid....LOVED that place! Not sure why it closed, would LOVE to eat that food again. Are they still in business and if so....WHERE????
Po Folks and Grandys were good. I liked their mashed potatoes and vegetables. Po Folks had good fish. Grandys had good chicken and roast beef, and good mac n' cheese.. They never caught on here in Alabama, but my God, there's nothing but restaurants like that down here.
@@markthrasher6770 Grandys had great chicken, it wasn't greasy and I really liked their fried okra and sweet tea -- and I'm not from the south lol. The Grandys I'd eat at is now an ATT phone center.
@@keciastarks1630 I looked on PoFolks website and all that are left are six locations in Florida and one in Alabama.
Roy Rogers was my favorite fast food as a child used to go to the one in Royal Oak Michigan Woodward and 13 Mile
I remember Roy Rogers Restaurants here in Tucson, Az....we also had Minnie Pearl Chicken & Kenny Rogers..Sadly all gone by the late 80's
We had them very briefly in Southern California. Most people here thought it was a local thing. When I joined the Army, a few years after the Roy Rogers chain left my hometown area, I was shocked how popular they were in New Jersey, when I was stationed at Fort Dix.
My cousin use to work for Roy Rogers!! Pam Johnston, now deceased!!
They still have Roy Rogers in Malaysia and I think Philippines. I went to one and it was great 😁
We had one on fordham rd in the Bronx NYC i would take the bus there at least once a week.
Great Roast Beef Sandwiches in Memphis poplar and white station.
I just ate at a stand-alone,
in Maryland yesterday , And drove by quite a few there still pretty popular in that state
We had a Roy Rogers restaurant here in Houston across the street from the old Gulfgate mall in the 70’s. Roast beef sandwich’s were the best.
I've been in the DFW, Texas area most of my life, but I did live in the Washington, DC area for about 6 months in 1988, when I had to move back in with my parents. My dad had transferred to the FAA's DC office (but would soon transfer back to Fort Worth, Texas). Anyway, I did go to the local Roy Rogers in Rockville, MD (where we resided) quite a bit, and I remember it was quite good, both the burgers and roast beef sandwiches. Since the author of this video indicated the chain is growing again, I hope they will find their way down here to Texas. We need more variety.
I worked at a Roy Rogers in my hometown, starting very late in 1982, until very early in 1985, when the family moved. I was always a closer, so I usually started around 5 or 6 pm and got out around 1 or 2 am, if memory serves. I became friendly with a couple of housewives that worked there, who were also closers. After work we always went to Dunkin' Donuts for an hour or so before heading our separate ways. It was all very good while it lasted. Maybe 1000 feet down the highway there was a Burger King. I also vaguely remember there being a Hardees next door to it. At one point there was a Weiner King. I remember when it opened, but I have no idea what ever happened to it. As for our Roy Rogers, it is now a McDonald's. I live a little over 100 miles from there now.
Chrissy and Paulie use to go to Roy Rogers in Atlantic City.
we shoulda stopped at roy rogers!
RR was the only restaurant in my hometown growing up. It was 2 minutes away from my high school. Senior year in 1990 they had 2 Bacon Cheeseburgers for 2$ sale. My friend/teammate Chris and I would get them before our basketball games. Great deal great times!
As MD / VA native there’s always been a Roy’s nearby. Their food has been a staple in my life since I can remember. It’s unfortunate they don’t really have a presence outside the DMV.
Roy Rogers opened up in our town in the early 1980’s. They seemed to copy the winning formula of a nearby two outlet “Premium Hamburger” spot of the 1950’s - 1990’s called Anthony Wayne. Big custom char broiled burgers, pile your fixin’s on. My dad didn’t like fast food, so we only stopped once in a great while. My parents were amazed when I topped my burger with two giant slices of Bermuda onion, finished it and wanted a second. I never had touched an onion at home! Someone bought the site for a car dealer, tore it down and the lot is still vacant today, 2022. Anyway, back to the Roy Rogers story:
Our Roy Rogers was on the far side of the highway, not near enough to intersections convenient to kids or drivers. Everyone tried it once or twice, even my reluctant dad. The burgers were good enough, the fixin’s bar ok, including that too sweet, but tangy bbq sauce, but ho hum, it closed well before the decade was over. No one missed it, except the kids who were out of their jobs.
Roy Rogers and Gene Autry both died in 1998,Roy in July,Gene in October.I bought my 1998 Cavalier in June.When people ask me how long I've had my car,I tell them that Roy and Gene were still alive when I bought it and "those guys were riding horses."
I used to love their apple crisp dessert. Our local Roy Rogers turned into a Burger King, and still is, decades ago.
I never really ate at Roy Rogers because there were close by more familiar alternatives. Where’s there’s a RR, there’s a McDonald’s, BK, White Castle etc within walking or driving distance so we just never went inside.
My sister work there in Easton PA back in the 1980s
My mom and I went to Roy Rogers quite often in Raleigh, NC in the early 80s, LOOOOOOVE those burger fixings and roast beef sandwiches.
Loved the fixins!!
I went to the first Roy Rodgers in Falls Church. I was 12.