Weber’s Root Beer Stands: “Good Service with a Smile”
by Paula Bosse
Feeling parched? (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
I’ve heard of these legendary root beer stands from family members, but, sadly, I missed their heyday, which seems to stretch from the 1920s to the 1950s. The photo above was taken around 1940 in Dallas at an unknown location. (The 1940 Dallas directory lists only two stands that year: at Greenville and Richmond — currently a 7-Eleven — and at 1119 N. Zang.)
Here’s another photo, this one from 1930, taken at night, with a jam-packed lot filled with thirsty teenagers, rumble seats, and future jalopies.
In the photo above, a sign for Eady’s Famous Hamburgers can be seen in the background. This would seem to indicate that this photo was taken at one of the two locations where both Eady’s and Weber’s were neighbors: in Oak Cliff in the 1100 block of Zang, or near the Lower Greenville intersection of Greenville and Richmond. So it’s possible the two photos were taken at the same Weber’s Root Beer stand.
“It’s So Different”
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Sources & Notes
Top photo appeared on the fantastic Facebook page Traces of Texas. It was submitted by reader Shelly Tucker showing her aunt (second from left) working as a Weber’s carhop around 1940.
The second photo is from Traces of Texas’ Twitter feed; the source is unknown.
Ad is from the 1930 yearbook of the Dallas Technical High School (later named Crozier Tech); the photo is by the always-busy Dallas photographer, Frank Rogers.
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Copyright © 2017 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
I vaguely recall the Zang location across from Lake Cliff. Near the same place that had an Orange Julius ‘type’ stand. Just east of the original Polar Bear Ice Cream.
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looks like Traces of Texas may have gotten the Weber’s photo from here
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[…] posted in 2017, but I didn’t come across this photo until this year, when I added it to “Weber’s Root Beer Stands: ‘Good Service with a Smile.'” (Source: Traces of Texas Twitter […]
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A Weber’s opened on Lover’s Lane at Morton Street in 1956, if I remember the year correctly. It quickly became the place to show off hot cars in North Dallas. On summer nights a constant parade of hot rods and lesser cars passed through the lot. After the fashion of the day, some of the cars bore names lettered on their flanks: Peggy Sue, Boney Maronie, Tequila. Some of them were seriously fast street racers, others won trophies racing at Circle or Midway or Scorpion drag strips. The building is still there, as the office of a garden store, but Webers is gone, and I am one of the few who remember the fun, fun, fun nights that began on Lover’s Lane.
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Thanks for the great memories, Tom!
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