In a 2005 Spokesman-Review story, Ross Taylor, of Spokane, talked about growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, when working class boys often relished the prospect of a fistfight. He said the Top Hat Drive-In, 2101 E. Sprague Ave., was where many fights started or concluded. The East Central hangout was one of Spokane’s first drive-in restaurants, where uniformed car hops served food on trays that hung on the passenger windows.
