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The First Drive-in Fast Food Restaurants in Ontario
We have added a Hi Ho restaurant facade in our Salon C Transportation
Museum depicting the first Hi Ho restaurant
that began on Sandwich Street on the west side of Windsor, Ontario, in 1937.
These restaurants were the original fast food drive-
in restaurants in Ontario. The Fortin family asked for and received
permission from the Walt Disney Company via a simple letter, to use the
trade marked Seven Dwarfs and the Hi Ho name for their restaurants. No
lawyers were involved. The Fortin's received permission within a few
weeks in early 1934.
You will see a menu from one of the restaurants
in 1961 which was donated by the son of a former cook at the Sandwich Street
outlet. Bill Cota is a new member of our Canadian Transportation
Museum & Heritage Village.
His donation is very interesting to read. Check out those 45 year old
prices!
You can see photos our Hi Ho Drive-In facade under construction in May, 2006 and how it looks today...
More Pictures
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view.
The Famous Menu
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page to see enlarged view.
The Four Hi Ho Locations
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view.
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