{"id":583,"date":"2013-07-31T05:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=583"},"modified":"2013-10-25T06:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:20:14","slug":"stewarts-root-beer-stand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/places\/stewarts-root-beer-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart\u2019s Root Beer Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 Stewart\u2019s Root Beer Stand<\/h3>\n
\"Stewart\u2019s<\/a>

Stewart\u2019s Root Beer Sign in Morgan, NJ in May 2005<\/p><\/div>\n

There was nothing better on a hazy, hot, and humid summer day than to bike over between Stevens Avenue and Vineyard Avenue on the northbound side of Route 35 to get a California cheese burger and a frosty cold glass mug overflowing with a root beer float at Stewart\u2019s Drive-In.\u00a0 Remember the orange colored wooden stand?\u00a0 If your bike couldn\u2019t handle the whole family, then driving up for the car hop service was another great experience.\u00a0 Much as was done with the sound speakers at the Amboy Drive-In on Route 9 near the EdisonBridge, a [young female] car hop would hang metal trays with rubberized feet containing your family\u2019s meal off of the driver side window.\u00a0 Yum!!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Stewart\u2019s<\/a>

Brother-in-Law Martin About to Enjoy a Frosty One at Stewart\u2019s Root Beer in Morgan, NJ in May 2005.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s \u2013 and probably earlier & later – Stewart\u2019s was a seasonal restaurant with big wooden slats hinged to the roof which would be folded and locked down each evening and during the off season.\u00a0 There was no year round enclosed dining area as would come later (see photo).\u00a0 Patrons either stayed in their car or sat on a padded metal stool some where along one of the open windows.\u00a0 The slats kept the dining customers dry – and sometimes – shaded.\u00a0 I preferred the metal stools on the Vineyard Avenue side next to the freezer. \u00a0This was the east side of the building and was shaded from the afternoon sun.\u00a0 One shouldn\u2019t drink root beer in the morning after all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does anyone know when this stand was first built or anything else about its early days?\u00a0 Sadly, as of the time of this writing, all that is left of our beloved Stewart\u2019s is a pile of rubble in the building\u2019s footprint and a clothing donation box near Stevens Avenue.\u00a0 The restaurant was torn down sometime between the summer of 2005 and 2009.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for those still living in Morgan, there are still over 20 other Stewart\u2019s Restaurants in New Jersey.\u00a0 Looks like the closest is in Matawan.\u00a0 For the rest of us who live somewhere else where there are no nearby Stewart\u2019s Drive-ins, bottled Stewart\u2019s Root Beer is offered by many grocery store chains with that classic combination of root beer and maple syrup taste.\u00a0 You can even drink it in your car!\u00a0 While it is sad there are no Stewart\u2019s in California where I live, we do have In-n-Outs.<\/p>\n

Click here to see a short history of the Stewart\u2019s Root Beer Drive-in Restaurant chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Originally posted on August 26, 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 Stewart\u2019s Root Beer Stand There was nothing better on a hazy, hot, and humid summer day than to bike over between Stevens Avenue and Vineyard Avenue on the northbound side of Route 35 to get a California cheese burger and a frosty cold glass mug overflowing with a root beer float at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions\/587"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}