Andy's Car and Restaurant Service - Oakland

from Oakland History Room collectionsDaily Review ad

Andy's Car and Restaurant Service was a small chain of restaurants with drive-in service, where a carhop would bring your food out to your car. The Andy of Andy's drive-ins was Andy Swenson. ^3,4

The first Andy's in Oakland was on the southwest corner of 19th and Harrison Streets, and was open from at least 1946 to 1954. (1946 classified ad; 1948 when the menu was printed; the building appears on the 1951 Sanborn maps for the area; and it is mentioned in a 1954 newspaper ad.) It is not known when the building was torn down, but the site is now a parking lot.

A 1954 ad in the Hayward Daily Review lists the Hayward location, the 19th and Harrison location, and also a separate location at Telegraph and MacArthur. This latter location is now the site of a Carl's Jr. Again, it is not known when the circular Andy's building was torn down. Andy's was followed by Hy's Restaurant.

Andy's sponsored a police youth baseball team in the 1940s. ⁵

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19th and Harrison location
(Harrison at bottom / 19th to right)
Excerpt from 1951 Sanborn map (fair use)Telegraph and MacArthur location
(MacArthur at bottom / T'graph to left)
Excerpt from 1951 Sanborn map (fair use)