Remembering The Hut Drive-In - West Palm Beach, FL

THE HUT !!!!  What a great place ! I was in WPB in 1969 and hung out at The Hut. I went back to WPB about 5-8 years ago.  I went back to the site of where The Hut was.  Gone !  In 69' I lived in a cottagr room  on a side stret off the Dixie Hwy right accross Woodlawn Cemetary.   GONE !   The whole block torn down.   It's not the WPB I use to know.  . Royal Castle and Shakeys Pizza on Dixie Hwy.  GONE ! What is that famous  American saying  ?  YOU CANT GO HOME

I used to hang out at the Hut all the time circa '61-'65. They describe traffic problems backing out & in. I used to direct traffic, just to show off. The police didn't like it. It was a great meeeting place !!!

We hung out at the hut in the 60's, especially on Friday nights during Lent.  We'd go there after the movies and order dessert (strawberry shortcake -- yummmm) first, waiting for midnight so we could order hamburgers or subs!  Parking was just part of the experience.  We'd go around the block about four times before a spot to park would open up.  Nobody complained about it.

Wow.. The Hut. I used to go there all the time, 1974. My girlfriend, Mary was a waitress at the Hut then, and the cook.... I can't recall his name,but the job at the Hut was a sideline for him. He did landscaping during the day. I helped him with some lawns for a while. He had a brand new Corvette in his garage he was saving for his son... except he had no son yet! It had a pearl wjite paint job and dice painted on the side. Up on blocks, brand new!! 

Was a '61 grad of Forest Hill, remember The Hut well, in and out of the place during HS and after. Came back from 'Nam in '66, one of the first places I went was to The Hut. It's gone like a lotta the old places in WPB. Last time was there in '07 I had to look hard for anything familiar. No, you can't go home again, can you?

We used to make the rounds: Murphy's, The Hut, Pizzio's, Wimpies , and back to Murphys. The great thing about riding motorcycles was you could park on the east side of the Hut and avoid the traffic jams.

We are just left with our memories at this stage of the game. But, as it has been said, they are some great memories. West Palm Beach and the local area was a great place to grow up.

Best french fries and I remember little cups of ketchup to dip them. I used a phony ID to get my first beer, Miller high life. Sat on the bench at the adjacent patio and tried to look cool with the beer....lol
Forest Hill beat Palm Beach high in Football and we all celebrated at the Hut for hours. 1963.

What a great High School experience we had at Palm Beach High in 1962-1965. Some of us would try to make it to The Hut on our Lunch Hour...never made it. But we would always stop there after an appointment before going back to school. It was fun going to see all our friends there, but don't go from car to car, or you will get into trouble!! The had the best Hot Cocoa in the winter time. FHHS was always a rival of PBHS and would meet for the end of the year with a big bonfire and all. We went to the Hut to celebrate, we don't know where they went. Lol. Those were the good ole days!!! Diane Farrington Morton '65

Diane, Forest Hill high students had a big brand new A&W drive in on Southern blvd. Had parking for 50 single slots for cars and no piggybacking was needed. Loved the frosty root beer floats.... We were there every night - especially in 1963 when Forest Hill beat Palm Beach high in football and later our basketball team won the State Championship. 63 marked the first full graduation for the new High School and those who attended 10th thru 12.
...I later returned to frequent the Hut, but as a Policeman for WPB. Seems the late 60's/early 70's were the downfall of fun around there. Lots of drugs hit the young people completely ruining the old way of enjoying the HUT. I remember seeing one guy who ODed on huffing paint laying on the mens room floor. I can still see the circular silver paint ring around his nose and mouth. I arrested potheads almost every weekend. Sad how it got ruined.

I went to Rosarian Academy in the late 60’s as a boarder from Canada, and the weekends we could spend off campus with our palm beach friends were spent hanging out at the Hut!!! It seems like yesterday, and were the best days!!!! Just like Happy Days😎😊🍔🌭