Travels with Steve and Datsun
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, a guy on a motorcycle rolls into New Haven, Connecticut, but hanging out |
| 0:09.0 | in back of that motorcycle are two dogs. |
| 0:13.0 | They're both red with white paws and floppy ears, one of them wearing motorcycle glasses, |
| 0:19.8 | and they're peering out the back at a restaurant on the side of the road called Louise Lunch. |
| 0:25.6 | It's the birthplace of the American hamburger. |
| 0:29.6 | The very first chicken burger. |
| 0:31.6 | Oh yeah, I've been there, I've been there, yeah. |
| 0:35.1 | The motorcycle rumbles to a stop and the dogs hop out of the trailer onto the sidewalk, |
| 0:40.1 | but the restaurant, as it turns out, is closed. |
| 0:45.1 | But even from the outside, it's a cool looking building. |
| 0:48.1 | Built in 1895, it looks kind of like an old-timey English pub with diamond panes in the windows |
| 0:54.1 | and bright red shutters. |
| 0:56.1 | But it's in the middle of downtown New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:59.1 | And I said, this is an amazing looking place. |
| 1:01.1 | It's too bad they're not open, but that's how it goes. |
| 1:03.1 | Let's take my picture, get back on the motorcycle, and some fella is walking towards us and |
| 1:09.1 | what are you doing? |
| 1:10.1 | This is a weird thing to do. |
| 1:12.1 | This is a weird place. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm getting a picture of the weird place. |
| 1:14.1 | And he says, probably one burger. |
| 1:17.1 | Do you own this place? |
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