America runs on convenience! We enjoy curbside pick-up at the grocery store, drive-thru windows at our favorite fast food joints and sometimes we even have meals delivered right to our doorstep so we don’t have to leave the house.
Long before most of these services were common place New York had a chain of drive-thru convenience stores called Dairy Barn. Today it appears that only 1 of the original Dairy Barns exists in the Empire State. Let’s take a look.
Driving through Long Island in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s you couldn’t miss a Dairy Barn. Each structure was painted barn red with 2 distinct canopied drive-thru sections and everyone loved the little red silo attached to each sore…