Manufacturer: Walker China
User: Hick's Drive-in / Hick's Drive-Inn
Date of mug: 1951

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Notes: The mug shown above has the spelling of Hick's as "Drive-Inn," but the few other sources found spell it as "Drive-In" with the exception of one 1948 want ad. The mug's font is a match for the postcard shown above, and it has the "Drive-In" spelling. We will refer to it as Hick's.

Much of the history of Hick's, and also Kupie Lunch, can be sourced from a 1956 Court of Appeals of Kentucky divorce case: Hicks v. Hicks. Daynon W. Hicks and Mary F. Hicks married on May 13, 1947, and from the case we find that until 1950, Daynon owned Kupie Lunch at Fifth and Walnut streets in downtown Louisville. Two weeks after the marriage, Daynon opened Hick's Drive-In Restaurant on Dixie Highway, presumably naming it after himself.

Hundreds of want ads have been found in the late 1940s-1950s for Hick's. The last one found, on April 11, 1962, in the Courier-Journal, was presumably a death-knell for the restaurant: "Mr. [sic] Gertrude Steiner, c o Hicks Drive-In, 4822 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Ky. $90,000."

Walker's Toltec tan-bodied mug depicts a 1950s car resting on an arrow pointing to the right, with above: Hick's and below: Drive Inn, all in deep brown.

Sources:
Hicks v. Hicks
Louisville Courier-Journal