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'fJ, ri I i Kf fey Ply4 tlmKft The Lilac Drive-in will soon be just another page in community history. Alice Lally slices potatos for clam chowder and talks about the Lilac Drive-in. Smells of good homecooking will soon be a memory Inland empire central valley edition "I've eaten for 10 years at the Lilac, mostly breakfast," she said. "It great food. I don't know where to find a better breakfast in Rialto.

I love those biscuits and gravy at the Lilac." Mrs. Holland is uncertain about her plans for new work after the Lilac closes. "But I doubt it would be the restaurant business," she said. "This is done for love certainly not for money, believe me." niences," Lally said. Regular customers are finding that the news of the Lilac's Impending demise Is hard to digest.

Fran Gnuschke and her husband, Chuck, have been eating at the Lilac a dozen or so years. "It's going to be hard to see it go," Mrs. Gnuschke said. "I've eaten there for at least 12 years, and Chuck goes even farther back. We go there just about every day.

The food Is outstanding. It's just the place to go for the business people. You'd be surprised how much business is conducted at lunch there. Now here do we go for lunch?" The same question was on the minds of Lynn and Dan Hirtz, who operate a lawn mower sales and repair business. "We eat one to three meals nearly every day at the Lilac," Mrs.

Hirtz said. "We like the way food Is prepared there home cooked and there's a real folksy atmosphere. It's sad to see the Lilac closing. It's got the best home-baked pies in the area." Robin Day, a secretary, echoed similar thoughts. is just an extra job.

There's a lot of humility at the Lilac. Mrs. Holland takes orders, cooks, bakes and serves customers. Although the Lilac's food Is tops, over the years the drive-in never built to be a restaurant deteriorated. "Our equipment Is getting older," Lally said, "the maintenance costs keep going up and the air conditioning isn't adequate.

And there's just too much competition. When we were first here by ourselves, business was good. But now there's a (fast food place on every corner. They buy in volume and they have lots of storage space, too." Neither Holland nor Lally said they'd consider remodeling. "The place just has all too many modern inconve- WE SPECIALIZE IN VALVE JODS AND PARTS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Compare Our Service Prices (All Work Guaranteed) By FLOYD RINEIIART Sun SUM Wriltr KIALTO A chapter in the city's history will end in May when the Lilac Drive in at 4fi3 W.

Foothill long popular for its hnmecooklng and home-baked pies, will ro dark. It ill be razed to make way for a savings and loan institution. Once a dwelling, it later became a pottery shop, and still later a drive-in restaurant owned and operated by Ted Reed. That was In the early IWWs. according to Alice Lally, who leased and operated the Lilac with her now-deceased husband in 1904.

"Ted wanted to leave Rialto and go up north." Lally said, all the while slicing up boiled potatoes for clam chowder the Lilac would serve the next day, a Friday. "We always serve fish and chowder on Fridays," she continued before opening a big can of clams. "It was a drive-in then. The name's the same yet, but we made it into an inside sit-down restaurant." There's counter and booth service, and just about any morning or noon customers are ordering up at both. Although the menu is changed daily for variety, the rotation generally includes Lilac specials meatloaf, Swiss steak, beef tips and noodles, pepper steak, ham or bacon and eggs, and chili.

Home-baked pies are always on tap apple, berry, lemon meringue and banana and coconut creams. "Of course, we always have fish, macaroni and cheese and cole slaw for Fridays," said Lally, who then hurried over to check the water level in a roast she had going. Meanwhile, Lally's daughter, Sue Holland, stood over an old bul spotlessly clean grill near the serving area, preparing an order of ham, eggs and hash-browns. The man-sized ham steak sizzled. Holland, who is the wife of Councilman Richard Holland, began helping her mother with restaurant chores in 1969.

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