05 June 2020

The Very Last Day Of A Very Good Burgerville


3684Over my days off, we got the word. We were at the drivethrough, getting our favorites, and the kid in the window hands us out these three coupons for one free cheeseburger each, and encourages us to patronize another location, because this one will be closing permanently.

Either tomorrow or the next day.

Farewell, David Douglas Burgerville, like it says on the sign.


Forty-six years. Forty-six years?!?! Yes. Since 1974. As I understand it, when it was built, the drive-through window was on the wrong side which, I imagine, meant that you were handing food and cash across the passenger's lap.

This was before our tenure in David-Douglas-landia, which began nearly 20 years ago now. This has been our trusty neighborhood burger dive for all that time (when you live less than five minutes away, you don't not patronize your Burgerville ... you wanna be that way about it, go live in Boise, pal). Uncounted hamburger meals looking out the window at that strange office building on the west side of the property and wondering what goes on there, watching (and taking pictures of) sunsets, enjoying the traffic coming and going through 122nd and Stark.

We're gonna miss this place.

Know what I'm thinking of right now? There's this fortyish-fiftyish guy, goes everywhere with a heavy backpack and a small armful of personal electronics, might be houseless, it's hard to tell, but during our Library Days he'd have his electronics out on a table in the library and then on those days we'd repair to the Burgerville for our repast he'd already be there, using the free WiFi and inhabiting a booth toward the south end of the building.

I wonder where he's going to get his late afternoon-early evening WiFi fix now?

It was a lovely place, and we got Burgerville options nearby, nearest is 92nd and Powell, and there's a couple of DQ's in the area. But we've always been fond of this place, and we wish it wasn't going away.

And ... so that goes.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is it closing, always seems busy

Anonymous said...

I remember going there with my mom the week it opened

Samuel John Klein said...

I've heard hearsay that the reason it's closing is because it lost its lease. I cannot confirm that. Whaat's gonna happen to it? Anything's possible I guess.

kickboxerchick said...

Is this the one on 82nd and Glisan?

Anonymous said...

@kickboxerchick No it's the one on 122nd and stark

Anonymous said...

this actually kinda sucks, this burgerville has been their my entire 20 years of life, I remember always driving past it as a kid but never actually trying it. The first time I bought food from there was actually this year, their burgers and fries were amazing and better than most other places. Gonna miss it