Category:Charcoal Drive-In, Allentown, Pennsylvania

The Charcoal Drive-In was located just southwest of Allentown in Wescoesville at 4440 Hamilton Boulevard. It was just to the west of the I-78/309 bypass intersection.

The restaurant was opened in April 1953 by Amos and Donald Weida and was known as Weida's Charcoal. It offered a selection of short-order grill foods, speaks, hamburgers, along with various ice creams, milkshakes, sundaes floats and other delights. The restaurant also offered car hop drive-in service with outdoor waitresses serving patrons in their cars as well as inside dining. The outdoor waitress drive-in closed about 1968.

In 1971 Carl R. Bieber Tourways began to offer commuter bus service at the site using the former outdoor car-hop area as a terminal for daily commuter bus service to New York City, Atlantic City and Connecticut casinos The Weida brothers retired in 1986 and the property was purchased by Bieber, officially changing the name to the Charcoal Drive-In. A fire in July 1993 closed the property for a few months. In 1995 President Bill Clinton stopped for coffee at the restaurant after speaking at Kutztown University.

In July 2001, Bieber Bus Lines was purchased by Steven G Haddad, who kept the restaurant open as part of the business. The restaurant remained open until 31 August 2007 when it was finally closed due to a lack of bushiness caused by the Route 222 bypass which was built in 2002.

In 2014, Haddad announced plans to tear down the building and construct a new facility, however the plans changed due to the deteriorating financial condition of Bieber Bus Lines. Bieber shut down abruptly in February 2019 and subsequently filed for bankruptcy.

In December 2019, Gregg R. Ciocca, CEO of Ciocca Dealerships, won the 2-acre site in Lower Macungie Township with a $1.16 million bid during a Lehigh County sheriff’s sale. The lot will be redeveloped into a car dealership. In September 2020, the former restaurant's road sign, which dated to the 1950s, was sold for $2,125 on Ebay, the buyer stated he wanted to restore the sign's neon but to leave the face in a weathered condition.

The restaurant building and its former drive-up area has been torn down as part of the redevelopment of the property, and is now a car sales lot.