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{{Infobox Restaurant
|name=Jerry's Drive-In
|image=JerrysDriveIn.jpg
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'''Jerry's Drive-In''' is an [[East Pensacola Heights]] eatery located at 2815 East [[Cervantes Street]], at the southwest corner of Cervantes and [[Perry Avenue]]. It was founded by [[Jerry Glass]] in [[1939]] as '''Jerry's Barbecue''' and has never in fact been a "drive-in."
Indiana transplant [[Raymond "Grandpa" Wessel]] purchased the restaurant circa 1952 or '53 and operated it with his son [[Bill Wessel|Bill]]. "When we first come here, we found out who everybody was," Ray said in a 1992 ''[[News Journal]]'' interview. "Wasn't nobody come in here who we didn't know what their name was."<ref>"'Grandpa' Wessel, longtime owner of Jerry's Drive In, dies." ''Pensacola News Journal'', August 25, 2003.</ref>
