# @life.of.felina on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C12uT0-yX_r
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61758046-lifeoffelina-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-08T22:06:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Travel || Lifestyle || Foodie (@life.of.felina) — https://gondola.cc/life.of.felina

## Caption

Have you ever experienced the magic deliciousness of superdawgdrivein ?!! ✨🌭✨

In May of 1948, Superdawg was established at the corner of Milwaukee, Devon and Nagle in Chicago. Superdawg continues to be family owned and operated in the same location today.

Maurie and Flaurie Berman designed an architecturally distinct building topped with two 12 foot hot dog icons to beckon hungry passersby with their winking and blinking eyes. They then created a proprietary, secret recipe to set themselves apart from the other hot dog stands popping up around the city. With a distinctive look and delicious recipe, they were almost ready to open. All they needed was a name. Inspired by the superheroes featured in the newly-created, popular comics of the ’40’s, Maurie and Flaurie named their signature product and restaurant. It was not a wiener — not a frankfurter — not a red hot — but their own exclusive SUPERDAWG™.

When Superdawg first opened, the electronic speaker system had not been invented. Carhops went out to the cars to take orders and customers signaled that they were ready for their trays to be picked up by turning on their headlights. In the early 1950’s the “carhop in a wire” electronic speaker system was installed, and Maurie designed the glowing blue “control tower” where the carhop sits to answer the switchboard and take orders.

Maurie and Flaurie’s attention to quality products and service, preparing each customer’s meal to order, affirming the belief that the customer is always right, and insisting that the customer should always be treated as family continues today.

✨ Mañana (Is Good Enough for Me) by #PeggyLee was a #billboard #1 single in 1948, the year Superdawg was established ✨

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