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A hot dog dipped in sweet cornbread batter and fried on a stick, hand-dipped on the Santa Monica sand since 1946 and still made fresh at Muscle Beach today.
Dave Barham opened a stand called Party Puffs on the Santa Monica beachfront in 1946 and turned his mother's cornbread recipe into a batter for skewered hot dogs. The stand became Hot Dog on a Stick, spread nationwide, and the rebuilt original at 1633 Ocean Front Walk still hand-stomps its lemonade beside Muscle Beach.
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Hot Dog on a Stick still hand-dips corn dogs at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, where Dave Barham began hand-dipping them at his 1946 lemonade stand.
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TipThe rebuilt stand pounds its lemonade by hand the way it did in 1946; corn dog and lemonade is the whole menu you need.
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