Mel’s Hot Dogs

While exploring the internet for information about Hillsborough Army Airfield, we came across the website for Mel’s Hot Dogs. On the website, owner Mel Lohn, claims that Mel's Hot Dogs occupies the “last remaining structure from the WWII army air base Henderson Air Field.” Ignoring the fact that the Army Airfield was called Hillsborough – “Henderson” was the name of the short-lived civilian airport there in the fifties, there was no sign of anything aviation or military. Mel said that a long-ago renovation had reveled some evidence.



Notwithstanding any claims of the buildings origins, we did have to check out the hot dogs.


Here is Mel behind the counter. Mel serves Vienna Beef hot dogs from Chicago, the same brand Jill and Glenn served at their Ellis Cinema in Atlanta. Back in the ‘80s, they were the best that we could find. They probably still are.