Draper First Newsletter | December 2020

DRAPER FIRST

December 202

A Special Publication by City Journal, Draper City, and South Valley Chamber of Commerce

60 years of family, friends and burgers at the Iceberg By Linnea Lundgren linnea.l@mycityjournals.com

Don Ballard, longtime owner of Ballard’s Iceberg Drive-in, stands beside pictures of his mom, Alice Mae, which adorn the windows. (Linnea Lundgren/City Journals)

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regulars, who’d sit with their newspapers and eat breakfast before heading to their construction jobs.

“My dad was a sixth-generation mason worker and he always brought me here in the morning for breakfast before he went out to bid jobs or before I went to school,” she recalled. He’d talk with the

On this late-October visit, she’s come here directly from St. George where she now lives, for an early lunch and a pickup order to bring to her dad, Dave, who for health reasons can no longer make it in. Everyone asks about her dad, from longtime owner Don Ballard to the regulars who drink black coffee from brown

or 31 of her 32 years, Chelsee Hofheins has been coming to Ballard’s Iceberg Drive-in in Draper, not just for, in her words, the “fantastic food” or the “great salsa” or “the best banana shakes,” but because it feels like home.

ceramic mugs in the sunlit dining area. “It’s family here. It’s friends. It’s people who care about you,” she said. “Don has known my dad since the dawn of time.” And it may seem like it was the dawn of time—or at least the dawn of Draper—when the Ballard family opened the Iceberg. Back in 1960, Allen and Alice Mae Ballard opened for business selling hand-pressed hamburgers for 25 cents.

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