Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger

Louis Ballast of Denver, Colo., was awarded the “cheeseburger” trademark in 1935. Downtown Denver has a stone marker at the site of the Humpty Dumpty Barrel, Colorado’s first drive-in, that claims Ballast created the beef-and-cheese sensation there in 1935.


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