1958 July 21, “Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 1 August 2014:
Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger.
Despite a reported police crackdown, young men selling illegal fireworks were providing their usual Fourth of July curb service to passing motorists yesterday.
The U.S. Postal Service says "curb service" will also be available tomorrow night so that taxpayers can drive up to the post office and hand the forms, in stamped envelopes, to postal employees.
George Barry, the dump's manager, found $8,500 in negotiable securities. He delivered them to the door of the woman who had thrown them out, a kind of reverse curb service.