A History of Gino's Hamburgers In 1957, Baltimore Colts football players Alan Ameche and Joe Campanella, along with Louis Fischer, opened a hamburger restaurant at 4009 North Point Road in Dundalk, Maryland just outside of Baltimore. Soon several other stores were added in the Baltimore area. In 1959, the trio was joined by Colt's captain Gino Marchetti, and the chain became known as Gino's Drive In. Within a year the company went public to secure funds for expansion and began to reach up the Ea