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The Bob's Big Boy Restaurant located at 4211 Riverside Drive [71] in Burbank, California, is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in the United States. [72] Built in 1949 by local residents Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Wayne McAllister , "incorporating the 1940s transitional design of Streamline ...
Elby's was unique in leaving and rejoining the Big Boy system. When Marriott purchased Big Boy (Wian Enterprises) in 1967, this included Bob's Big Boy. The name "Bob's" would be used by all Marriott owned Big Boys and became common in parts of the eastern U.S. and elsewhere, far away from Bob's historic territory.
Bob Wian opened his first hamburger stand in California in 1936. When he named his unique and popular cheeseburger the Big Boy, the name of the restaurant became Bob’s Big Boy. In the 1940s, he ...
After meeting with Big Boy founder Bob Wian in 1951, Schoenbaum became a Big Boy franchisee on February 7, 1952, now calling his several locations the Parkette Big Boy Shoppes. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In May 1954, a public "Name the Parkette Big Boy Contest" was announced, and in June 1954 Schoenbaum's five Parkette Drive-Ins were rebranded as Shoney's.
Frisch's is the oldest, longest surviving, and smallest (formerly largest prior to evictions) regional Big Boy operator, excluding Bob's Big Boy in California, which was the original Big Boy restaurant and franchiser. The last new Frisch's opened in the Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2023.
Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitar.With a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff, the song tells the story of an unnamed narrator's all-night drive across industrial New Jersey to reach his girl, Wanda, whom he met when she was a waitress at the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy.
A seventh sibling, Bob's fraternal twin brother Richard, was never part of the band during its heyday, although he occasionally appeared with them in later years. The band's road manager for most of their career was Richard "Biggie" Korn. [1] When the group expanded to its full family membership by 1967, the six siblings ranged in age from 8 to 19.
Image credits: milwbrewsox #7. My wife and I have this ceiling fan/light in our bedroom in the house we moved into two years ago. It has a remote control for the fan and lights.