BOB'S BIG BOY - Life in America
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I grew up in West Covina, in Southern California, during the 60's and early 70's. There was a Bob's up near the freeway that headed east to Pomona. Through my Dad's work, we got comp tickets to the NHRA Winternationals held each February, at the Pomona fairplex dragstrip. Ritual for Dad and I would be a stop at Bob's for breakfast (I especially remember the french toast as being excellent), then spending the rest of the day at the drags....good times for sure👍.
Bob's Big Boy used to be two blocks from my house, in East Pasadena, Calif. I was 15, in 1965. The hot fudge sundae, with a small metal cup containing very smooth hot fudge, allowed us to pour small amounts over the vanilla ice cream, with whipped cream, nuts and a cherry!
Wow. I remember the metal cups. I may never have thought of that again. Thank you!
My dream or request came true I know I continued to ask for this iconic subject matter and it’s finally here! I love all your videos but this one hits close to my heart! Bob Wian went to high school in Glendale CA. and my grandfather was good friends with him and in my grandfathers yearbook Bob wrote let’s start a hamburger stand together, my grandfather went to college instead and as for Bob we all know how that story turned out! I still eat at Bobs here in Los Angeles area only 5 locations left and I travel to eat at them all! Childhood memories as my mom was a carhop at the Pasadena location on Colorado Blvd. bobs is in my blood! Thx for this wonderful video!
Awesome story! "in my grandfathers yearbook Bob wrote let’s start a hamburger stand together."
Would love to see one about New York Seltzer, I think its still sold in some stores. A great drink of the 80s
@@bladerunner752 Haven't seen it in years here in Ohio.
@@bladerunner752 ,,I remember when BOYS were REAL boys, and GIRLS were REAL girls, and they knew what public restrooms to use, no confusion and no MENTAL ILLNESS
Great story John. Thanks for sharing.
1) My grandmother lived in Glendale and took me to lunch at the original Bob's before taking me to see The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962).
2) My friend used to be assistant manager at the Bob's in Redlands, CA. When he messed up the manager would make him wash behind the Big Boy statue's ears.
!!!🤣🤣🤣
I was Born and raised in Burbank California went to Bob's big boy every Thursday night after cruising Van nuys boulevard.
Sometimes I went there several days a week.
I remember those wonderful days. I'm a born and raised Burbanker myself. Great memories.
I remember the exact same thing. Born and raised in Reseda.
Oh boy!!! Growing up in Los Angeles we went to BBB countless times. Thank you!
I remember going to Frisch's Big Boy in Cincinnati when I visited my Grandmother. My favorite part was the comic book!
I used to eat at the Bob's Big Boy on Florence Ave in Downey in the 60's & 70's. Nothing better than the cheeseburger, fries, and a malt. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. I'm craving the red relish dressing on the hamburger and don't forget Bob's season salt.
Back in the day, a certain Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was a frequent sight there on cruise night. Roth was the creator of The Rat Fink as well as creator of some great custom cars, The Beatnik Bandit for one.
@@jamessatterfield7667
I remember Roth had his shop on Slauson Ave in the city of Maywood back in the 60’s. I used to pass by it coming home from school.
These restaurants were all over southern California in the 1960s when I was growing up. It was so sad to see so many of them disappear. Those diners were American treasures. I am glad some still remain. Now I am hungry, darn you are good!! Oh, and get those prices on the old menus!!! $1.50 for a steak dinner, wowza!!
I noticed the prices, too. @2:08 the Big Boy is .55, on the current menu it's $7.99.
I remember going with my dad to the one just down the street from Knott's Berry Farm in the 60's!
Smoking or non-smoking 🤣
We had a Big Boy on Mountain Ave in Upland, CA. Sadly it closed its doors in ‘90. My sister, who was a huge fan of the Big Boy, bought the Big Boy statue that sat near the entrance.
hang out for teens in the 1960s. Bob's Big Boy on Van Nuys Blvd in California was the place to be. A lot of teen stars visited the place too! Fun times 😂😊
One of my first jobs was being a dishwasher at a Big Boy restaurant. It wasn't always fun, but I look back to those days fondly. Especially the one free meal per shift which was usually a Big Boy, fries and a chocolate shake. Then back to the dish-room... I learned a lot about how business works back there.
My dad was a "perl diver" (er, dishwasher) at the Bobs in Glendale, corner of Broadway & Maryland, back in the '40s.
Yeah, but you did a good job. Feel proud.
When I was that age I could eat all those carbs too! I couldn't gain a pound. 6 feet tall and 135 lbs. Now I touch a carb and I gain 3 lbs.!! What the heck happened?
@@incog99skd11 I can't even look at a fast food menu without gaining weight now...LOL
My first waitress job was at a Big Boys in the late 80's. It was definitely a crash course in restaurant work.
I used to go to Bob’s big boy wen I was growing up there was one in my hometown two blocks away from my house my family and I went there and I remember it being a great place and I was a little sad to see it go away and I never forgot it.
As a teen, I've eaten many an order of "Spaghetti and Chili" ... ended with the "hot fudge cake" for dessert. (Yes, I was a teen and could eat _anything_ back then)
The hot fudge cake was a piece of chocolate cake, cut in half, with a slice of ice cream in between, then covered with hot fudge and a dollop of whipped cream.
I worked for Bob's Big Boy and was hired in Glendale at their Glenoaks and Senora location as a cook and was promoted to manager 9 months later. I worked at the no#1 store as a fill in cook, at the Toluca Lake location a few times. I also was a day manager at the no# 3 location in Montrose. I was a cook trainer to be part of a team opening two Restaurants in Northern California, one in San Francisco. I loved Bob's Big Boy from a child. They were a great company to work for. They offered a profit sharing program that doesn't exist anymore. John Marriott Jr.took over the reins and in the 80s. The agreement that his father made with Bob in 1967 ended in 1987. Jr wanted to change the Restaurant named to Alley's, after his mother, which failed. The food bar addition was the beginning of the change. After 1987 Bob's was never the same. I believe that Bob's would still be around if Jr would have left things as Bob had created the company.
Shoney's Big Boy in Columbia, SC was the home of my ALL TIME FAVORITE dessert--HOT FUDGE CAKE! I also worked at a Shoney's for a few months, and found out that dessert was complicated to make, but sooooo good!
Worked for Shoney's too. They were such bad employers, vowed never ever to eat there again. There are a few Shoneys left open in Tennessee.
As a kid in the '60s, my grandmother went to Bob's frequently, and would bring us kids the comic books. I had no idea Stan Lee was drawing them back then!
I have the great pleasure of living within 5 minutes of the "Original" Bobs Big Boy in Burbank, Ca. I've probably eaten there close to 100 times over the 40 years I've lived in California. When people visit Bobs is always a destination for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Their is nothing like the Big Boys Combo. A Big boy burger, fries, drink and hot fudge sundae. The restaurant is always a buzz of activity and on weekends boasts a car show like no other. I will continue to eat there for as long as I or Bobs survives.
My family took at least one road trip a year when I was growing up. We always made a point to stop when we saw a Big Boy. It was tradition for dad to take my picture with the Big Boy statue. So if you look in our photo albums, you can see me grow up standing next to the Big Boy.
I've been eagerly waiting for this one! For me, it goes hand-in-hand with the video on drive-in theaters. Some of my fondest memories as a kid growing up in Dayton, Ohio are of going to see horror movie double features at the drive-in as well as to the Frisch's Big Boy where we could park and order outside in the covered car-dining area using speakers just like those at the drive-in. Our food would then be brought to the car by girls on roller skates. Such fun, nostalgic memories!
My Grandma, Bless Her Heart!!! took me to Big Boy's for my birthday's when I was in my younger years in Milwaukee. I miss you much Grandma and Grandpa!!!!!!
The big boy hamburger is so memorable that now, at age 72, I distinctly recall the taste that I haven't enjoyed since 1968 in Ann arbor MICHIGAN at Elias Bros. Big Boy restaurant. It had that special sauce which McDonald's copied for their Big Mac..... Still couldn't compare to a big boy burger. Thanks for the memories!
Worked there after high school, century three mall pgh pa. great burgers and broccoli salad.
dish washer - bus boy - line cook.
Oh my goodness. Back in 1968, when I was dating my husband in high school, we would go to Frishes on Montgomery Road in Cincinnati almost every Saturday night. He would order a cherry coke and I would get a vanilla coke. If he had enough money, we'd get an order of fries with tartar sauce on the side. Oh that sauce was soooooo good. Thank you for such sweet memories.
I’ll never forget arriving to school one morning, to find the Bob’s Bog Boy staue standing on the outdoor stage in the Quad area of my high school. Nearing the last weeks of class before summer break, it was a long held tradition for outgoing Seniors to pull pranks before graduation. For the Class of 1980 this was no exception, the Seniors “kidnapped” the local Bob’s Big Boy and brought him to high school in the middle of the night and where he stayed for almost a week. It was definitely the best and one of the most memorable Senior pranks I remember…
The Big Boy I remember was Shoney's, back when I was a kid in the early 70s, on the family road trips through Virginia and North Carolina. We saw them somewhere down there, but never ate at one. (We always ate at Howard Johnson's.) On the last road trips we ever took, which were about 9 years ago, we saw Elby's Big Boy, which confused me at the time. But now I understand, that there were many different franchises. Thanks for another enjoyable video.
I've been to the Burbank location many times and there was one on Van Nuys Blvd where we would go when cruising on Wednesday nights. The good old days.....
"OH, MY GOODNESS!" Growing up in Glendale and Huntington Beach California, I have eaten at the Burbank restaurant many times with my parents, and grandparents, who knew Bob and his family, family, friends, girlfriends, and wife as well as other restaurants around the state. A lot of great memories and good food eaten there. My wife started me on trying their Chile Spaghetti. I still make and eat it today. Loved getting and reading the comic books. We would leave them at my grandparent's house for my other cousins to read and for us to read them again on the next visit. I think we must have had a dozen or two that we reread over and over plus any new ones brought to the house. Most of the history about Bobs I have heard before and a lot I never knew about. Great research and thank you for making my heart feel good about this place and the people in my life, many are gone now but had many wonderful meals there with them.
I remember going many times to the Bob's Big Boy in Huntington Center (which is now Bella Terra), which for some reason never ate at, but always got take out. Eventually, it moved down the street to a stand alone restaurant until they went out of business. The Bob's Thousand Island dressing made the burgers taste so good and is still being sold in grocery stores.
@@rflett5797 ,,I remember when BOYS were REAL boys, and GIRLS were REAL girls, and they knew what public restrooms to use, no confusion and no MENTAL ILLNESS
@@rflett5797 I ate there too and had high school friends from Edison HS working there also. But, most of us ate at the one on Adams and Brookhurst next to Two Guys. That statue there got stolen more often than not...LOL. Always seemed to find its way home.
I live outside of Cincinnati and grew up with big boy always a good meal it is like a step above fast food
I ate at the Burbank location last month. Delicious as always. We had fried chicken, chicken fried steak, strawberry lemonade, and the chocolate fudge cake. I usually have a jar of the blue cheese dressing in the fridge at home, and I think I still have a few of the comic books from my childhood. We love Bob's!
wow sounds good
Frisch's Big Boy in Toledo had great fish sandwich and ham and cheese. The Big Boy double burger was always a treat.
Great Video! When my cousin comes home to visit from Florida, he has to get his Bob’s Big Boy Fix, along with my Uncle, we have one in Parma Ohio, Mom she is 68, and said it’s been there as long as she can remember! 👍
I remember there was a Manners Big Boy in Cleveland years ago. Do you remember that one?
I remember working as a dishwasher at the Azar's on East Colfax in Denver when I was in high school. Finally got promoted to the kitchen and thought I was king of the hill. Hard work but I got a love for cooking from those times. Sadly, Azar's has been gone for years.
There is a Big Boy in Tijuana, Mexico it is still in business since the 70’s
What a wonderful video and walk down memory lane. There is still a Frisch's Big Boy within walking distance of where I live now, and while I no longer eat fast food, I do still buy a pumpkin pie there once a year when they have it!
My younger brother's first part-time job was as a dishwasher at that same Frisch's when he was in high school. He went on to become a vice president of the Frisch's corporation but retired when the Frisch family sold out. Many, many fond family memories of Frisch's Big Boy.
Thank you so much for this video!
The one thing I miss most of all from Bob's BB is the fresh strawberry pies they would make in the summer. They were nothing more than a baked pie shell filled with sliced fresh strawberries, topped with a sweetened gel sauce, and decorated with a thick, fluffy band of whipped cream all around. Only available in the summer when strawberries were prolific, you could buy an individual slice in the restaurant to top off your meal. But we would call them and order a whole pie and pick them up for summer picnics and gatherings. SO good!
Those were excellent!!!!!!
I remember those pies. Delicious!
Yes! My grandad and I would go once a week to eat at Big Boy and get a slice of that strawberry pie.
They tore it down and now it's some dumb overpriced coffee shop that no one goes to.
This video got me thinking about this great pie and I did a Google search on Bob's Big Boy Strawberry Pie recipe. It's there! There are a couple versions with only slight differences. I made the first one last night. SUPER easy and super delicious. If you can't cook canned soup, you can impress your friends with this pie. I highly recommend it!
A Big Boy pumpkin pie is to die for……..no Thanksgiving is perfect without it. Cannot be duplicated.
We had a big boy for years in Greensburg PA. It was THE place to be!
Is it an Eat & Park these days? I loved Eat & Park when I lived Pittsburgh.
@@philvaclavik6890 yes Phil. Eat n Park is in the same spot!!
How can I express how the Bob's Big Boy affected my life. I grew up in Inglewood, CA. There was a Bob's Big Boy on the west end of the city at La Brea and Century. There was also one in the city of Westchester, CA. Our Friday and Saturday night during High School and early college days were spent there meeting with friends. As the night went on with young kids having muscle cars to showoff, then late night races behind LAX. Drives on Wednesday nights to Van Nuys to cruise and hang out at the Bob's Big Boy there too. Such wonderful times that I will always remember. And the food just added to the experience.
Hi from Toronto. In 1958, I was 12 years old and my parents and I were visiting my aunt and uncle in Pasadena and I can still vividly recall then eating in the local Big Boy restaurant. Too bad they’ve disappeared. They were even here in Canada at one point and the food wasn’t bad at all.
We still go to the Bob's in Burbank for the Friday night Car Show .....Terrific video, Thank you !
In Texas my mom used take us for hot apple cider at Bobs Big Boy whenever winter would roll around.
I used to go to Frisch's Big Boy in Corydon, Indiana when I was a little boy. I loved their food so much that I'd beg to go there every time I was back home for the summer. Still got my piggy bank that my grandmother purchased for me, even if it looks a bit rough.
Thanks for the trip down Recollection Road!
East Main street Springfileld, Ohio! Generations grew up cruising through! Still a must-stop whenever I visit my home town.
my first job was at Frisch's Big Boy in Madison Indiana it was great and very educational
I used to go to Bob's Big Boy in Maryland in the 70's and 80's. Moved out to California and visited a few locations. Finally made it to the Burbank locations a few years ago. I still have my Big Boy bank!!
I can remember the snow outside while eating at Bob's in Pasadena, CA. I'm guessing it was the late 70's. Love and miss the hot fudge cake!
I used to go to the Big Boy in Springfield OH off of I 70 exit 52 I thank I would eat there 5 times a year as I lived in Pittsburgh PA for 15 years and from Peoria IL. Big Boy was one of the best fast food/ diner locations I have ever been to.
Imagine a Steak dinner for under $2.00 ! Wow how did they do it?
"Beam Me - Back - In - Time, Scottie" !!
I honestly don't see why Big Boy isn't America's de facto retro 1950s diner. Why Johnny Rockets, why no Big Boy? Big Boy is truly a valuable franchise for the future.
Another great restaurant of my childhood in the 70s and 80s.
I lived near the Bob's Big Boy in Garden Grove, California. My favorite things to eat there was French Fries dipped in Bob's Thousand Island Dressing, and a chocolate shake made and served with the shake tin. Out-of-this-world!
We eat at Frisch's Big Boy in Port Clinton, Ohio. So glad they are still there! Love the Big Boy and onion rings.
There were a few Big Boys in Canada. There was one beside the Kmart in Sheridan Mall (now Pickering Town Centre), from 1972 (when the mall opened) until about 1985. I think it was either JB's or Elias.
In 1982, when my grandfather was dying of lung cancer, he had a craving for liver & onions from Big Boy. We brought it to him, and he ate as much as he could. He said its strong flavour made it the first food he could actually taste, in ages.
I was born in Detroit and my family often ate the wonderful hamburgers at Big Boy in the 1970’s. After moving to California almost 40 years ago, I was so happy to see there was a Big Boy here. I ended up living a few blocks from the in Burbank in an area called Toluca Lake. Though no longer in that neighborhood I will always remember and love that location. And yes, I want to have a burger right now. That you for the wonderful recollection. 😎
I went to a Big Boy in Detroit in 2013 and got food poisoning. I'm sure they were probably better back in the day. Isn't the Big Boy mascot the body double for Rosie O'Donnell?
I used to go to that very location in Burbank. Greatest memories ever.
@@gregggoss2210 He's much more handsome than that pig. :-)
I remember I used to go to Bobs Big Boy restaurant in the 70's in CA, with my group of HS friends after every football game. I always got a shrimp salad and boy was it good!!
My favorite Bob’s Big Boy was in Mapunapuna Honolulu, Hawaii I would go there on the weekends as a kid in the late 70s comic books and the Bobs coloring placemats Is what I looked forward to. The last time I had a Burger was In Burbank it has the same vibe great times great memories!.
I've been to Bob's in Burbank many times. Growing up my grandparents lived in Burbank and it was the place to go. Always a wait but worth it. Today a couple times a year I have to take a ride over there for a Bob's big boy combo and a chocolate shake. Not many restaurants warrant a 50 mile trip, but why not? Still always a wait, too. Lots of memorabilia from past visitors including the Beatles table.
A new Bob’s Big Boy recently opened near my home on the northwest side of Las Vegas.
Just bought a a few containers of big boy sauce and ate at the Big Boy in Valley View Ohio ❤️💯
I still go to the Bob's big boy in Burbank Ca, they have a car show on Friday nights
Love this, miss it, dream about it. love that I experienced it when it was happening, Roy Roger's Place too. great post. thank you a thousand times over !!
Oh the hot fudge cake!!!!!!!!
Internationally, even; there is still a Big Boy operating in Tijuana on Blvd. Agua Caliente near Rio Yaqui.
Bobs big boy was made by my dad Bill Swan along with many other iconic fiberglass statues like Paul Bunyan,A&W root beer family,the Ford Mustang horse which is what the emblem was copied from and many other iconic fiberglass statues which can be seen in new short Amazon ebook called "The man behind the mufflerman " for 14.99.
WOW!! GREAT!!
Did he do the huge ole Winchell's donut statue too? I remember that!
My wife & I grew up in Santa Monica California in the 1960`s, in the mid / late seventy`s we lived just blocks from each other but did not meet till 1977. We married in 1983, we rented an apartment just off Santa Monica Blvd. there was a Bob`s Big Boy on Santa Monica Blvd. We liked to go for breakfast sometimes and Friday nights for dinner. Sure miss those times we shared at Bob`s Big Boy.
As an Ohioan, I used to go to a few Bob's Big Boy restaurants because their burgers and fries were so good!! The iconic Big Boy always brings back good memories. I had to laugh when Jay Leno once said, "Have you ever seen that Big Boy? He looks like a walking ad for cholesterol", hahaha!! That never stopped me from eating at Bob's Big Boy, hahaha!! 😅😅
I visited the Big Boy in Burbank, CA 5 years ago. The food was great and I took many pics especially of the classic signs.
My family used to frequent a TJ’a Big Boy near Syracuse NY all the time in the 70’s and 80’s. I loved the place and miss it. Loved the comics as a kid. I think it was around until the early 90’s then closed. I always wondered why it was TJ’a and not Bob’s but now I know.
It was called Shoneys when I was a kid in the 1960's in Knoxville, Tennessee. There is still a Shoneys in Fayetteville, Tennessee but it does not use Bob the Big Boy anymore. I see a lot of them in salvage yards all over the country.
I started eating at Bob's in 1945 at the original location. It was just a couple of blocks down Colorado Blvd. from my uncle's drug store. There never was a better hamburger in my estimation. In high school, we always went to Bob's in Pasadena. I really miss them. Oh, did you know that Bob Wian was once the Mayor of Glendale, CA.?
I, live in Detroit, Michigan and Elias Brothers Big Boy Restaurant was the perfect place to eat.
There, is a few Elias Brothers Big Boy Restaurants left in the Detroit, Michigan area.
I graduated high school in 71. Bob’s big boy was about 2 miles from my parents home in the suburbs of Cleveland. At the restaurant EVERY Friday and Saturday night in summer was like the movie American Graffiti. Cars, girls, and car hops. You met up with your buds, planned out your night, looked for girls, and had a ball. And the burgers with the white big boy sauce was the best, or was it the fries that came in that greasy white little paper holder? Didn’t know it then but those were some of the most memorable times of my life.
When I was a kid we went on vacation to a place that had a Bob's Big Boy I only remember dad taking us kids picture with the statue in front of the restaurant. 😁
Back in 1965, three years out of high school (U.S. Grant in North Hollywood) I would drive in my 1955 Chevy down to Van Nuys Blvd and cue up in line for the car service drive-in experience. The line of cars was at least 3 or 4 blocks long, lining up on Van Nuys Blvd for the service. It was my Wednesday night thing with my girlfriend and or friends. I also went on Saturday nights after a date. Ordering a Bobs Big Boy with fries and a vanilla coke! I miss those days! It was the best of times!
The strawberry pie is what I remember from Big Boy. No matter which Big Boy you would go to that pie was delicious!
When, I lived in Harrison, OH the local Big Boy’s wasn’t that far but, are’s never had a drive thru since, it had restaurant that was their previously before they switched it to Frisch’s Big Boy. It was a continued well kept beautiful building. Sadly with time and age it’s no longer there. Then,my grandma done lived in Lawrenceburg, IN and, we done had been there many times but, when, we moved there Big Boy Burgers, onion rings and, a cherry coke had be came a habit and,became a great comfort to us after the loss of my dad that was how we nursed our pain. Sometimes we we’re running there 2 to 3 times a day. We knew we had to break the habit but, eventually we somehow did. As a adult and, the different times around my area there’s always been a Frisch’s near by, at one time it was within walking distance. I now have been back home and, it’s been a little over 10 yrs now and, even though mom is no longer here neither, I still find comfort in the Staple of Frisch’s Big Boy with onion rings and cherry coke. I also ended up got my children addicted to the taste of Frisch’s. I am headed there in a couple hrs to eat there before, I do some shopping. Even though, with some medical issues right now it still helps bring me great comfort and, it’s something that, I can eat and digest much easier and, these days when, I can’t always get there in person it’s mostly what, I will end up ordering on door dash. That’s how much, I love Frisch’s and how much it’s been a staple in my life.
The Frisch's in my city used to not had drive-thru's until the 90's. They were just like normal restaurants.
Summer 1977. I was 8. Raised in Oklahoma. My dad decided to go on Vacation to California that Summer. He had some cousins that lived in Anaheim. So we went to their place.. we went out to dinner that night... And I distinctly remember it was Kips Big Boy. The Big Boy out front. The storybook about Big Boy. The mouthwatering burgers, fries and milkshake that I got. I am glad to see this on this channel. I'm almost 53.. and back in Oklahoma even though I have traveled all over the United States throughout my life. My 1st memory of California was Kips Big Boy in Anaheim. Disneyland. Mission Beach and Tijuana Mexico.
Frisch's Big Boy is huge in the Midwest. I have a piggy bank I've had for twenty years and i think they still sell them, although the design of the big boy has changed many times. They have the best milk shakes.
I still await the comeback of the Big Boy.
Ate at the Burbank location yesterday...food was good as always. They deep fry their French Toast...eat there regularly.
One thing I have noticed about vids like this is most times the demise begins when you hear they have sold out to some massive corporation.
I've been to the Burbank location twice on recent trips to So Cal - both times I was there for the classic car show. We always make one or more trips to Frisch's every time we visit my wife's side of the family in the Cincinnati area.
Here in Wisconsin we had Marc's (Marcus Corporation) Big Boy. Also served up a custom made Cherry Coke (cherry syrup added to Coca Cola), later sold as a new Coca Cola flavor. Also the pecan pie. A local bar (Coach's) near the Milwaukee airport serves up a pretty good replica of the BBB.
2:55 The 1956 BB is the one I remember most in my area.
I went to Bob's Big Boy with my Mom. Delicious hamburgers!🍔
The chili spaghetti 🍝 delish!😋
They had the best fried chicken, too!
I just rember posing with the statue as a tyke. I can't recall what I had except a decade ago (banana shake). Amazing you remember what you ate! I just reember it is always a good time!
Just had it in Michigan!!!
Yep, Michigan still has these left.
I grew up with bobs, big boy restaurants. Love love love them we have one in Riverside California still thank God.
Used to look forward to a visit with family friends who lived in Eagle Rock, Ca. We would go down for a great meal. Later on in life I would drive my Boss 302 Mustang to Burbank for the classic experience of having a car hop deliver a Big Boy on a tray while sitting in my classic muscle car with others. First "double double"!
Loved going to the Kip's Big Boy as a child in Dallas, Texas. I knew I had a fascination with Googie/mid century modern architecture even from such a young age...it's too bad that the beautiful building was torn down for a 7-11.
We had Kip's Big Boy in Oklahoma City unfortunately I don't remember going there but maybe once before they shut down.
Bruce Springsteen actually name checked Bob's Big Boy in his song "Open All Night" !! To quote " I met Wanda when she was employed Behind the counter at Route 60 Bob's Big Boy"
There is a monthly classic car/hot rod show at the Bob's big boy restaurant in Norco, California on the fourth Friday of every month, 4pm to 8pm!, great food, also if you miss their chili spaghetti, they still serve it !!
I still have a Bob's Big Boy piggy bank. It sits on the shelf along side my original Star Wars action figures, Mold O Rama's, and various other childhood treasures. And the burgers were good too.
The two I went to here in San Diego were located in the College Grove Shopping Center and in the Mission Valley Shopping Center.
I took one of my son's to BIG BOY every week so they could unwind and feel special It was mom and kid night. I went with one kid at a time..I 'll never forget that special time
My Mom would always say “Let’s go to Azar’s”, but it was always Big Boy. I now know why she said that. This was another great trip down memory lane. Sadly ours closed 20+ yrs ago, I definitely miss their food.
No different from my parents just calling it Frisch's where we are.
My family used to go to Abdows Big Boy in Chicopee Massachusetts in the 1960’s.
This is one of my favorite videos.
in the late 1950s we lived in West Los Angeles, and in order to go to Bob's Big Boy we had to go to the San Fernando Valley which was pretty far. At that time there was no 405 freeway, only Sepulveda Blvd, which only had two lanes that rambled its way through the hills. But when we got to Bob's, it was well worth it to me, a double decker combo, chili, and a comic book.
I knew Shoney's and Frisch's Big Boys growing up in Ohio. Thanks so much for clearing up how they're connected!
I remember growing up in Southern California bob’s big boy after church Sunday morning and maybe dinner Friday night. I was a kid then so when I ordered that big boy combo that burger was huge!! Now living in the Midwest whenever we’re in the Cincinnati area I love going to big boy and grabbing a burger or breakfast makes me remember when I was a kid going to that Bob’s big boy in Montebello California!!
I remember eating at big boy restaurants back in the 1970s and 1980s. Frish's ,Shoney's,Elby's and Elias Brothers restaurants .