Dave Thomas is the epitome of a great business man and human. He grew his business all over the USA, making a good life, but he also gave hundreds of millions to help those less fortunate. To bad CEO’s of today only care about themselves!
@@reneastle8447 Bill Gates is an ass hole. He’s part of the economic problem the US is currently in. Bill Gates only gives money to organizations that he benefits from.
@@katie7748 It's not, Bill Gates and his wife are CEOs and humanitarians. They don't care about themselves, they care about everyone, even those who are less fortunate. Even Jimmy Carter himself is a bonafide philanthropist.
or when they went public with stock instead of being solely controlled by the founder. Founder is happy making living his business doing well investors want to see profits increase no matter what the cost is to the rest of company.
My first job in 1975 was Taco Bell in Northridge, California. I made $1.70 an hour and all I could eat. We made everything FRESH including taking the raw pinto beans and turning them into frijoles. Nothing came pre-packaged and we deep fried every single taco shell.
This was all very interesting. I never heard of Domino's Pizza or Walmart at all till sometime after our big family move in 1985. In fact, of all of the brands mentioned in this video, the only ones I knew about in the late 70s/early 80s were Chick-Fil-A, Gap, and Wendy's. Thanks for posting.
I'm from Pittsburgh, PA and i never heard of Wal-mart until the 1990's. Funny part is: Wal-Mart, Target and K Mart ALL started in 1962. Of those three I only knew of K Mart. Pittsburgh had the 10th K Mart EVER (opened in 1963 and only closed in 2019!) We also had "Hill's, Zayre, and G.C. Murphy's)
@@jamesslick4790 I don't think I ever heard of Target till sometime in the 2000s, and was never inside of one till then either. In the 70s, other than groceries my parents did most of their shopping at Sears and K-Mart. But there was also W.T. Grant, H.L. Green, and Two Guys. This was in western Morris County, NJ.
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I laughed at 1.18 when Tacos founder Glenn Bell asks for the recipes for the tacos, he gets it and the rest is........history! Wendys was found in 1969, I was in Dubai, UAE in 1973 and there was a Wendy's in downtown Deira opposite Wong & Sons shop. So, they must have ventured overseas within those four years.
4:40 - I am so ancient that I still recall when Southwest Airlines had exactly TWO(2) B-737 aircraft. The map is 100% correct: one aircraft flew clockwise: Dallas to Houston to San Antonio and then back to Dallas, while the other one flew in the opposite direction to the same three destinations. Reservations?!?!? Hahahaha! All passengers just boarded the plane, as many as fit, and once onboard gave the stewardesses $19.95 (card, check, cash) for their flight. But maybe your flight was full? No Problem: you just wait 45minutes-1hour until the opposite-direction flight arrives! Same Fare to your destination, just in the opposite direction! (So now does anyone wonder why Southwest Airlines is a primo airline?)
I remember when Emirates Airlines had just two aircraft, and they were leased from PIA (Pakistan International). Look at them today. Coming back to Southwest Airlines, the founder was a genius, the clockwork/anticlockwork way the flights flew was a brilliant idea.
The Taco Bell pictured looked like the Taco Bell built in our neighborhood, outside Houston, in the early 70's. Their food was much better then. I remember when Southwest was strictly a Texas airline then expanded.
Glen Bell started selling tacos out of his burger stand on route 66, across from the Milita Cafe, in San Bernardino. He then opened Taco Tia, one of which is still in business, in Redlands. He then got out of the Taco Tia business and started El Taco. One is still open in Downey and one in Tustin. Finally, he got out of that business and started Taco Bell in 1964. The owners of Del Taco, Bakers, and Der Weinerschnitzel all have ties to Glen Bell.
Dave Thomas shows you don't have to be a POS to be a successful businessman, humble, generous, his children's charity is a beacon. What a President he would have been.
I remember when the Gap was all Levi's (I mean I was a child, but Levi's was THE brand to own) and then they switched to their own garbage brand and I never went to their stores again. It's like Old Navy today - the clothes are just cheap crap.
At 5:19 - The Gap - I worked at The Gap headquarters in San Bruno, California between 1984 & 1989. It was the best job I ever had. Don Fisher was on the executive 6th floor and I on the 5th floor and I only met him once, in the elevator, but he was nice.
First i love this channel me not being born til 2010 I kinda compare the 80 70 60 50 to now and let’s be honest technology has made this world bad I was I was born in 1970
The Gap was great when it first opened when I was a teen and young guy. But at some point they completely changed their focus from jeans, etc., to metro-cheap-chic. Banana Republic made the same stupid switch but was more expensive. Didn’t realize Arby’s started not far from where I grew up east of Cleveland. The store near my house must have been one of their first. We’d stop there for roast beef sandwiches on the way to the mall movie theater.
I look back at the 1960s, 70s, 80s with great envy. These were far far BETTER Times than now. It's the year 2022 and NO ONE is happy ---- do you truly know anyone who is happy? Life was simpler then but far far more meaningful.
I remember having to go to the mall to get a chick FIL a ...in mid 80s when they opened the first free standing store in snellville....what a glorious day it was 😁. I'm disappointed they closed down all the Radio Shacks here in Georgia... You could find all you needed even obscure items
🤔Southwest sezed an opportune moment when every airline deserted Love Field for the newly opened (and further away from Dallas) DFW started operations. SOUTHWEST seized the fantastic opportunity of having so called commuter flights conviently CLOSER to Dallas and the rest is HISTORY. Southwest stood the test of time and Braniff bought the farm. 🤠
Wendy's was a lifesaver for me in the 80s with their all-you-can-eat hot food bar, pasta with meat sauce and nacho cheese was a favorite. It was crap food, but it was cheap and I'd load up on it and would even stuff my pockets before heading back to my transient hotel room ($70 per week, no deposit, no questions) with cockroaches for roommates. Rough times, but when you're young you don't really think about that --- fond memories now, go figure.
I can recall a very early chick-fa-la In a small corner of a mall in Springfield Mo about in late 70’s Also in our small town in central Missouri, a KFC opened in the 60’s. It opened in a older brick house on the street corner, they were carry out only.
Oh and the Arby's sauce......I get the packet and put on everything. Remember back in 80s you could actually buy the bottles of Arby's sauce 🤤. My late husband got into wearing corduroy jeans in 80s.....cheapest place to buy them with so many colors was the GAP.
Anyone know about Casey’s? I was a young man in Ohio, when Wendy’s got started. It was great to have a much superior fast food option to McDonalds or Burger King (yech). Curiously, when I started college in Bowling Green, Ohio, there was a place called Casey’s on the north side of town. They had singles, doubles, triples, and I think you could even get a home run. About 1978, that restaurant rebranded as Wendy’s with an identical menu. Always wonder what the deal was there. Dave Thomas emulated Kewpee Hamburgers. There was a Kewpee in Lima, Ohio, where I had the misfortune of spending five years. Kewpee, which is still there, had great pie, and pretty good burgers, but wasn’t quite up there with Wendy’s.
0:31 That was the most valuable 59 VW Beetle on the planet. Walmart, ruining America since 1962. Taco Bell, a six pack of tacos for $1.14. I still order 6 at a time, for $10.14 (which is actually a little less than adjusted inflation). Thanks for the videos.
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It’s a puzzling thing that The Gap, selling only Levi’s and vintage vinyls, would inadvertently foreshadow both music and fashion-which, to me, is now commonplace.
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Today if Glenn Bell of the Taco Bell was photographed in that sombrero he would be "tared and feathered" or cancelled for cultural appropriation. Same with Truett Cathy of Chic Fillet for owning a restaurant called the Dwarf House...I'm sure someone would complain on behalf of the little people.
Not a fan of Donato’s Pizza or Taco Bell, at least in more recent yrs. Because, it used to be one of those spots to take care of a late night craving. I want to go back since, they came back with Mexican Pizza, there version is my favorite! But, wondering if it’s just as good as it was back then. Motel 6, I remember traveling and staying at those hotels, they were always clean and nice without paying a fortune for the rooms. I remember the commercials with Tom Bodadin (not sure if, I spelled his last name right) he and he say, I’m Tom B…. and, will leave the light 💡 for yah!
They been like for 30+ years and never back after the green meat incident in the late 90's which my pussy ass dad made me eat because he didn't have the balls to go in the restaurant to complain. Too bad smartphones weren't invented yet because I would send pictures of that disgusting green shit they call meat.
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Dave Thomas is the epitome of a great business man and human. He grew his business all over the USA, making a good life, but he also gave hundreds of millions to help those less fortunate. To bad CEO’s of today only care about themselves!
Not all of them, they still have the same charitable qualities of Dave Thomas, Bill Gates is one of them.
@@reneastle8447 Bill Gates is an ass hole. He’s part of the economic problem the US is currently in. Bill Gates only gives money to organizations that he benefits from.
@@reneastle8447 I hope that's sarcasm lol
@@katie7748 It's not, Bill Gates and his wife are CEOs and humanitarians. They don't care about themselves, they care about everyone, even those who are less fortunate. Even Jimmy Carter himself is a bonafide philanthropist.
Not to mention all he did for adoption and putting it in the forefront. He was adopted and I was too. A great man!!! 🕊️🙏❤️
Love, love, love the backstories of American businesses! Keep up the great work! No channel does it better!
Pretty interesting in how a lot of these companies are still around today. Thanks for the video.
This is one of my favorite videos you have done. More please :) And thank you.
These companies were all great when started. As soon as the founder departed, they went straight South.
Soooo true
or when they went public with stock instead of being solely controlled by the founder. Founder is happy making living his business doing well investors want to see profits increase no matter what the cost is to the rest of company.
@@ablemagawitch Good examples in recent past have been founders of Papa John's and Men's Warehouse being driven out with both going downhill.
Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!!
Another great video R.R. 👍
Walmart was a much better store when Sam was living! It’s all gone to hell in a handbasket.
everything made in chi na
Sam was a great guy! My Grandfather used to golf with him.
Agree 💯
👍👍👍😢
Never heard of it till the 90’s
Hang Ten clothing was another 60s icon.
I remember the Tshirt 👕!!
So many great American success stories here, people with a vision and a business plan to see it through
Dave Thomas was a class act.
My first job in 1975 was Taco Bell in Northridge, California. I made $1.70 an hour and all I could eat. We made everything FRESH including taking the raw pinto beans and turning them into frijoles. Nothing came pre-packaged and we deep fried every single taco shell.
Happy Weekend Everybody!😊
This was all very interesting. I never heard of Domino's Pizza or Walmart at all till sometime after our big family move in 1985. In fact, of all of the brands mentioned in this video, the only ones I knew about in the late 70s/early 80s were Chick-Fil-A, Gap, and Wendy's. Thanks for posting.
I'm from Pittsburgh, PA and i never heard of Wal-mart until the 1990's. Funny part is: Wal-Mart, Target and K Mart ALL started in 1962. Of those three I only knew of K Mart. Pittsburgh had the 10th K Mart EVER (opened in 1963 and only closed in 2019!) We also had "Hill's, Zayre, and G.C. Murphy's)
@@jamesslick4790 I don't think I ever heard of Target till sometime in the 2000s, and was never inside of one till then either. In the 70s, other than groceries my parents did most of their shopping at Sears and K-Mart. But there was also W.T. Grant, H.L. Green, and Two Guys. This was in western Morris County, NJ.
Thanks for sharing!
Very enjoyable...
I can so relate to Dave Thomas in one line. He was adopted, and so was I. Like him I consider myself one of the luckiest persons alive.
I always thought the Arby's name came from the initials for roast beef.
Thought so too.
Same!
Wow! I never realized that. Cool catch
When I was a child, my siblings and I would look at the sign and guess it stood for:
Arby's Roast Beef, Yes, Sir!
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"Fall into the Gap" ☺
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That was their slogan, dummy
…the gap in your wallet!
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Thank You !
I laughed at 1.18 when Tacos founder Glenn Bell asks for the recipes for the tacos, he gets it and the rest is........history!
Wendys was found in 1969, I was in Dubai, UAE in 1973 and there was a Wendy's in downtown Deira opposite Wong & Sons shop. So, they must have ventured overseas within those four years.
4:40 - I am so ancient that I still recall when Southwest Airlines had exactly TWO(2) B-737 aircraft. The map is 100% correct: one aircraft flew clockwise: Dallas to Houston to San Antonio and then back to Dallas, while the other one flew in the opposite direction to the same three destinations.
Reservations?!?!? Hahahaha! All passengers just boarded the plane, as many as fit, and once onboard gave the stewardesses $19.95 (card, check, cash) for their flight.
But maybe your flight was full? No Problem: you just wait 45minutes-1hour until the opposite-direction flight arrives! Same Fare to your destination, just in the opposite direction!
(So now does anyone wonder why Southwest Airlines is a primo airline?)
I remember when Emirates Airlines had just two aircraft, and they were leased from PIA (Pakistan International). Look at them today. Coming back to Southwest Airlines, the founder was a genius, the clockwork/anticlockwork way the flights flew was a brilliant idea.
This was terrific! Thank you!
Great video! Wonderful origin stories and nostalgia!
Domino’s Pizza…???? 1960 …???
‘59 beetle? Seriously oh my goodness!!!
Very interesting about the birth of these businesses. The Arby's name was interesting.
Love this!
Thanks!
The Taco Bell pictured looked like the Taco Bell built in our neighborhood, outside Houston, in the early 70's. Their food was much better then. I remember when Southwest was strictly a Texas airline then expanded.
Sad to hear the Bell stole/ grabbed his recipe to start out
Motel 6 left the light on for you.
Glen Bell started selling tacos out of his burger stand on route 66, across from the Milita Cafe, in San Bernardino.
He then opened Taco Tia, one of which is still in business, in Redlands. He then got out of the Taco Tia business and started El Taco. One is still open in Downey and one in Tustin.
Finally, he got out of that business and started Taco Bell in 1964.
The owners of Del Taco, Bakers, and Der Weinerschnitzel all have ties to Glen Bell.
Thanks for the really cool video!!
Most of these were before my time! I was born in 1965. Really enjoyed your video!
Dave Thomas shows you don't have to be a POS to be a successful businessman, humble, generous, his children's charity is a beacon. What a President he would have been.
I remember when the Gap was all Levi's (I mean I was a child, but Levi's was THE brand to own) and then they switched to their own garbage brand and I never went to their stores again.
It's like Old Navy today - the clothes are just cheap crap.
At 5:19 - The Gap - I worked at The Gap headquarters in San Bruno, California between 1984 & 1989. It was the best job I ever had. Don Fisher was on the executive 6th floor and I on the 5th floor and I only met him once, in the elevator, but he was nice.
Used to take a road trip every summer to visit family, and stayed at MOTEL 6 every time.😎
Be like DAVE! Dave Thomas!
As a runner, the start of Nike means most to me. Of course, now I have a problem with them paying pennies to workers in Southeast Asia.
according to ( the real ) seymore skinner , they make those shoes at gunpoint . funny story really . :)>
When these companies were started was a better time for all
First i love this channel me not being born til 2010 I kinda compare the 80 70 60 50 to now and let’s be honest technology has made this world bad I was I was born in 1970
I was born in 1946 and I totally agree with you!!
The Gap was great when it first opened when I was a teen and young guy. But at some point they completely changed their focus from jeans, etc., to metro-cheap-chic. Banana Republic made the same stupid switch but was more expensive.
Didn’t realize Arby’s started not far from where I grew up east of Cleveland. The store near my house must have been one of their first. We’d stop there for roast beef sandwiches on the way to the mall movie theater.
I look back at the 1960s, 70s, 80s with great envy. These were far far BETTER Times than now. It's the year 2022 and NO ONE is happy ---- do you truly know anyone who is happy? Life was simpler then but far far more meaningful.
I remember having to go to the mall to get a chick FIL a ...in mid 80s when they opened the first free standing store in snellville....what a glorious day it was 😁. I'm disappointed they closed down all the Radio Shacks here in Georgia... You could find all you needed even obscure items
Highway 78?
@@johnhanson403 yes sir
🤔Southwest sezed an opportune moment when every airline deserted Love Field for the newly opened (and further away from Dallas) DFW started operations. SOUTHWEST seized the fantastic opportunity of having so called commuter flights conviently CLOSER to Dallas and the rest is HISTORY. Southwest stood the test of time and Braniff bought the farm. 🤠
Wendy's was a lifesaver for me in the 80s with their all-you-can-eat hot food bar, pasta with meat sauce and nacho cheese was a favorite. It was crap food, but it was cheap and I'd load up on it and would even stuff my pockets before heading back to my transient hotel room ($70 per week, no deposit, no questions) with cockroaches for roommates. Rough times, but when you're young you don't really think about that --- fond memories now, go figure.
I can recall a very early chick-fa-la
In a small corner of a mall in Springfield Mo about in late 70’s
Also in our small town in central Missouri, a KFC opened in the 60’s. It opened in a older brick house on the street corner, they were carry out only.
The Arby's in Laurel MD still has their original big hat sign
This made me really hungry!
Didn’t know CVS was started locally! Yay Boston/Lowell, Providence!
Oh and the Arby's sauce......I get the packet and put on everything. Remember back in 80s you could actually buy the bottles of Arby's sauce 🤤. My late husband got into wearing corduroy jeans in 80s.....cheapest place to buy them with so many colors was the GAP.
To this day, Wendy's is my favorite fast food restaurant. I love the burgers, but my favorite menu item is the baked potato.
Anyone know about Casey’s? I was a young man in Ohio, when Wendy’s got started. It was great to have a much superior fast food option to McDonalds or Burger King (yech). Curiously, when I started college in Bowling Green, Ohio, there was a place called Casey’s on the north side of town. They had singles, doubles, triples, and I think you could even get a home run. About 1978, that restaurant rebranded as Wendy’s with an identical menu. Always wonder what the deal was there. Dave Thomas emulated Kewpee Hamburgers. There was a Kewpee in Lima, Ohio, where I had the misfortune of spending five years. Kewpee, which is still there, had great pie, and pretty good burgers, but wasn’t quite up there with Wendy’s.
There was a Casey's in Tucker Georgia in the 80s. Ate there a few times.
Where Taco John's?
It's another popular taco restaurant from the 60's.
Taco Bell: 60 years of blowin' toilets apart!
lol
🤣
LET'S GO TO THE GAP!
Fall in to the gap
yes the Volkswagen Beetle debuted shortly after World war II and was in production in US and Canada at least as a convertible/cabriolet until 1979
the VW was first built in Germany in the 1930s .. designed in part by Trump's uncle, A.Hilter as the "peoples car" (volkes wagen)
20 iconic brands launched in the 1960s
1. Nissan USA ( 1960 )
2. Hyundai Motor ( 1967 )
3. Intel ( 1968 )
4. DHL ( 1969 )
5. Dollar Rent A Car ( 1965 )
6. Target ( 1962 )
7. Tower Records ( 1960 )
8. Comcast Corporation or Comcast ( 1963 )
9. American Wrestling Association or AWA ( 1960 )
10. Gatorade ( 1965 )
11. Virginia Slims ( 1968 )
12. True ( 1966 )
13. Hardee's ( 1960 )
14. Sega ( 1960 )
15. Konami ( 1969 )
16. Häagen Dazs ( 1960 )
17. Lucky Charms ( 1964 )
18. Red Lobster ( 1968 )
19. Subway ( 1965 )
20. Togo's ( 1964 )
21. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. or SEC ( 1969 )
22. Long John Silver's or LJS ( 1969 )
0:31 That was the most valuable 59 VW Beetle on the planet.
Walmart, ruining America since 1962.
Taco Bell, a six pack of tacos for $1.14. I still order 6 at a time, for $10.14 (which is actually a little less than adjusted inflation).
Thanks for the videos.
Unless we put an end to the Walmart craze.
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It’s a puzzling thing that The Gap, selling only Levi’s and vintage vinyls, would inadvertently foreshadow both music and fashion-which, to me, is now commonplace.
I remember seeing them in the mall. But I always bought my Levi’s from a store in Red Bank, Kislin’s. Cords too.
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@@saminaneen That’s a bit much 😂
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Wendy's hamburger were square, to utilize every square inch of the griddle. Fit more burgers on it, than round burgers
I thought Taco Bell started in San Bernardino, CA?
Motel 6 .. should be renamed to Motel 90
I was founded in 1961
Nike used to be call Blue Ribbon tiger sports Nike is one my favorite brand 👍👟
👍👍
So for 55+ years, I thought Arby's was a take off of .... R oast B eef L( ....my bad
Actually ... that WAS part of their advertising slogan years back, so not off
N & S 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Today if Glenn Bell of the Taco Bell was photographed in that sombrero he would be "tared and feathered" or cancelled for cultural appropriation. Same with Truett Cathy of Chic Fillet for owning a restaurant called the Dwarf House...I'm sure someone would complain on behalf of the little people.
GET A LIFE !!!
I though PSA ( Pacific Southern Airlines) turned into Southwest Airlines ?
PSA became USAIR
Not a fan of Donato’s Pizza or Taco Bell, at least in more recent yrs. Because, it used to be one of those spots to take care of a late night craving. I want to go back since, they came back with Mexican Pizza, there version is my favorite! But, wondering if it’s just as good as it was back then. Motel 6, I remember traveling and staying at those hotels, they were always clean and nice without paying a fortune for the rooms. I remember the commercials with Tom Bodadin (not sure if, I spelled his last name right) he and he say, I’m Tom B…. and, will leave the light 💡 for yah!
Tom Bodette.
1962 was a long time ago😂(if you know, you know)
CVS bought out Arbor Drugs in metro Detroit area
First. Taco Bell used to be good. Now, 🤮
They been like for 30+ years and never back after the green meat incident in the late 90's which my pussy ass dad made me eat because he didn't have the balls to go in the restaurant to complain.
Too bad smartphones weren't invented yet because I would send pictures of that disgusting green shit they call meat.
Yep
I really like their Bell Burgers
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Uhhhh, K-mart ?
K-mart was actually started many many years ago ... in 1899
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S S Kresge 1899, first store called K-mart, 1962 Garden City, Michigan
What about Sav-Mart?
Wasn’t CVS a radio and tv network?
what ? HA HA
@@rhuephus You Know. Like NVC, AVC, CVS? 🤭
emm,, love me some Wendy's!
cheers 🍸 🍻 👏 ✌️ 🥂
CVS is now pretty expensive compared to Rite Aid and Walgreens
Taco Bell named after owner Mr Bell. HQ is now in Irvine CA. I love Arby's had some last week jamoca shake. Dave Thomas of Wendy's was adopted.
@lovly 2 cu, You are such a SUPER RACIST, for insulting black people, for calling them "Jamocas", you are despicable
The other narrator see smooth on the ears , this guy is doing a low budget impersonation of the other narrator.
I like Walmart