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	-Bob's Big Boy Restaurant -Big Boy w/Hamburger
		Owner and founder Bob Wian created a stylized image for his "Big Boy," with red-checked pants and suspenders, dark wavy hair, cherubic cheeks and a happy grin -- because he was holding the hamburger he was named for.
		So when a fat little boy in red suspenders walked into Bob's Pantry in Glendale, California, in 1936, he became the new symbol for Bob's Big Boy restaurant.
		The Big Boy image became so popular that Bob's Big Boy restaurants soon franchised all over the country under several different names, including Elias, JB's, Frisch's, and Shoney's.
	www.advertisingiconmuseum.com /inside/c6/3249088.html (237 words)

	Roadside Peek : Bob's Big Boy
		This Bob's Big Boy location in Fresno is a good example of the Bob's Big Boy's that were in built in the ranch style look towards the mid to latter part of the last century.
		Once upon a time, these ranch style Bob's Big Boy restaurant were located all over the Southland, including Garden Grove, Montebello, and Long Beach.
		Unfortunately, this restaurant closed down a few years ago and Bob went with it.
	www.roadsidepeek.com /coffeeeats/coffeeshop/bobs.htm (353 words)

	Big Boy (restaurant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Big Boy is a restaurant chain started in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale, California as Bob's Big Boy.
		Big Boy's signature meal is the double-decker Big Boy hamburger (a predecessor of the Big Mac).
		Big Boy was parodied by Frank Miller in his Give Me Liberty comic-book series as the Fat Boy restuarant chain, a fast-food franchise that had grown so powerful that it was at war with the United States government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Boy_(restaurant) (795 words)

	History of Big Boy Restaurants
		The Big Boy itself began with Bob Wian in Glendale, California.
		Big Boy is a registered trademark of Big Boy Restaurants International L.L.C.
		I was so amused by the youngster - jolly, healthy looking and obviously a lover of good things to eat, I called him Big Boy.” So why not name the new hamburger Big Boy?
	www.bigboy.com /history.html (226 words)

	Bob's Big Boy - Dining Guide
		The original Bob's Big Boy began in 1936 in Glendale as a small 10-seat diner.
		If all of this isn't enough, Bob's Big Boy offers an extensive menu featuring refreshing beverages (including beer, wine and cocktails), appetizers, side dishes, super salads, famous burgers, incredible sandwiches, classic entrees, seafood and pasta, great breakfasts, baked goods, a "health smart" section, plus a separate menu dedicated to its decadent desserts.
		Bob's Big Boy is located at 12728 West Main St. in Hesperia.
	www.vvdailypress.com /dining/previews/bigboy (556 words)

	News at Foodservice.com - The Nation's Source for Restaurant News
		Big Boy restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California are identified using the Bob's Big Boy name to recognize the 60-plus year history and origin of Big Boy Restaurants.
		Big Boy Restaurants International LLC announces the signing of an area franchise development agreement with Jim Talghani to open 16 Bob's Big Boy restaurants over the next eight years in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada.
		The first two NEW Bob's Big Boy restaurants are scheduled to open in Las Vegas by October 2004, with four more to open within the next three years.
	www.foodservice.com /news/company_news_detail.cfm?id=8985&company_name= (321 words)

	Roadside Peek : Big Boy East
		This Big Boy's Restaurant of Wright City, MO dates back to 1924 and is not a "true" Big Boy of Bob Wian heritage (predates the Big Boy franchise/chain by 12 years).
		Although this Bob's Big Boy is not of true vintage lineage, the restaurant sports a very pleasant Big Boy out front to welcome diners.
		Big Boy East covers selected Big Boy restaurants in the eastern part of the United States, including the Midwest and Northeast regions.
	www.roadsidepeek.com /rpeekeast/eatseast/bigboyeast (720 words)

	Las Vegas SUN:
		Within days, the name of the restaurant was changed to Bob's Big Boy, and a local artist was commissioned to draw a caricature of a smiling, big-eyed and well-fed boy with a black cowlick.
		A typical example of the early Big Boy restaurants is the one in Burbank, built in 1949, and featured in the 1995 film, "Heat." It was the backdrop for a scene of a meeting between Robert De Niro, the thief, and Al Pacino, the police detective.
		Hansen said the restaurants were open for only a few years because in 1967, something happened that would inexorably alter the successful path of the Big Boy chain.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1998/apr/27/507138767.html (1333 words)

	Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC information and related industry information from Hoover's
		Founded by Bob Wian in 1936, the Big Boy chain was acquired by Robert Liggett in 2000.
		Known for their hamburgers (and the iconic Big Boy figure holding a plate-sized sandwich), the restaurants also offer a full menu of breakfast options along with home-style dinner favorites such as meat loaf, pork chops, and chicken fried steak.
		Big Boy Restaurants International operates and franchises more than 450 of its signature family-dining spots in the US and Japan.
	hoovers.com /big-boy-restaurants/--ID__111962--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (335 words)

	Funko Wobbler Database
		With it's availability exclusive to the Burbank Big Boy restaurant you would have to think that most of these never made it to the actual Wobbler collector's but instead to the average Bob's Big Boy restaurant visitor or even a tourist.
		Big Boy remains one of the few Wobblers that Funko has made that are classic existing Nodders of the past like Colonel Sanders, Reddy Kilowatt, Smokey Bear and Popeye to name a few.
		Also noteworthy, Big Boy was the Wobbler that started Funko and the Red Base version was the absolute first Wobbler.
	www.letsgetwacky.com /details.php?recordID=31 (304 words)

	USATODAY.com - Restaurateur battles to keep 'Big Boy'
		The Big Boy statue in front of the Canton Township, Mich. Bob's Big Boy restaurant is still standing tall despite a fight between city officials who want it removed.
		Tony Matar was cited after officials declared the statue at his Big Boy restaurant is a sign.
		That question is at the center of a dispute between a Michigan businessman who is fighting to keep the fiberglass statue and authorities who ticketed him for zoning violations.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-14-big-boy_x.htm (424 words)

	Don't Tip the Waiter / Used Condom Found In Big Boy Salad Bar
		"I speak for the entire company," said Big Boy spokesman, Bob Shue, "when I say that we are completely, totally, and unequivocally embarrassed at this whole situation.
		Above: Big Boy employee mocks Mike Finney in the aftermath of the uproar.
		vidence of after-hours activity turned up at a Big Boy restaurant salad bar in Detroit last week, embarrassing not only the perpetrators, but nearly everyone associated with the company.
	www.donttipthewaiter.com /usedcondom.htm (404 words)

	New Activities
		Greg ordered a Big Boy Combo with blue cheese dressing, his childhood favorite, while Jill chewed on a burger with fries.
		There were people and cars everywhere." Opened in 1949, Bob's Burbank is the oldest restaurant in the nationwide chain.
		Greg's wife, Jill, frequented the Burbank restaurant, too, but she was 10 years old and came with her parents.
	www.bobs.net /newact/carhop.html (212 words)

	EZ's Formerly Kips Big Boy
		In the western U.S. the "Big Boy" restaurants were "Bob's Big Boy." I remember seeing only Kip's around the Dallas area.
		I don't know what the build date of this building is. This is a standard design used by the Big Boy restaurant chain.
		This building was formerly a Kip's Big Boy restaurant.
	www.cosmicool.com /googie/ezskips.html (742 words)

	Googie Art - Armet & Davis diners and coffee shops of the 1950s & 60s
		Bob's Big Boy, Carolina Pines, Conrad's, Denny's, Holly's / Hawthorne Grill, Mel's, Norm's, Pann's, Penguin, Romeo's Times Square / Johnie's Wilshire, Tiny Naylors and The Wich Stand.
	www.googieart.com (136 words)

	SitNews - The Boy's Toys by Bob Ciminel
		Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy" - The locomotive is manufactured by MTH Electric Trains in Columbia, MD. It is a commemorative edition (only 100 produced) honoring the 50th anniversary of the Train Collectors Association.
		The second is a Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy," which weighed in at over a million pounds and had sixteen sets of driving wheels.
		These big engines can only go around a curve that is eight feet in diameter, and the wife does not smile when I lay track in the living room, but I only run them at Christmas.
	www.sitnews.us /BobCiminel/100604_focb.html (820 words)

	Bob Brainen's playlist December 25, 2001
		Fill in for Tom Sharpling (and Democracy Now)
	www.wfmu.org /playlists/shows/1840 (16 words)

	VAN NUYS CLASS OF '66 HISTORY
		That same year, Bob's Big Boy on Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake, the third Bob's built and the oldest still in existence, was declared a California State Point of Historical Interest.
		After opening 22 Big Boy restaurants and franchising hundreds of others across the country, Wian sold the business to Marriott in 1967 for $7 million.
		It was a date-night and cruiser destination, a place to flirt, where boys eyeballed one another's engines, got into fistfights over girls and arranged drag races.
	www.vannuys66.com /vnhs66-history.html (1841 words)

	Roadside Peek : Bob's Big Boy
		This Bob's Big Boy location in Fresno is a good example of the Bob's Big Boy's that were in built in the ranch style look towards the mid to latter part of the last century.
		See a featured diptych of Bob's Big Boy created by G.M. Panter.
		Once upon a time, these ranch style Bob's Big Boy restaurant were located all over the Southland, including Garden Grove, Montebello, and Long Beach.
	www.roadsidepeek.com /coffeeeats/coffeeshop/bigboy/bobs.htm (375 words)

	Roadside Peek : Bob's Big Boy
		This Bob's Big Boy location in Fresno is a good example of the Bob's Big Boy's that were in built in the ranch style look towards the mid to latter part of the last century.
		Once upon a time, these ranch style Bob's Big Boy restaurant were located all over the Southland, including Garden Grove, Montebello, and Long Beach.
		See a featured diptych of Bob's Big Boy created by G.M. Panter.
	www.roadsidepeek.com /coffeeeats/coffeeshop/bobs.htm (353 words)

	Michael Swanwick Online: What Would Bob the Angry Flower Do?
		There was a Bob's Big Boy standing by the edge of the road, eight feet tall, waving mechanically to the cars with one hand.
		on a Sunday, we found ourselves stopped at a red light alongside a Bob's Big Boy on White Horse Pike in New Jersey.
		I was at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland the other weekend, and I ran across Stephen Notley, the guy who draws "Bob the Angry Flower." He was in the huckster room, flogging his cartoon collections, and he was wearing a bright yellow cardboard circle of flower petals around his head.
	www.michaelswanwick.com /fiction/bob.html (407 words)

	DGILA
		The big boy was too much meat for me. I've cut back so far on red meat that it makes me drowsy when I eat it.
		I ate the traditional Big Boy burger, bun, meat, bun, meat, bun like a big mac, but oh so much better.
		The menu proudly told of how it was the oldest Bob's in the country.
	www.thedisseminatedgroup.com /18.html (439 words)

	The Robert Nighthawk Story
		He'd come here and leave- he played lots of clubs in Chicago, though, with Sonny Boy and different ones, but he'd be havin' a record shop or some kind of business, and the next thing, he done put up and gone...he'd go back to Big Foot Country, all in the Delta country.
		In St. Louis he fell in with Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Williams who he played with on his first recordings for Bluebird in 1937.
		He recorded variously as Robert Lee McCoy, Rambling Bob and later for Decca as Peetie's Boy a reference to Peetie Wheatstraw who he recorded with and played with around St. Louis.
	www.baddogblues.com /nighthawk (439 words)

	Prohaska
		Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Vi 20-2659; Mean Old Frisco Bls/I'm In The Mood E- Evangelist Evans and Angelette Choir - acetate by Richcraft Rec.
		Jack Teagarden - Big Band Gems, 1940-41 airchecks; Blu-Disc 5003 N- Bob Crosby - Live Performances, Big Band and Small, 1940-41; Blu-Disc 5004 N- Duke Ellington - The Studio Recordings (alt.
		Lee Morse BG Boys - Col 2165; Sing You Sinners/Cooking Breakfast For One I Love E- Lee Morse BG Boys - Col 2388; I'm One Of God's Children/Blue Again V+ sol
	www.vjm.biz /prohaska.htm (439 words)

	The B-Boy Realm - B-Boy Hall of Shame
		And if was not enough gaining a Hall of Shame entry, Royboy was furthered punished when his beloved Essendon lost to Brisbane Lions on the night of the Brouhaha, and to complete the bad month, they also lost the big Anzac clash to the Collingwood.
		As mentioned in the Hall of Fame, a trivia competition was held, unbeknownst to the B-Boys of the implications of their response, and the above B-Boys failed.
		Hall of Shamer for June 2005: Simo for his B-Boy Awards voting debacle and associated whinging
	www.alphalink.com.au /~warrior/bbshame.htm (439 words)

	ONE ON ONE WITH BOB ARUM
		Bob Arum two nights before the big showdown between Oscar “The Golden Boy” De La Hoya (WBC Champion- 34-2, 27 KOs) and “Ferocious” Fernando Vargas (WBA Champion- 22-1, 20 KOs) for the Super Welterweight / Jr.
		Bob - “Well he's a terrific young man and we hope that he is going to do well on Saturday and we feel good about being back with Oscar?”
		Bob - “Well, you know, Vernon is a tremendous young man and he's a very, very good fighter.
	www.insideboxing.com /Columnist/brashear/one_on_one_with_bob_arum.htm (601 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition SPORTS > Morales-Barrera III up; Pacquiao left out
		Arum reportedly went up to Big Bear, California to visit Oscar “Golden Boy” de la Hoya, who is deep in training for all the crowns staked by undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins.
		It was there where Arum got the nod of Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, to have Morales face Barrera instead.
		“I think we should say we had a deal, in principle, with Bob Arum.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/aug/28/yehey/sports/20040828spo1.html (1224 words)

	c h i c a g o I N N E R V I E W
		The band released a few singles on its own Booji Boy (pronounced Boogie Boy) label in 1972 as a 5-member mix of Casales and Mothersbaughs: Jerry and Bob Casale with Mark, Bob and Jim Mothersbaugh.
		Experiments with homemade synthesizers, toasters, toys and other found objects ensued in the years following as the band approached their big break: A film aptly titled The Truth About De-Evolution.
		Casale, the self-proclaimed "live and let live" hippie, turned militant when the National Guard killed two of his friends during the infamous 1970 Kent State massacre which left four students dead and nine wounded.
	www.chicagoinnerview.com /archives/aug05_devo.htm (1224 words)

	Elites TV - For the Best in Reality
		Scenic design for MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING is by John Kenny, with lighting design by Bob Bessoir, costume design by Chris March, and choreography by Joseph Ritsch.
		James Getzlaff, the star bachelor at the center of Bravo’s hit reality show, “Boy Meets Boy,” will make his New York stage debut joining the cast of MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING on June 11 at Theatre Four, 424 West 55th Street (west of Ninth Ave.)
		James Getzlaff earned national fame last year as the star of Bravo’s “Boy Meets Boy.” The enormously popular reality series followed 16 male suitors all vying for James’ attention, with each one facing possible elimination at the end of every episode.
	www.elitestv.com /NewsPub/2004/May/ETV40b36a7e1bedb.html (458 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]
		CABIN BOY offers a knowing and affectionate homage to the low-tech majesty of these earlier works while providing a surprisingly apt vehicle for Elliott's antics.
		Cheap but imaginative, CABIN BOY was shot almost entirely on soundstages in vivid Technicolor, lending it the charmingly artificial look of 1940s and 50s Hollywood.
		Fans of unashamedly low-brow comedies may well be amused by the eccentricities of CABIN BOY, but more conventional viewers should probably beware.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=34131 (615 words)

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