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	Big Boy (restaurant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One of the larger franchise operators, Elias Brothers, purchased the chain from Marriott in 1987, moving the headquarters of the company to Livonia, Michigan, and operating it until declaring bankruptcy in 2000.
		When he was 6 years old, he walked into the diner as Bob Wian was attempting to name his new hamburger.
		In addition to the Bob's Big Boy name, the "Big Boy" concept, menu, and mascot were originally franchised to a wide number of regional franchise holders, listed below (with approximate original territory in parentheses).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Boy_(restaurant) (1045 words)

	Santa Paula Times: Limoneira has Bob’s Big Boy on board for Hallock complex
		Bob’s Big Boy at the Mercantile will offer sit-down dining from its traditional American offerings and a limited drive-thru menu to ensure that window-orders can be freshly prepared.
		Bob’s certainly has since founder Bob Wian, the owner of Bob’s Pantry in Glendale, changed the name of his 10-stool eatery in 1937 and create the restaurant icon to mirror a husky customer who worked in exchange for hamburgers.
		Wian, voted most unlikely to succeed upon his 1933 graduation from Glendale High School, changed the course of the nation’s culinary history.
	santapaulatimes.com /news/archivestory.php/aid/7135/... (514 words)

	History of Big Boy Restaurants
		Bob sold his car for $350.00 and opened a small restaurant called Bob’s Pantry.
		Members of an orchestra playing in the vicinity stopped in the restaurant and asked Bob Wian if he could dream up something different than just a plain hamburger.
		Wian handed the innovation to the players and anxiously awaited the decision.
	www.bigboy.com /history.html (226 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: What's cookin', Big Boy?
		Wian's classmates were right: The last thing in the world Wian wanted to make was money.
		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 fl cowlick.
		Wian spent his retirement years playing golf and entertaining friends at his hacienda in Valyermo, Calif. The founder of Bob's Big Boy died March 31, 1992, and Hansen was among those who attended the funeral.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1998/apr/27/507138767.html (1333 words)

	Eateries
		Wian developed a double-decker hamburger (Bob's was the first) and the Big Boy icon.
		Bob's became a California chain and franchising began in the 1940s.
		The Toluca Lake Bob's was built in 1949 and is the oldest restaurant left in the chain.
	www.agilitynut.com /eateries/bigboy.html (574 words)

	Chubby and checkered
		Pamela Lechuga of San Bernardino remembers stopping at Bob's Big Boy restaurants as a teen heading back and forth to the beach with her friends in the 1960s.
		The Bob's story begins in 1936 when Wian scraped together the funds to buy a little diner on Colorado Boulevard in Glendale, renaming the place Bob's Pantry.
		Wian permitted franchisees outside of California to use their own names.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/2002/09/18/1032319692.html (741 words)

	Bobs Big Boy Hawaii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bob's Big Boy began via the efforts of a gentleman named Bob Wian in Glendale, Calif., circa 1936.
		Wian sold his car for $350 (a pretty penny in those days) and opened a small 10-seat diner called Bob's Pantry.
		Wian is credited with the creation of the double-decker hamburger.
	www.bigboyhawaii.com /about.php (440 words)

	Wednesday, August 11, 1999 - Big Boy brings back burgers, nostalgia - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers
		Legend has it that Wian's created Bob's Big Boy after a little boy came into his five-counter seat restaurant with slick-backed hair and red-and-white checkered overalls, Nannini said.
		A customer drew a picture of the boy, showed it to Wian and Bob's Big Boy was born.
		The restaurant was built in 1949 and the towering Bob's sign is an integral part of the design and the building's most prominent feature.
	www.viewnews.com /1999/VIEW-Aug-11-Wed-1999/NWest/11694332.html (794 words)

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		Bob's Big Boy is the real deal, a chunk of history honoring the '50s car culture without pretense
		There was Bob's Big Boy, that cherubic goofball in the red-checkered overalls, icon of my teens, symbol of the famous double-decker hamburger.
		Bob's Big Boy Restaurants once flourished throughout California, even in San Jose (where the one on Winchester was made famous when a man was shot while having a Big Boy).
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.21.99/dining-9942.html (1153 words)

	VAN NUYS CLASS OF '66 HISTORY
		Nearly seven decades ago, a few years before the McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac, opened their hamburger joint in San Bernardino, Bob Wian created American culture on a bun when he introduced the fast-food phenomenon with the "double-deck" cheeseburger and added already popular drive-in carhop service to deliver it.
		Wian was regarded as a giant in the restaurant industry.
		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.
	www.vannuys66.com /vnhs66-history.html (1841 words)

	Franchise boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bob sold its car for $350,00 and opened a small restaurant called Pantry de Bob.
		As if their hands were directed by a force nonVista, it cut a bun of rule of the hamburger in three slices, and inserted not one but two empanadas ones of the hamburger in place.
		Wian gave the innovation to the players and waited the decision anxiously.
	franchise.comcomputer.net /franchise-boy.htm (647 words)

	Bob's Big Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Below is what I wrote describing the Bob's Big Boy burger that I remembered from 1962, when I first came to California.
		Originally served by roller skating waitresses at Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake and still is on weekends.
		I recently received an email from Casey Wian, son of Robert Wian, founder of Bob's Big Boy.
	cajuncookery.esmartweb.com /bobsbigboy.html (250 words)

	Big Boy - tesg's guide to big chain road food consumption
		Bob Wian created the sandwich in 1936 on a customer's challenge to come up with something different.
		Ben Washam, who went on to be an animator on Chuck Jones cartoons at Warner Bros, sketched Woodruff on a napkin at the counter and gave it to Wian.
		The remains left the vast majority of the restaurants in Michigan, with a few in California (which continue using the "Bob's Big Boy" branding) and Ohio, and one or two locations scattered in a few states beyond.
	www.99w.com /evilsam/ff/bigboy.htm (1068 words)

	Big boy statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bob's Big Boy started as Bob's Pantry in 1936 when founder Bob Wian bought a local Glendale big boy statue.
		The only human faces in sight were from mannequins dressed in colonial clothing and the grinning visage of a Bob's Big Boy statue kept behind glass..
		It was a diner with a huge plastic statue of a boy carrying a burger.
	www.royalmemorabiliafaq.com /big+boy+statue.html (390 words)

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		"Bob’s" Big Boy Restaurant was established by Bob Wian in Glendale, California with $50 he borrowed from his father.
		With the success of the "Big Boy", Wian decided to change the name of his restaurant to "Bob’s" Big Boy.
		The now-famous Big Boy character was created when a man at Wian’s counter took his pen and, on a napkin, began to sketch a drawing of another customer – a chubby, young boy in overalls with a curl in his hair and thus an American classic was born.
	www.hotrod.com /upcomingevents/93818/index2.html (574 words)

	-Bob's Big Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		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.
		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/c6/3249089.html (247 words)

	Bobs Big Boy Restaurant
		Bobs Big Boy - Things To Do In Los AngelesSadly, most of the Bob's Big Boy Family Restaurants are gone.
		Bob's Big Boy - Burbank - Restaurant Review - Southern CaliforniaRead a restaurant review for Bob's Big Boy in Burbank.
		Roadside Peek : Bob's Big BoyOnce upon a time, these ranch style Bob's Big Boy restaurant were located all over the Southland, including Garden Grove, Montebello, and Long Beach.
	dcnew.150m.com /bobs-big-boy-restaurant.html (344 words)

	Bob Wian - Internet Accuracy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		American businessman/Founder of Bob's Big Boy Restaurants, which he built into a chain of 1,000 restaurants.
		Inventor of the double-decker hamburger, and the first to use sesame-seed buns.
		Date and place of birth: June 15th, 1914, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Date and place of death: March 31st, 1992, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. This barebones biography is scheduled for an update and major expansion.
	www.accuracyproject.org /cbe-Wian,Bob.html (219 words)

	What a Character! Excerpt
		After the war, Watkins became a commercial artist; Tenant got a job with Wade Advertising in Chicago and was assigned to handle the Miles Laboratories account.
		who was named after the double-deck cheeseburger Bob Wian sold at his small restaurant in Glendale, California.
		Wian's fat kid and the Big Boy sandwich were such hits that soon Wian had restaurant chains all over California.
	www.chroniclebooks.com /Chronicle/excerpt/0811809366-e0.html (601 words)

	Back in business - Hesperia Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the first Bob’s Big Boy was opened in Glendale in 1936 by Bob Wian, the franchise’s headquarters today is in Michigan.
		Hopefully, Biscaro said, the reopening of the Hesperia restaurant will be the beginning of a new presence in its original home state of California, which has eight locations.
		Included were a City Council quorum, Mayor Dennis Nowicki, who led the cutting of the red ribbon, and councilmembers Ed Pack and Rita Vogler, who was said she was a carhop during her early 20s at the Bob’s Big Boy in Glendale.
	www.hesperiastar.com /story.php?id=296_0_1_0_M (362 words)

	HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wian needed an image to promote his burgers.
		And when a chubby little boy in red suspenders walked in, Wian found it.
		Wian styled his "Big Boy" with red-checked pants and suspenders, wavy hair, cherubic cheeks, and a happy grin.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:55435336&... (176 words)

	Big Boy Restaurant Franchise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It all began in 1936 when Bob Wian, the owner of a 10-seat diner in Glendale, California, invented an extraordinary double-decker hamburger and the "Big Boy" was born.
		The sandwich's success inspired Bob to name his family diner Bob's Big Boy.
		When a customer sketched on a napkin a boy in overalls with a curl in his hair, the likeness became the diner's logo and is now one of the world's most recognized and beloved corporate icons.
	www.franchisegator.com /cgi-bin/profileGenni.php?key=1185&f_type=11 (356 words)

	Simple Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bob Wian (founder of the Bob’s Big Boy hamburger franchise) was sitting at the bar of Hotel Guaymas on the beach in Guaymas, Mexico.
		His good friend Bob Sloan, a well-known skipper in the area, sailed her for him.
		The Double Eagle’s skipper Bob Sloan also fell in love with the ship, so he and his wife Monica built their own schooner after her lines.
	www.schoonerman.com /teepee.htm (737 words)

	The Oakland Press: Auto/Business: Big Boy signs franchise deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WARREN - Big Boy Restaurants International signed a new franchise development agreement with Jim Talghani to open 16 Bob's Big Boy restaurants in 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 with four more to open within the next three years.
		Big Boy restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California are called Bob's Big Boy, because the chain was founded by Bob Wian in Glendale, Calif., in 1936.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/050704/bus_20040507054.shtml (407 words)

	Arab-American Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		DETROIT - Elias Bros. Corp., which built up the Bob's Big Boy name and made it a household word, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
		Executives at the Warren, Mich.-based company -- founded by Lebanese brothers Fred, Louis and John Elias after World War II - also announced that they are in the process of selling the company to an investor, Robert G. Liggett Jr.
		They later offered to franchise the family-style restaurant to Bob Wian, who founded Bob's Big Boy in California.
	www.arabamericanbusiness.com /issue2/mw_elias.htm (406 words)

	Big Boy Restaurants International LLC :: To Celebrate Its 70th Anniversary Big Boy Restaurants Unveils New Menu with ...
		WARREN, Mich., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- 2006 marks the 70th anniversary of Big Boy Restaurants and the family restaurant chain has introduced a new menu that includes 11 diverse new menu items designed to meet the demands of ever changing consumer tastes.
		The menu's cover is a vivid salute to the 70th anniversary featuring nostalgic photos from the chain's history dating back to the first "Bob's Pantry" in Glendale, California founded in 1936 by Bob Wian.
		The new menu arrived the week of March 27 in Big Boy restaurants in Michigan, Ohio, California, Florida, and Nevada.
	sev.prnewswire.com /restaurants/20060329/DEW02829032006-1.html (314 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bob's Big Boy, the burger joint that was a Valley hangout for a couple of
		The chain was founded by Bob Wian in California in 1936 and moved into
		Phoenix in 1955, opening several spots during its two-decade run.
	www.dapcom.com /bigboy.htm (203 words)

	Out of the Mist: Big Boy and King Don (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Amy’s world, Bob’s Big Boy was king.
		Doesn't make a difference in the argument, but, as a young man Amy's beloved Bapa knew the Wian family in Southern California.
		And, Bob's Big Boy hamburger had a sesame bun and special sauce long before that Golden Arches place.
	outofthemist.mclo.net /archives/2006/06/big_boy_and_king_don.php (678 words)

	BigBoy Graveyard
		Does anyone know if the Bob's Big Boy still exists right off I95 in Fredericksburg, VA? Had some nice meals with my aunt & uncle there, in the '70-'80's.
		The original restaraunts we opened by Bob Wian in Glendale, California under the name of "Bob's Big boy" At some time in the late 60's or early 70's the Wian family sold.
		The Big Boy chain was more or less national, but it had different names in different regions.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/weblog/comments/3030/P20 (1263 words)

	The Perfect California Hamburger
		This recipe comes from Marion Cunningham's "The Supper Book." Cunningham is strict about this burger -- "You cannot allow yourself any creative license" -- and says mustard or ketchup may be added "only if you must." Her recipe comes from Bob Wian, who founded the Bob's Big Boy restaurant chain.
		She writes, "I guarantee that if you make this hamburger once, you will never fall back into making or eating those gourmet beef sandwiches called hamburgers."
		Spread lettuce over the top, put the bun together, and enjoy.
	www.post-gazette.com /food/20000611burger2a.asp (226 words)

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