bob's big boy restaurants in southern california
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title: Bob's Big Boy text: Bob's Big Boy Bob's Big Boy is a restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry. It is now part of Big Boy Restaurants International, the current primary trademark owner and franchisor of the Big Boy system. As of September 2017, only five Bob's Big Boy Restaurants remain in operation, all in Southern California. Those five locations are in Burbank (Toluca Lake), Calimesa, Downey, Norco, and Northridge. The restaurant is named after Wian and the Big Boy hamburger, which he created six months after opening his original location. Slicing a bun into three title: Bob's Big Boy text: by 2006. (The last Bob's in Hawaii closed after suffering a fire in 2009.) Now limited to California, Bob's grew to 16 restaurants by 2011, but started to decline again. Although Big Boy Restaurants International expected to open 140 California units by 2018, only five Bob's Big Boy Restaurants remain, all in the Greater Los Angeles Area of Southern California. Big Boy Restaurants International franchises both "Bob's" Big Boy and "non–branded" Big Boy restaurants. The Bob's Big Boy Restaurant located at 4211 Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in the United States. Built in title: Big Boy Restaurants text: Big Boy Restaurants Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC is an American restaurant chain headquartered in Warren, Michigan, in Metro Detroit. Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants is a restaurant chain with its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Big Boy name, design aesthetic, and menu were previously licensed to a number of regional franchisees. Big Boy was started as Bob's Pantry in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale, California. The restaurants became known as "Bob's", "Bob's Drive-Ins", "Bob's, Home of the Big Boy Hamburger", and (commonly as) Bob's Big Boy. It became a local chain under that name and nationally under the Big title: Bob's Big Boy text: followed in the 1950s. The franchisees were required to sell the Big Boy hamburger and use their own name with Big Boy, not Bob's. By 1951, eight Bob's Big Boys were in operation. The Bob's imprint of the first (1956) edition of "Adventures of the Big Boy" comic book lists ten locations, including one in Arizona, while a legal filing claims twelve locations. The 18th Bob's opened in 1963, and the chain's 1965 menu lists 23 California restaurants (including one opening in late 1965 and another in 1966) and six Arizona restaurants, which represented about 5% of the national Big title: Bob's Big Boy text: the original Lawry's restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills, the original Sands Hotel casino and Desert Inn casino in Las Vegas, and designed 40 coffee shops in the Los Angeles area in the late 1940s, each having a distinctive look. The coffee shop, as a building type, started in Los Angeles because of the popularity of automobiles, and then spread across the United States. The design of the Toluca Lake Bob's is a forerunner to the style often referred to as Googie architecture, which originated in Southern California. The building features a curving windowed facade and expansive roof