Bob’s Big Boy Origins and Expanding Network Details
The 1936 Glendale Bob’s Big Boy opened by Bob Wian featured a 10 cent cheeseburger. Wian bought the building for 300 dollars and created the double patty burger that gained national fame. The chain now runs hundreds of restaurants across the U S including three in Long Beach and locations in Lakewood Los Alamitos Norwalk Garden Grove Anaheim Downey Santa Ana Buena Park and Whittier.
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Glendale
Bob Wian
Organization
U.S
Long Beach
Lakewood
Los Alamitos
Norwalk
Garden Grove
Anaheim
Downey
Santa Ana
Buena Park
Whittier
Esther Queen saves lives at Inge's Dinner House
Esther Queen, a longtime waitress at Inge's Dinner House on Lakewood Boulevard, has twice and likely thrice saved choking victims by performing the Heimlich Maneuver. Her quick actions on a customer, Don, expelled a bread fragment and restored breathing, following earlier rescues of a woman and a baby in the early 1970s. The restaurant ownership is listed as sisters Anita, Fritzie, Inge Osenbrunner, and their mother.
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Cvery
Esther Queen
Esther
Inge
Lakewood Blvd
Dan Gordon
Don
Cincinnati
Inge’s
Anita
Fritzie
Inge Osenbrunner
Alen Shey
Ensees
Alex
Don Queen
Prince of Whales serves deep fried halibut and more
The note spoofs a Long Beach area restaurant scene with exaggerated claims about deep fried halibut from Prince of Whales and Prince Rupert. It lists menu items and prices, notes multiple local eateries, and mentions daily operations and specials along with various beverages and a piano lounge act by Don Perry.
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aMthoy
Ino St
Belmont Shore
Teathe Cueto Py
Seafood House
Marseillaises
Jonnt Samo Olew Yey
Niall
Ttens Pryut
Ioan Seauser Gelman
Pacific Coast
Hwy
Seal Beach
Tony and Tenny Guillen
Atlantic Ave
Los Coyotes
Sun
Atlantic
Santa Fe Long Beach
Velvet Horn Restaurant
Prime Rib
Cocktails Entertainment
Son
Path Parker
Shelly & Boyd
Orangethorpe Ave
Pacific
Brazil
Pacific Coast Hwy
Hermosa Beacheres
Ee Ere
Spencer
Patan
Sara
ATA O Dme
Gooktails Entertainment
Lomein
Soryen Deme
Rosecrans Ave
Lakewand Bivd
Ratecrans
Bellflower
Baldwin Arcadia
Couré
Sizzler
Desee'sh Beach
Pasificabet Crome Coos Hwy
Laneh
Planer Gotesis
Pedro Ria
Hobs
Bors
Tedd Thomey
Artesia
Prince Rupert
Canada
C.S
Widdler’s
Clark Ave
Anaheim St
Ka Carson Mall
Carson
Graywood Ave
Lakewood Center
Fiddler's
Pacific Coast Highway
Carson Mall
Heck's
W. Willow SL
Magnolia Avenue
Don Perry
John Pages
Old Sweden
Smorgasbord Sewigr
Denes
Pierpaint Cafe
Forders
the Golden
Pals Verde Ave
Springlong Beach
King's Victoria
Long Beach Blvd
Long Brach
Ng’s Downey D
Firestone
LA Palma
Walker SI
Staurants
Tempura Sukiyak
Teriyaki
Sashimy Amar Ee
Tyo
ASU
Ay Getz
French Riviera
South ST
Paromesnt
Yong Beach
Lae
Enularehs
Lonchean
Excea
Dor
Artesin Fry
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