Bob's Big Boy
Coordinates: 34°09′09″N 118°20′46″W / 34.15258°N 118.346154°W
Bob's Big Boy is a restaurant chain that Bob Wian founded 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.
Wian created his famous Big Boy hamburger, just less than a year of opening his original location by slicing a bun into three slices and adding two hamburger patties.
According to a 2013 Los Angeles Times article, Bob Wian started the 10-stool Bob's Pantry hamburger stand at 900 E. Colorado in Glendale in 1936. This stand expanded adding carhop service until it was finally demolished and replaced by a McAllister designed drive-in in 1956. This location was known as "Bob's #1" and remained as a Bob's until it was closed and demolished in 1989. A second Glendale location at Broadway and Maryland was known as "Bob's #4", while the Toluca Lake location was known as "Bob's #6". Wian sold the chain to Marriott in 1967.
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 1949 by local residents Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert, it was designed by noted Los Angeles architect Wayne McAllister, "incorporating the 1940s transitional design of streamline moderne style, while anticipating the freeform 1950s coffee shop architecture. The towering Bob's sign is an integral part of the building design and its most prominent feature." The building is said to have "made McAllister's reputation," and he is credited with creating the restaurant's circular drive-through design.
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