Post in here when you take somebody out to Bob's Big Boy

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i've never been to one! they don't have them around here. david lynch's fave restaurant, no?

is it? not surprising - kind of a perfect california vibe. I grew up on 'em. used to love the chili spaghetti. frankly, any restaurant that serves chili spaghetti is on my good guys list even though I'll only eat veg chili now.

i wonder if my friend still has the bob's big boy statue we once stole

I think depending on personal experience, it could be the perfect Toledo, OH vibe.

I went to them all the time as a kid but I don't think I've even seen one in the last decade

ya lynch goes to one every day to write

Used to be one across from the hospital I visited for chemo in Edina, MN.

vague blurry memories of going a lot when I was a kid in LA. I don't even remember the food, but I'll probably remember what that statue looks like 40 years from now.

The last time I was in one was when Low stayed in my apartment back in 1994 and it was the only place we could find that was open. It eventually got turned into a Blockbuster. "kind of a perfect california vibe" = spot on.

Could have sworn we did a poll on the regional franchise names...

rather wish Low had done a photo shoot at a Bob's Big Boy table, that would have been some kind of poetic ideal

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They don't exist in Florida. We have water moccasins.

^ perfect ohio vibe xp

oh man I saw a frisch's big boy once, had totally forgotten, it was really like seeing a version of your dad with a third arm growing out of his forehead or something - or like seeing a package that says LAY'S POTATO ZORGS or something

The one Lynch frequents is the original in Toluca Lake. That man drinks massive amounts of coffee fwiw.

okay, now i'm remembering. he would go there every day and order the same thing. hamburger, coffee, and a slice of pie. for years.

Yeah this was around the same time I lived in LA, so close to 20 years ago. My sample data is most definitely dated.

Frisch's Big Boy by my parents house in ohio was a drive-in. every friday & saturday local greasers cruised around the parking lot in their hot rods, just like American Graffiti.

In the interest of accuracy:

"I used to go to Bob’s Big Boy restaurant just about every day from the mid-seventies until the early eighties. I’d have a milk shake and sit and think. There’s a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."
--David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

"I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee--with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's."
--David Lynch, interview in the New York Times, Jan. 14, 1990

Apparently this is the fourth time I've posted about this on ILX!

i've never been to one! they don't have them around here. david lynch's fave restaurant, no?

his other favorite is DuPar's iirc

I ate at these all the time as a kid - it was a go-to spot whenever we were out with my grandpa. Can totally remember the distinct double-decker burgers with 1000 Island dressing. and shakes. and placemats with Bob's Big Boy cartoons to color in and stuff. I would probably eat at one now if I ever saw one.

we had Kip's Big Boy down in Texas and Abdow's in Mass. I just found a couple the freebie 'Adventures of Big Boy' comic books from the mid-70s and cheezus they're awful. the art is beyond-Gary Panter retarded.

my wife had a Big Boy's Anniversary plastic cup that showed Big Boy through the years. the first Big Boy was tubby and holding a sloppy cheeseburger like the statue, but as time progressed he lost the burger and got slimmer until 90s Fitness Big Boy was thin and jogging.

I just found a couple the freebie 'Adventures of Big Boy' comic books from the mid-70s and cheezus they're awful. the art is beyond-Gary Panter retarded.

scan and post plz!!!