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Bob's Big Boy
Since 1949
Bob's Big Boy is a casual dining restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry. The chain's signature product is the Big Boy hamburger, which Wian created six months after opening his original location. Slicing a bun into three slices and adding two hamburger patties, Wian is credited with creating the original double-decker (or "double-deck") hamburger.
Why it's on the map
From the article’s “Notable restaurants” list
Built in 1949 by local residents Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Wayne McAllister, "incorporating the 1940s transitional design of Streamline Moderne style, while anticipating the freeform 1950s coffee shop architecture".
From the article’s “Notable restaurants” list
The first Phoenix, Arizona, Bob's Big Boy, established in 1954, was an exception to the California-based architecture.
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