{"id":14298,"date":"2013-11-08T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2013-11-08T03:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T11:58:53","slug":"the-world-is-your-oyster-or-big-boy-hamburger-this-weekend-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/the-world-is-your-oyster-or-big-boy-hamburger-this-weekend-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"The World is Your Oyster (or Big Boy Hamburger) This Weekend! Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bobbig.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among 38 million Californians, many who will celebrate the weekend and added bonus Veterans Day, some will take a small trip, others will attend family functions and activities, and others will begin stringing holiday lights or try to get a head-start on Christmas shopping at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2013no9.html\"> dozens of crafts fairs throughout the state<\/a>. They will all get hungry and want to eat. Does a Bob&#8217;s Big Boy sound nice? I thought of it during an evening walk last night when I saw this Bob&#8217;s Big Boy statue on a boat dock. I went looking for Bob but had to settle for In N Out as there were no Big Boys around. \u00a0At one time you would have found an abundance of Bob&#8217;s Big Boy restaurants in California but today, they have all but disappeared. Born in Glendale, California back in 1936 when Bob Wian sold his prized DeSoto Roadster to purchase a small hamburger stand called Bob&#8217;s Pantry, the chain now exists largely in Michigan and the Midwest where there are 102 restaurants, while California has around 9. What happened after the delicious double-decker burger, the Big Boy, which was named after a\u00a0chubby six-year-old boy in droopy overalls, came into popularity?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/bobgig.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To find out how one Big Boy is hanging on, head to the oldest Bob&#8217;s Big Boy in the chain, a historic landmark built in 1949. This restaurant brought back car hops and on the first Saturday of the month from 5 to 8 p.m., cars from near and far converge for Trophy Night and 50s Costume Contest. They also have added vegetarian items to the menu! \u00a0Location: 4211 W Riverside Dr., Burbank. Call: (818) 843-9334, or see: bobs.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 38 million Californians, many who will celebrate the weekend and added bonus Veterans Day, some will take a small trip, others will attend family functions and activities, and others will begin stringing holiday lights or try to get a head-start on Christmas shopping at the dozens of crafts fairs throughout the state. They will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}