So, in the 1950s and 1960s and possibly after people brought their hot rods built for street racing with slicks (which were super wide tires for traction when you burn rubber in a race on the streets). If you Have watched Grease or American Graffiti then you know what it was like in the 1950s and early 1960s at Drive Ins and regarding "Cruising" and Street Racing too.
On Fridays and Saturday nights when I was 12 or 13 my friend lived right behind Bob's Big Boy then and so we would climb the 8 foot tall cement block wall to see all the drag racers with their pretty girls on Friday's and Saturday nights then. And sometimes people would peel rubber (burn Rubber) going out of the parking lot which was always a treat to see along with the expensive street racers that people had mostly built up themselves into full Street racing cars.
I was 12 in 1960 and 13 in 1961 around the time we sat on the wall to watch all the beautiful young people in their fancy race cars at night on weekends having fun there and sometimes there were even fist fights over girls in the parking lot there too then which was also interesting to watch for someone 12 or 13 years old too then.
So, there were both Drive in Theaters and Drive in Restaurants then in the 1950s and 1960s especially.
Even in 1977 the first time I saw the original Star Wars movie with my then 3 year old son it was at the I believe it was called the "Sunland Drive in Theater" up against the mountains. Sunland is next to Tujunga where I went to 1st and 2nd grade when I was little at Pinewood Avenue Elementary School. That would be 1954 and 1955 when I was in 1st and 2nd Grade then.
The Sunland Drive-In opened in July of 1950. This drive-in had a capacity for 650 cars. The Sunland Drive-In closed in September of 1978. It was demolished about a week later to make room for a K-Mart which is now closed.
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There's still at least one Bob's Big Boy open in Burbank. I found it online!
This Bob's restaurant was built in 1949 by local residents Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert, and is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in America. History. It ...
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Bob's Big Boy in Burbank is one of the most iconic postwar coffee shops in Los Angeles. Bob Wian built his first restaurant, Bob's Pantry, in Glendale in 1936.
Bob's Big Boy Restaurant · 1407 W Glenoaks Blvd. Glendale, CA 91201 · (818) 240-8130 · Full menu · More Info. Accepts Credit Cards, Good for Kids, Good for Groups.
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Here we have Bob's Big Boy drive-in restaurant in Burbank in 1940. Bob's is still there but it doesn't look like this, and it certainly doesn't have wait ...
Bob Wian got his start as a restaurateur in 1936, opening Bob's Pantry, a 10-seat burger stand in Glendale. He sold his DeSoto Roadster for the $350 he used to ...
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Glendale — The original Bob's Big Boy (initially called Bob's Pantry) was the 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale, California, which founder Bob Wian ...
Bob's Big Boy in Burbank is where you go to drink milkshakes, and eat double decker burgers. ... Though the original in Glendale was demolished years ago, ...
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Chain of family-friendly diners serving breakfast, burgers & other American comfort food.
Service options: Dine-in · Curbside pickup · Delivery
4211 W Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91505
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