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Originally Posted by oldstuff
That is most positively Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake.
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I believe I've been there a couple other times, but a friend and I stopped off for lunch there on a Sunday when we were in the valley last fall. It was jam packed with people. This location celebrates their history in there with items and mementos of the past. (Isn't there also a Marie Callendar's restaurant on Riverside Drive?)
Bob got "winded" during a storm in 2014. Although I don't remember having any real storms since 2009, myself.
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Originally Posted by oldstuff
Other places of note are the original IHOP which is now something else but still a restaurant, to the right of the camera, out of view. Directly across Riverside Drive from the IHOP location is what was once Papoo's Hot Dog Show, now Unami Burger. Papoos was a fixture in Burbank for 62 years, closing in 2011.
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I remember a Papoo's post or two on NLA sometime back. Here's a short video of this area from the 1950's.
A post on the video page offers this info:
Comparing to modern maps, it looks like the video starts on Alameda Avenue as it crosses Pass Avenue, travels down Riverside Drive and ends at a red light at Riverside Drive and Mariota Avenue. Very cool.
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Another person writes:
That IHOP you see on the left across from Bob's was the first International House of pancakes in existence.
Another person mentions seeing Papoo's, but I can't make it out myself.
Some other places I could make out are:
Elliott's Maple Shoppe
Food Giant
Toluca Drugs
Kings Arms (This is a large neon on a shield; not sure if that's what it says.)
Gaby's Coffee House
(a building under construction)
Alphonse's (? - this is the last stop on the video at the left. Not sure it says this, either, but it's what came to mind.)
Anyone make out any other of the neon signs?
Here's a video posted a couple months ago called: "Old-Timers at Bob's Big Boy."
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It describes itself as a pilot for "a chat show profiling comedy veterans with in-depth conversations on location at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, California. Hosted by comedy nerd, Dave Ciaccio."
The first minute has great outdoor shots of Bob's Big Boy and the whole program is all filmed in noirish black and white.