The Cal-look Lounge

Bob's in Whittier was our #1 hangout during the weekends from '68-74ish. During that time, we would cruise up and down Whittier Blvd. endlessly, until we got bored, or ran out of gas.... But once in a great while, we would dig deep into our pockets to see if we had enough spare change left to actually go into Bob's car hop service and pay for something. Most of the time, we could only afford a 15 cent Coke, which we would hang out for an hour or more, taking up a key parking spot for drive-in customers. The car hop girls would not be impressed with our tipping off a 30 cent total bill. Hell, paying $1.05 for a Bob's Big Boy combo was huge money back then. And their Shrimp dinner for $1.55 was way off the charts. Let's see, a VW gets about 30mpg, and gas then was about 40 cents a gallon. You could do a lot of cruising for a buck back then...

Doesn't seem possible by today's standards ....

When we cruised Whittier Blvd. we hit Bob's Big Boy many times. Along with the Plush Cue and Scotty's drive in. Some kids from our high school (Lowell High in Whittier) stole the fiberglass Big boy from the front of the Bob's on Beach Blvd. in LaHabra and cemented it in the Quad area. the school had to put it back and pay $1,100 to have it fixed. Some kids also stole a life size fiberglass cow from the drive through dairy on Leffingwell Blvd, they cemented it in the quad and painted it blue and wrote Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull on it! We had so much fun, now everyone would be arrested, have a record and it would be all over the internet. I could put $2 in gas in my 57 oval rag and go to Huntington Beach two times in one day from LaHabra. We still have Big Boys here in the mid west and every time I drive by one I have good memories, I even have a Bob's Big Boy Bank in my game room.

In Phoenix, Bob's Big Boy was the place to be.  Central Avenue and Thomas and it was packed on Friday and Saturday night with folks cruising Central.  A Big Boy hamburger was just 55 cents and a gallon of gas about 23 cents.  What a time to be alive...!

Well Fred may not have gone but we spent a few nights at the Bob's on Whittier Blvd. Along with Scotty's too. But Deeks spent a lot of nights at the Der Weinersnitchel on Whittier and Painter.  ;D

I agree completely!

Since crusing Slob's (what we called it....) was such a big deal back then, everytime to made an improvement to your VW, you HAD to jump on Whittier Blvd. and make the run to Whittier! When I got my car painted at Becker's... it was to Bob's the next weekend! When Sarge and I bolted on the IDAs, I burned up a whole tank of gas in one weekend, going up and back that strip of Whittier Blvd. And when my '67 has completed, I actually parked in the car hop service and bought a Big Boy Combo! I spent a whopping $2 on that one.

Man, the good old days!  Fill the tank for a couple of bucks, turn on the four track Muntz, pick up your girl and hit the hot spots.  Bob's in Whittier was what we did after circling Carl's, Taco Vila, and The Bean Hut in Anaheim... gave us a chance to knock the carbon off the spark plugs.  I grew up in La Habra so it was nice to be centrally located.  I'll have a Combo and a cherry lemon OJ please! ;D

lived about 2 blocks from the one on whittier blvd.  spent many weekends at that place as a kid, as well as when I was old enough to cruise the blvd.  Although when I was in dkk, I didn't hang at der w.  I usually parked across the street from Bob's at Stafford studios.

Scotty's Drive In..... EVERY weekend.  The Plush Cue right across the street.  And many late night grudge races on Greenleaf....  wow, that was fun back then.

man, those were the days!
 From the time I was 13, we lived in the Costa Mesa/Newport Beach area.  I belonged to the Newport Beach Volkswagen Club, (NBVA) and we spent about 4 nights a week at Bob's on 17th and Newport.  A lot of the club members (Rich Kimball, Lonnie Reed, Jack Cardwell, Ron Trapp, Norm Batcheldor, myself and so on) would meet there at some time during the evening and we would "caravan" down and shoot the Balboa Peninsula.  Then we would go back to Bob's for food and great amounts of coffee, (I liked the spaghetti and chili).

Norm still has his VW repair shop around the corner on 16th street and when ever I'm at our home in CA I go over to Norm's and we go to lunch.  Unfortunately Bob's is gone now but when we go past the old building we look at each other and just laugh, (wondering how we are still alive from some of the stuff we did and a lot of it revolved around Bob's).

Jim

used to play fooseball with the dkk boys for hours on end at the plush que.   yes it was alot of fun back then.

Here is a pic of my Big Boy bank I have in my game room. I was at a Big Boy's in Indiana a while back and had to buy one. :o

I grew up in Whittier and cruised Whittier Blvd. I wasn't part of the VW crowd then, but hung out in the same places, and got busted for curfew a few times among other sannanigans. Loved growing up in SoCal.

Spent many Friday's & Saturday nights driving up & down Whittier Blvd and Bob's after for something to eat!

The Bob's in Orange, Main & Katella has a car show once a month.
http://socalcarculture.com/Images/CruiseNight_Sunday_BobsOrange.pdf

Any pics of that era, cars, at Bob Big Boy or anywhere else along Whittier Blvd.??

Ted