Memories

I heard about this site over the weekend and I felt compelled to leave my memories. My parents moved to the Phoenix area from Minnesota in 1957. Back in those days, 'fast food restaurants' as they are now called were almost unheard of. My mother cooked our meals everynight and we sat at the family table. I clearly remember making the trip with my two younger sisters and younger brother with my parents to the Bob's Big Boy in Phoenix, which at that time was more than 30 minutes from our home. In those days, you didn't take a 30 minute drive to a restaurant either. There were not all of the convenience of freeway systems. But we made the trip in my parents Pontiac convertible. Not only was it the first experience with a 'car hop' that brought the food to your automobile, but the triple decker hamburger was HUGE. It had special sauce and was the best hamburger I'd ever had. I was sixteen. In 1962, I relocated to Pasadena out of nursing school where I met my soon to be husband. We used to frequent the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank on "date nights". The atmosphere was the same I remembered with my family as a teen and the food was exactly as it had been in Phoenix. The hamburgers were out of this world. The only place I truly remember eating with my now husband where you didn't mind that the burgers were messy. Thank you for the memories. Although, we didn't stay in Pasadena, we did take our children to Bob's in Northern Nevada growing up. Thank you for some generational memories.