Bob's Big Boy San Jose - 1958 Armet & Davis Prototype - GONE
Ah... nothing like starting your morning with an Armet & Davis architectural rendering (image appears courtesy ADN Architects). Here's San Jose's Bob's Big Boy, circa 1965 (note the Century dome theater in the background). Located at 449 South Winchester Boulevard, this Bob's Big Boy served up burgers and shakes from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s. The building is currently home to the highly popular Flames Coffee Shop (where one slice of cake easily serves 3!). Thankfully, when the folks at Flames took over from Bob, they did little to alter the building's exterior. The sleek Bob's building, with its plate glass windows and convex roofline, is a well preserved, and exceedingly rare, example of the prototype that Armet & Davis created for Bob Wian in 1958. Currently AT RISK due to proposed redevelopment of the land it sits on. A classic example of Googie architecture. A local landmark. To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY 1958 Bob's prototype building left in the San Francisco Bay Area. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Bob's Big Boy San Jose - 1958 Armet & Davis Prototype - GONE
Ah... nothing like starting your morning with an Armet & Davis architectural rendering (image appears courtesy ADN Architects). Here's San Jose's Bob's Big Boy, circa 1965 (note the Century dome theater in the background). Located at 449 South Winchester Boulevard, this Bob's Big Boy served up burgers and shakes from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s. The building is currently home to the highly popular Flames Coffee Shop (where one slice of cake easily serves 3!). Thankfully, when the folks at Flames took over from Bob, they did little to alter the building's exterior. The sleek Bob's building, with its plate glass windows and convex roofline, is a well preserved, and exceedingly rare, example of the prototype that Armet & Davis created for Bob Wian in 1958. Currently AT RISK due to proposed redevelopment of the land it sits on. A classic example of Googie architecture. A local landmark. To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY 1958 Bob's prototype building left in the San Francisco Bay Area. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.