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IT’S COKE TIME!

Jack Paar and Marilyn Monroe, of ”Love Nest”, take a Coke break

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1951

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A NEW DESIGN FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART!

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A product of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation

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SHOW FIRST HEARD ON THIS DAY IN 1944

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Actor Alan Young and Bea Wain at the microphone

The Alan Young Show began on NBC Radio as a summer replacement
sitcom in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain. It then moved to ABC Radio
until 1946 when the series returned to NBC for a year, was off in 1948
and returned to the air in 1949. The show made the move to television
in 1950 on the CBS network. 

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alan young now
Alan (Angus) Young will be 94 on November 19

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MEDICATED REDUCING GARMENTS

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REMEMBERING A RESTAURANT FOUNDER

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A young Bob Wian in 1938

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Robert C. "Bob" Wian
(June 15, 1914–March 31, 1992)

Bob Wian was the founder of the Big Boy restaurant chain. The
restaurant began as a 10-stool Glendale, California, hamburger
stand in 1936 with an investment of $350 which Wian got from
the sale of a used car. He sold the Big Boy chain to the Marriott
Corp
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in 1967 for seven million dollars.

      bob's burger

Big-Boy

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