Bob Wian (below) was the founder of the Big Boy restaurant
chain which began as a 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale,
California, opening in 1936 with an investment of $300
raised from the sale of his car.
Robert C. Wian (June 15, 1914 – March 31, 1992)
The "Jell-O" brand is a registered trademark of Kraft
Heinz, and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1897, in LeRoy, New York, carpenter and cough
syrup manufacturer Pearle Bixby Wait trademarked
a gelatin dessert called "Jell-O". Wait and his wife,
May, added strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon
flavoring to granulated gelatin and sugar.
Pearle Bixby Wait (1873 – 1915)
1904
In 1932, salesman Herman Lay opened a snack food operation in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1938, he purchased the Atlanta, Georgia–
based potato chip manufacturer "Barrett Food Company",
renaming it "H.W. Lay Lingo & Company".
Lay crisscrossed the southern United States, selling the product
from the trunk of his car.
The business shortened its name to "the Lay’s Lay Lingo Company"
in 1944 and became the first snack food manufacturer to purchase television commercials, using Bert Lahr as its celebrity
spokesperson.
Herman Warden Lay
(March 6, 1909 – December 6, 1982)
Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim)
(August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967)
Cheeseburger day is celebrated annually on the 18th of September.
This celebration of one of the most iconic and delicious foods has
been taking place every year since the early part of the Roaring 20s.
The story goes that a teenager, Lionel Sternberger, who was working
in his father’s sandwich shop, The Rite Spot in Pasadena, California,
just decided to put a slice of American cheese on a burger one day
and found it to be tasty so he shared the idea with his dad who
liked it too. And, thus, the cheeseburger was born.
Although the idea was thought to be created in California in 1924,
the first actual sandwich to be marketed that was first called the
“cheeseburger” was at Kaelin’s restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky
in 1934. But the following year, in 1935, the term “cheeseburger”
was actually trademarked in another place, at the Humpty Dumpty
Drive-in in Denver, Colorado. It seems that people all over the U.S.
have taken credit for the invention of the cheeseburger!
