DeLorean died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, from
a stroke, on March 19, 2005, at the age of 80. His ashes are
interred at the White Chapel Cemetery, in Troy, Michigan.
The film Back to the Future was released in 1985, featuring
DeLorean’s namesake car, and DeLorean wrote to writer and
producer Bob Gale thanking him for immortalizing the car.
The king of fast-food fried chicken, KFC’s "Colonel Harland Sanders" sight-seeing during his trip to Egypt in the 1970s.
Menswear in the J.C. Penney catalog.
James Cash Penney Jr.
(September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971)
James Penny Jr. was a businessman and
entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney
stores in 1902.
J. C. Penney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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
