1950’s tabletop diner jukebox 

1950s Wurlitzer juke box.

Robert E. "Bob" Farrell (1927 – 2015 )

Robert "Bob" Farrell, founder of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour,
died Friday the 14th. He was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and
raised in an orphanage. He served in the Air Force in 1945.

Farrell worked multiple jobs in the food service industry, where
he moved up the ladder as a salesman for Libby Foods, the
once-competitor of Heinz Foods. He opened the first store in
Portland, Ore. in 1963.

Farrell lived in Vancouver, Washington and is survived by his 
wife, Mona, his three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Recalling the joy he found in Brooklyn ice cream parlours and with the help of his friend Ken McCarthy, he opened the first store in Portland, Ore. in 1963, soon after appearing in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the largest ice cream sundae.

He opened six stores within the next five years and by 1973, the chain had 55 stores, which Farrell sold to the Marriott Corporation.

Farrell remained the spokesperson for the corporation until 2001, when two Orange County entrepreneurs, Michael Fleming and Paul Kramer, decided to give the Farrell’s concept another spin. Fleming oversees eight Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours locations, two in Orange County.

Set in 1962 Modesto, California, American Graffiti is a coming of age comedy-
drama film directed and co-written by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss,
Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams,
Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Wolfman Jack; Suzanne Somers has a
cameo as the blonde in the T-bird. It’s the one-night adventures of a group of
teenagers, cruising and rock and roll.

The modern American holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in
1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton,
West Virginia.  Her campaign to make "Mother’s Day" a recognized
holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her beloved
mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died.