Showing posts with label logos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logos. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Evolution of Bobs Big boy logo and collectables


 
Newly acquired Big Boy Bank from 1999 made by Funko, who produced these souvenirs from '99 to 2003. This was the first job by the founder of the company, Mike Becker. The second figure is from the 1970's by the "Marriott Corporation", which must be the parent company of the restaurant chain.

Other toymakers have tried, but Funko makes the best Big Boy stuff. They also have a Freddy Big Boy bobblehead - merging the Big Boy mascot and the Funko Mascot together.





The original store and Bob Wian, inventor of "The Big Boy" double decker cheezeboiger.
The new restaurant at the original store location, now changed into the Los Angeles "Googie" style architecture



Bob's Big Boy menu 1
The original Big Boy got a job at the restaurant and was
soon immortalized with this early logo for the restaurant 

Dave Frisch bought the rights to open his own francise of Big Boy restaurants from Bob Wian in 1946, starting with his first restaurant called the mainliner in Cincinnati, Ohio






Bob's Big Boy logo ran through a different evolution than the Frisch's Big Boy. 

Bob's Big Boy, Baker, CA Bob's Big Boy


 

 
Abandoned store mascots
Furry eyebrows


Collectable Figures


BOB'S BIG BOY COLLECTIBLES
Skinny and Chubby Big Boy toy figures, matchbooks and seasoning salt

Tiny Two inch BIG BOY Doll 1984 Figure Toy Figurine RARE collectable Bobs Frischs action Box Room
Tiny Two inch BIG BOY Doll 1984 Figure Toy Figurine RARE [ugly] collectable Bobs Frischs

Friday, May 6, 2011

Lunchtime logotypes: Chronology of A & W Root Beer (USA) "Rootbear" | by Ken Polsson

 Chronology of A & W Root Beer (USA):
A&W Glass Mug, Root Bear, 3.5 oz, 1983

1924 Roy Allen registers the name "A & W Root Beer", and the A & W logo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.

1948 new 10 ounce root beer mug from the Indiana Glass Company (#1518) is introduced to A & W restaurants. It has a half-heart shaped handle, and features a red/black/white bull's-eye logo.

1965 A & W applies for a trade-mark on the bull's-eye logo.









1968 A & W International first uses an image of an oval double-boomerang with letters "A & W" as a trademark logo.

1968

  • A & W International first uses an image of an oval double-boomerang with letters "A & W" as a trademark logo. [44]
March 26
  • A & W adopts a new logo in the US (after bottling 6000 cases with the old logo). It is changed to an orange/brown/white oval design. "A" and "W" are in brown and the "&" is in orange, on a white field. Outside of the white is a half orange, half brown oval ring.
  • A & W founder Roy Allen dies.
  • The name of the A & W Root Beer Company is changed to A & W International.

1969 (mid-year) Logo decal used on root beer mugs from the Indiana Glass Company is modified to remove most of white color from behind the orange/brown colors, allowing them to bond to the glass, giving the product a longer life.










1972 The logo on the 3 1/2 ounce, 8 ounce, and 14 ounce root beer mugs from the Indiana Glass Company is changed to include an orange/brown map of the continental United States surrounding the A & W lettering. Removed in 1976

1974

  • A & W (USA) begins using an image as a trade-mark of a walking bear in a sweater with an oval A & W logo on its chest. [44]
  • A & W (USA) begins using "ROOTBEAR" as a trade-mark.

1975 A & W Brands first uses an image with text "FROSTY MUG TASTE" as applied to soft drinks.

1978 The Indiana Glass Company adds an oval-shaped escutcheon to the 8 ounce and 14 ounce A & W root beer mugs, to assist in locating the logo decal.













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