I don't know why people like picking on those things. When I lived in Louisville back in the 90s, I recall a news story from my old stomping grounds in Columbus. Apparently some vandals tore down one of the Big Boy statues, dismembered it, and then drove around the city putting its parts in different locations.
Now, I'm not one to make light of breaking the law or people engaging in property damage. But I admit, that one made me giggle. Still, I've never understood the glee people have in dissing on the Big Boy mascot, apart from the obvious.
A number of Frisch's Big Boy restaurants in and around Cincinnati were closed in recent years, which probably explains the Big Boy graveyard there. Years ago all the Abdow's Big Boys were closed in my area. The chain was always beset with legal and financial problems. But I think that the kidnapping of the statues was a thing everywhere, kind of a rite of passage for teenaged boys. One disappeared in my town shortly before the restaurant closed; the crime was never solved. ---- G. Poulin
ReplyDeleteThat could explain it. We have fond memories of the place. There was one near us when the boys were little and we used to go there not infrequently. They still talk of those times.
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