Abandoned Big Boy Restaurant - Streetsboro, OH

Abandoned Big Boy Restaurant - Streetsboro, OH. Closed over 10 years ago, this restaurant has sat vacant and is falling into disrepair. Little by little open Big Boy restaurants are getting harder to find.
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[@karissaexplainsitallxo]

kayla is too funny n sweet i love seeing her in these videos

[@mkps1988]

Still lot them in Michigan i go up there every year

[@steelvenom330]

My family would always stop here our way back from Cleveland. Lots of meals were eaten here. Was a good place when it was open, I believe the other one that closed around that time was on the Tallmadge circle in Tallmadge.

[@panterakid82]

Quite a few Big Boys in the metro Detroit area of MI. Just opened one in 2019 in Southfield.

[@Jessicanyc]

I miss Big Boy so much 😥 We used to go to Elbys Big Boy in St Clairsville Ohio & in Wheeling WV. My sister even worked at an Elbys in New Martinsville WV too . I loved their strawberry pies and spaghetti & meatballs !

[@robbk7099]

Ahhh...I worked at an Elbys Big Boy in Dunmore pa. 😊

[@jayreed9977]

1:30.. Nailing the big boy...😂😂😝 Love ya

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

I Loved BigBoy Hamburgers and their seasoning...awe🌻🌼🌸🌺🌻🌼🌸🌺🌻🌼🌸🌺🌻🌼🌸🌹

[@joeydurborow4106]

Hahahahaha “ nailing the big boy!” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha That does sound so dirty

[@robbk7099]

I worked at the Dunmore Big Boy 3321 until it closed....its a Sheetz now. Worked there 20yrs. It was a great place to work. Ahhh.. memories.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

There’s been a K- Mart here in Maryland that’s been closed since about 2010 .Enjoyed watching 👍👌✌️

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

@BadDriversOfTennessee 👍

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

My family and I always used to eat at the Elby's Big Boy in I believe it was Century lll. It may have been Westmoreland Mall. These are vintage!

[@unknownuser..._...]

I ain’t a “Big Boy”... yet 😂😂😂

[@jerrysanders9101]

Damn shame.. bobs big boy was dope 🎉

[@jamesluke6603]

I was at a Big Boy’s Restaurant in Mentor Ohio when I was growing up and unfortunately it’s closed now.

[@misterhat5823]

Nailing the Big Boy? Kayla was pretty calm about that admission.

[@Khyree_Holmes]

I was eating and I laughed so hard.

[@adamknepp4429]

My 13 I use to have was nice looking I just ended up losing it from jobs being rude and letting me go for no reason

[@joandoyon9623]

I love to see wallie and Kayla are doing these together a good team you are awesome

[@slackingpacking]

Down in central Ohio it’s usually called Frisch’s Big Boy which are slowly disappearing too. It’s very good. Your nearest location will probably be Grove City, Ohio.

[@tinajones3990]

They closed out of nowhere..there lierally were diners eating and they came in and announced the store was closing thanked them for their loyalty said their meal was on the house and proceeded to take the signage down

[@bettyallen8730]

There is a lot of Big Boys here in Michigan

[@marvelkingdom1972]

ROFL, maybe Kayla should've done the big boy episode... :P

[@hellomikie92]

I have never been to a big boy restaurant other then shoneys which isn't a big boy company anymore. There is still close to 200 left in the usa and about 275 left in japan. So hopefully one day i will again. Love their merchandise though.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

The abandoned building at 4:57 was a former Loanmax Title Loans.

[@Jocool1023]

oh cool never heard of it😅

[@mattmaverick703]

Was a Popeyes once

[@RyGuy0520]

@@mattmaverick703 Sure looks like one Matt DeNiro!

[@richarddoolin385]

I was in Streetsboro when this place was opened by Bob Norris,when he had this place, it was the Surrey restaurant, it burned,big boy perchested this property in 1994.

[@sandral2178]

I’m in West Virginia, we have a Shoney’s, and one across the river in Marietta Ohio, I like them both!

[@tammygouletschrader8785]

Shoney's that's a name I haven't heard in years

[@telepunk]

There is an open one like 15-20 minutes from were you did your Edgewater video....its off W. 130th Street and Brookpark Road in Cleveland/Brooklyn,OH.....and another open one in another suburb of Cleveland...... Valley View,OH

[@RainbowDash72]

Did some research because I was curious what it was too and I see that the other building was a place called Loanmax Title Loans. Looks like it closed at least a year ago since that's when the last review was.

[@Trentonpage]

I don't even think this building is still there now. My granny & dad took us there every weekend during orientation.

[@anthonyctumbiolo4517]

I thought they were all gone in the 1990's when they went out of business in Long Island NY and all the old HoJo's that they took over and made into Bid Boy's along the NJ tpk. All went out in the 1990's and PA. Did not know they were in Business in other States. Well, It is now wonder they are closed. Everything they make Comes out of a can, frozen plastic bag. All their soups and chilli were out of frozen bags all you did was add water. Chicken and Chicken fried Steak all frozen in bags. the pasta sauce from a can.Their salad greens already cut up in a plastic bag. I know cause I worked in their Bayshore, South Shore mall location, That was HoJo's when they bought it in Bayshore Long Island, New York in the 1990's. There food was crap. People who eat at any Big Boy Do not know good food. Unless they changed their menu since then...

[@redstickham6394]

We had Shoney's Big Boy here in Louisiana and my wife told me they had TJ's Big Boy in Syracuse, NY where she's from. They always had a statue of the Big Boy character in the artwork on the wall out front. Eventually the Big Boy was dropped and they just became Shoney's Classic American Food. The food was OK, but not great. The two in my are eventually closed, with one being torn down and a Jack in The Box built in its place. The building the other was in was remodeled and turned into of all things, a Twin Peaks.

[@penguinsfan251]

So what brought you from Western Pennsylvania to Streetsboro? I grew up in Streetsboro, live in South Fayette Twp. The Big Boy has been closed for a long time. My mom liked the place...but a bunch of other restaurants opened up and took the business away. There was an Eat n Park in Streetsboro as well. It closed and a new restaurant opened up there. There is a nearly abandoned plaza close to there as well. Giant Eagle was in it but moved to the closed Topps store. Everyone around Streetsboro used to make fun of it for having fast food joints. The other joke is that everyone in Streetsboro came from Pittsburgh (we did) Cleveland or West Virginia. You want a lot of abandoned stuff? Go to Ravenna, 8 miles down Route 14....which becomes Route 51 at the state line.

[@teresagremling8467]

We had a big boy close sometime after 2013 and has been closed awhile but they put a BIBIBIOP a krispie cream and a empty place for a business to move in

[@timothycosgrove1385]

Big Boys used to have a Breakfast Buffet., similar to Shoneys , they were famous for their hamburgers one looks like a Big Mac , & for their ice cream shakes .....

[@deanbonham2213]

I used to go to that Big Boy. They used to have a Big Boy store in the front where you could buy merch. I still have a Big Boy bank that I bought there. Next door was a Rally’s. It then closed and I think became a flower shop.

[@teresagremling8467]

There was a big boy bout 10 from my house that had closed but ours closed cause they threw enough money st them I guess and was going to become a urgent care I think it was and fell threw and sat empty since 2015 or 16 ish and there finally tearing most of it down and turning it into 2 different places a Krispy cream and a BIBIBOP Asian place from what I hear glad it's not just sitting empty

[@kimberlygorcey4290]

Indian Springs, Nevada just north of Las Vegas, there is an open Bob's big boy

[@dumontpictures7303]

Gee I didn't even know Big Boy was still around. I've never been to one and only heard stories from parents. Until I saw this video, I always just assume Big Boy was dead long before I was born.

[@brianbenyak9673]

I live a city over and went to Big Boy all the time. Not sure why they closed it I believe the owner owned 3 of them in the area any they all closed. The abandoned building Next door was a FlowerRama flower shop.

[@jeanswigeart6791]

Worked at the one at tallmadge circle ...in the 80 s ...closed in later 2000...

[@zenguitarankh]

DARK TRANQUILITY!!!!

[@WallieB26]

My favorite band!

[@tristanwoodmansee477]

There is only 2 in SoCal I am aware of that are still open. Burbank/Ontario CA. I was a kid when the last time I went to one as well, and I am 54 now.

[@richardvg7670]

She hasn't been to a big boys if there's one around somewhere still open she should go I like the big boy platter is what I would usually get or the fish and chips platter and some of the big boys used to have an all-you-can-eat breakfast and the buffet bar was kind of cool to put the salad in the different types of suits and my favorite fruit of the desert with that hot fudge cake it had to layers of cake with a slice of vanilla ice cream in the middle covered with hot fudge and top with whipped cream and a cherry definitely the bomb for dessert

[@dmass5975]

The building next door, when first built was a Rallys restaurant.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

I live down the street from this. We used to eat here all the time, even though the food wasn’t great 😆

[@RyGuy0520]

Alot of the businesses in streetsboro relocated to be closer to the turnpike if you are ever in the Cleveland area we still have 2 Big boy's one on Brookpark the other on Granger near City view

[@mikemitchell5871]

Bob's big boyr is not a big deal Fuddruckers is way better

[@lildifrank]

I just sold this! There will be a clinic developing this site.

[@kilebogart]

Wallie and Kayla check out the Big Boy in Paw Paw, Michigan

[@hailc145]

when i went on a trip last year and we went to big boy and it was good i liked it , didn't know there was one Abandoned .

[@phasermate]

lol, my aunt and uncle own a restaurant and big boy is like their major league enemy, but they are always winning against big boy lol.

[@davidparker9328]

Lol a boo boo you're killing me but really stay safe love the videos

[@CharlieA623Official]

Visit a big boy if your out in the Toledo area. And there’s a few in Cleveland Ohio

[@susandambrosio916]

I think I might have been to a big boys when I was a very young kid.

[@DalmationProductions]

Nice work on the video WallieB26 glad your doing a collab with Xtreme

[@LindaFromSeaAtTull]

*you're

[@redrayman1977]

Oh no Oh No Oh No No More food at that Big Boys and Awesome find bye-bye

[@Khyree_Holmes]

Dude, you took your Car to 22 States! what do you have for Music in that thing?

[@ErikVince]

I wouldn't eat anything from a restaurant that was out of business for 11 years

[@KeithPlaysPS4927]

Is Big Boy Resturants similar to Eat n' Park?

[@JennNofficial]

Big boys was founded here in Southern California

[@briand4313]

have had very good luck with my Sonata

[@STEWCAT88]

Big boy’s are very popular in Cincinnati, Ohio.

[@Bemfactor98]

Yinz should just tie the knot and get it over with!!

[@Oldsvito2999]

Can you explore abandoned places there

[@ericheld4382]

I've eaten there many times, there are 2 open in the Cleveland area

[@michaelblair5767]

Car talk with Wallie could be a good idea for a new channel for you

[@garycornett7938]

there is a big boy here in somerset,ky

[@melaniepattonraleigh9663]

I'm from Science Hill, and I can remember when it opened. It was around Memorial Day 1987 right after I finished my junior year of high school.

[@garycornett7938]

@@melaniepattonraleigh9663 it was my first job.worked there for two years.

[@amypyonteck5542]

I was at a big boys in Lancaster pa. They had a salad bar and buffet. It was,good

[@JoshCraver9000]

There's a Ground Round in PA that's been closed around the same time and is in MUCH worse shape!

[@susandambrosio916]

I remember that Ground Round restaurants thier was one in Philadelphia were I'm from originally. Now I'm living in Pottsville PA

[@kilebogart]

I had Big Boy food at Big Boy in Paw Paw, Michigan

[@ericheld4382]

There's a closed Wal Mart there too just down the street

[@coreanneff4923]

Not true,we had my sisters baby shower there 3 years ago

[@poppykittycatlol2963]

Love you Wally and Kayla I love all your videos have a Kmart Licious day

[@dawnbenchley7237]

Big Boy had the best fish dinners and shakes.

[@dvddmc]

the one in Marysville Ohio Closed 8 months ago

[@carloshonaker6735]

They was one in Mount Vernon oh.

[@brentamania89]

Nailing the big boy oh kinky 😂

[@charlesboudreaux1586]

Hahaha nailing the big boy

[@mattmaverick703]

Update- torn down

[@matthewlandin2074]

Hamburger place

[@coreanneff4923]

I have pics of it..hmm

[@DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES]

Nice video

[@Kimmygoodrich]

Do you know where it is exactly in streetsboro?

[@WallieB26]

I'm not 100% sure. I know it was on the main road. I actually tried looking for it last time I was in a town a few weeks ago. If I was looking at the right building, I believe it was being renovated into something new.

[@brianthompson8514]

Went to burger king on route 88 here. Fkn nasty employees and the whopper was worse

[@rp1430]

That's why you go to Whataburger

[@Oldsvito2999]

2009 actually

[@jet34thehawk]

Awesome video man

[@steelvenom330]

2:28 Never heard of him

[@lone_wolf2385]

I did his channel has pretty good content

[@sandigriffinsmartassbiglip5492]

Where we go next

[@theweakestlink2278]

I haven't eaten at a Bob's Big Boy since the late 80's at the old Gatlinburg Tennessee location. I think it closed sometime in the 2000's. Last time I was up that way the building was still there but it was empty. You just don't see many of those restaurants in the south.

[@CoinHuntingDrew]

Used to frequent this one when I was in elementary school. Food was AMAZING.

[@ErikVince]

Seeing this place reminds me of Popeye with wimpy I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a burger today I believe that's how he said it

[@StantonsJourneys]

Andrew my coworker has shown me around here and knows everything around Streetsboro. Yummy combination towards the end lmao 🤣. Have a good day you 2.

[@digentertainment]

I dont think this one was actually a Bobs. In Ohio most of the Big Boy market belongs to Frischs including the Toledo area. The Cleveland market for some reason belonged to the Michigan franchisee Elias Brothers. When Elias Brothers ceased their restuarants simply just became Big Boy. Big Boy has locations in the Cleveland area and in Michigan as well as a drive in location in North Dakota along with the few Bobs locations in California. The rest of the Big Boys are a seperate company Frischs Big Boy, who operate in the Toledo, Columbus, and Cincinnati area.

[@Mr.TylerSC]

@Dusk Raccoon Marriott

[@Mr.TylerSC]

Marriott operated Bob's Big Boy in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and travel plazas in the Northeast. It also operated the Cleveland locations as Bob's Big Boy before they were sold to Elias Bros. from Michigan, and they became just Big Boy, the national franchise. The rest of Ohio is Frisch's territory, as mentioned.

[@jqueen1380]

There was an awesome Elby’s Big Boy in Erie on 38th and Peach (and another on the East side), which was always packed. So sad when it closed many years ago. That poor Big Boy statue was stolen a few times due to pranks. It was found, once, at the Peninsula. 🤣. After that, it was bolted down. There is one in Lancaster, Ohio that is still open and doing well. Big boy and hot fudge ice cream cake! Come to Lancaster, Ohio, and visit Big Boy, Pizza Hut, and our dwindling mall.

[@patriciamorrow6848]

Wallie B, eat n park and big boy, same chain, you have them in pgh, unless the big boy closed on McKnight rd. in Ross two, had been their for over 40 years, really good food. In Ky, we have frisch's big boy here same statue man holding burger. Difference between the north & south, former Pittsburgher. Enjoy all of your video's keep up the great content, stay warm. you & kayla be safe.

[@denabob9200]

Hi Wally. I live in Streetsboro - used to live in McCandless, PA until early 2019. The old Big Boy is about 2 miles from our house but we didn’t get here until long after it closed so I can’t comment on the food. Unfortunately, I think many of the businesses in Streetsboro closed when they closed the Geauga Lake and Sea World amusement parks which were about 10 minutes away in Aurora. The building next door was most recently a LoanMax Title Loans place. It closed in late 2019. We love living here but there are a lot of closed businesses. But new ones like Slim Chickens are popping up regularly. Keep up the great work!

[@ZeeMann_Retail]

This place is in some rough shape. Great video of a unique looking place!

[@SchardtCinematic]

There used to be an Elby's Big Boy in York, Pa that eventually got renamed to Bob's Big Boy. It sadly CV loses in the 1990s. The building was torn down and replaced with an Eat and Psrk. But then Eat and Park closed that location. The building currently holds a very popular local diner called Round the Clock Diner East. The o t5 iginla Round the Clock Diner sits along Route 30. Very close to Route 83. So your a hop skip and a jump away from both higjways. The last Bob's Big Boy I knew of closed in 2008. It used to be in the Sideling Hill Service Plaza along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. They tore down all the old service plazas and built new ones that resemble a food court in ypur local mall.

[@waynel8691]

Wallie, have you been to Mountaineer Mall in Morgantown, WV? There is a restaurant inside the mall that was called Lum's that was last occupied in the mid 1980s, that is still perfectly preserved, the last time I saw it in December, 2019. If you were interested in checking out an abandoned restaurant.

[@alanlough638]

I really enjoyed this video! We had an Elby's Big Boy here in Weirton,WV on the south end of downtown on Freedom Way. They had really great food! Have a KMartlicious Day! Have a Big Boylicious Day! Stay awesome!

[@RyGuy0520]

Bob's Big boy's is similar to Eat N park which I heard was once the Pittsburgh division of Big boy's