David Lynch Memorial Pops Up At Bob’s Big Boy

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Heartbroken movie fans have erected a makeshift memorial to late director David Lynch, who passed away at the age of 78 years old on January 15, outside of the Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Burbank, California. Lynch was a frequent guest of the restaurant, even once going there every day at 2:30 p.m. (optimal milkshake time, according to Lynch) for seven years to order a chocolate milkshake and coffee.

Following the news of David Lynch’s passing, cinema fans began to flock to the Bob’s Big Boy located at t 4211 W. Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, where the famed Mulholland Drive director became such a regular that his photo is framed on the wall alongside his two muses Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan, where Lynch introduced the pair for a chemistry test for his film Blue Velvet.

Lynch would routinely eat the Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, where he’d enjoy a milkshake and coffee as he smoked cigarettes and wrote down movie ideas on napkins. In the wake of his death, fans of his work began piling up some of Lynch’s favorite things — notably coffee, Coke, cigarettes, and other snacks — at the base of the restaurant’s mascot statue.

“The poignant pop-up memorial soon grew impressively large, with hand-drawn artworks, American Spirit cigarettes, movie posters, donuts, cups of coffee, Bob’s milkshakes, cans of Coca-Cola, cookies, bags of Cheetos, “Twin Peaks”-inspired logs, heartfelt notes of thanks, and blue roses,” reported NBC Los Angeles.

“Pieces of paper featuring a variety of quotes, ideas, and aphorisms associated with the distinctive director, such as the ever-sunny ‘keep your eye on the donut, not the hole,’ were also placed among the flowers and treats.”

One of the more beloved behind-the-scenes David Lynch moments is when he reveled in having two cookies and a Coke, calling it “phenomenal.”

As for the bags of Cheetos, Lynch once said that the only requirement for him playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans was to have Cheetos in his dressing room.

“I love them. Any chance I can, I get them. But I know that they’re not exactly health food. So when I do leave the house and I get a chance to… But I don’t get them that often, honestly. If I do get them, I want a big bag. Because once you start… you need to have a lot before you could slow down and actually stop. Otherwise, with a small bag, then you’d be prowling for days to find more […] It’s incredible flavor.”

The Bob’s Big Boy location has said they will leave the memorial up through January 20, which would have been Lynch’s 79th birthday. Lynch will be remembered for directing the films Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire, and the iconic, paradigm-shifting TV series Twin Peaks and its sequel Twin Peaks: The Return.

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