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Iconic Restaurants You Grew Up With And No Longer Exist

Wimpy’s, 1934-1978

Named after the hamburger loving character Wimpy of the famous cartoons of the time, Popeye, the food chain started in 1934. The Indiana-based eatery began to expand and had 25 locations in the USA and over 1500 locations internationally in the 1950s. Wimpy’s was doing great until the 1970s when the owner of the chain died, and no one bought the name. The famous hamburger chain vanished entirely from the United States by 1978, yet many hundreds of the branches are operational in the United Kingdom and South Africa under different brand names.

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