Kymberlie just IM’d me and told me that Wendy’s Founder Dave Thomas Dies. “Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world’s most successful fast-food enterprises, died Tuesday of liver cancer. He was 69.” Wow. Ok, I don’t know why I have chills, but I honestly do. I guess if you think about it, Dave Thomas has been around most of my life promoting Wendy’s. I’m a child of the 80’s. Where’s the Beef? You know all of that. I think it was his down to earth nature that made him so special. The fact that he was an adoption advocate … well, it seemed to me that he had a good heart. I will miss him, seeing him on the commercials – I guess you don’t realize what a part of your life things like that are, no matter how small, until they are gone.
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Good-bye, Dave…
8 replies on “Good-bye, Dave…”
And now I am sad. Goodbye, Dave. Although we loved your food, we hardly knew you.
Can’t wait to see him behind the counter in the great beyond saying, “Welcome to Wendy’s. May I take your order?”
:c( !
this is so wrong 🙁 all icons are slowly disappearing
I never could eat at Wendy’s b/c it made me sick each and every time, but I *loved* Dave Thomas — like you said, we grew up with him. So sad!
I was sad too,when I heard today.
Same thoughts,I’ll miss him in commericals =(
Kinda feels like an uncle has died and today is the day my grandfather died in 1987.
We lost another ’80s commercial icon: Avery Schreiber. Doritos guy.
Clara Peller (Where’s the beef?), Dave Thomas, Avery Schreiber… gone . Makes me feel older all of a sudden.
thank you for making wendys and being an inspiration!