ED "BIG DADDY" ROTH

JORGE M

PER.1

MAY20, 2011 

                                                                             ED”BIG DADDY” ROTH

           

In my opinion, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth is one of the most creative and intelligent people. A  former Bell High school student that started In 1937 and finished in 1940. When he was in school he took auto shop and drawing that’s where it all started. His love for fixing cars and drawing made him super famous. He invented the cartoon rat (rat fink) that most people like. Rat fink was used a lot in auto media and is still going on. He also invented the first car made out fiber glass, which he called the outlaw. Nobody has ever seen a car like the outlaw. People wanted buy it but he didn’t want to sell it because that was his first  car and it was different from every other car.  He lived in the city of Bell for several years and opened several shops to work on cars and pin strip,flames and air brushing shirts and sweaters with rat fink and creepy monsters that most people like. Several of his shops are still open now but have changed names, like Bell auto shop and Maywood auto shop; near the motel and the gas station.

      Rat fink all started out when Ed Roth was thinking about Mickey Mouse. He hated it so much that he wanted to make his own Mickey Mouse that looked so ugly, smelly, and was hairy. He drew it on a napkin when he was in a burger joint that was called the Greasey Spoon,  now it’s called Chris Burger in Maywood. Even though many years have passed, people continue to use the character Rat Fink.