Edward G. Thrasher Jr.; Restaurateur, Hotelier

Edward G. Thrasher Jr., 75, an attorney who after Army service in World War II entered the restaurant world. In 1950, he bought the old Goody Goody Drive-In in Santa Monica and over the years owned and operated such landmark Southland coffee shops as Fat Eddie’s, Stops, the Blue Dolphin, Googie’s and Pam Pam East in San Francisco. Dinner houses he started included the Black Knight in Costa Mesa, Churchill’s in Glendale, Rosebud’s in San Francisco and Clementine’s in Beverly Hills. He also helped build the Hyatt House at Los Angeles International Airport, restaurants in Chicago and refurbished the old Fielding Hotel in San Francisco. In La Quinta on April 28 of heart failure.