Mary Lou Gordon, who's cadeting at Central primary school as part of her teaching training at Florida State College for Women, was baffled when two second-graders approached her with the cheerful but cryptic comment, "TGIF." When they repeated the phrase later in the day she asked what it meant and one tot replied, "Oh, we thought you'd be glad, too - that means 'Thank God it's Friday.'"ġ3 November 1941, Marion (OH) Star, pg. Petersburg (FL) Times "Confidentially Speaking," pg. Organized by George Hilton, a Detroit student in the school of journalism, the club meets Friday nights to celebrate the end of another school week.Ģ March 1941, St. 11 (U.P.) The Thank God It's Friday Club of the University of Missouri has started its sixth year. What have you to say about it?"ġ2 November 1939, Los Angeles (CA) Times, pg. Master: "Jones, this is the tenth time you have been canned this week. , The Times Herald (Port Huron, MI), sec. They have met regularly since for an informal evening of beer drinking and singing. It all began when Hilton walked into a delicatessen near the school, sat down in a chair called for a glass of beer and exclaimed: "Thank God it's Friday."Ī group of students thereupon decided to celebrate the release from weekly class routine. Its organizer was George Hilton, of Dearborn, Mich., a student in the Missouri school of journalism. The club was organized to provide week-end relaxation from studies. The "Thank-God-It's Friday" club, organized by students at the University of Missouri three years ago, has spread to other colleges and shows signs of becoming a national collegiate organization. Members said they will drink nothing stronger than beer at the meetings and engage in "scholarly discussion."ġ6 December 1937, Lima (OH) News, pg. 29 - Students of Missouri University had formed a "Thank-God-It's-Friday club" to promote week-end relaxation. The film also features Terri Nunn, who would go on to fame in the 1980s new wave group Berlin.Ģ9 December 1936, Pittsburgh (PA) Press, pg. The film features an early performance by Jeff Goldblum and the first major screen appearance by Debra Winger. Produced at the height of the disco craze, the film features The Commodores performing "Too Hot ta Trot", and Donna Summer performing "Last Dance", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1978. Thank God It's Friday is a 1978 American musical disco comedy film directed by Robert Klane and produced by Motown Productions and Casablanca FilmWorks for Columbia Pictures. (Some of these claimed firsts are not correct - ed.) Pioneering non-alcoholic Smoothies and Flings in honor of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Popularizing frozen and ice cream drinks. Inventing the Long Island Iced Tea and Loaded Potato Skins. In 1965, Alan Stillman founded the first Friday's® restaurant in New York City.Īccording to Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, the opening of the first Friday's restaurant heralded the dawn of the singles age.įriday's restaurants have been the employer of several well-known celebrities - Kathy Mattea, Sean Patrick Flannery of "Young Indiana Jones" and Brad Garrett of "Everybody Loves Raymond".įriday's restaurants have a long history of innovation, including being credited with: He lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge, and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. The name is asserted to stand for "Thank God It's Friday", although as of 2010 some television commercials for the chain have also made use of the alternative phrase, "Thank Goodness It's Friday."Īlan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in 1965 in New York. The company is a unit of the Sentinel Capital Partners and TriArtisan Capital Partners, who purchased the company from Carlson Companies in May 2014. FRiDAY’S) is an American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining. "TGIF" can also stand for “Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday" and “Thank God It’s Fermented." "TGIF" (Thank Goodness It's Friday) was printed in the Chicago (IL) Sun on November 11, 1945. "TGIF" (Thank God It's Friday) was printed in the St. "Thank goodness it's Friday" was printed in The Times Herald (Port Huron, MI) on May 1, 1938. 29 - Students of Missouri University had formed a 'Thank-God-It's-Friday club' to promote week-end relaxation" was printed in the Pittsburgh (PA) Press on December 29, 1936. The phrase "Thank God It's Friday" (often abbreviated "TGIF") appears to have begun at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1934.
Friday's restaurant started in 1965 in New York City and, with Maxwell's Plum, was one of the nation's first "singles bars." ( "Singles bar" has been cited in print since at least 1968.)
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