Subway is the biggest fast-food chain on the planet. The chain knocked down McDonald’s and KFC’s store count decades ago and has more than 44,000 stores in 110 countries. And it all started with a 17-year-old from the Bronx who had never made a sub in his life until opening day. He struggled for years before finding a way to make billions of dollars. And it’s all because of a message scribbled in a notebook.

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[Subway]
Start Small, Finish Big
   • The Rise And Fall Of Subway  
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   • The SUBWAY® Story  
   • Our Tribute to Fred  
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   • SUBWAY Commercial 2017 - (USA)  
   • SUBWAY Commercial 2018 - (USA)  
   • Bill Belichick Subway Commercial  
   • Subway Commercial 2020 - (USA)  
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https://archive.fortune.com/magazines...
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...
https://thehustle.co/the-rise-and-dem...
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https://financialpost.com/entrepreneu...

[Amatos]
https://www.amatos.com/
https://www.pressherald.com/2014/05/1...
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[Fred DeLuca/Dr. Pete Buck]
   • Video  
   • The SUBWAY® Story  
   • Our Tribute to Fred  
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201305/b...
   • Nyberg: Subway co-founder talks about...  
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/...
   • The SUBWAY® Story  
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline....
Pete Buck https://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-...

[William Rosenberg]
https://www.massmoments.org/moment-de...

[Stuart Frankel]
https://thehustle.co/the-rise-and-dem...
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/93262...

[Jared Fogle]
   • Jared Fogle and his "fat jeans"  
   • Subway (2006) Television Commercial -...  
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[Michael Davis]
https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory....

[Photos]
New York map 1935-42 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Glimpses of Bridgeport, University of Connecticut Libraries https://archive.org/details/glimpseso...
Armonk NY "File:Buildings of Bedford Road Historic District, Armonk, NY.jpg" by Daniel Case https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Portland, Maine "20020725 20 Portland, Maine" by davidwilson1949 https://www.flickr.com/photos/3269371...
Empty Fridge "Empty fridge" by jamalfanaian https://www.flickr.com/photos/2120759...
First Paycheck "First Paycheck" by ANguyenPhoto https://www.flickr.com/photos/3131783...
Street Scene "Small Town, Summer: A street scene in Keysville, Virginia, June 1943." by polkbritton https://www.flickr.com/photos/1579790...

[Video]
Footage and History of the Five Boroughs of New York City (1946) (Public Domain)    • Footage and History of the Five Borou...  
Bronx Morning (Library of Congress)    • Bronx Morning  
Defense Against the Spy by National Archives and Records Administration https://archive.org/details/gov.archi...
Citizenship program by National Archives and Records Administration https://archive.org/details/gov.archi...
Various footage of an american college https://archive.org/details/pet5187pe...
Street Scenery https://archive.org/details/ia3500003...
Diners of the 1950s    • Diners of the 1950s - Life in America  
Wild at the Wheel by Davis (Sid) Productions https://archive.org/details/0831_Wild...
[Home Movies: Oregon, Montana] https://archive.org/details/6275_HM_O...
Urban Sprawl by Barr Films https://archive.org/details/0776_Urba...
B&W KHJ Los Angeles radio promo https://archive.org/details/pet5187pe...
Sinclair at the World's Fair https://archive.org/details/0701_Sinc...

[Font]
Subway by Dieter Steffmann https://www.dafont.com/subway-ds.font