The Making of a David Lynch Memorial at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank

Since the death of filmmaker David Lynch last week, fans have been heading to Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, Calif., to pay their respects, building a spontaneous, snowball shrine at the feet of the restaurant’s mascot. Among the roses and teddy bears you might expect at a memorial, a casual observer waiting for a table might be horrified to spot a severed ear.

Fans, however, understood that the severed ears – at least four, all fake – were tender if gruesome references to his 1986 film, “Blue Velvet.”

They also knew that Mr. Lynch was a regular at that location in the chain for seven years starting in the late 1970s, arriving every day at 2:30 p.m. for a chocolate milkshake and several cups of coffee. They knew he viewed the dinner as an extension of his own office, writing movie ideas on napkins like the double hit of caffeine and the sugar high was thrown around. And fans had created a distinctly Lynchian memorial to the man and his magnificently bizarre body of work.

Red matches and hand-branded takeout boxes with the letters “RR” referenced the Double R Diner in its haunting show “Twin Peaks.” Spiky Logs, both wooden and plush, as the show’s mysterious “Log Lady” character would cradle handwritten letters and prints from the director’s other films, including “Eraserhead,” “Wild at Heart” and “Inland Empire.”

Alongside framed photos of murdered Twin Peaks homecoming queen Laura Palmer, some marked with lipstick, there were lots of pictures of owls — pieces of stained glass, drawings and small statues.