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Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants that was founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s.
May 21, 2009 · The Coon Chicken Inn was a fried-chicken restaurant chain located in the Pacific Northwest from the late 1920s through the late 1940s. The chain was famous for its ubiquitous “Coon” logo, a caricatured African-American male rooted in 19th century minstrel theatre and early 20th century advertising.
May 11, 2014 · The menu of the Coon Chicken Inn reveals selections only a few degrees more ambitious than the drive-ins of the 1930s. Other than chicken dinners, the menu included chili, burgers, and ice cream desserts.
Oct 16, 2009 · The Coon Chicken Inn was a fried-chicken restaurant chain located on the Old Bothell Highway on the outskirts of the Seattle city limits, in what is today the Lake City neighborhood of Seattle. The Seattle branch -- part of a larger chain founded by Maxon Lester Graham (1897-1977) in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925 -- opened its doors in August 1930.
Jan 4, 2020 · The story of the ‘Coon Chicken Inn’. A jaw-dropping symbol of not Deep South, but Pacific Northwest racial bigotry. Dale M. Brumfield. ·. Follow. Published in. Lessons from History. ·. 7 min...
Curator's Notes: The Coon Chicken Inn was a highly successful restaurant chain from the late 1920s through the 1950s. A grinning, grotesque head of a bald Black man with a porter's cap and winking eye formed a restaurant's entryway.
Portland's "Coon Chicken Inn" was established in 1931 and stayed in business until the 1950s. the third and final member of the three-restaurant chain founded in 1925. The restaurant's name makes use of a racial slur and the restaurant claimed to offer authentic "mammy-made" fried chicken.
The Coon Chicken Inn's racist imagery began with the front door which was located in the middle of a smiling grin of a caricatured Black porter. Postcard from Seattle's Coon Chicken Inn with the company's restaurants in Seattle and Portland in the background.
Apr 11, 2020 · One chapter of the city’s story is branded with a racist caricature — which pervaded the region beyond the restaurant the image represented: the Coon Chicken Inn. “The image was everywhere,” Catherine Roth said of the logo depicting an African-American male known as “The Coon.”
Mar 11, 2022 · The Coon Chicken Inn got its start in Salt Lake City, Richard’s Restaurant and Slave Market opened in an all-white suburb of Chicago, and Sambo’s was based out of Santa Barbara, California.
