Coon Chicken Inn is an American chain of four restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name contains the word "Coon", considered an ethnic slur, and the trademark and restaurant entrance are designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter. The head of the smiling porter also appears on the menu, plates, and promotional items. Due to changes in popular culture and cultural and racial general considerations, the chain has been stopped.
The first Coon Chicken inn opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant opened in a suburb of Lake City, Seattle, and the third opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. The fourth location advertised but never opened in Spokane, Washington. Later, cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants.
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In popular culture
The false advertisement for the restaurant was indicated in the 2004 CSA mockumentary: The Confederate States of America where it was described as a success in a fictitious timeline in which the Confederation defeated and annexed the United States in 1864 with the help of the United Kingdom and France.
The Coon Chicken Inn advertisement is a plot device at Ghost World , a 2001 American comedy drama directed by Terry Zwigoff.
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See also
- Sambo restaurant chain
- List of chicken restaurants
References
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