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11. Menu from "Coon-Chicken Inn". Featuring Coon Chicken Poultry Farms & Coon Chicken Bakery. Locate

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11. Menu from  Coon-Chicken Inn . Featuring Coon Chicken Poultry Farms & Coon Chicken Bakery. Locate
11. Menu from "Coon-Chicken Inn". Featuring Coon Chicken Poultry Farms & Coon Chicken Bakery. Located in Seattle, Wa.; Portland, Or.; & Salt Lake City, Ut.. Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name (which uses an ethnic slur), trademarks, and entrances of the restaurants were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter. The smiling capped porter head also appeared on menus, dishes, and promotional items. The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant was opened in then-suburban Lake City near Seattle, Washington, and a third was opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. Later, a cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to the Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants. The restaurant and themes were popular in their day.[1] Today, Coon Chicken Inn items are part of the genre of racist art and black memorabilia.