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| Kentucky Fried Chicken (page 2) |
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| Kentucky Fried Chicken Marietta, GA |
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| This Kentucky Fried Chicken sign is 55 feet tall and made of sheet metal. It was built in 1963 to advertise for Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake. Kentucky Fried took over the space in 1974. The chicken's beak opens and closes while the eye spins around. In 1996, the sign was severely damaged by a tornado and Pepsi-Cola helped pay to restore it. In 2017, the location closed for a remodeling. The building was replaced but the sign was only changed slightly. The Pepsi logo was replaced with the black and white Colonel logo and some red stripes were added. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map] |
| Harman Cafe Salt Lake City, UT |
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| The Harman Cafe was established in 1952 when Pete Harman made a deal with Colonel Sanders to start a restaurant franchise based on Sanders' fried chicken recipe. The name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" was painted on the window of Harman's Cafe. They sold a boxed meal of 14 pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and rolls until Harman came up with the legendary cardboard bucket concept in 1957. In 2004, a modern KFC building and sign replaced the originals. However, the modern sign and statues of Harman and Sanders pay tribute to this historic site. There are also lots of early KFC photos and artifacts inside the restaurant. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, 3, and 4. [map] |
| Colonel Sanders Meridian, MS |
Colonel Sanders Murray, UT |
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This Colonel Sanders statue in Meridian was probably installed at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. It is now displayed in front of the Colonel Kids Foundation Administration Building at Hope Village which was dedicated in 2004. [map]
This Colonel Sanders statue in Murray is installed in the Harman Management Corporation corporate office lobby. I don't see it in the window in the 2025 Google StreetView map so it might be gone. These statues were mass-produced and may still be in production. About 1,000 of them were on display at KFC restaurants in Japan by 2009. [map] |
| Colonel Sanders Corbin, KY |
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| These two Colonel Sanders statues are installed inside the Sanders Cafe and Museum. |
| Colonel Sanders Corbin, KY |
Colonel Sanders Corbin, KY |
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The bronze Colonel Sanders sculpture shown above was created by Raymond Gras and installed in Sanders Park in 2015. [map]
The chansaw-carved pine Colonel Sanders sculpture with three chickens was created by J&K Kingdom Carvers and installed at the Corbin Tourism Commission entrance in 2021. It was later moved to its current location inside the new Commission office and Visitor Center. For more, see this website. [map] |
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More Colonel Sanders statues:
St. Joe, IN Louisville, KY Hatch, NM |
| The locations shown below were owned by Scott's Hospitality which was established in 1962. There were at least 100 Scott's Chicken Villas in Ontario. Presumably, all of these locations had vintage bucket signs originally. The company's Quebec locations were known as "La Villa du Poulet Scott". In Quebec, modern day KFCs are called PFKs (Poulet Frit Kentucky). Although Scott's was based in Canada, it also owned some locations in Florida which had all closed by the early 1980s. For more, see this website. |
| former Kentucky Fried Chicken [gone] Goderich, ON |
Kentucky Fried Chicken [gone] Niagara Falls, ON |
former Kentucky Fried Chicken [gone] Ottawa, ON |
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| Kentucky Fried Chicken Tilbury, ON |
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This Goderich location was closed by 2013. This photo is from 2007. This bucket sign was replaced with a modern flat sign before the place closed. The steeple and the sign panel on the front of the building are gone now. [photo thanks Mark Comstock]
This photo of the Niagara Falls building is from 2007. By 2014, the building had been replaced with a modern one. It is now a combination KFC and Taco Bell restaurant. The photos of this Ottawa location are from 2009. This location opened in 1969. In 2012, the building began housing Hintonburger. The updated shingled roof is still there. The steeple and signs are gone. In 2017, the building was vacant. It was completely remodeled and now houses a Domino's. For more, see this website. The Tilbury location is still operating with this building style which was unique to Canada. The bucket sign is now modern. [map] |
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More Scott's Chicken Villa:
Fergus, ON Hamilton, ON Markham, ON [gone] Port Colborne, ON St. Catherines, ON Toronto, ON Welland, ON [gone] If you know of any other Scott's Chicken Villa buildings, I'd love to hear about them. |
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| This Kentucky Fried Chicken was designed by Jeffrey Daniels in 1989. Daniels worked for Frank Gehry from 1978-1980 and Gehry's influence is evident in this design. While the building may look like abstract bucket of chicken, that was not the intent of Daniels. The building was repainted beige around 2014. In 2021, it was painted white with red trim and new signs were installed on the cube on top. The statue of the Colonel in the interior has been gone since around 2012. [map] |
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More Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants:
Kentucky Beef Kentucky Fried Chicken (Yakima, WA) [vintage] |
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