Set of 3 Coon Chicken Inn Postcards

SET OF 3, postcards with an antique finish. Here is the set with all three locations of the restaurant. There is "Portland, Oregon", "Seattle, Wash." and "Salt Lake City, Utah". The Coon Chicken Inn was founded by Maxon Lester Graham and his wife, Adelaide née Burt. The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Maxon decided that if a gimmick were added for the children, it would help bring in the parents. He added the famous head logo to the entrances of the Inns it was a huge winking, grinning face of a black man wearing a porters cap. The words "Coon Chicken Inn" were spelled out on his teeth that were framed by monstrous red lips. The doorway was through the middle of the mouth. Apparently it was very popular at the time.