Authentic Chicken Inn Spoon~CCI 1930's~Greene Winkler
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Vintage collector or souvenir restaurant spoon. Really collectable, athentic, 1930's - CCI - silverplate spoon from the " CCI Chicken Inn" Restaurant. Back side is marked Greene-Winkler. Spoon shows some use. Wonderful antique commemorative of a time long past. A must have addition to your advertising, restaurant, black memorabilia or spoon collections. INFO from Google " from the Jim Crow Museum "The History of Coon Chicken Inn 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. The door was through the middle of his mouth. The restaurants sold southern fried Coon Chicken sandwiches, chicken pie, livers -- and hamburgers, seafood, chili, cakes, and assorted sandwiches. When possible, Blacks were used as waiters, waitresses, and cooks. The grandson of its founder wrote a brief history of the Coon Chicken Inn chain. We thank him for allowing us to print his account. I am a descendant of the original founders of the Coon Chicken Inn. I preface this essay by saying that I do not condone the "Jim Crow" attitudes of the past. I and ALL of my siblings believe in full equality for all races, creeds, and skin colors. My grandparents were entrepreneurs engaging
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