Sanders Kitchen: The cafe kitchen is where Sanders perfected his recipe for his fried chicken. While chicken was the draw, this cafe served patrons breakfast, lunch and dinner. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
The “Post From The Road” this week comes out of the archives as we are limiting our travel this year.
We traveled east in 2016 and one of our stops was in Corbin, Ky. This small town in southeast Kentucky is the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Harland Sanders owned a gas station in Corbin, which is on the major north/south route in the eastern states. As travel slowed during the depression years, Sanders began serving chicken to patrons who could sit and eat at the station’s one table or take the meal out.
By 1937, Sanders opened a small restaurant across the street. That original restaurant burned in 1939. Sanders rebuilt a larger cafe with a motel adjacent to the restaurant, which opened in 1940. That is the building that stands today but the motel has since been demolished.
The restaurant serves the same menu as all KFC franchise today, but that is where similarities end. The interior is still reminiscent of the Sanders Cafe operated by Harland Sanders for many years.
Editor’s note: Longtime Los Alamos photographer Gary Warren and his wife Marilyn are traveling around the country and he shares his photographs, which appear in the ‘Posts from the Road’ series published in the Sunday edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post.
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