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• ↓ Portrait of a restaurateur: Harland Sanders
• ↓ Questions of the times
• ↓ What they wrote
• ↓ My favorite linen postcards
• ↓ Dance and dine at the Cow Shed
• ↓ Bad restaurant food
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"Harland Sanders is so closely associated with Kentucky Fried Chicken as “Colonel Sanders” that his early career as a restaurant owner has been largely eclipsed. However, it occupied much of his time and energy before — and to a lesser extent after — he began selling and promoting his fried chicken recipe. [Above: Sanders at a restaurant convention, 1939]"

"He had a rough early life. His father, an Indiana farmer, died when he was 8. His mother took a factory job to support the family, while as the eldest child Harland was left with caring for his sisters, which included cooking their meals. He did not finish grade school. At age 12 his mother married a man that he disliked and he set off on his own, traveling around and working at a number of dead-end jobs."

"According to a 1960 story in the trade publication American Restaurant, before he opened his restaurant in 1930 in Corbin, KY, Sanders “had worked as: farm hand, house painter, soldier [in Cuba], blacksmith helper for a railroad, locomotive fireman, insurance company employee, secretary for the Chamber of Commerce, justice of the peace, streetcar conductor, ferry boat operator, tire salesman, and service station operator.” The magazine left out lawyer (self-educated) and midwife."

"By the early 1920s he was a married man with children and employed by an insurance company in his home state of Indiana. Then the family moved to Kentucky and he became interested in new enterprises, especially if they were car-related. After a number of endeavors that failed, he became a salesman for Michelin Tires, then ran service stations in Nicholasville and Lexington KY."

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Portrait of a restaurateur: Harland Sanders

Questions of the times

What they wrote

My favorite linen postcards

Dance and dine at the Cow Shed

Bad restaurant food