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This chain of three outlets, started by Maxon L. Graham and his wife, Addie, outside Salt Lake City in 1925, expanded to Seattle in 1929, and to Portland in 1931. The Portland store opened on 09/13/1931. Coon Chicken operated only these three stores until the late 1950s. It featured racist imagery in its advertising; its main logo was a grinning African-American face dressed as a porter. After starting the Seattle outlet, the Grahams moved to the Seattle area. The Portland site outlet later became the Prime Rib restaurant.

A large addition was made to the Portland Coon Chicken Inn.

All Coon Chicken Inns closed by 1957; the first to shut down was the Portland store in 1949, then the Seattle one in 1950, followed by the separately-managed Salt Lake City outlet in 1957. (See Lester Silva, http://www.lestersilva.com/collection/chickenpage1.html Accessed 01/16/2008)

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