Headin' South

Kate and I are on the road, driving to Texas to visit Michele and Jenny. Today we realized a long-time ambition when we stopped at Corbin, Kentucky and ate lunch at the Sanders cafe, the mothership of the KFC chain. Before the colonel put on the white suit and sold his secret recipe, he operated the cafe and its adjoining motel for about 15 years, giving it up circa 1956 when the new "Interstate" didn't go past his place. The place was half museum,  and we enjoyed looking around. Lunch was ordinary KFC, however. Here are some of Kate's pictures:

The Secret Spices...100 pounds of 'em

Here are L-to-R, Earl, Alice Bunny Frog, and Waylon

We know it's goofy, but it makes us laugh.

After a nice lunch, we got as far as Gadsden, Alabama, a modest farming community on the Coosa River, northeast of Birmingham. Gadsden was at one time in the 19th century Alabama's second most important center of commerce and industry, trailing only the seaport of Mobile. The two cities were important shipping centers: Gadsden for riverboats and Mobile for international trade. Through the 1980s, Gadsden was a center of heavy industry, including Goodyear Tire and Rubber and the Republic Steel Corporation. Today, however, the biggest deal in town appears to be the Koch Foods chicken processing plant, employing almost 600 workers. See Chicken plucking plant.




Frog Hollow Farm to Gadsden. 2 is Corbin, site of the Sanders Cafe