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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1981-03-25, Page 3POR T OF A LEGEND 144 The late Colonel Harland Sanders s *WS M- inh died at the grand old age of 90, was raised in Corbin, Kentucky, where his father died when he was still very young and Hat - bald, being the oldest son, had to help his mother "bring home the bacon" as he called it. He, therefore, got himself a job on a Farm for two dollars a month plus keep, which in those days was pretty, good. For some reason, Harland got fired and got such a tongue lash from his mother, that he made up his mind right then and there that, what- ever might happen, never to be fired again. He was really mad with himself because he knew his mother needed him so badly and he hacilet her down. He decided that what- ever he would do in the future, he would do to the best of his ability. He dropped out of school in Grade Seven and got himself a job as a carriage painter: This was not his type of meatthough and so, af- ter a little while, he landed himself a job as a streetcar conductor. This gave him a little more freedom, but seemingly not enough, and next he took on a job in the army, where he helped build the railroads. As if that job wasn't hard enough, his next job was that of a fireman on a locomotive of the North -Alabama railroad line, where he shovelled coal for a number of years. But after a while that didn't suit him either, so he became a Justice of the Peace. After that, he was an insurance salesman, a ferry- boat operator, a midwife and in his spare time he studied law. That didn't suit him either though', so he took on a job as a salesman for a tire com- pany. Naturally, he made a lot of contacts • in his new job with service station operators and before he knew it, he quit his job as salesman and opened up his own gas station on the outskirts of Corbin in Southeastern • Kentucky. He had two gas pumps in front of his home, and since he always had a smile for _0 everyone, he soon built up a nice little bus- iness. Always alert, he noticed that a lot of people would ask him where there was a good place to eat and he always sent them to wherever sshe thought there was a good place, until one day he woke up to the fact_ and tealized that he could make hiniself a dollaisor two • by serving food. So, he took a table and a couple of chairs out of his living room, put them into his service station and' served din- ner "Family Style" as he called it. His wife would do the cooking and if it hap- pened that nobody would show up for dinner, • the family would eat it. Everything was coming along real well and the place became busier all the time, which meant expansion. The restaurant was en- larged and, in time, with more additions, became a full fledged restaurant, which could seat 142 people. For some reason, Harland Sanders always had a liking for chicken. He was always experi- menting with it, and each time he would come up with new, improved recipes. He worked with chicken like Thomas Edison worked on the lightbulb, and over a period of 30 years he really got to know the chicken business, and indeed, the chicken he served was different from all other chicken, in part- icular from what was then called Southern Fried Chicken. He had no use for it and, since everybody else called their chicken, Southern Fried Chicken, he thought he'd be different and name his, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Well, after so many years of experimenting • you are bound to come up with a winner and so it was with Colonel Sanders, who, one claf discovered a new spice, which he added to eleven differentsspices and herbs, which he was already putting into his breading. Man, did this ever produce a fantastic pro- duct. Everybody thought this chicken was out of this world and something very fortun- ate happened, because he got a phone call from someone asking him, if he could serve dinner to a boatload of 500 people, who were on their way down the Mississippi River, "Well", thought Sanders, "I might as well use these people as guinea pigs, because if one of them dies, at least I haven't lost a cust- omer". Congratulations! 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Seating Capacity for 40 ' Spotless - all neir Kitchen Facilities *Helpful • FrienMr• Courteous Service (e 14/ S Pied ChiA cCOMPANY ken It's Finger GOOD • 4 ,„ • 444, • Josephine Street - in the Zehr's Plaza - (Corner of Highway N. 86 and No. 4) WINGHAM So he got busy cooking his chicken and when the people arrived, he served them his just perfected Kentucky Fried Chicken. The re- sults were fantastic. Everyone raved so much about it, the enthusiasm was so great, that he decided to stop experimenting and stick to this recipe as his final one. Business kept on booming and now also in- duded a motel. Things were going along just fine, but then something tragic happened. A highway was built similar to our 401 high- way near here, and it cut his restaurant right off. Tourists and travellers were now by- passing the town and he was left holding the bag. , Things get worse before they ger' better and the business, valued at 164,000 dollars, only a year before, went under. And all that hap- pened when Sanders turned 65 years old! Most men at that age, and under those cir- cumstances, would have been ready to take the gaspipe, but not Colonel Sanders. No, sir, he got his first old age pension cheque of 105 dollars and made up his mind to start all over again, once again The Hard Way. He put one of his pressure cookers and his special breading and seasoning in the trunk of his '46 Ford and hit the road trying to sell his franchise to other restaurants. He set off for Ohio and Indiana, sleeping overnight on the back seat of his car because he couldn 't afford as much as a room in a motel! The going was tough; it was a hail, mean struggle because nobody wanted to buy bus We hope you enjoy great success. neon signs (LONDON) LTD. P.O. Box 573, Exter, Ontatio Exter 235-0710 Toll Free 1-800-265-5938 l'''.4.:4•V.'""az•-•It-r41-= • _ 1,6 4444 AO 'IL 1@ttucky fried Chicken.. franchise. He knocked on restaurant. after restaurant and got thrown out of them all; because who was he to tell a restauranteur how to fry chicken! He got thrown out of more restaurants than perhaps anyone in his- tory, but he didn't give up. One day, he ran into an old friend of his, called Pete Harman, in Salt Lake City. They had known each other for years, and the two of' them made a deal, whereby Pete would get the exclusivefranchise for the State of Utah, and the Colonel would get a 50,000 dollar bill. They shookhands on the deal and the Colonel was off to the races. During the next two years he sold four more franchises and, gradually, his work started to pay off and chicken places started to crop up all across the country. Today, Kentucky Fried Chicken is sold in thousands of outlets in the United States, over 600 in Canada., as well as hundreds more in England, Spain, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Puerto Rico,. Austria, Guam, Nassau; the Bahamas, the Phillipines and Africa., In 1964, Colonel Sanders sold his American Company for just 2 million dollars and 1967 he gave away his Canadian Company, which is owned by the Colonel Harland Sanders Charitable Foundation. It is administered.by Canadians and all the profits of Kentucky Fried Chicken Limited in Canada are dis- tributed, in Canada, towards scholarships, churches and charitable organizations, through the Colonel Harland Sanders Char- itable Foundation, who have donated neady 4 million dollars to date. • Congratulations Colonel! „VICTORIA ELECTRIC OF laTC1-111ER LTD. - \ 11588victoriast. N., Kitchener 576-2220 - 'Commercial - Indust nal - Residential -,146•"*" • .. Best Vishes from SParilinges PROPANE Co LTD Hwy. 4 South, Blyth, Ont. NOM 11-10 • ,„, T.,••,•47 F.'171.7117P!""7"74172--""'' • .171'4,41 The Winghrgra AdvAnce-Tui, iffirob.20, .ssssi,sssss , . Six'Atahies and six SO* modest beginning when: opened Us fiat t*Itin,g gsta Ilmefit in thein orgiNtchener- But the eating was good, the stvi�i itas and bit by bit the tiny business gtew. in 1960, Barney teamed asp wits the nationally fiunous late Colonel &Wn the first Kentucky Flied Chicken Store, MAO to the Kitchener area. Today there are 22 TWINS locatjoits .thO: latest edition - right hew in Wingbasn managed by Barney Sttassburger and his sOli".' andrGen.eral Manager, Barney Strassbateger: Jr. Why did Barney Sttassburger name hiS Keck: - tucky Fried Chicken' franehioes TWINS" ? In honor of the Twin Cities?-' Nope! Barney and June are the- ppm' and happy parents of IMO sets of fraternal -0114 born in 1952 and in 1959. To show their pride, the parents decided on the name - THE TWINS, since the tatOne.., ing of Kentucky Fried Chicken was inKit. chenersWaterloo and because of their very own "twins". Since that early date - THE TWINS have been synonymous with the "finger lickin"- goodness of their Kentucky Fried Chicken product Wingham area residents have long asked - "When ate you coming to our town?" Well now - you too will be able to partake of this delicious, world famous, "Good Chicken", eating enjoyment from, our spark- ling new location right here in Wingham 'ARNgy gitekswwlf,b, BARNEY STRASSBERGER • THE COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS CHA\RITABLE FOUNDATION The Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation is a non-profit organization - founded exclus- ively in Canada for, the benefit of Canadians. It is the profit from eath area that is for char- itable use. These donations are the profits which normally would have gone back to the United States Corporation, but through the benevolent generosity and foresight of the late Colonel Harland Sanders "- these funds are returned to the Canadian Charities as determined by the franchisees of each pro- vince. The Twins Kentucky Fried Chicken Stores in this area of South and Western Ontario, are the licensed franchisees who will be deter- mining the contributions to be made to var- ious Charitable Organizations right around here. You are probably already aware of such gen- erous and public spirited donations which they've made in Goderich, Hanover, Walker- ton and many,. many other regions . . . and there is no doubt you will be hearing about them for the Wingham area in the years to come. Good Luck in your New Location! NELCO MECHANICAL LTD 77 Edwin Street, Kitchener 744-6511 Heating - Air Conditioning - Ventilation 4.7.4.477.74.24, n...444**.•444.444144.4.,,,ft0441444,4* 14" , 0