{"id":40319,"date":"2012-03-19T05:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=40319"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:10:57","slug":"the-marietta-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=40319","title":{"rendered":"The Marietta Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some places have a giant dinosaur… others a big spaceship. Marietta is no different on the we-have-a-giant-monument front… it has a giant mechanical eye-rolling chicken.<\/p>\n

The Big Chicken<\/em> is often used as a directional waymark by locals. On my way into Marietta, when I saw the landmark and knew exactly when to turn left because most Marietta directions online refer to The Chicken<\/em>. It’s not just people on the ground who use the chicken in giving directions. Pilots flying into the Atlanta airport use the chicken as a reference point on approach.<\/p>\n

The base wasn’t always a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. The chicken was built in 1963 atop a restaurant called Johnny Reb’s Chick, Chuck and Shake<\/a>. It was later sold to Johnny’s brother and became a KFC franchise.<\/p>\n

As an aside, it’s actually kind of ironic that the chicken has an advertisement for PepsiCola on it’s neck… Georgia is where Coca Cola was invented.<\/p>\n