Marietta's famous Big Chicken. Once, I drove past this monstrosity and noticed that one of it's eyes had stopped spinning. I didn't think much of it until I watched the news that night...the spinning eyes made the evening news.
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posted by Meg Kelso | 8:29 AM
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I couldn't find a bigger picture of this crazy bird but I'm going to look for one now.
This is priceless. I love it that it made the evening news.
here you go, buddy. Copy and paste the entire link.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Big_chicken.jpg
What the heck is this and why is it there?
Jan
OK then, thank you Solaris...that was sweet of you. I don't know why it seems to be working just like you did it, whatever. I'm just glad that it works!
And Mack, yes ma'am...I was stopped at the red light and I noticed that the left eye wasn't spinning. The beak was working as was the right eye, but the stupid left eye stopped. I never gave it a second thought until I saw it on the evening news..."In Marietta today, the left eye of the Big Chicken has malfunctioned..."
And Jan, I don't know why it's there. But, when they tried to tear it down and put up a new restaurant, the town was up in arms. They protested enough to put the kibash on the project. The Big Chicken is still right where it always has been, at the corenr of Roswell Road and 41, ever since 41 was the main road to take from Chicago to Florida.
Meg
Hey, Meg.
Here are a couople of sites where you can find the history (more or less) of the big metal beast.
http://www.bigchickenchorus.org/BigChickenLandmark.html
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/GAMARchicken.html
Besides postcards and t-shirts, you can also get a Big Chicken Beanie (NOT an official Ty-product Beanie Baby) that comes complete in its own KFC meal box. It's pretty much Marietta's claim to fame, so it gets more voter and civic activism than practically any issue you could name.
Even though I know it's true (and I have postcards to support the statement), after all these years of living here (17), I still find it hard to believe that Highway 41 was once the main drag to Florida!
Anne
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