Corbin, Kentucky: Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum

Great vintage postcards and souvenirs. I purchased an LP vinyl album featuring the Colonel's Brass Band.

A museum embraces the history of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant in its original location. There is the original kitchen and a recreated lodging room that was part of the original business. As learned from the signs, Harland also pumped gas as one of his services. This is a small museum with a modern restaurant of the KFC chain attached, where you do your ordering of food, then sit in another room, where a glassed-in replica of what a table service would have looked like sits off to one side.

The Colonel Sanders Cafe is STILL being remodeled, but it's open for business. There are several areas still off limits (under re-construction I guess) but you CAN see the kitchen "where it all began" and also some displays of ads, buckets, and Kentucky Fried Toys! Get your picture made with Harlan on a park bench or with his bust (duplicate of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville). The Colonel's famous suit and cane had mysteriously vanished, leaving only an empty display case and label behind.