Jack Pirtle’s Chicken

Posted on: January 22, 2015

I believe I acquired this circa 1905 cabinet card of Orva and Hershel Lewis from Sheffield Antique Mall in the mid-2000s.

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Upon researching the names years later, I came across the history page of the old website of Jack Pirtle’s Chicken. Young Orva would grow up to marry Jack Pirtle and the two of them would run the now famous chicken restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee.

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I returned the photograph to their son and his wife, Cordell and Tawanda Pirtle, to their company office on 22 January 2015.

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