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Wilbur King Sr., the founder of King's Restaurant, pictured with his 1937 DeSoto. He cooked the first meal King's ever served. It was on top of a pot bellied stove originally used to heat what would become the restaurant. |
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| Former educators Mr. & Mrs. P.E. Shoulars. The Shoulars were loyal King's customers from the time the restaurant first opened, and Mrs. Shoulars continues to have lunch with us every Sunday. Mr. Shoulars was King's first customer to be served a hot dog. |
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1960's Bar-B-Que cook Robert Jones. He always bragged that he had never "burnt one up". |
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| Mrs.
Annie Hill and Miss Maybelle Parrish give
Santa their wish list in the 1970's. "Miss
Annie" has been employed by King's since
1968 and still works full-time. |
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Rick Orth shows how it's done at King's. Notice the meat cleaver in his right hand - King's Bar-B-Que has always been hand chopped. Today, the restaurant turns
out more then three thousand pounds a week. |
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Wilbur and Carolyn King filming a TV commercial for King's in 1995.
She always wanted to do that. |
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