Tagged: Rose's Highway Inn
Rose's Highway Inn, the chicken house at 26851 Pacific Highway South, 1939–2003.
5 items tagged “Rose's Highway Inn”
- Founding YearsAlbum1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn Scrapbook Pages
All 35 surviving frames of the scrapbook
Every surviving frame of the Rose's Highway Inn scrapbook, as a single grid. The same pages the book reader turns one at a time — menus, clippings, photographs and Darrell Anderson's own typescripts — laid out so the whole object can be seen at once.
- OtherBiographyUndated
Rose Wilcox
Founder and owner-manager, Rose's Highway Inn
Founder of Rose's Highway Inn. She and her sister Sarah Atkinson ran the Colman Lunch in Seattle's Colman Building for twenty-two years before opening on Highway 99 in 1939, and she ran the inn for the next twenty-five, retiring on its silver anniversary in 1964 at seventy-five.
- Founding YearsExhibit1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn
The Highway 99 chicken house, 1939–2003
Rose Wilcox sold sandwiches to lawyers, so the lawyers bought her a restaurant. It stood on Highway 99 for sixty-four years and it sold chicken. The story of Rose's Highway Inn, told from the scrapbook its last chef kept.
- HistoryBook1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn Scrapbook
Menus, clippings and memories of the Highway 99 chicken house
The scrapbook Darrell Anderson compiled about Rose's Highway Inn, the Highway 99 chicken house south of Seattle: menus from the 1940s to the 1960s, newspaper clippings, the staff roster, a recipe, and his family's own account of the years they lived behind the restaurant. Thirty-five pages, all transcribed.
- Past PresidentBiographyd. 10 April 2011
Darrell Anderson
Chef-Manager, Rose's Highway Inn; Past President, Washington State Chefs Association
Hired as a cook at Rose's Highway Inn in 1954 and ran it as chef-manager from 1964 to 1968; president of the Washington State Chefs Association in 1970–71 and again in 1980–81; contributed recipes to the association's 1976 Favorite Recipes cookbook; namesake of the Darrell Anderson Culinary Archives.