It's 1952.

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It's 1952.

It's 1952 and plans are underway to build Interstate 75 through Kentucky.

For most Kentucky and this news barely registers,

but for one 62 year old man, it could spell disaster.

Over the course of his life, he's worked as a blacksmith, a farmhand, a soldier, an insurance salesman, and a janitor.

He's never held on to a job for long or saved any money.

But now he thinks he's finally found something to sustain him until he can retire and it may be in jeopardy

It's a busy gas station and restaurant off US Fruit 25. He especially likes the restaurant part. He serves country ham, hot

biscuits, and star of the menu, perfectly seasoned fried chicken. He came up with the

recipe himself.

But just as he feared, when the interstate is finished, the state redirect through 25

away from his joint to meet up with the new freeway.

Business collapses. He's two years away from retirement and just three

years short of the average life expectancy for an American man at the time. And he's

broke. He could give up and try to get by on Social Security or he could borrow money and

live in his car while he drives across the country trying to turn his fried chicken

recipe into a franchise. He goes with option two. He lugs a pressure cooker

from restaurant to restaurant meeting with the owners, frying his specially seasoned

chicken in eight minutes flat. When the owners fall in love with his recipe, he negotiates

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