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[Sinister]

Yay, blackface. Can't believe that guy did that haha

[Joseph Davis]

DS Sambo's is a restaurant, formerly an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its founders, the chain soon found itself associated with "The Story of Little Black Sambo". The story, written by a Scot woman living in India in 1899, tells the tale of a boy named Sambo who outwits a group of hungry tigers who race around a tree and eventually turn into butter. Battistone and Bohnett capitalized on the coincidence by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy and tigers. By the early 1970s, the illustrations depicted a light-skinned boy wearing a jeweled Indian-style turban with the tigers.

By 1979, Sambo's had 1,200 outlets in 47 U.S. states. However in the late seventies controversy over the chain's name drew protests and lawsuits in communities that viewed the term "Sambo" as derogatory towards African-Americans, particularly in Northeast states. Several of the restaurants were opened as or renamed to "The Jolly Tiger" but by November of 1981, the company filed for bankruptcy and by 1982 all but the original Sambo's at 216 West Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara, California, closed their doors. Battistone's grandson, restaurateur Chad Stevens, owns the only remaining Sambo's. He expresses a desire to revive the chain.

I ate at the Sambo's in Candler (West Asheville) as a kid.  There was a little black boy statue akin to the Shoney's Big Boy statues you used to see, only smaller.  Think of the black face theme turned into statuary.

Times change.

[Sinister]

I used to see those even when I was little from time to time. We have two little black girl bobble heads from the 30's in the house too that came from only god knows where too, its interesting how it was back then

[Joseph Davis]

I used to see those even when I was little from time to time.

Figuring you remember as far back as two years of age, that places you as 29 years old.  Uhm, bullshit.

[Sinister]

I've never heard of the restaurant, but there was one of those statues near my house when I was a kiddo.

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