The Big Chicken has been standing at the corner of Cobb Parkway and Roswell Road since 1963. Fifty-six feet of steel rooster, moving eyes, opening beak. When a 1993 winter storm tore it apart and KFC announced demolition, Marietta generated 10,000 calls and letters opposing it. The company spent $700,000 putting it back together. The city wasn’t letting it go.
Beneath the Big Chicken on the back of this shirt, a steam locomotive rolls through the pines. In 1862, Union soldiers boarded their train at Marietta Station on a mission to commandeer a Confederate locomotive and burn railroad bridges north of the city. They hijacked The General a few miles up the line in Big Shanty, now called Kennesaw, and started one of the most dramatic chases in Civil War history. The General sits in a museum there today, about ten miles from where it all launched.
Two landmarks, a century apart, both tied to the same railroad corridor that built this city. The Western & Atlantic line the raiders used in 1862 still carries freight through Marietta. The Big Chicken on Cobb Parkway sits on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base flight path. Pilots use it to find the runway.
The front carries “MARIETTA” in a clean serif script on the left chest. One word. Enough.
Panda Prints runs this Marietta Big Chicken tee in black, royal blue, white, and desert tan. Black is where the watercolor illustration reads hardest. The locomotive detail and the Big Chicken hold up at any size against a dark background.
Product Specs
- Material:Â 4.2 oz., 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
- Fit:Â Retail unisex
- Decoration:Â Direct to Film (DTF)
- Available in:Â Black, Royal Blue, White, Desert Tan
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