Actors, Playwrights To Visit Waffle House Museum Saturday

You can win dinner (at a Waffle House) and a tickets to a show ('The Waffle Palace') during a raffle Saturday at the Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates.

From noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, the Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates will host a program called The Waffle Palace Meets its Muse. The Waffle Place is the title of a play inspired by Waffle House that's now being performed at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta. The cast and playwrights will be on hand to meet people at the museum during its monthly open house. Waffle House and the theater will also raffle dinner-and-a-show packages. Dinner, of course, will be at a Waffle House. The event is further proof of Waffle House's cultural and historical significance. The Georgia Historical Society erected a marker at the museum last September. In October, the Georgia DOT and Federal Highway Administration kicked off a study of the history and …

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Photo Gallery: Waffle House Historical Marker Dedication

Waffle House founders Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner attended the ceremony in in Avondale Estates.

Waffle House was recognized Saturday when the Georgia Historical Society dedicated a roadside marker at the original Waffle House at 2914 E. College Ave. in Avondale Estates. Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner, who opened the first Waffle House 57 years ago and started the chain that now has 1,600 restaurants, helped pull the cover off the marker. Also attending were Avondale Estates Mayor Ed Rieker and other city officials. The original restaurant is now the Waffle House Museum. The marker said: At this location, on Labor Day 1955, Avondale Estates neighbors Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner founded the first Waffle House restaurant.  The name was inspired by the most popular item on the original menu. The restaurant’s focus on fast-food speed …

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John

6:39 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012

Love waffle house, it is very important not only as a piece of true "Americana" but as a place where solid values of hard work and dedication are not simple catch phrases but are truly a way of life.   more ›

Waffle House Founders To Attend Historical Marker Ceremony

A roadside marker will be dedicated at 1 p.m. Sept. 8 outside the first Waffle House.

A historical marker will be dedicated Sept. 8 at the place in Avondale Estates where Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner started the Waffle House restaurant chain 57 years ago. Rogers and Forkner, both in their 90s, plan to attend the event, said Waffle House spokeswoman Kelly Thrasher. Rogers and Forkner opened the first Waffle House on Labor Day 1955 at 2719 E. College Ave. The chain now has 1,600 restaurants. The dedication will take place at 1 p.m. at what is now the Waffle House Museum at 2719 E. College Ave. The museum will be open for tours from noon to 3 p.m. Members of the Avondale Estates City Commission and the Georgia Historical Society, along with the brass from Waffle House, will be there. Waffle House has its headquarters in …

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Waffle House Historical Marker Dedication Sept. 8

The first Waffle House opened 57 years ago on East College Avenue in Avondale Estates.

Waffle Houses spread like grease on a griddle after the first one opened 57 years ago in a humble little building in Avondale Estates. With the chain now boasting 1,600 restaurants, the birth of Waffle House will be recognized for its historic significance. At 1 p.m. Sept. 8, a Georgia roadside historic marker will be dedicated outside the first restaurant -- now a Waffle House museum -- at 2719 E. College Ave. The significance of the first Waffle House is summed up in the words that will appear on the marker. At this location, on Labor Day 1955, Avondale Estates neighbors Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner founded the first Waffle House restaurant.  The name was inspired by the most popular item on the original menu. The restaurant’s focus …

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Ralph Ellis

10:10 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Louis, The Waffle House Museum webpage says this: Please call 770.326.7086 to make an appointment for any other day at least 48 hours in advance. The WAFFLE HOUSE Museum will be open for FREE tours to the public on the following Saturdays from noon until 3pm, no appointments necessary: July 14, 2012 August 4, 2012 September 8, 2012   more ›

Waffle House Inspires A Play

The Horizon Theatre at Little Five Points will present the story of a Southern institution.

You can always find some theatrics in a Waffle House, whether it's Kid Rock beating up somebody or a down-on-his-luck guy telling a sad story straight out of a country song. Now the no-frills chain of restaurants founded in Avondale Estates has inspired a piece of real theater. Creative Loafing reports today that the Horizon Theatre at Little Five Points will present The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered, and Scattered 24/7/365. Creative Loafing says, Actor/playwrights Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee, the driving forces behind the madcap, chainsaw-wielding Southern Theatre Conspiracy in the 1980s, reunite for a light-hearted look at a ubiquitous restaurant chain. The show will run from May 11 through June 24. If you want history, not …

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Late night at the WaHo

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the hefty waitress sidearms my greasy entree on the table with the studied resignation of a breeding dog             but I am too self conscious                         of my reflection in the window, cheeks enflamed and eyes glassy so the fluorescent lights and yellow art deco appear as pollock himself drips and drops and sweet tea swirls   like the time I swallowed that placebo latchkey kids call love then I burned inside just like this flame-roll-drop-bass-             breathe hallucinating the iron valleys and fjords of your fingertips smoldering on my neck and thighs                                     and breasts at once until my fork quivers above the table   and I discover my inner ibsen character incapable of inner dialogue…

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