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Photos: The Big Chicken through the years
The Big Chicken KFC in Marietta has stood in Cobb County since 1963.
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The Big Chicken is a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Marietta on February 2, 2011. The landmark features a 56-foot-tall (17 m) steel-sided structure designed in the appearance of a chicken rising up from the top of the building. It is located at one of the city's biggest intersection of Cobb Parkway (U.S. 41) and Roswell Road (Georgia 120).
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