Waffle House: Inside the museum

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Waffle House: Inside the museum

Photo: Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates opens for the public to tour on March 20, 2010.

Six-year-old Audrey Corriere flips plastic eggs at the Waffle House Museum near Avondale Estates. The museum, usually open only for special tours, was open to the public on Saturday, March 20.

Visitors stroll the Waffle House Museum. It's the site of the very first Waffle House restaurant, which opened in 1955 after two neighbors, Joe Roger Sr. and Tom Forkner, decided the Avondale Estates neighborhood needed a 24-hour restaurant.

Six-year-old Javan Rouse poses in a cardboard cutout at the Waffle House Museum near Avondale Estates.

The original Waffle House in Avondale Estates, now the Waffle House Museum, will get the Georgia Historical Society's first historic marker dedicated to a breakfast restaurant.

Pat Warner (left) gives a tour of the original kitchen at the Waffle House.

Arwen Williams, 8, tries her hand at the grill, flipping a pair of plastic eggs.

Davetta Rouse helps her 7-year-old son, Caleb, with his hat.

Filet mignon steaks were sold at the original Waffle House.

A crowd sits at the counter as Mary Bruce tells some of the history of the first Waffle House restaurant.

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Six-year-old Audrey Corriere flips plastic eggs at the Waffle House Museum near Avondale Estates. The museum, usually open only for special tours, was open to the public on Saturday, March 20.

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