MURRAY’S CHICK-A-DEE CAFÉ

Robert and Milda Murray owned a chicken ranch on 45^th South in Murray Utah.  On the City Directories poultry is listed as their occupation.  In the 1949 City Directory for Salt Lake City, Utah they are listed once again as Poultry and restaurant owners. How long they had the restaurant I do not know. I only find it listed in the 1949 City Directory.   The address of the café was 2879 South State, Salt Lake City, Utah.

I can remember going there several times with Grandma Murray to collect rent from whomever they had rented it to.  There was not just one building, but two buildings.  The other building was apartments they owned and rented out. 

Here is what their daughter Myreta Murray Judkins said in an interview I did with her several years ago.

“And all the time they owned it I worked there and helped, Newell did, in fact the whole family, Betty, Leo, Fenton, and Delsa worked in the evenings and on weekends they did help them out. Wendol work full-time for Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad rented their house on 45th and lived in the basement up there.  It got just a little bit too much, it got to where we did not have any home life neither Mother and Dad and us either. So dad leased it and sold it, at that time I believe he leased it he later sold it, but he had to take it back, later Mother and Dad just leased out the property to other people until it was sold. After my father's death and just before my mother died it was sold. Mother made a pretty good profit on it at that time. My mother paid for the rest home and the things she needed to survive.

                       

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