[Kountry405]

I was sitting and this restaurant came up I went to when I was younger called Po Folks. The thing I remember is their good fried chicken they served on Sundays and their homemade buttermilk biscuits. I think on Sundays, they had All You Can Eat fried chicken. Don't remember the actual dates, but it may have been in the late 80's to the early or mid 90's it was open.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by Kountry405

I was sitting and this restaurant came up I went to when I was younger called Po Folks. The thing I remember is their good fried chicken they served on Sundays and their homemade buttermilk biscuits. I think on Sundays, they had All You Can Eat fried chicken. Don't remember the actual dates, but it may have been in the late 80's to the early or mid 90's it was open.

I remember it from the early '80s. I specifically remember going there around 1984 with some friends. I think that spot is a gym now. I believe it was in what's called Lindsey Square.

I think Po Folks was actually a chain of some sort that never got that big and didn't last that long.

There was a place across the parking lot to the west that I loved called Oklahoma Cafe that went out in the mid '80s.

We used to have a joke in Norman about new Norman restaurants back in those days that went something like "we better hurry up and eat there before they close down."

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

I remember it from the early '80s. I specifically remember going there around 1984 with some friends. I think that spot is a gym now. I believe it was in what's called Lindsey Square.

I think Po Folks was actually a chain of some sort that never got that big and didn't last that long.

There was a place across the parking lot to the west that I loved called Oklahoma Cafe that went out in the mid '80s.

We used to have a joke in Norman about new Norman restaurants back in those days that went something like "we better hurry up and eat there before they close down."

It was a South Carolina chain that folded the late 80s and only a few remain in the Deep South. There was one in Alexandria, LA when I was stationed there in the late 80s and I remember at least one in Tucson; after the bankruptcy around 1992 they were gone.

It was named after a song by country singer Bill Anderson; according to web articles, he and Conway Twitty bought a franchise in OKC.

[Lone Star Rooster]

I remember Po Folks very well, loved them. There were lots of them in the Atlanta area in the 80's-early 90's. As was mentioned, only a handful remain, mostly in Florida and, I think, Alabama.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by SluggoF16

It was a South Carolina chain that folded the late 80s and only a few remain in the Deep South. There was one in Alexandria, LA when I was stationed there in the late 80s and I remember at least one in Tucson; after the bankruptcy around 1992 they were gone.

It was named after a song by country singer Bill Anderson; according to web articles, he and Conway Twitty bought a franchise in OKC.

It's interesting because Conway Twitty lived in Norman in the late 1960s/70s and then later had a lake house at Lake Eufaula.

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by Kountry405

I was sitting and this restaurant came up I went to when I was younger called Po Folks. The thing I remember is their good fried chicken they served on Sundays and their homemade buttermilk biscuits. I think on Sundays, they had All You Can Eat fried chicken. Don't remember the actual dates, but it may have been in the late 80's to the early or mid 90's it was open.

Absolutely.

They served biscuits with molasses, just wonderful.

Also, if you had to wait, which that particular one in Norman you did, you could enjoy an RC and a Moonpie before getting a table.

Great homestyle food. Typical Okie/Southern fare.

[gr to okc]

I remember being in Mississippi at this happened at the po folks there

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[orca17]

Used to eat at Po Folks fairly regularly. They are still around, but it appears that their only remaining locations are in Florida and Alabama.

Po Folks locations

[verynicebecky]

I ate at one in Sacramento, California when I lived there (in the 70's early 80's).

[kcmo70]

There used to be one in south Kansas City sometime in the early 80's. Do remember the fried chicken.