Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve recounted the career of The San Diego Chicken, aka, “The Famous Chicken,” aka, Ted Giannoulas, whose two-week job in 1974 wearing a chicken costume for a radio station promotion became his life’s work. It was certainly more stable and lucrative than his original career, journalism. Last week I […]
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve recounted the career of The San Diego Chicken, aka, “The Famous Chicken,” aka, Ted Giannoulas, whose two-week job in 1974 wearing a chicken costume for a radio station promotion became his life’s work. It was certainly more stable and lucrative than his original career, journalism. Last week I […]
Last time, I wrote about the legal travails of Ted Giannoulas, the diminutive former journalism student who, in 1974, essentially backed into what was supposed to be a two-week job for $2.00 an hour, handing out Easter eggs at the San Diego Zoo while dressed as a chicken. Today, of course, he is much better […]
Last time, I wrote about the legal travails of Ted Giannoulas, the diminutive former journalism student who, in 1974, essentially backed into what was supposed to be a two-week job for $2.00 an hour, handing out Easter eggs at the San Diego Zoo while dressed as a chicken. Today, of course, he is much better […]
His real name is Ted Giannoulas, but few people know him by it. He is better known as The San Diego Chicken, or simply “The Famous Chicken.” Indeed, if you look him up in Wikipedia, you’ll find that Giannoulas himself has no entry — only his famous alter ego does. (The Chicken is described as […]