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	Name:	roswellric -
	Subject:	Maddox
	Date:	3/22/2012 2:37:20 PM (updated 3/22/2012 2:47:43 PM)

I didn't eat at the original one although I heard it was great.I did eat at the one in Sandy Springs after he left office. Best fried chicken around. He was always there greeting the guests and if you were lucky he would play the piano for you while you ate.

The restaurant's name came from a combination of two words. Pick means to select (presumeably the best), Rick means to heap up or pile up (the food). Hence the restaurant's name "Pickrick.

The pick handles in the store were intended to be used as souveneers not weapons. I think the slogan was on the handles and Lester would autograph them. But you are correct he did pass them out to employees to defend against a demonstration that threatened to go violent. The press erroneously referred to them as "ax handles" in the write-up and the name stuck.

Lester made for some great stories and lore.. some of it correct ...some not.