[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 30 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO ROBERT PASCHAL

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
great man and a great institution, Robert Paschal, the founder and 
owner of Paschal's Motor Hotel and Restaurant, who recently passed 
away.
  Mr. Paschal moved to Atlanta at a young age and opened a soda 
fountain and a hot dog stand. The small stand grew into an Atlanta 
institution, an establishment famous for its fried chicken. He helped 
build a business the old-fashioned way, the hard way, through hard 
work.
  My first meal in Atlanta was at Paschal's during the civil rights 
movement. This man practically fed the entire movement. Paschal's was 
one of the few places blacks and whites could socialize and discuss the 
order of the day. It was there we talked about the Selma march, the 
Poor People's Campaign, and the Mississippi summer project. It was 
there we checked the pulse of the movement. Paschal's was referred to 
as the Paschal precinct, and to this day it is a meeting place, a 
gathering place for all Atlanta.
  So when Robert Paschal left us, we lost a part of Atlanta, part of 
our history and our hearts. He will be missed by our city and our 
State.

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