The Original Lake Steven’s Chicken Returns to Roost

The drive-in icon has long been the subject of pranks by the senior class

By Bill Sheets
Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — The chicken is flying high once again.

The fiberglass fryer with a prank-pocked past spent Thursday suspended in a cage held aloft by a crane truck, 30 feet above the Lake Stevens High School parking lot.

It got some attention.

“I thought it was pretty amazing,” said junior Noble Larson, 17.

With a newer incarnation of the rooster stolen several months ago and still missing in action, two plucky Lake Stevens High School seniors took matters into their own hands.

They got a hold of the original bird, the poultry that perched atop the Chicken Drive-In from 1968 to 1995. Dave Huber, who acquired the rooster when he bought the drive-in property, gave his permission . . .

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