Answer: Coconut Grove Dance Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also Coon Chicken Inn in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Settlement Canyon in Tooele, Utah.
I tried to find a really good picture of Coon Chicken Inn. I didn't care for the cartoon figure in this one but it was the best I could find. People entered the restaurant through the giant mouth. I found the following information on Wikipedia: Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name (which uses an ethnic slur), trademarks, and entrances of the restaurants were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter. The smiling capped porter head also appeared on menus, dishes, and promotional items. The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant was opened in then-suburban Lake City near Seattle, Washington, and a third was opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. Later, a cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to the Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants.
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