Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 1969 Kids T-Shirt

Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips was a fast-food seafood restaurant chain. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s, it had about 800 stores. As of 2020, there are believed to be only a handful of rogue locations remaining. The chain is the namesake of Arthur Treacher (1894–1975), an English character actor typecast as "the perfect butler" for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several classic Hollywood films. At the time the chain was founded, Treacher was best known as the announcer and sidekick on the popular The Merv Griffin Show. Whether Treacher actually had a financial involvement in the restaurants is unknown (in interviews he refused to say), but he served as a spokesman for the restaurant chain in its early years,