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Morehouse, was on the gate at Ponce de Leon Park or the door at the Matchbox gym we had on West Fair and Ashby. I was also the guy who put up posters all over town announcing Morehouse athletic contest or Neil Montgomery promotions. 

I came to know everybody and everybody knew Cuthbert Patrick. Among the fellows I met on Auburn Avenue were the Reverend Williams Holmes Borders who pastored Wheat Street Baptist Church on the Avenue. Reverend Borders was almost chasing me back to the Campus but not before telling me and the boys some glorious tales about the exploits of one Joseph Barrow—commonly called "Joe Louis," a superb speciment of manhood who the reverend said could hit an opponent with blows projected with the rapidity and speed of a Jack Hammer.

Reverend Borders taught religion at Morehouse. Then there was Kelly the photographer. Every home in Atlanta had a Kelly blue tinted photo. I got interested in photography from watching Kelly and from going around to parties taking candid shots of the doing with my 35 dollars Candid camera which I sold for twenty-five cents a shot.

On the Avenue I had two favorite spots, the Fulton Social Club, and the office of the Atlanta Daily World where the Scotts, and Lucius Jones, the sports editor and Cliff Makay made me an apprentice journalist. 

Big Smitty Steak House—Big Smitty was Morris Brown college greatest Booster—Smitty was a large man who would dress up in a swallowtail coat and hichory stripe pants and a top hat and would wear a large sash band of purple and black to lead all rallies for the Morris Brown Football team.

Smitty and I became fast friends because I could always get a free meal in his shop and because we were friendly rivals in attracting attention to our respective schools. 

Auburn Avenue of the thirties was Black Atlantas' Business street. At its beginning near the center of the city was the office building of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, as you come down the street was Bullard Jewelery Store and coming still further was Menelick Jackson Store, the Dawn Casino, where the big touring bands played and we held our fraternity dances; Big Smitty Steak House; the Atlanta World and Citizens Trust Bank. On the corner of Auburn Avenue and Butler was Big Bethal Church.

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"40th REUNION OF 1939 CLASS" 
L. to R. Top Standing—Cuthbert Mel Patrick, Earl Kennedy, Rev. Charles Houston, 4th person name unknown, Gabriel Alexander, Rev. Alphonso Lowry, Pierce Thompson, Albert Kelsey, William Nix, Moss Kendrix, Dr. James Hubert, Dr. William Reid, Marshall Cabiness.
Lower group—Arthur Smith, John Miles, Toussaint Crowell, King Reddick, Phineas Gray.

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