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[00:28:00]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
What kinds of things did you do for amusement besides going to the movies?
[00:28:03]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We were going to the movies back then. One year we had the World's Fair in Chicago.
[00:28:12]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I was able to go to the World's Fair.
[00:28:15]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Like we would have the Fair, and we would have the Black whats-ya-ma-call-it? We have it here sometime.
[00:28:24]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
What's it called? Like they'd come--
[00:28:27]
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
The State Fair?
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Not Coun--
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
State or County Fair?
[00:28:31]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah. State or County Fair, but we have something else that come?I
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They come in and they have, uh--
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Circus?
[00:28:38]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They would have a circus, but then they'd have-- What do you call it?
[00:28:43]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They set up a Ferris Wheel and stuff and you--
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Like a-- Oh, yeah. What do you call it? [[Laughs]] Amusement Park.
[00:28:50]
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Amusement Park.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Right.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well, they set them up--
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Right.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
over a period of time.
[00:28:54]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah. Uh huh.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
[[inaudible]]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah, traveling one. They had traveling amusement parks.
[00:28:59]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uh huh. They sometimes showed movies there. Did you see one there too?
[00:29:04]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
At these amusement parks?
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
At these amusement parks?
[00:29:07]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I don't think so.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Maybe that would ha-- That might have been earlier.
[00:29:10]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They might have them now, 'cause I'll tell you what, I've never been to one here.
[00:29:16]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Um huh.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I know about them. My little girl goes. I told you I have a little girl.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah. Your 15-year old. Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yes.
[00:29:23]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well, she go there [[inaudible]] but no more.
[00:29:29]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Did the two--
[[Cross Talk]]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We went to the movies once in a while.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah. I was going to ask you. With her?
[00:29:33]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah. I had went with her when she was smaller.
[00:29:36]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Um huh.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
She was talking about asking me to go to some kind of movies not to long ago. But I didn't go.
[00:29:44]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But I do go sometimes, but I like to go [[inaudible]]
[00:29:47]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
What kind of movies to you see now?
[00:29:50]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh, usually, well, I go to anything that's Industry, and I went to see this movie, this Black movie they had--
[00:30:01]
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
"Do the Right Thing?"
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
"Do the Right Thing?" I don't think--
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
No. When--
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I don't know. It's a--
[00:30:07]
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Tell us a little bit about what was in the movie, and then I'll try to tell you the title. [[Laughs]]
[00:30:13]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
[[inaudible]] [[is whether it's nobler in the world.??]] They show that on TV now.
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uh huh. Did it take place in a--
[00:30:20]
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