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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
I was wondering if you mind going back a little bit, to before you went to Brooklyn, and I was asking you before about going to the movies and Henry Street,
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
and you were describing what it was like to walk down Henry Street.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Oh, everyone was so courteous.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
So courteous. And a business was, you know, it was really a business community. Very flashy.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
H-- how may blocks of Henry Street was-- were business blocks, approximately?
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{SILENCE}
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
When you went to stroll down Henry Street, did you stroll down the business area or the residential area, as well?
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
It wasn't- well, when you hit this corner, you know, go down two blocks.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Let's do; one, two; with the funeral home, and you turn that corner. It was all business.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Dale had a restaurant at the corner,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
and uh, as I said, Doc-- now Doctor Klater had his first office right at that corner,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
until he moved to that building across right over there on Gainesboro.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Then the "Y", they had the first ladies "Y" right there,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
and go up and there was an insurance office at Wells and Gil-- First Street,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
then they had a restaurant there.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
And Dr. Br-- On the corner, was a grocery store. Dr. Brooks had a Druggist,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
and then there were a few other businesses, and then they had, I guess, maybe that was the Strand.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Excuse me just a minute. [[Theresa gets up, makes sound from microphone]] [[Tape shuts off]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Tapes starts up]] --family or your friends?

{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Friends, or by myself.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
I've always mostly been a [[noise distorts word]].
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
And uh, I guess, with the last one, I remember is The Virginian. Next to where I sit-- You know,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
where ya get off the bridge, next to the building that's owned there,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
but the building is boarded up where the theater was is a parking lot.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
And the High Street Church was across the street.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
So you used to go alone, and no one thought that was--
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
No! I mean,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
I've always, like I said, been mostly by myself. And then there was the group I grew up with that
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
they would sometimes meet me, but no one never thought anything of it.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Did ya get all dressed up to go to the movies
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Well, you know, we only had little cotton dresses, similar to what they have today.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
You didn't wear pants in those days.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Was it an occasion going to the movies?

{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
No. No.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
A special occasion?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
You would just drop in on your way to shopping or something like that?
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
No, it was just that I loved the movies. And, uh, I never was respons-- I had money
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
because my grandfather would give me, and my grandmother,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
well I should say, she would give me, cause if I wanted to go someplace
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
I would write a note and stick it under the door.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Makes sound of approval]]
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
and she would stick one in here, "What do you want to do or where do you want to go?"
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
You could see those piercin' eyes. Cause I said, "Well, I wanted to go so-and-so."
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
She'd never turned me down, but I'd stand there to ask, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
But my mother, after she married the 3rd husband,
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
she moved away and she lived down several places on Harrison and Gilmer.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
But my grandmother was like my mother. Same with me.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
When my husband and I broke up, he went his way, and I stayed in Brooklyn.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
My mother raised my son and brought him here.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Seems like that's passed down from generation to generation.
[[Chuckling by several people]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
But your grandfather gave you money freely?
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Yes! And my grandmother. I hadn't-- I never wanted for anything.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Did you have ice cream and-- [[Cross Talk]] when you went to the movies, too?

{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Yes, [[Cross Talk]] I had everything.
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{SPEAKER name="Theresa Holmes"}
Yes! Popcorn. Popcorn I think is my favorite, and a Coca-Cola.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
When you were going to move--
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