a 'memory' of Elva sprang up this morning........I remember getting tickets from Elva Spangenberg, fondly called "Speegee" at the artsy Rhodes Theater, that was a few blocks....walking distance.... from my apartment at 'The Manor' on P'tree St.......When the Theater's lease was not renewed, Speegee...then in her 90's....was out of work!.....Undaunted, in her 90's, she got a job working for my friend, Ronnie Mitchell, who had opened an antiques store, The Buccaneer, across from Mary Mac's Tea Room.......Speegee once said to me, "this antique store is a hotbed of sex!......but, it's a job!".....She was in her late 90's then....and 'lived' until she was 107! I went to so many 'movies' then....often viewing 6 a week.....that, a few times, in my 20's I was 'pressed for "Culture-Cash"'.....Speegee, noting my many visits to The Rhoades, would sometimes whisper, as she handed me an admittance ticket, 'keep your money, young man....the Theater's only a fourth full, and the movie sucks!'.......[i.e. a 'free' double feature, in air conditioning, on a hot, muggy summer day....rather than sweating in my top story un-air-conditioned abode......]
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