probably don't come like they used to years ago, because
 they can go to different places. We have many places
 in town now.

 M: Did you ever hear of an eating place called the Black
 Cat?

 P: Yes.

 M: Where was that?

 P: That was on the corner of University and Fifteenth
 Street. In fact, the Black Cat was a friend's of mine,
 Bud Mizell of who is know with First Federal. When he
 was going to the university he was coming in there
 eating hamburgers, he told me that he was going to
 start a hamburger stand right there. He started with
 a case of Coca Cola and one gallon of ice cream that I:
 sold to him. We sold ice cream in a tub, with ice pack
 and stuff like that. He started with that. In a week's
 time he had a little shanty there, just a small shanty.
 I can't describe it because there's nothing like it
 in Gainesville now. Things like that used to be all
 over on the edge of town. It was just a little old
 building with a screen all the way around it. It was on
 the corner of University Avenue and Thirteenth Street,
 I believe.

M: Is that the corner where the Flagler Inn is today?

P: It's the other corner where the book store is. That's where
 the Black Cat was. That thing went up like a balloon
 and it grew and grew until he got a brick building.
 During those days, there was no inspection, no law. Any-
 body could start a hamburger business or anything
 they wanted. They could start a small business easily.
 That's whbre he started with a gallon of ice cream and
 a case of soda water. Don't know if he got gas or not
 but he was selling hamburger then.

M: Do you happen to recall what yearhe opened it?

P: I believe it was 1928,or 29.


M: What happened to it?