every few months during that period. All my friends at home were all getting high - lots of weed, psychedelics, mushrooms, hashish. Back in the day, hippies and blacks stayed
in these low rent flop houses all along the Col- lege Street area. There was a lot of walking back then, you could walk downtown; you could walk to Central City Park; you could walk to the graveyard; you could walk to the H&H; you could walk to Washington Park. And there was another great restaurant at the top of Spring Street and Washington Avenue called The Boarding House. That's where I ate, not at H&H. It was really good. It burnt down in 1973. I finally got an apartment at Spring and Cherry that was home base for about a year, 1972-1973. The music was cooking, and it was easy to
meet a fellow long haired hippie or musician cause we were all long haired. And all of us are getting high and on the same groove. The music was always the messenger. Love and Peace were the theme.
How were race relations in Macon back then? That reminds me, there was a black club
called Grants Lounge that everybody went to. The Waldens started showcasing their acts in there. It’s still here, and has achieved some- what legendary status now. Same with Mama Louises’s H&H Restaurant, which began as a black restaurant. Duane and the Allmans helped to bust down the color barrier. But if you don't live in the south, you don't under- stand how segregated it was here back then. It was ridiculous. At the doctor’s there were black waiting rooms on the back porch with no air conditioning and white waiting rooms inside in the air conditioning. We had black water fountains and white water fountains, black bathrooms and white bathrooms, black restaurants and white restaurants, black nightclubs, white nightclubs, black taxis and
tion. Let’s talk a bit about this new TV show, Maconga City Limits that airs on Fox in Macon and is posted online at
macongacitylimits.com. How did all of this come about? Six months ago I started this on my own with a promise from Chris Hicks that he would be my partner in it. Of course, I had to first con- vince Peggy Peck this was a very good idea. I had to create most of it out of thin air get
the people around me to help support me and create the program content and jump through all those hoops - all the details that had me working 24 hours a day, 7 days a
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white taxis, and on down the line. It was just the common matrix we all lived in and pretty much accepted.
Thank you for the historical perspec- tive. I am always reading about the race relations issue. I still find it very difficult to understand judging a man by the color of his skin. We need to talk more about that in a future conversa-
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