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Emma Sanderson Hudgins 119
Down Malvera Avenue ( Hot springs* Besle Street)
went the interviewer* On she went past the offices of a large
Cliicego packing house* For better-than a block she trudged by-
dilapidated shops which a few seasons back had housed one of
the key transient centers of the U.S*A» Down the street she
walked, pausing for a moment to note that coffee colored faces
decorated the placards in the beauty shop window—two well
groomed mulatto girls sitting inside, evidently operators*
■OH t^er course took her past sandwich joints and pool halls*
Hails, she noted as she drifted along, had been driven into
the projection beneath the plate glass window of the brick
bank ( closed during the depression a building and bank
built, owned and opera ed by negro capital) to keep loungers
av*ay* The colored theater ( negroes are admitted only to the
balconies of theaters in Hot Springs one section of the
belcony at the legitemate theater) she ioticed was now serving
as a religious gathering place* The well built and excellently
maintained Pythian Bath house ( where the hot waters are
-Tiade available to colored folk) with the Alice Eve Hospital
( 45 beds, 5 nurses, 2 resident physicians negro doctors
ti-.ruout the town cooperating surgical work a specialty)
stood out in quiet dignity. For the rest, buildings were an
indiscriminate hodge-podge of homes, apartmen houses, shacks,