Pat Boone Fan Club by Sue William Silverman

Author:Sue William Silverman [Sue William Silverman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803264854
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Published: 2013-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

I park in front of the public library a few minutes before five. Broad Street, 130 feet wide, hovers like a mirage in the damp afternoon, automobiles floating down asphalt. The buildings have faded to bleached brick and stucco: Koman’s in the old Kress building; the Forrest barbershop with its ancient red-and-white pole; the Cherokee Lodge in the Masonic Hall; Lynn’s Uniforms; the Partridge Restaurant, established in 1933, its neon sign mute, unblinking; Esserman’s department store shrinking out of business. Only a few remaining metal canopies jut onto the sidewalk, offering a suggestion of shade. The marquee of the old DeSoto Theatre—which first opened on October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed—is blank. All the once-fulgent buildings, back when cotton barges flowed along Rome’s Oostanaula, Etowah, and Coosa Rivers, now droop and sag. The three rivers themselves are stained magenta, amber, puce—dye runoff from carpet factories—the water sludgy with chemicals from paper mills. The street resembles a deserted stage decades after the play ends. Façades of buildings are mere trompe l’oeils. Knock on a plywood door. No one answers.

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