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Page 6[TRENDS I Monday, May 7
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WEEKDAY EXPRESS BREAKFAST
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2. Four triangles of French Toast, one
3. Two eggs any style, with two bacon
strips, hash browns and toast
4. Two buttermilk pancakes, two eggs
any style, and two bacon strips.
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1180 Baxter Street
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Lunch and Learn Series
All sessions will meet on Wednesdays
or Thursdays, from 12:10-1:00 p.m.
in the Tate Center.
No Advanced Registration Required.
Wellness Wed., May 2 Rm. 143
A proactive approach to illness. Areas to manage
and resources to consider.
First Aid For A Broken Heart
Wed., May 9 Rm. 143
Some helpful suggestions for dealing with one of
the most common of human experiences.
Relationships That Don’t Work
Wed., May 16 Rm. 143
Learn the most common pitfalls in failing rela
tionships and steps to take to prevent them.
Depression Wed., May 23 Rm. 143
Information on how to get through a slump
in terms of activity and attitude.
Coping With Mental Illness
Wed., May 30 Rm. 143
Self-help for family members and
friends of the mentally ill.
Coping With Anger
Wed., June 6 Rm. 143
Methods for understanding and creatively
challenging one's anger.
For more information call the
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CourtMy of Athens Observer
Athens officials condemn and close Effie's
A "PIECE" OF OLD ATHENS
EFFIE'S
175 ELM STREET
ATHENS, GEORGIA
No. (1 to 1,082)
"I guess I've got bricks in every state of
the union and in Japan," said Ray, now a
local real estate agent. "I'm not condoning,
but it was a historical fact."
Ray sold some of the bricks for $15
apiece and says his best customers were
female students who bought them for their
fathers. "I've made deliveries to sorority
houses right here along Milledge," he said
motioning out his office window.
Other bricks ended up with local and state
dignitaries. A friend of former Governor
George Busbee bought one for the politician.
Ray gave others away. Brick number one
went to then Mayor Upshaw Bentley, Jr. It is
now proudly displayed on his law office
desk, removed only if Bentley thinks its
presence might offend a client. Number four
went to UGA Dean Emeritus William Tate,
who once said Effie's was "the scene of a
conflict in the theory of society."
"When I called Dean Tate and told him I
had a brick for him from Effie's, he had a fit.
'When can I get one?' he said. 'I'll be right
over.'
"It's not really part of the University, but
you can't really dissociate them," Ray said.
Ray had been running ads for the artifacts
in The Red and Black and The Athens
Banner Herald. The risque origin of the
bricks was apparently too much for The
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, however.
The paper's classified section returned
Ray's money for the advertisement claiming
the ad was inappropriate for the paper.
"I had to back off (the brick business)
when my mother and preacher got on me,"
Ray said. He ended up selling the remaining
j bricks, nearly 400 of them, to another
I Athenian with an affinity for the souvenir
: business.
It seems odd that in a tree-lined, bible-belt
I city, a whorehouse would garner such
admiration that bricks from its foundation
would find their way under Christmas trees
and onto the desks of the city's leading
citizens, but Effie's has certainly done this.
For students and citizens from the 1920s to
1974, the establishment titillated curiosity
and provided a setting for many a tale.
'The guys in the fraternity would always
talk about it, but I didn't know any regular
customers," said Val Hutto, a 1965 UGA
graduate and Kappa Sigma member.
"Everybody knew about it, but I think it was
more for alums who came in on football
weekends."
Though they were forever curious about
the goings on in the house, Hutto said few
students frequented the place because there
was a "phobia" about getting caught there
and being put in jail.
"But for all the girls it was a really mystic
thing. They always wanted to know about it,"
Hutto said. "It was a big thing on a date to go
by and look at it."
Ray remembered the late William Tate,
who was dean of men at UGA, talking about
Effie's. He said it normally operated quietly,
and if things got out of hand with any
students, Effie called Dean Tate to go get
them, Ray said.
As with any legendary establishment with
a slightly sordid past, it's often tough to tell
where the facts about Effie's end and the
lore begins. Many are willing to talk about
what they have heard about the place, but
they are guarded about releasing
incriminating information, like descriptions of
the interior of the house. The sketchy
descriptions offered by those present at the
burning or those who got a glimpse during
real estate transactions before the city
condemned the place add up to a rather
shabby interior. According to some local
news accounts there was wom out furniture
and carpet in the sitting room and a few old
chests-of-drawers with hearts carved in their
wooden facades. Other than the sitting room
and kitchen, all rooms were bedrooms. To
the disappointment of some at the pre-fire