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>> [MUSIC] We needed to
integrate. We wanted

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to do it before we
were forced to do it.

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And so he said,

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we got to wait for
somebody else to go,

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someone else to go first.

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And Mike Orleans which
was a national chain or

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at least a regional
chain did integrate

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and like the week they
said it and they did it.

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I don't know how long
what the time span was.

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But we started
getting ready to go

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ahead and integrate our chats
and we lost some business.

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We lost some charge accounts.

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We lost we lost a
lot of regulars.

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But 1964, we had H stores.

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H stores. And we integrated
all our Lunch Nets

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including the one at

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Dalton that was
another scene too,

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but I visited every
employee behind

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every Lunch Net and

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talked to every one
of them individually.

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I don't know how long it took me

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to make it around because you

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had Lunch Nets were
open 14 hours a day,

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so I had to both shifts.

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And I talked to each
one of them and

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told them on such a date,
we will be integrated.

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We we didn't make an
announcement for anything.

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We're just going to do it.

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And there was no public
announcement, I said.

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But if you're not
going to do it, quit

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now because you will get let go.

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I never used the word fired,

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but I said you will be let go if

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you refused service
and just quit now.

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And I'm sure some people quit.

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I don't remember
specifically how many.

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I did have a lot of grumbling.

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And we were very worried
about, our records.

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My father always had

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a record and I know this was

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different from a lot
of retail stores.

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He always insist that
people waited on as they

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came in the door in the
order in which they came.

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A lot of stories of black person

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was in a store
standing in front of

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the count a white person came

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in behind them and they
got waited on first.

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My father was very insistent

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that the sun sound
like much in the days,

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but it was big time back then.

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Every now and then
people would fuss at us.

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But even where they

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couldn't sit down at
the soda fountain,

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had to come stand at the end.

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If they were standing
there before

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some white person sat down,

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that person standing the black
person got served first,

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and he was just very
rigid about that.

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And so we had that tradition

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it don't sound like much today,

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but we had that tradition.

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