Corliss Balfour

I have been connected with the West End ever since I was a child. I basically grew up here and one time at one point in time. My grandmother actually owned a candy store on old Court Street. When it was the black people's market? And they had all the little. and shops. Well, you don't know anything about that you're too young. Yeah. One time. Our market was on court street. And basically, the stores that we shopped out of my grandma, actually owned the candy store. on Court Street. Everybody basically went to the Regal. Every Easter all the children went to theRegal, you would go to church, put on you have whatever you got to do easter egg hunt or whatever you're going to have at home, then you put on your clothes and you go to the regal parents did not come with us. They dropped all the children off at the show. They have the best hot dog in the world. Oh my God, I wish I have been trying to make my hotdog taste like that for years. I still can't get it. We would we would just be all over the show. In the balcony down on the first floor. We would some would sit down at times I did sit down and watch the movies. But I used it more for socializing. Okay.

I remember one time, my father and my mother and all of us went. We went to the Regal girl we were sitting there watching the movie. And a rat this big come running up the the aisle right. I started screaming and jumping up on the chair. My mom was that's when my momma seen it. My daddy had had a couple of shots. So he was sitting over there sleeping. Everybody was screaming and running but daddy was still asleep. My mom hit my daddy with her purse man get up the rats has taken over by then it was several rats running all over in the show.

However, I've never had problems with making friends or keeping friends in the west end or in over the rhine.