Patricia Charlton

I grew up in the West End in the Laurel Homes and Park Town. I been a resident often on for all my 73 years. I can tell you about business in the West End. We had a dairy bar was called the ACA since a family dairy bar. I work there, Mr. I want to say Virgil Parker, but it might be wrong. He had the barber shop and all the movie stars used to come down and get their hair done. Mr. Parker and Mrs. Ernestine may hand they didn't get the the recognition they should get. But they are the one who made the process. People from all over out the male stars come to Cincinnati to get their hair done. James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and they come to Parker's barber shop. I was a barber shop and beauty shop baby. My mother named Lucy Coe had a beauty salon, how loose seats and before that, it was a beauty shop on Main Street coffee overs. Not only that, it's been plenty of black business that we should recognize for admins three. I will i am a member of St. Joseph. Everybody knows we used to have the dances on the weekend for people to go to not only that our church was a very good effort printer. Church. We have been go every Saturday. It kept up our school in our church by the bosom Ma was the priest there. He looked out for our lovers years ago St. Joseph started as a German church. And later about in the late 40s, early 50s It became predominantly black school. One of the things I can say St. Joseph, it may doctors lawyers can high class people. I've been an entrepreneur. Business Owner, I have Patricia as house of beauty. On Lynn Street. I think that if y'all know the West End, y'all should know we were a proud black folks that took care of each other. I grew up in the West end. I'm going to die here.