Aunt Carrie's Painted Quilt-Block Number 2

 This second block of Aunt Carrie's quilt shows three people on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Oklahoma.  The first person she talks about is the man named "Lee Geno" (if I understood correctly)   on the far left sitting on the corner of K. Blake's general store/dry goods store.  She mentions that there was two entrances into the store.  The back door was to enter for groceries and the front  door (off of main street) was for the dry goods.  Lee liked to sit on the corner eating hot tamales.

 

 The next person she painted was "Hot Tamale Joe" going down the road pulling his two-wheeled cart and selling his tamales.  She said, that there were rumors he used stray cats for the filling in his tamales.  Carrie said that the tamales didn't taste like cat to her.  LOL  I highly doubt he used cats, but who knows.  The middle business in the block is of the Lissour Saloon.  This family pronounced the name one way until one of their daughters went off to college and was told it was a French/Jewish last name and was pronounced differently (think French) and from that point on the family pronounced it the "French" way.  

 

The person on the far right of the block was a lady named Mrs. Washburn.  She lived up the road from Grandma Anna Olson.  Mrs Washburn was a preacher and belonged to the Assembly of God church in Lexington.  She preached against saloons and the consumption of alcohol.  She would march up and down Main Street telling the saloons how bad they were and made their lives miserable.  Carrie believed at one time there were 8 saloons in Lexington, but that was before her time.