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Hobart Gazette, 20 Jan. 1955.
The 1950 Census shows Ronald Reed managing the Black Cat, along with his brother William (and William's wife, Darrielyn).
I've found the October 1953 record of Ronald and Laura's re-marriage in Lake County, Indiana. I can't find the record of their original marriage. I'm guessing that happened in Pennsylvania sometime between (probably) 1935 and 1940, when they show up married in the census, living in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
The owners of the Black Cat, Paul and Elva Allen, are recorded the 1950 census on the page before the Reed brothers. Elva was the mother of Ronald and William. Paul was their stepfather. Apparently Elva and their father, William, had been divorced, since William lived until 1959.
Now I'm wondering about Betty Reed, described in the 1953 article as the "wife of the owner." I can't find any Betty in the 1950 census. Did the article just get her name wrong?
I don't actually know if the divorce went through for Ronald and Laura. If she got her $30,000 in alimony, she did pretty well; that's about $341,000 in 2023 dollars (the $200,000 gross income of the Black Cat would be over $2,000,000 today). The next I hear about Ronald is a newspaper item in 1957 saying that he was marrying Lorraine Brady.[1] But I can't figure out what happened to Laura.
In happier news, Jack Hendrix is back!
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Hobart Gazette
He was "back" from Key West, Florida, where he lived most of the time, I believe. A "Hobart Happenings" item from the Gazette of March 3, 1955, said:
Jack Hendrix will leave Tuesday for Florida, where he is the featured organist in the Bamboo Room at Key West. He has been visiting friends and relatives in this area for the past two months.
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[1] "News From the Court House," The Brook Reporter (Brook, Ind.), 3 Jan. 1957.
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