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Hobart Gazette, 21 July 1955.
Somebody creating a disturbance at the Black Cat — so, what else is new?
… What else is new, you ask? — Jack Hendrix is now performing at the Country Lounge.
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Hobart Gazette, 2 June 1955.
In the Gazette's "Hobart Happenings" column of September 8, 1955, we come across this item: "Mrs. Ida M. Hendrix, mother of Jack Hendrix, will leave next week for Key West, Florida, to make her home with her son."
I have only just recently learned that, as early as the mid-1940s, Key West was becoming known in gay subculture as a something of a sanctuary. I wonder what sort of impression Key West made on Ida Hendrix?
2 comments:
Mahaney came pretty far to cause trouble. Was the Black Cat a truck stop hangout?
Ida was probably happy either way to get away from the Indiana winters.
The descendant of the owners who gave me some info says the Black Cat was originally intended as a truck stop: https://ainsworthindiana.blogspot.com/2010/09/black-cat-restaurant-and-cabins.html
With the place being open 24/7, with food and cabins available, it seems likely that it was popular with truckers as well as other travelers along Route 6. Which was probably a route used a lot by truckers before the interstate highway we now know as 80/94 became a viable alternative.
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