Effie's
A brick from Effie's Whorehouse (or House of Ill Repute) in Clarke County. Effie's was know far & wide because it used to be right off of the trucker's main route, Hyw. 441, on the outskirts of Athens. Effie's consisted of 3 houses. It was in business since at least the late 1940s. It was finally shut down around 1975. In 1977 the Athens Fire Dept. burned the 3 buildings down in a training exercise. Me & a buddy of mine skipped school & rode down in his 1964 Buick Wildcat to watch them burn the buildings down. Clarke County sold some of the bricks from the buildings with a tag & the number of the brick. Not sure how many they sold. Wish I had bought one back in the day.
Rudy Vickery
GIRLS in the late 60's got so loose, Effies no longer needed.
ReplyDeleteEffie's last name was Matthews
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ReplyDeleteThe year was 1972. My good friend Eddie Glasgow and I drove his dad's 1957 Chevy to Athens to find Effies. It wasn't hard. We were only 17 years old, and when we knocked on the front door, we were told to drive around the back. We did, got out, walked up the rickety wooden stairs and went through through the kitchen. Out in the living room were two of the worst looking women I have ever seen--older, haggard, and rode hard and put up wet looking. But hey--we wanted sex. And, we would have had it, except as we were led to two separate bedrooms, I was near totally naked, and about to enter into the secret world of paradise, when suddenly I heard my friend say, "well yeah--it's a credit card. It's my dad's. He's good for it". We didn't know that only cash was king at the nastiest little brothel in America, and we were promptly told to leave! That close!!
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