There is nothing worse than a harlot turned respectable. A reformed anything is bad enough, but a reformed harlot is the direct wrath of the devil. It seems that those who have spent time giving pleasure for profit are all the more zealous when it comes to dealing out misery.
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You are listening to WREK Atlanta, and this is Lost in the Stacks, the research library rock and roll radio show. I'm Charlie Bennett in the studio with Marlee Givens, Fred Rascoe and a guest to be named later. Each week on Lost in the Stacks, we pick a theme and then use it to create a mix of music and library talk. Whichever you're here for, we hope you dig it. MARLEE GIVENS: And our show today is called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta." Harlots.
So that's like a really old timey way of saying, sex worker. Right?
Indeed. I mean, yea, verily, forsooth.
Is that the right era?
I don't know. We're mixing it up. I have a feeling we're going to be using a lot of different synonyms for sex worker today.
Oh. So this is both going to be a depressing and spicy show?
Well, we'll keep it Public Radio friendly of course, but we're going to explore the working practice of prostitution in late 19th century and early 20th century Atlanta as featured in a new online exhibit.
That exhibit is the scholarly research work of returning guest Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh of the GSU Library. She's going to tell us all about what was going on in Atlanta's red light districts over 100 years ago and how she did the research to find out.
Yeah. And I think that was an accordion that I brought into the studio.
That's right. Yeah. Forsooth, I mean.
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So our songs today are about the oldest profession, those who practice it and the society that simultaneously desires and rejects it. It's a world where power dynamics shift quickly and often. So let's start with a song featuring a shifting dynamic. It's about a working girl who gets arrested by the police, but then she turns the tables on the officer. This is "X Offender" by Blondie right here on Lost in the Stacks.
[BLONDIE, "X OFFENDER"] (SINGING) I saw you standing on the corner You looked so big and fine I really wanted to go out with you So when you smile
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
"X Offender" by Blondie, and our show today is called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta." Welcome back to Lost in the Stacks. That's the title of an online exhibit of scholarly research done by our guest today, Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, head of research data services at the Georgia State University Library. Mandy, welcome back to the show. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Thank you. Great to be here.
And belated congratulations on your promotion. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Oh, well, thank you. CHARLIE BENNETT: It's been a while. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: It's been a little while, but no, that's great. Thank you.
So let's get right to it. The online exhibit called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta", what is it? Give the usual elevator spiel when you tell people what it is. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: All right. Awesome. So I work at Georgia State University in the library. And a few years ago, I discovered that, from about 1869 to 1910, there was a red light prostitution district literally on the street right outside the window of the library. So I was excited, and I did all this research.
And I put it all-- what I have so far, still working on stuff-- on that "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta" site to share my love.
Which street? And which stretch? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Which street? The street is called Collins Street. It is this little stretch of street underneath the Courtland Street Bridge. Yes. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: So it's very hidden. I don't even think it really appears on Google Maps, but it is just basically a block from Decatur Street to the railroad tracks right in the middle of campus. I drive that stretch whenever the highway is backed up, driving around. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. OK.
It's very nice now, not very sleazy at all. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
It's not sleazy. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I hope that it's not still a red light district at any point during the night. But who knows? Yeah. I mean, it is kind of a dead zone. At least, Courtland Street right there is pretty dead. But yeah, you never know what's going on underneath something. Right? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah, under the bridge downtown.
So you saw that this was true, that this had been like that. And was it immediate that you thought, oh, well, I'm doing a research project on this? Or did it have to cook for a bit? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: As soon as I found out it was there-- I found out from actually my boss, my associate dean, Bryan Sinclair. Hello, Bryan. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yes. Hello, Bryan.
He shared an article with me that an emeritus history faculty member from GSU, Georgia State University, Harvey Newman had written about Decatur Street and how it had once been very-- like, in the '20s to the '40s, a African American kind of place to go see music, the blues. There were theaters. There were saloons. There was all this stuff.
And that article was mostly about that, but then it had four paragraphs or so said, oh yeah, and by the way, there was this prostitution kind of district basically tolerated, not legal but tolerated, which was very common for that era that was here. And then I, being a library person, of course, I was like, I got to do some research on this. So I dug into the online newspapers and census records and city directories. And things just start exploding. It was awesome.
Like I said, I just wanted to share it with the world.
Was it just like a spark of interest? Or did you have a research history of-- MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Was I a prostitute in my past life? Maybe. But no. That is not what I asked. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: No, I know.
[LAUGHTER]
But no, I actually did have-- so I have a PhD in sociology. And I did my dissertation on anti-prostitution crusaders in this same time period, like early 1900s, but I was focused on Chicago. I was from Indiana. I was going to school at Purdue University when I was doing this. So I had this interest in prostitution from that time. And that is why my boss, Bryan-- I think that's why he shared this with me, was like, you'd probably be interested in this.
So I know the answer to my question is going to be both, but I'm asking, which is more, sort of the poll. Are you thinking in terms of subversion of mainstream culture, the fact that there's this sort of underbelly or outsider kind of stuff happening? Or is it more the now retrospective sort of empowerment of women and the culture that's made its way into the mainstream now that pulls you in? Because you've said, super cool, got to know more about it. Isn't that awesome?
And there's lots to it that's not. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. No. And there's definitely that-- there's always that challenge when you're looking at sex work. And if you consider yourself feminist minded, which I do, but there are different camps amongst feminists about, Is prostitution or sex work inherently objectifying, repressive or-- CHARLIE BENNETT: Exploitative or empowering? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Exploitative, yeah. Or can it be empowerment?
So when I try to create my content for the site and as well when I do tours to talk about this, I try to do a balance. And I try to say, let's not over romanticize what's going on. Because it's easy to do so when you're looking at anything historically. But also let's not discount the fact that women did have some agency, and we can't assume that all of them were not there by some type of choice. I mean, yes, they had to work. But you know what? I have to work. Would I do work by choice?
No. I would be a woman of leisure. So yeah. You've got to pay the bills. Yeah. It's almost too much to try and get into that question just in casual conversation. There's so many caveats. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Layers, yeah. Well, and there's definitely even language that we use is-- like using the term harlots or other terms may seem too light to some people. But then there's, again, kind of that balance and reclaiming of words. And there's all kinds of things there.
I think we have to leave that there, as they say in the media. This is Lost in the Stacks. We'll be back with more about historical harlotry after a music set.
And you can file this set under G3924.A8A3.
[ROCK MUSIC]
"What a Scene" by Legal Weapon, and before that, "Ideal Woman" by Skinny Girl Diet, and we started off with Strumpet by Lois. That's Lois Maffeo, songs about being defined primarily by gender and the resulting subjugation.
[ROCK MUSIC]
This is Lost in the Stacks, and today's show is called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta." And we are speaking to the scholar who conceived of this online exhibit. But it's been-- we were talking during the break about how long it's been since you have been working on this. So what's been the most interesting thing that you've uncovered?
MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I think one of the most interesting things is just the fact that I was actually able to find information about the madams that ran the house and some of the prostitutes. Because the fact that it even made the news, which is mostly what I've been looking at, lots of newspapers, people tend to try to hide these things.
But the fact that I found so many stories and stories of like two madams that are sisters having knock down, drag out fights on the road in front of their house and like all these interesting things.
Just like early 1900s version of the police blotter. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: It really is. Yeah, definitely things would come up in the news, like little snippets. Like, Madame Annie Price got fined for serving beer without a license.
So it's little news items that you then have to connect. They're not doing features on these people. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: No features per se. Yeah, unless one really did something egregious by people's estimation and then they end up in a court case. And then they may have features. Were you straight up just reading whole issues of magazines and newspapers from that era looking for mentions?
MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Mostly what I've been doing, because nicely, we have all these digitized newspapers that I've been doing mostly keyword searches. So knowing the street, for example, that I've been mostly focused on was called Collins Street, I, one, just did search for Collins Street to try to see what came up. But then I had to do a lot of keyword searches as well for how prostitution was described at that time. And nobody ever used the word prostitution, basically.
So there are phrases like houses of ill repute or house of ill fame, bordellos, brothels. Yeah.
Didn't you say in your exhibit that they're labeled as boarding houses sometimes. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes, if you're looking at census records, which myself and a colleague Allyson Stephens did, census records for Atlanta, in some of the census records they would literally say, occupation, prostitute.
Wow. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Which was amazing to us. No idea that would be so blatant.
It makes your job a little easier. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: It did make the job very easy. One year, the census taker, the guy's name is Louis Peoples, must have been a little fun, because he used the term demirep, D-E-M-I-R-E-P, which I had to look up, which means a woman of questionable chastity. And that's what he used to describe women that we knew that he was talking about prostitutes.
Because we knew the areas, but then there were some times where maybe a boarding house would show up where there was a woman as the head. And then there were various other single women living in their, say, in their early 20s or something. And that was sometimes you thought, mm, that might be a prostitution house. And so you could look up the madam then in the madam's name or the head of household name in the city directory.
And at the time, Atlanta's city directory, if they were madams, it would say madam in the city directory.
Wow.
Wow. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: So it would say, Madam Abby Howard. Yeah.
So do you feel like you've gotten to know these people? Do you imagine them? I mean, you used Louis Peoples' name. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. Do you have them in your head? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I do feel like I've gotten to know them, especially these couple madams that are-- there are two sister sets. There's Annie and Fannie Price, and then Willie and Belle Burton. You don't have to make stuff up for us.
MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah, you don't have to-- I know, so that I feel like I know them in some way. I call one set the classy set. The other is the brassy-slash-trashy set because of some of their shenanigans. I definitely-- my husband drops me off at work and picks me up sometimes. And he parks on Collins Street. And he will say, I'm out in front of Annie Price's house waiting for you. So even he has been entrenched.
What have you found about other demographics? I mean, you mentioned finding stuff in the census, and they'll say, it's 'prostitution' right in the census. It's a 'madam', right in the census. Are you finding ages, races of who is doing this work? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. So the project that I talked about with my colleague Allyson that we did, we went through the census records. And we put them all into a spreadsheet for certain years. We did like 1880, 1900 and 1910.
And so we recorded, Are they prostitutes? Or are they head of the household-slash-madams? But the different censuses will give their age, their race. Have they been married? Have they had children? And how many of those children are still living? Can they read? Can they write? So we've gotten lots of interesting data there that maybe I'll have time to share. Yeah. We're going to have to dig back into that, for sure, in the next segment.
You're listening to Lost in the Stacks, and we'll talk more about sex work in historic Atlanta on the left side of the hour.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
OK. I've got it. All right. I'm Snowden Becker. I'm an archivist who's worked with everything from film and home movies to bricks and pieces of bedsprings. And you're listening to Lost in the Stacks on WREK Atlanta.
[PUNK MUSIC]
(SINGING) Every night, [INAUDIBLE] does what he can
[INAUDIBLE]
This is Lost in the Stacks. Today's show is called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta." And so we mentioned at the top of the show that there are many terms that we could use for what nowadays we call the sex worker profession. As my teenage children can attest, I can't keep up with today's slang for anything. But using my librarian powers, I did track down a book of slang contemporary to the time we're discussing today from the online library called HathiTrust.
I found a "Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English" by John S Farmer and WE Henley published in 1905.
This is so on brand for you, Fred.
It is.
There are some of the-- these are some of the slang terms I found for "harlot" in this book. OK? I brought my list. Hang on. Let me get my list out. OK. One of the first ones-- I think you'll be interested in this-- it's "academy," which means gang of thieves, gang of harlots, gangsters. That's interesting given we're four people working in academia. Right?
Yeah, that changes my understanding of academy fight song a lot.
Moving on, more terms for harlot, alphabetically, we have bachelor's wife.
Dude.
Bacon, as in the phrase, "to pull bacon", which apparently means to play the harlot according to Farmer and Henley there. The term fancy work, which means doing what a harlot does. Nightbird. CHARLIE BENNETT: Oh, I like that. Morsel.
Nope.
Nope.
Polecat. CHARLIE BENNETT: Yeah, I like that. Punk.
That is a very interesting one, and there's a lot more to that.
For 1905, yeah. Quail, another bird theme there. Sinner.
[LAUGHTER]
MARLEE GIVENS: That's so obvious. Strumpet, OK. Trash.
Dude.
That's a little harsh.
Uncalled for.
Venturer, a little more respectable. Wagtail. Wench, which I think was old fashioned even then. Right? And last, unbelievably, a given slang term for a harlot in this book is 'Woman'.
[SIGH] Wow. CHARLIE BENNETT: Just let's move on.
OK. So can someone file the set?
I'd be happy to, Fred. File this set under HQ144.A57 and try to forget some of those terms.
[PUNK MUSIC]
[GEORGIA WHITE, "I'LL KEEP SITTIN' ON IT IF I CAN'T SELL IT"] (SINGING) You will never want your money back If I can't sell it, I'll keep sitting on it Before I'll give it away Oh, daddy Yes, before I'll give it away CHARLIE BENNETT: You just heard "I'll Keep Sittin' on It If I Can't Sell It" by Georgia White. And we started that set with "Do You Want Me on My Knees" by The Nuns.
Those are songs about the business of, let's say, fancy work or Mrs. Warren's profession, the game, the trade, the life, hustling, street walking, courtesanship, the social evil, harlotry, late capitalism. I mean, call it what you like.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
This is Lost in the Stacks, and today's show is called "Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta." Our guest is Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh of the GSU Library, and you have done sex work research. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yes, research, not-- Not sex work. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Right. Not sex work at all.
Not sex work.
[LAUGHTER]
Thanks for tacking that on.
Yes. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: So glad you didn't have a coughing fit in the middle of that. Swallow it on accident.
[LAUGHTER]
OK. All right. Well, we're all a little jacked up over this topic. You have a website that has kind of summed up findings and has some sources. Is that right? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yes. I have a website that has the results of the data work we did, various stories about some of the madams. There is a map on there that kind of maps out some points. So people can go streetwalking themselves if they wish to see that. So that's been kind of my central area to try to compile some of the research.
And it will probably keep building as I add. Yeah. And Marla, you found an easy way to get to that website?
I did. If you go to the Georgia State University website, gsu.edu, and you do a search for the word harlots, you will get taken right there.
Nice. That means-- MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: My work is done. Yeah. You're in a rarefied area. And you've done research on this before in other places about other places. Right? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. So I did my dissertation on prostitution in Chicago. And then I've done more kind of informally a lot of reading about prostitution in New Orleans, which those places had kind of bigger districts for the same time period.
New Orleans definitely very well known district, Storyville is what it was called, supposedly the birthplace of jazz music as well. So they have more of a reputation for that. But discovering this little bit of Atlanta, this district that lasted almost 40 years, is kind of amazing. And there's probably reasons why it lasted so long, maybe because it's a little more discreet compared to some of those other cities like Chicago and New York and San Francisco and New Orleans and such.
The way you could find sources for Atlanta, was that different than the way you could find sources for Chicago or New Orleans or other places? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Different in part, just because, when I was doing the research on Chicago, that was pre-digitization of things. So it was the hard way. It was like the trudging through snow uphill kind of research. And now everything's digitized.
So I would probably go about similarly to doing the research on other cities now, but yeah, with Atlanta, I was diving into newspaper, online newspaper archives. I think I mentioned census, city directories, maps. Sanborn Maps are fantastic to find out what houses-- like, Sanborn maps, as a fun aside, is the people that made these maps would mark houses of prostitution as, quote, "female boarding."
So if you ever see a Sanborn Map and you see it's labeled as FB or female boarding, that was probably actually a house of prostitution. CHARLIE BENNETT: This makes me think that it's almost like a failure of classification. The subject headings and classification that we might use to keep these resources, because maybe at its core, it's embarrassed. Right? Then you can't find stuff as well as when you're able to learn the language and then search the text itself. Is that right?
MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Searching is very challenging. The slang terms that you mentioned, some of those I'm like, oh, I didn't have that in my keyword search with my Boolean operators. Mental note, go back, throw that in.
Wagtail. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah.
Yeah.
Man. So you're going to keep doing this? Does this project have legs? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: It does. It definitely, I'm hoping even-- I just proposed, I haven't found out yet, to do a honors class to enlist students to help me with the research. So I'll have them start digging into some of the different stories, maybe some different resources. Are you worried about getting a complaint if you bring the students in? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Maybe.
Yeah. Especially when you're a state school, you never know what's going to happen. But I think that there's enough people on campus that know that I'm doing this project and know that-- I mean, it's historical. When you do things historical, it's usually a little safer, I think, in that way. Do you have any partners in crime in like sociology or history? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I have a little bit.
Like, I've received some help from like a history professor, Marni Davis took me and some archivists from actually the Atlanta History Center to the Fulton County Courthouse last spring, so we could learn how to do property deed research. So it was awesome. I've been able to find the original sale to the first madam that was on Collins Street in 1869, found the record of when she bought her lot. And I was so-- I almost passed out I was so excited.
Wow. I feel like-- we're coming to the end of the segment, but we have to mention some in-person chances to experience this research.
A little community outreach. CHARLIE BENNETT: Yeah, in Atlanta. There's two Phoenix Flies tours, which is available to everyone who wants to come, March 10 and March 23. That's Phoenix Flies, like Atlanta out of the ashes, and then two regular tours May 18 and September 14. Will people find that stuff if they go to your website? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: They will find that through the Atlanta Preservation Center's website.
Nice. All right. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Yeah. This is Lost in the Stacks, and our guest today was Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh head of research data services at the Georgia State University Library. Thanks for joining us, past and future guest. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Now it is time for some music.
That's right. So hey, Mandy, go ahead and grab that accordion. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: OK. Oh.
Is there no set file? No music set? What's going on?
Oh, there's a music set all right. This is a special music set. You saw that accordion earlier.
I did bring in the accordion. I thought we were going to do a recording after. Oh, this is live? We're doing it now?
You know what? Mandy happens to be vocalist and accordion player for a local hot jazz band called The Absinthe-Minded Professors.
OK, that's a pretty good title.
And she is going to give us an in-studio performance. CHARLIE BENNETT: I do have to say, before I start adjusting these microphones, I feel like absinthe and jazz are two distinct historical eras. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Maybe a little bit.
[LAUGHTER]
So yeah, I mean, absinthe was probably a little earlier. But absinthe, absent-minded professors, we're having fun. We're taking some creative license there.
Do you hear that accordion? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I'm sorry. That was the accordion breathing, not Darth Vader. It's fantastic.
That is. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: That's the accordion breathing. That's an amazing sound. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I'm not sure if I'm good. Am I picking up OK on the vocal? Or does it need to be closer? We'll do it in time. So Charlie will adjust mics in real time and--
Fred's got the sliders, yeah.
You don't worry about it.
Do you have some songs planned? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I do have some songs planned. So the first song is with the theme. It is a little bit adapted lyrics to a song called "Tricks Ain't Walking No More." CHARLIE BENNETT: I mean, let's go. Let's hear it. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I will try it. So we'll see.
["TRICKS AIN'T WALKING NO MORE"]
(SINGING) They had Peter Street for wagon yards And Whitehall Street for stores Peachtree Street for dressy feet And Collins Street for whores But tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more I said, tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more I can't make a living I don't care where I go Sometimes I'm on top Sometimes I go down But I can't make a living in this stinking town Because tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more I said, tricks ain't walking
Tricks ain't walking no more Can't make a living I don't care where I go Got the preachers to my left Reformers to my right They driving away my business It's a slow, slow night Because tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more I said, tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more Can't make a living I don't care where I go Going to downtown Atlanta Find that Collins Street And picture all them ladies making money off their feet Because tricks ain't walking
Tricks ain't walking no more I said, tricks ain't walking Tricks ain't walking no more Can't make a living I don't care where I go I said, I can't make a living I don't care where I go Yes.
[APPLAUSE]
I mean, how are you going to top that one? You have another one? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: I do have another one. OK. And are there whole band arrangements of this for the Absinthe-Minded Professors? MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: So the next one, there is a whole band arrangement for the Absinthe-Minded Professors. It's library themed, of course. Oops, I'm knocking my accordion on the counter here. So the band has me singing squeezebox, but then we have Bryan Sinclair on trumpet.
We've got another library person, Joel Glogowski, on bass. We've got a keyboardist. We have a trombone. We have a banjo. We have a clarinet and then percussion. Very nice. OK. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: So it's out of control. This one's called "Long Overdue." MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: This one's called "Long Overdue," and it starts with a soliloquy. Behold the trusty librarian, so prim, so proper, so clean. But this isn't the library of days gone by. Get hip to the new scene.
["LONG OVERDUE" PLAYING]
(SINGING) Take off those glasses Who needs to see?
Let down that bun and show some knee You know it's long overdue Put that pointer finger away There'll be no shushing from this day forwards Long overdue Kick off those sensible shoes And no more suits of tweed Check out all those freaky tattoos She likes to do more than just read To hell with those fees and fines We don't care if you brought that book back on time We know it's long overdue People look all aghast that we don't have sticks up our... ask Us a question, we'll help you
Farewell to that old stereotype The spinster and old maid You can be a bibliophile and still want to get late fees Oh please Since Ben founded that library in 1731 Learning has happened in the stacks And maybe just a bit of fun Take off those glasses Who needs to see?
Let down that bun and show some knee You know it's long overdue Put that pointer finger away There'll be no shushing from this day forwards Long overdue Move over Miss Mary And check out the new librarians It's quite contrarian Sexy sexagenarians And it's long over-- Wrong note (SINGING) --due. It's one week overdue It's two weeks overdue It's three weeks overdue It's four weeks overdue It's five weeks overdue It's so long overdue Shh Yes.
[APPLAUSE]
MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Thank you. One wrong note, that's OK, not too bad.
[LAUGHTER]
CHARLIE BENNETT: Live on the radio, one wrong note is a necessity. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Exactly.
Yeah. So can I do the official set review?
Hit it.
All right. That was "Long Overdue." And before that, we heard "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" performed live by our guest, Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh. Thank you, Mandy.
I think one more round of applause is in order. MANDY SWYGART-HOBAUGH: Thank you so much.
[APPLAUSE]
OK. Fred, how do we follow it up? Let's just roll the credits.
We just got to roll the credits.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
MARLEE GIVENS: Lost in the Stacks is a collaboration between WREK Atlanta and the Georgia Tech Library, written and produced by Alex McGee, Charlie Bennett, Fred Rascoe and Marlee Givens.
Legal counsel and a petition to change the name of Atlanta's Courtland Street back to North Collins Street were provided by the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group in Atlanta, Georgia.
Special thanks to Mandy for being on the show, for bringing her accordion and to anyone preserving the history of those on the shady side of the law. And as always, to each and every one of you for listening.
Our web page is library.gatech.e du/lostinthestacks where you'll find our most recent episode, a link to our podcast feed, and a web form if you want to get in touch with us.
Next week, we'll find out why there's a bunch of paint streaks on the windows of the Price Gilbert Library. Could they be there on purpose?
I think they've moved from streaks to something else at this point.
Time for our last song today, and I don't know how we're going to top live accordion music. So we won't try. We're just going to close down this episode with the best disco song about sex workers ever. This is "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer. Have a great weekend, everybody.
[JAZZ MUSIC]
[DONNA SUMMER, "BAD GIRLS"]