That's how my mother (4 years old and living about 150 miles north of here at the time) would have explained how you'd know who could go where in those days.

Perhaps the good doctor specialized in irony?

No thanks.

Shade makes it the best place to be in the Florida sun. Somewhere to sit makes it even better.

I don't see any signs outside. How was the person walking by to know that a given establishment was for whites or blacks? Or would that have been inside? I'm really wondering this for a lot of the pictures coming from the Jim Crow era south.

Or maybe it is obvious, and I would have made a terrible segregationist. I'm fine with that.

[Marion Wolcott spent months hanging with the brothers and sisters down South, taking more than 1,100 photos in Florida alone. I suspect she knew what she was talking about. - Dave]

No doubt she did. I'm just becoming very aware that Jim Crow appears to have been, at least on the "black" side of the equation, a lot more subtle than I'd have guessed.

I must be missing something here. Is there a sign or any indication this is negro only?

The white guys wouldn't go anywhere hear a black bar in inland Florida in those days!

That's my theory.

Why are all those white fellas standing out front then?

[Because they're not black. - Dave]