Carmen, I loved your story. You’re memories are so great as a grand daughter. Growing up, there were only a few kids my age to play with so when I was bored, I would wander up to visit Mary & Annie. I could usually stay up there by getting an “invitation” from either of them…mostly Annie when she was still living at home. I would just follow them around or go into the living room and play the piano. Mary would play the piano more than Annie and I’d love to sit by her as she played. Sleeping overnight meant that I got to eat Goldie’s pancakes and they were the best!!!!! Sometimes I’d beat her & Ches up in the morning and they would tell me to go back to bed for awhile. If I was at the cafe during lunch time, I’d go & sit at Ches’ desk & look at comic books. Goldie would make me a hamburger and I’d get a bottle of orange Crush. This kept me out from under their feet. But just watching Ches move so effortlessly among the customers. He’d be chatting one minute and taking the order the next. It was a business and they treated it as such but the customer was also family. I would get such a kick out of someone coming in for the first time with their kids. The kids would ask for french fries and be so surprised that Ogles didn’t serve them…just delicious home cooking….hot roast beef/pork sandwiches w/ potatos and gravy, pies, doughnuts. My mouth will still water at the thought of a sandwich & pie. Torg & I knew the exact day that Godie made doughnuts. If we forgot, we just had to smell the air as we passed Ogles. We’d pop in (separate visits of course) and pretend we came to visit but Goldie knew what we wanted. She always made some doughnut holes for us. My whole childhood revolved around Ogles Cafe. When our aunts and uncles came to Waverly, we knew they could all be found at the Cafe when it closed on the weekends. When I was a teenager and Bonnie went away to school, it was my job to go up to the cafe after it closed on Saturdays and roll up Goldies hair. Instead of getting paid, I’d bring home a 6 pack of coke because Dennis the Menace (as Goldie called him) would be coming over and liked Coke a Cola. I know my life was enriched soooooo much because of Goldie, Ches, Annie, Mary and the Cafe. How I wish Waverly had the life today that it had yester year with the 3 grocery stores, hardware store, drugstore, and all the other business’s the town used to have.