Jefferson Side-Street Restaurant in Light in August (Location)

Display Label: 
Restaurant
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Office/store
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Context (text, as interpreted)
X: 
1195
Y: 
840
Description: 

In the various novels and stories. here are at least two different restaurants in Jefferson for the white people. This one has a long "frictionsmooth wooden counter" where Joe eats seated "on a backless stool," but all the text tells us about its location is that it is "on a side street" (113). Those two details, however - the long counter and the side-street location - suggest it may be the small restaurant that Flem Snopes acquires from V.K. Ratliff and uses to launch his climb up the town's social and economic ladders.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Restaurant

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