00:00:00JEFFRIES: Okay. So, um, tell me your, uh--(singing)--Doo doo doo doo. That's it.
Okay. Um, tell me, tell me your name and your--your name, your age--
LOGAN: Name, rank and serial number?
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: My name is Julie Logan. Why do you want to my age? And--
JEFFRIES: You don't have to tell your age.
LOGAN: --I live in Lexington.
JEFFRIES: Okay. Did you grow up here?
LOGAN: No, I did not.
JEFFRIES: Okay. Tell me about--
LOGAN: I've lived here since the '80s, if that matters.
JEFFRIES: Okay. How did you find Cafe LMNOP?
LOGAN: Everybody knew where it was, and I lived in that part of town.
JEFFRIES: Mm hmm.
LOGAN: So. You mean how did I locate it? Is that what you meant?
JEFFRIES: Yeah, just, I mean, how, how did it enter your life?
LOGAN: Oh, word of mouth.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: And driving by.--(coughs)--
JEFFRIES: Was--it didn't look like much from the outside.
LOGAN: No, but it had a sign.
JEFFRIES: Okay.--(laughs)--
LOGAN: The name was intriguing.
JEFFRIES: Were you like a club--did you go to clubs in general, or?
LOGAN: More then than now, yeah. I did go to clubs some, yeah.
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JEFFRIES: Okay. So--
LOGAN: I wasn't a denizen, but--
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: --I went to clubs enough.
JEFFRIES: What was, what was your fondness for Café LMNOP?
LOGAN: Oh, it was unique, and artistic, and you never knew what you might run
into when you came in. I mean, Bradley was one of a kind. And some of the people
that worked there were interesting. And it had a very friendly atmosphere and
upbeat, fun to go in.
JEFFRIES: There was a really--was there kind of a broad, a broad variety of
people there?
LOGAN: I think there was. I was really focusing more on the people that worked
there, but I'd say in their clientele was pretty broad variety of people, yeah.
It was a fun place to go on Halloween, I'll tell you that.--(laughs)--
JEFFRIES: It seems like maybe every day was Halloween there.--(both laugh)--
LOGAN: A little closer, yeah. Closer to Halloween, yeah.
JEFFRIES: What else that--what do you remember about Bradley? Anything in particular?
LOGAN: Oh, just the way he dressed.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: He was friendly too, I think.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: I, I wasn't a regular.
JEFFRIES: Okay.
LOGAN: I went there often--you know, once in a while, but I always
00:02:00liked it.
JEFFRIES: Did you--do you have any like favorite memories of Café LMNOP?
LOGAN: I have one memory that I would share with you all if you want to hear it.
JEFFRIES: Sure. Go ahead.
LOGAN: I was there one night and we went back in their room where the drag shows
were, which I think he probably just had on the weekends and maybe not even
every weekend. But I used to think drag shows were fun and I went back in there
and it was crowded, and raucous, and there were a lot of good performers. And we
were drinking and, you know, just carrying on, singing along or whatever, as it
goes. And amongst all the queens, all of a sudden appeared a drag king or
prince. Now how often do you see these? Not very often that I know of. A woman
in black leather, and she wasn't much bigger than I am. And she lip synced, or
whatever they do, a Rolling Stones song. She was Mick Jagger. She had all the
moves. It was very impressive to see this in the midst of all these
00:03:00flounced out guys, you know? And I was like--
JEFFRIES: A woman dressed as a man.
LOGAN: Yes, and doing a show. I--you know, seeing women dressed as men you can
see on the street any day of the week but--(both laugh)--doing a drag show was
pretty unusual. So I was sufficiently impressed and sufficiently drunk that I
walked up to the stage afterwards and stuck a dollar in her belt or something,
and she leaned down and kissed me. Well, okay. Wild night. Well, here's the
interesting part. You know, the, the night rounded out, I went home, I presume,
using memory. And then a couple of years later, or maybe more, saw her picture
in the paper. She was the other woman who helped that woman out on Richmond Road
kill her husband for the insurance money. That poor guy, Michael somebody. I
can't remember their names anymore. I think the one might have--her
00:04:00name might have been--
JEFFRIES: Are you talking about LaFonda Fay Foster?
LOGAN: No, no, no, no, no, no.
JEFFRIES: Okay.
LOGAN: LaFonda Fay Foster was not--
JEFFRIES: Completely different.
LOGAN: --a drag king.
JEFFRIES: Okay. All right. Thank you.
LOGAN: She had a completely different life. This woman, I don't think she was
particularly famous--
JEFFRIES: Okay.
LOGAN: --but she'd gotten in a relationship with a woman who lived on--in one of
those apartments I think out on the reservoir, who was married to a young man
named Michael somebody, and they killed him for the insurance money and left
him--I think they found his body in the reservoir or something. I mean, it was
really awful. It was really sad that this guy had to die like that. And it was
just absolutely cold blooded of them to do what they did. But when I saw her
picture in the paper, I thought, "Oh my gosh, that's Mick Jagger that kissed me
at Café LMNOP!"--(laughs)--So, I kissed a murderess. So, be careful
00:05:00who you kiss at drag shows. 'Cause a lot of kissing goes on, you know? Be
careful who, be careful who you give a dollar to, be careful who you kiss. I
guess that's the immoral of that story.
JEFFRIES: --(laughs)--The immoral of that story.
LOGAN: That's it. That's my whole story right there.
JEFFRIES: That's fantastic.--(both laugh)--Do you--have you, have you stay in
touch with any people--I was going to say other people, but have you--
LOGAN: I didn't know anybody down there.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: I just went in every now and then. It wasn't people that I socialized
with on a regular basis. I mean, I might still know some of the people that I
hung out with during those years, but I certainly--I didn't know Bradley, I
didn't know those people. It was just--it was a fun atmosphere and an
interesting place, an interesting clientele. But that was a long time ago.
JEFFRIES: Do you, do you-- have you ever seen any place that, you
00:06:00know, compared to Cafe LMNOP, or?
LOGAN: Not in Lexington.
JEFFRIES: Yeah.
LOGAN: Not that I can think of. Not that I can think of.
JEFFRIES: Other places?
LOGAN: I wish I remembered it better. It's been a long time.
JEFFRIES: Yeah.
LOGAN: And, uh, I don't remember it well enough to tell you that.
JEFFRIES: That's okay.
LOGAN: Quite honestly. It, it did seem a little exotic.
JEFFRIES: Mm hmm.
LOGAN: Like it could have been from some place on the coast, one coast or the
other. Maybe the west coast or Florida. Maybe it felt like Florida. I just--
JEFFRIES: A few of the main people--
LOGAN: --I went in because I liked the name.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: You know, LMNOP. That just amused me.
JEFFRIES: Uh huh.
LOGAN: What were you gonna say? I'm sorry.
JEFFRIES: I was going to say several of the kind of core people actually wound
up in, in Florida.
LOGAN: They probably started out there too.--(laughs)--And Bradley said, "Come
on up!"--(both laugh)--You know, it had kind of a flamboyant atmosphere, so--
JEFFRIES: Yeah.
LOGAN: --it made it lively, I guess.
JEFFRIES: Well, thank you.
LOGAN: You're welcome.
JEFFRIES: Anything else you want to share?
LOGAN: Nope.
JEFFRIES: Okay.
LOGAN: Thank you. Nice to meet you.
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[End of interview.]
