Day 5, April 7, 2015.

Today was such a fun day of filming. Growing up in the south I have always experience southern hospitality, but Mary Mac’s Tea Room takes it to a completely different level. They are so kind and so generous there, they couldn’t have been anymore helpful. We started the day off by securing all of our footage on an external hard drive. This was absolutely necessary because it is actually quite stressful thinking about losing any of this excellent footage we have been taking.  We headed down to Mary Mac’s, and started filming right away. Ponce De Leon Avenue is such a neat old street with tons of interesting restaurants and stores, we had to get some footage of the environment around Mary Mac’s. Then we sat down to have our meal. We were greeted with open arms and a nice back rub from head back rubber, “Mrs. Joe”. The sweetest woman whose primary job at Mary Mac’s is to rub the backs of the customers. You know you are in a nice southern restaurant when they have an employee dedicated to back rubs. We filmed two amazing interviews of Mrs. Joe, and a waitress who has been working at Mary Mac’s for over twenty years! They filled us in on the rich history, and southern style traditions that they still hold to this day. One of the most interesting things of Mary Mac’s is the ordering process. You write down on a sheet exactly what you want with a pencil provided on the table. It is a tradition of the restaurant, and it is one that will definitely never change. It was just such a delight to be surrounded by so many kind people, and they really helped in making our video the best it could possibly be.