38 | March/April 2018
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Give
every
child
a
voice!
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tickets, visit CACFayNC.org.
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Saturday,
March
24
th
,
6-10pm
crown
Center
Ballroom
To
benefit
the
Child
Advocacy
Center
Rock Stars
Champions for Children
Horne Brothers
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truction,
Inc.
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1.800.998.0320
Tickets
On
Sale
NOW!
Arnold purchased the building that
houses the coffee shop in 1998. At the
time, boards covered many storefront
windows in downtown. It's what Arnold
remembers seeing when she walked along
Hay Street on her lunch breaks while
working for an architectural firm. e
city had condemned 227 Hay Street. No
walls. Bird droppings layered the floor.
en one day, it rained while she was
walking past with her husband of now
nearly 33 years, Bruce.
"We tucked up underneath of what's
now 'Rude,'" she recalled. "I said, 'I wish
downtown would do something about the
buildings.' He said I should, and boy, does
he regret it."
Arnold laughed at the memory and
looked around her coffee shop. e
walls are now coated in pastel paint and
colorful memorabilia, including concert
posters for Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and
the Heartbreakers and Rod Stewart.
ere's a roof. And there are neighboring
businesses in the once sprawling,
dilapidated building – the Cameo
Art House eatre and the Rainbow
Room, whose owners purchased their
locations from the Arnolds in 1999 and
rehabilitated them.
Molly Arnold at Rude Awakening
