The Seegers — Marie: “Prior to our getting a movie theater in Cary, where Rogers Motel is now [on Chatham Street,] that was a restaurant at one time called the Rendezvous. One side of it was just a blank white block wall. Someone came with a movie projector once a week and projected a movie onto that wall. All of Cary would come with their lawn chairs and watch that.”

(Fred:) “This guy would come to Cary and he had a specially rigged car. One side would open up completely, and he had a movie projector sitting where the passenger seat would normally sit. He would show a movie on Friday night, sponsored by the merchants of Cary, from whom he would go around in the afternoon and get sponsorships for the movie. That’s the way he made his money. Then he would show that movie on the side of the Rendezvous. We would all take our lawn chairs, and there might be as high as 50 to a hundred people sitting in the field beside the Rendezvous watching the movie [for free.] I must tell you about Mr. Cumby. We really didn’t know where Mr. Cumby came from when he came to Cary. But he was a very, very personable person. He moved to Cary and had a tractor, a BIG tractor. He did not have any land or a farm or anything. He lived down just before you got to the Cricket [Station] on Chatham Street. He would break everybody’s garden and do plowing for people around Cary. That was his source of income. Just about everybody had a little plot of land and grew a garden.

“Mr. Cumby did not have a car. He traveled everywhere on his tractor. Even on Friday nights when we had the movies on the side of the Rendezvous, he would drive his tractor up there and park it, and bring him a chair and sit. It was a big tractor. He would go to the grocery store, drive his tractor and park it just like people would park their car, and buy his groceries and go back home."

Robert Godbold: “Used to be a guy to come up here on Friday nights, set up in the field beside where Rogers Restaurant was and show cowboy movies on the side of that building. We all sat out there on telephone poles, what have you, watch the movie, no charge. [The sound] came from the projector right there with it. We’ve come a long way.”