I ran into a museum curator who actually said "Save your confederate money, for the South shall rise again." I couldn't tell if he was joking or not:-)
I'll get Mira to post here -- Thanks, that's a great idea.
All of this pre-dates me, but I was there in the mid to late 80s and still remember the Biograph. If that was your concern, kudos for bringing culture to a relative wasteland.