I read Stacy Dorn's ('64 of VA) notes on Antine's with interest, since it was one of my favorite hang-outs.

However, when I looked at the first picture on the page, looking down Washington Avenue at the intersection of 28th, 
I was hit by a totally forgotten memory. In that picture, Antine's was on the left. 
The red brick building on the opposite corner was the old First National Bank.

In grade school at John W. Daniel, many of us would go to the bank after December 1 
and get one of those neat "one-page-per-day" calendars they gave away. That was the easy part.

The big game was trying to get a second one!
The lady who was in charge of the calendars had a memory like a steel trap --
you couldn't get a second one no matter what.
We would go in and wear disguises, change our voice, etc. -- in essence, try anything to fool her.
It never worked -- even if you came in several weeks later.
She'd say "I think you already got one, and I can only give one per person."
It didn't do any good to protest. She was never nasty -- and probably enjoyed playing the game against us.
Sure wish I knew her name. I bet she could really tell us some hilarious stories about our shenanigans.

A group of three or four of us did fool her one time, in about the 5th grade -- we forged a note from one of our teachers.
I got elected to take the note to the bank, and was terrified the whole time that the cops would show up and arrest me for forgery!
I think the whole group lived with that fear for several weeks!
We didn't try that trick again in the future.
We drew straws to see who would get to keep it -- can't recall who "won" the extra trophy.

By the time high school rolled around, we wouldn't even try -- we'd just go get our one per year.
Anybody else remember playing that game?