She worked as a waitress for decades in the rear coffee shop at Thrifty’s on the corner of Sunset and Fairfax. Place had fantastic apple cobbler. This one tiny, frail, always wearing a mink coat gal, was Ellie’s favorite customer. I used to watch this tiny woman, head for her special booth with the help of her driver. He waited for her in this polished Bentley until Ellie would wave for him out the back door of Thrifty’s for him to get his lady. Ellie had a face like Popeye’s mom would have, minus the corn cob pipe…On a phone repair at the Body Shop, I’m at the rear of my Pac Bell van, getting some wire. Traffic has backed up. I look into the eyes of a nice looking woman in the car waiting for the light to change, sitting right next to me. It was Ellie!…When the woman passed away, she left all her millions in property and bank statements to her favorite waitress…
