An unfinished cap of coffee denotes that this person may return. A lot of the customers will come into the cafe about three times during the day, maybe even more.Ina Jean Guffey’s sister Janet ‘Sissy’ Craig, cleans the floors at closing time. Guffey’s Cafe, which opened in Albany 15 years ago, has been sold and bought four times by the same owners Kan and Ina Jean Guffey. Besides them working there their son Mike and daughter-in-law, Connie, help out.There are some days when finding room to stand becomes an impossible task at Guffey’s Cafe.Oral Agee, 80, chats with friend Patricia Sears, 31. Both age groups see no age barrier between the young and old.Arnell Goodman plays a game of punch-board where for a dime one can punch out a number and hope to win money.John Groce, 68, calls the cafe a second home. He said he has watched the people coming here over the years grow up. He said he likes to come to the cafe because you can converse with people, exchange gossip and ideas.Religious symbols like this ‘One day at a time’ remind customers to keep strong in their religious beliefs. Ina Jean Guffey commented that you try to live the best you can. She also said that if a person misses going to Heaven, then they have missed out on the greatest thing life has to offer.In Guffeys Cafe in the downtown square in Albany, Kentucky, most of the townspeople can say they have been coming to this location for lunch and a cup of coffee for close to 50 or 60 years. During an early morning rainfall customers site into the cafe to have a hot cup of coffee. The townsfolk find the ultimate convenience of the cafe is its location, around the town square.Unfortunately there is no info with this photo.Robert Stockton passes the day away listening to a friend’s conversation and smoking a cigarette Guffey’s Cafe.
