May 5th, 2010

If you’ve been to AC more than once, you surely will recognize this girl.  While she’s only a young girl, she’s already an “iconic” Fields Avenue character.  Like the old “Saluting Wheelchair Guy” (RIP), the “Long-Haired Singer Brothers”, and “Elsie the Peanut Lady”, this little “Flute Girl” has been at her wooden-flute hocking hustle for years now.

Barely 3 feet tall, I remember her serenading me with “My Heart Will Go On” while I sipped my coke-in-a-jar in front of Kokomoz on one of my earlier trips years ago.   As you’ll see in this recent video, she now stands a full 4 feet, and still plays the Titanic music while trying to get your money.  I think that’s the only tune she plays, but that’s not the point, haha.

People like these are the ones who make AC the experience that it is.  It’s not all just about the hot girls in bikinis on-stage in the bars (it’s not? wtf!), there are many of these “background” characters that add to the makeup of the town and give it a unique and interesting identity.  Ok, and all the no-holds-barred sex you have is a pretty big part of it too.