and unchanged. why? >> john t. edge: this place is like a reliquary of like indiscretions past. you know? >> anthony: but maybe, to really tell the story of this place, you have to start with the story of its most famous employee -- booker wright, who had been working at lusco's as a waiter since he was 14 years old. >> booker: thanks to y'all. we don't have a real menu. i'd be glad to tell you what we're gonna serve tonight. >> anthony: in 1965, nbc news came to town, making a documentary on race relations. booker's entertaining recitation of the menu at lusco's was famous around town, so they asked him to do his usual routine for the camera. >> booker: we have fresh shrimp cocktail, lusco's shrimp, fresh oysters on a half shell, baked oysters, oyster rockefeller, oyster almadine. >> anthony: but at the end of his usual litany is where he dropped the truth bomb that nobody was ready for, right here. >> booker: now as with my customers, i say my customers, be respecting of me. some people nice, some is not. some call me booker, some call me john, some call me jim. some call me nigga. oh that hurts, but you have to smile. if you don't, "what's wrong with you?" the meaner the man be, the more