Unnamed Customers at the Atelier Monty

In The Town Charles naively - or perhaps coyly - describes the men from "the next towns" and elsewhere who visit Montgomery Ward's photographic studio at night this way: "going and coming through the side door in the alley; and them the kind of men you wouldn't hardly think it had ever occurred to them they might ever need to have their picture struck" (131). After the store's pornographic business has been exposed, Snopes boasts that his male clientele includes well-known "names scattered around in banks and stores and gins and filling stations and farmers too two counties wide in either direction" (172). They are mentioned again in The Mansion, which says that these men come from "as far away as three county seats" (62).