At a recent WSLS reunion Herm Reavis is showing Lee Garrett a Tide Family Cookbook. All present agreed that it was Lee who played the part of Maw Tide.

Lee's wife, Charlotte, confessed that she went to Barrs Five & Dime on Grandin Road to purchase the bra that Lee used as Maw Tide. She took her daughter who may have been 8 at the time and asked the clerk if they had a "44 E" and the clerk looked at her strangely and before she could say anything, her daughter said "It's for my Dad"!