Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch the Ford motorcade from the bar window, which was above street level. I agreed; at least we would be cool...
Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back of the bar...
...storm fostered a new spirit of camaraderie in the city. Bars were jammed with customers who could not get home. At the Rail Bar, Bartender Casimer Kania ordered ten patrons to leave as each new group of ten entered; he feared the floor would cave in under the crowd's weight. At Salvatore's Italian Gardens Restaurant in Lancaster, free sandwiches for everyone replaced costly Chateaubriand. Fire departments set up soup and spaghetti lines. The Salvation Army served meals to 25,000 people, clothed 4,000, gave medical supplies to 3,000. Citizens offered their snowmobiles for emergency...
...have trouble getting to sleep last night? Are you still shaking your head and smiling every time you think about it? Did you call up guys that you haven't talked to since those seventh grade Bar Mitzvah parties and gloat for 15 minutes about what you saw and what they missed...
...Square Men's Bar in Inman Square buys advertising space from The Crimson. Maybe you should, too. See their ad on this page. Then go to one of the most friendly and crowded bars in Cambridge...