Word: cantina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naturally, any information that might shed light on these issues would be much appreciated by all of us at Dartboard. Until then, may we all meet up at the Mos Eisley Cantina...
Meanwhile Fox is preparing to release the original trilogy in theaters early next year, restored and improved with some brief new sequences (the cantina scene in Star Wars now includes additional characters, and there is also a confrontation between Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt that didn't make it into the original). Lest anyone doubt the public's interest in the series, Fox re-released the trilogy as a boxed set on video last August and sold 22 million units domestically in six months...
There's nothing much remarkable about Happy Hour other than the false escapist sensation. But people there really don t want to escape, else they would have. Meaning that anyone can set up a cantina south of the border and live the life of the gringo in paradise. Anyone can take off for Russia and start waiting tables. Anyone can go to Nairobi and set up a lemonade stand. But people don't; they remain their vocational selves in one American metropolis or another...
Just after a hailstorm, Mike Downhower, 17, leads the troop down a mountain trail and suddenly notices a strange tree root. It rattles! Downhower skids to a panicked stop and gives the alarm. The rattlesnake simply slithers into the bushes. At a 19th century "Mexican" village whose cantina is stocked with root beer, Dennis Meade, 18, finds a rare gas-fired outdoor shower in a meadow. He also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure...