Word: clashpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers...
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