Word: coops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the panhandlers and hare Krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue-collar worker who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work, Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
Passim inhabits the old Club 47 at 47 Palmer St. (it's the narrow street between the Coop's main store and the annex). Passim is a combination bookstore and coffeehouse with entertainment. The entertainment runs mostly to rising troubadours-not quite folk music, but quite definitely singer-guitarists. Rosalie Sorrels is playing this week, twice a night, at 8:30-10:30. Their cover charges range from $2-$2.50, and their phone number...
...mess kits. The store has a large stock and reasonable prices. But the Square also has many stores offering jeans and shirts for sale. There are two Slak Shaks (485 Mass Ave and 59 Church St.), for example, with the standard fare for shops specializing in pants. The Coop (1400 Mass Ave), the store that stocks almost any item you can think of, also has a fair selection both downstairs in the women's department and upstairs...
...Square also has its share of ice cream parlors. Some have standard fare, like Brigham's (next to the Coop) and Bailey's (21 Brattle St.). Others are a little more exotic, like Baskin Robbins (1230 Mass Ave) which has 31 flavors, and the Spa (0 Brattle St.), which serves frozen yogurt...
...Coop and The Honkers have already been released, with When the Legends Die yet to come), so there is a certain fa miliarity in atmosphere and incident...