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...Seattle, beer taverns, juke joints, dine & dance spots have twice as many frolickers as a year ago; everybody seems to have extra cash to spend, especially aircraft workers, longshoremen, sailors. Weekly gross at The Ranch runs up to $18,000, almost double earlier this year. At the Olympic Hotel youngsters jam the ballroom; about 90% of the boys are in uniform. In private clubs (only in clubs can liquor be sold by the drink) business has doubled, and clanging slot machines often pay all a club's operating expenses. Unlike most cities, Seattle revelers bypass cancan shows, prefer jugglers...
Free Unless Delighted. Los Angeles will miss slender, square-jawed Clifford Clinton. In 1931, after depression rocked his seven San Francisco cafeterias, he moved there with $2,000 to open Brookdale Cafeteria, where each customer's check has an IMPORTANT NOTICE: "You may pay what you wish or dine free unless delighted." Hunger has always horrified him since boyhood days when, with his Salvation Army parents, he lived in China and saw gaunt Chinese devouring an oatmeal poultice his father had put on an old man's carbuncle...
With my line, stein, and wine I will dine...
...hover in village doorways after tea, to chat with passing soldiers, free from camp for the evening. Country hedgerows echo in the dusk with laughter and new rustlings. In factory canteens, men and women in mutually greasy trousers lunch together by accident, arrange without benefit of formal introductions to dine more quietly elsewhere. At the "flicks" (movies), neighbors who have never seen each other hold hands. Adjoining seats in busses, trams and trains are excuse enough for a conversation which may lead to a quick drink, or maybe...
...counters loaded with perfumes, nylon stockings, leather goods, flashlights, cameras. Americans and Britons flock to Saint James's restaurant for thick, juicy steaks. Menus in all the best restaurants list hors d'oeuvres, fish, entrees, desserts and coffee, and most people order right down the list. Fashionables dine at the Continental Roof Garden, where Hekmet, the famed and sexy belly-dancer, excites the audience nightly...