Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liebling had this theory that Lousiana was the westernmost Mediterranean principality, what with its Byzantine politics, and all. If that's true, then Florida is perhaps the northernmost Caribbean principality--ruled by Holiday Inn instead of United Fruit. Subject to coups and missile shots and crazed Cubanos and Ed Gurney and Ed Gurney's ghost, where the great Northeast goes to die of the pulmonary diseases contracted in 40 years of living in the great Northeast, hospitable only to snakes and gators, the Miami Dolphins and Richard Petty, ah Florida--my Florida, home of Danny...
Nowhere is that more evident than in the dorms. The first look at the group bathrooms and cell-like rooms drives some adults to the nearest Holiday Inn. Most stay, however, and take advantage of the upper-class "parent-advisers," who are there to answer questions. "As long as I know he washes his face and hangs up his clothes, maybe I can relax," confides the mother of an only child. Indeed, the parents quiz the advisers closely about food, how roommate conflicts are resolved and whether refrigerators are allowed...
Memphis, summer 1978. A steamy day in the pleasant but tired Southern town, nestled in a bend of the Mississippi, that gave America the blues, W.C. Handy and Beale Street, Holiday Inns and Piggly Wiggly supermarkets. And Elvis Presley...
...Wednesday morning, a Gray Line tour bus pulls out of a Holiday Inn and the guide, 21-year-old Diane Piecara, boasts of the anniverary: "You are making history today." Her bus includes half a dozen Canadians and a few Norwegians, infants, and grandmothers. But mostly there are middleaged, middle-American women, wearing shorts or double-knit slacks. Their hair is bouffant or stiffly curled. Diane points out the Loews Palace cinema "where Elvis was fired from his first job for fighting another usher over the girl who sold popcorn." There are "ooohs" and "aaahs" mixed with the click-flash...
...without going on an austerity budget, they have already saved $11,000 toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative," says Sam. "She gets uptight if the bills on our credit cards total...