Word: juking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...Italian serves my coffee. A photo of Chesty Morgan is pasted on the wall behind him. He asks if I would like some music--I wouldn't mind. The old man walks out from behind the counter and spreads change for the juke box on top of a gorged flip-top trash barrel. There is a die and a hinge in the collection of coins. I think that he's a scavenger, like the pick-pocket; even his shoes, with the heels sagging off his ankles like pouting lips, look as though they were plucked out of an alley...
...fast-crumbling section of town, with the heart, the old Opry building, cut right out of it and transplanted into the wide open spaces of chain motels and highway interchanges--transmogrified into another exhibit in a Disney vision of Country Muzak land--we saw the lights of a glowing juke joint called the Wheel...
...Benefit checks that ensure that laid-off auto workers continue to receive nearly 95% of their usual take-home pay. But SUB funds are rapidly being depleted; at current rates of payout, they could run out as early as May for some workers. The checks are what keep the juke joints along Wyoming and Livernois avenues full and make it possible for many unemployed workers to go hunting or take family trips as if on a paid vacation...
...Plough and the Stars, down Mass Ave. towards Central Square. The Plough and the Stars must be called strange, if for no other reason than the conflicting and interesting reputations that have been attached to the place. First, and indisputably, it is known as an Irish bar. The juke box plays Irish songs, the Irish Republican Army is reputed (somewhat more dubiously) to use the place as a sort of unofficial headquarters. At times it has been called a pick-up bar, at others it has been called a gay bar, at others still it has published a literary magazine...