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Matters might have got out of hand, except for the civilian and military police, who were deployed in force. "One way or another, we're going to get the freaks out," threatened Wayne Morrison, a printer from Romulus (pop. 2,600). Contended Millie Todd, who runs a beauty parlor in Romulus: "They're lesbians. They don't salute the flag. They have set back what women have fought for, for a good 50 to 100 years." Said Tom Selling, a local carpenter sympathetic to the protest's cause: "You come here and act like...
Hula-Hoops. Frisbees. Drag races. The pizza parlor. One or more of these images will bring back the summers of their adolescence for many Americans who grew up in the '50s or early '60s. For others, however, one phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much...
...Celebrated physicians have condemned the double bed," warned a crusader for moral and physical hygiene in the 1890s. "The air which surrounds the body under the bed clothing is exceedingly impure, being impregnated with the poisonous substances which have escaped through the pores of the skin." Similarly, parlor chairs were designed to keep the sexes separate and unequal. The gentlemen's chairs were "akin to thrones," according to this diverting account of everyday life in the Victorian era. While men sat back comfortably in their high-backed chairs equipped with arm rests, women were confined to smaller, armless models...
...first issue last June 10, or 20,000, as it was for the most recent issue, there are precious few copies, if any, left over at the office, a casebook study in clutter, standing between a liquor store and a massage parlor...
Funk leads his compatriots in apathy on their listless rounds through the mall, from arcade to pizza parlor to benches in the main thoroughfares of the mall. When they are bored, they watch television in one of the mall's appliance stores; when they are tired they rest on the couches in the furniture department at Montgomery Ward's oblivious to the shoppers inspecting their restingplaces...