Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing time. Two women dressed in blue jeans float in and begin perusing the price list on the wall. Frank stands behind the counter waiting to take their order. "Good, onion pizza, please, sit down." The women, seated at the table, chat away, about Dick and Robert and Jordan Marsh. One is tall and black, with an expansive Afro hairdo. Her companion is white, with long black hair that sags onto her short leather jacket. They are oblivious to the group that has just walked in the door, to the conversation at the next table, to Frank's acrobatics behind...
Frank lets him eat in peace as he moves from behind the counter to clear off the clutter of greasy pizza plates, crumpled napkins, and empty soda bottles that has piled up in the last ten minutes. His scenery the flimsy wood panelling on the walls, his stage lights the neon sign on the storefront that glares "Harvard House of Pizza" in red and green, Frank performs without an audience...
...when the ruling military junta made it very difficult to obtain exit papers to European countries, he decided on the U.S. It was only after Frank was here a year, that his parents could arrange passage to join him. At first Frank worked for his uncle at a Medford pizza parlor. Now he has his own place and his parents are here with...
...have only three days away from here since I start," Frank says, allowing a note of pride to creep into his voice. "And that when I sick. I like it here. Am working all the time." Frank's day begins at 9 a.m., and the last pizza is usually served around 3 a.m. Frank is in the store all 18 hours, seven days a week. "Sometimes I sleep to 9:30," he feels compelled to add. Frank does like to work, but not 18 hours a day. "Maybe 10 hours be good," he thinks aloud a bit dreamily. "Maybe...
Frank's ambitions are modest. Soon he would like to open another pizza place, and maybe even a restaurant in the more distant future. But his real ambition is to return to Greece. He becomes animated and talks rapidly, hoping the listener understands exactly what he wants to say: "Someday I going to live in Greece. Maybe 45, 50 years old. Going to town where I was born, and stay there. Don't want work there. I like to think, to talk to people. I want to have children, get family...