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...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
...homosexually, was in fact no more mature. The only difference was that the viciousness of homophobic Harvard was disguised by the niceties of academe, the legitimacy of Intellectual Argument. Only at Harvard, for instance, could a man (who was otherwise almost totally non-religious) present in all seriousness--over pizza at Harvard Pizza--an argument for "Why Homosexuals Should Go To Hell...
Waits' own street schooling began early. Born in Pomona, he was brought up in several Southern California cities after his parents, both teachers, were divorced. At 14, he began working the graveyard shift at a pizza house in National City, a San Diego suburb. "It was a tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...
Early on most Friday evenings while many Harvard students are resting up for big nights of partying, a certain number of undergraduates gather together in a brightly colored room in the University Lutheran Church, a modern building next to Pinnochio's Pizza, for a somewhat less likely weekend activity. Every week, about 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students join together in that room to praise Jesus Christ...
When Billy Carter showed up in Boston to pick a winner in the Miss Piggy's Pizza Beauty Pageant, a woman reporter asked him: "Is there anything you won't do for money?" "Yes," cracked the President's brother, "but if you proposition me, I'll do it for free." Next question: "How much money are you being paid to be here?" Answer (amiably): "That ain't none of your damned business...