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...most parks (major exceptions: Disneyland and Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense a dizzily dyspeptic array of instant edibles from storefronts with names like Yum Yum Palace, Mustard's Last Stand and the Hokey Pokey. Heroic exceptions to the no-brew stand-up eating syndrome are the Busch Gardens, near Williamsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Pop Xanadus of Fun and Fantasy | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Shakey 's Pizza, Tastee Freez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Want Food Fast? Here's Fast Food | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...House of Pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Want Food Fast? Here's Fast Food | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Millions of stay-at-homes will dance to this same rhythm. To them, summer supper does not mean a familial gathering around the groaning board, with Granny presiding over steaming tureens of garden-fresh vegetables. It means a quick take-out order from the local Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut, with plenty of potato chips and soft drinks to stave off the pangs until Dad carts the meal home. The kitchen is where the wrappings are thrown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Want Food Fast? Here's Fast Food | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Near the end of the line is Revere Beach. On a cool night Revere Beach means fried dough, pinball machines, dark bars, leather-jacketed adolsecents, pizza, joints, dirty sand, dirty ocean. On hot days people actually try to use the beach, although the ocean there is about as swimmable as Cambridge water is directly drinkable. But Boston's decaying and dinky answer to Coney Island is nonetheless high on liveliness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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