Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned repeatedly to find many of those streets transformed. There were more spontaneous introductions, ogling of Western clothing and transactions for profit. At the Peace Café, Benefit-the-People Wang had quick eyes for American cigarettes, Inca-bloc watches and hard currencies. He and his friends drank orange soda mixed with beer and discussed which foreign visitor might like to get it on with Golden Thunder Chen...
...railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three things: (1) it always showed you other people's living rooms...
...paper products and dog food. Savings can be substantial. A 32-oz. bottle of no-brand ketchup normally costs 89?, as compared with about $1.30 for nationally advertised brands. Doris Brown, a Chicago house wife with two children, says, "Whenever I can, I buy generic items-bathroom tissue and soda for the kids...
...with the rise of the automobile. Today, for shopping, play or work, everybody heads for Warsaw, nine miles up Route 15. Claypool, it is remembered around the bookmobile, used to have a fine depot. It used to have a high school, a tavern, a cattle market, a drugstore and soda fountain. It used to have a hardware store, its own doctor, even a dentist. It used to have a barber shop, a newspaper. Marvin Neff, 74, and his wife Lucy, 70, treasure some old sepia postcards that prove Claypool even had a handsome elevated bandstand, center block on Main Street...
...drinks looked at me like I'd just flown in from the moon or somewhere and said they didn't have any. Can you believe that? All they had was Coke. So I got one. There's something strange about Coke at a football diamond; it's clear, like soda water...