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Last May, however, the Islanders gained a local disciple, named Joel Bartley, who was intrigued, thankfully, not by the desperate gimmick of Lionel side-cars, but by the size and quality of their cargo. Mr. Bartley owns the Square's Harvard Spa Luncheonette (in the past little more than a collection of odds and ends: a good part of a stationery shop, half of a grocery more, and just a truncated bit of a soda fountain). Reportedly, Bartley had been dissatisfied with this assortment of leftovers for some time; and a hamburg revival became his means for a change...

Author: By Anthony Hisc, | Title: Mr. Bartley's Burgers | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...heart lies in the food business, not in the grocery store," Spa chef Homer Schwartz says of his boss; but in Bartley's final reorganization scheme, it was the stationery shop, not the drygoods-and-deli that made way for his new hamburger grill. Since June, Bartley and Schwartz have been offering local customers Long Island style full 1/4-pound, ground-chuck hamburgers for a novel 48 cents...

Author: By Anthony Hisc, | Title: Mr. Bartley's Burgers | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

Since the grill's gala inaugural in June, Spa business has tripled. Starting Monday, Bartley will also offer breakfast on his redoubtable grill; for the grease-weary this may be close to an embarras de richesse...

Author: By Anthony Hisc, | Title: Mr. Bartley's Burgers | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...first Atlantic crossing next February, will have a rock-'n'-roll dance hall (Club des Jeunes), electric bowling alleys, shooting galleries, and soda fountains for teenagers. Passengers on the North German Lloyd's Bremen can take warm, hydrotherapeutic baths in the ship's man-made spa. ("The Lloyd line," says one official, "goes in for good clean fun.") American Export Lines are preparing lowbudget, two-week beachcomber cruises to Caribbean ports on the Atlantic, for which the lines will install barbecue pits for outdoor cookouts. There will also be spear fishing in the swimming pools-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Gimmicks East & West | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...July 14), was no longer afraid to go near the water. Honoring the bard-blessed stream that runs through his longtime Warwickshire constituency, the ex-Prime Minister selected "Earl of Avon" as his new title. To his son Nicholas, 30, will go a courtesy designation. Viscount of Royal Leamington Spa, to commemorate a last resort that has inspired more dowagers than iambs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1961 | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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