Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...because of a strike by the guards and was not reopened until 1976. Despite its well-known "escape-proof" reputation, Ray asked to be transferred there. At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, he and the other inmates of Block A filed into the dining hall to have a fish supper. They were then returned to their cells for a regular head count. At 6 p.m., the operations officer of the penitentiary picked up his microphone and yelled, "The yard!" The cell doors opened, and the prisoners moved out into the enclosed yard?about the size of two football fields...
Onetime Georgia Governor Lester Maddox no longer sells fried chicken; now he dishes out country ham. That about sums up the hokey singing-and-comedy act that Maddox, 61, tried out on patrons of Mr. P's Supper Club in Sanford, Fla. The man who in 1964 waved a pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears...
...Berklee Performance center on May 22 at 7 pm. And then there was the time me and the guys drove our mopeds through the reserve desk at Lamont...Remember the time we mixed the ham sandwiches on white bread in with the salami at the Hillel Deli supper? Lynyrd Skynyrd will be at the boring old Cape Cod Colisseum on June 18 at 8 pm? Oh, so you're going to be waitressing on the Cape this summer while secretly shacking up with that guy with the moped, and your parents think you're staying at your roommate's summer...
...weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air conditioning they get. And at least the street lights still burn. Indoors, electricity is scarce, and few people can afford to keep lights burning after supper...