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...Russia with Love pounded out in Dixieland style by a sextet of Britons is enough to make purists quail. But the result is surprisingly lively, with a mean banjo taking the balalaika part. Even more surprising is Londonderry Air in shuffle rhythm, and Isle of Capri with a honky-tonk piano intro. Best of all is Alabama Jubilee, a traditional Dixie item done up brown as a hoecake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...City. Your glorification of the hot-dog and salt-water-taffy aspect of our resort was dear to the hearts of our residents who are spending millions for new hotels, motels, and new shops. Perhaps your staff and some of the convention delegates were so busy with the honky-tonk that you neglected to partake of the other sports we offer our other vacationers, such as fishing, boating, surfing, horse racing, golfing or trapshooting. Thank you so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...acre. It now takes $185 per square foot to get front age on Munich's Marienplatz, and hill top land outside Bonn that went for 10 per square foot five years ago now brings $4.65. On Spain's Costa del Sol, which has become almost honky-tonk as a result of a vast influx of tourists and land speculators, even rural land now sells for as much as $60,000 an acre-a price that the same lot in Florida's Coral Gables could not command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Hungry for Land | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Domes & Disks. It is a fun fair. Not in the oldfashioned, honky-tonk sense of the word, but as a showcase of entertainment mounted by America's most sophisticated and free-spending entertainers-its captains of industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Fun in New York | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...Club House became a museum, and the last open crap game had to start floating 13 years ago. The United States Hotel became a parking lot and stores, and the Grand Union is now a shopping center, with a supermarket of the same name. Broadway is a honky-tonk jumble of shoeshine stands, rooming houses and has-been hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The 100-Year Binge | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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