Word: winer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before rain washed the sidewalk outside Au Bon Pain this week, an artist covered the bricks with a chalk portrait of John Lennon. It was a throwback, perhaps, to the Au Bon Pain that Extension School Student Jordan R. Winer remembers...
...Twenty years ago, Harvard Square was really hip," Winer says. "Like, Bob Dylan spent a lot of time playing in all these folk-type cafes. Well now, no way. Now it's very posh, very fancy--Ann Taylor and so forth...
...Winer is a self-appointed member of the Square's cafe culture--a sort of underground society that frequents the crowded hangouts where hermits cuddle in the corner with Hume, where chess masters with unkempt beards wage war for a dollar, where Jimi Hendrix impersonators make the cappuccino quiver with their electric guitars...
...these changes for modern convenience have taken something fundamental from the old Au Bon Pain ambience, Winer explains...