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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1983)
ERIC ENGLUND SCHOLARSHIP $2000 to enable a UO graduate to pursue graduate studies at UO or elsewhere in American literature or history or related subjects. Preference given to students who may not otherwise have the opportunity. Apply to English Department by April 22. _ INVEST in OSPIRG REINSTATE OSPIRG FUNDING Vote YES on # 2 and # 3, April 20-21 Jonathan Siegle Finelines... Copa...Copacabana. . . Ricky Ricardo went off to work—remember when?—to a night club. They disappeared about the time Lucy and Ricky went into reruns, but swinging sophisticated entertainment is coming back. The night club. Black tie. Spike heels. Cheek to cheek dancing. Discreet waiters. Elegant dining. The ultimate evening out. Jazz music is the draw in Eugene. Within a block of each other a couple can sashay between Jo Federigo’s, DeJola’s and The Oregon Electric Station. A few blocks away is Scampi's. What a treat! Eugene isn’t returning to the days of long limousines, Django Reinhardt, and Cuban bartenders. There remain ex cellent clubs where patrons can hear all brands of rock, country and the kind of music they play in elevators. But for the mouldy figs among us, there’s night clubs. Copa.. .Copacabana... The images it conjures up —Ray Milland, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Hum phrey Bogart and Claude Rains, Kurt Weill, Duke Ell ington, The Brown Derby, 21, Mr. Kelly’s, Packards, Bentleys, and what a Doozy. Swing dancing and little tables. Black ash trays with Stork on them. Swizzle stick collections. Pin-stripe shirts with solid white collars. Strapless dresses. r There were clubs with telephones on every table. There were high class places with doormen in livery, a snoo ty head waiter in a tux, lace tablecloths and sterling ser vice. And there were sleazy dives on the outskirts of town where those kind of girls worked. It was a romantic time. A What’s better than Beer & Sunshine? Enjoying both on Rennie’s deck Also, still serving the University’s most popular breakfast 2 eggs, Homefries, toast & coffee $1.50 Rennie’s Landing • 1214 Kincaid • 687-0600 Don’t be an APRIL FOOL Come on in for Garbage Grinders - $2.39 Every Sunday Tuesday Nite is LADIES NITE! No Cober to Ladies 50« Hi Balls 50c Beers for ladies 9-2 $ 1.00 Cover to Guys Wednesday Nite is HUMP NITE $1.00 Call and Well Liquor - .$1.00 Cover Thursday Nite is CHAMPAGNE LADIES NITE Starting at 9 pm ; Half Price cover before to pm Aftil EftWrtawmcnt Calendar 13 «* u>igS™ 115 L li f lr Ll Ladies Nile Hump Nile 20 2\ GtmnM 22 ,,.. ..... ........... ! L ti a \i L Spiff Ladies Nile I Hump Hite time where spooning and courting were very real rites of passage and a hot date was a kiss in a dark corner. It was an innocent time when Coke was only a drink you got at the corner drug store—when there were cor ner drug stores. The egg man, the milk man, the butcher and the green grocer delivered to the door. A traveling tinker fix ed your pots, and the scissors grinder put an edge on your blades. Kids played stick ball and kick the can. Boys collected baseball cards. Girls put glossies of their favorite movie stars on their mirrors. You walked most places.' The fastest way to travel was the Twentieth Century Limited. You looked up when a plane flew by, and everyone looked forward to the new car models. This was the age of the night club. It was an age where musicians worked to play together, where the band as a unit was the draw. There was no one with the name Sting, and you didn’t have to break anything to have a good time. It was also a time where neighbors meant something. The PTA had some weight. Newspapers came out at least twice a day, and newsboys hawked the competition on the other corner. It's Reagans American dream all right, a fantasy world we can never have, nor should we want to return to—again. We’ve all changed. The little boy who played Ghost in the Graveyard around the Banks' old white house out there somewhere in the Illinois flatlands is a big boy now, writing for newspapers and losing his hair. But we can see it all there behind a little table in the dark while swaying couples dance among us and the band plays on. Staff dnir«tiottv is the arts *nd entertain ment supplement published bi monthly by the Oregon Daily Emerald Editor.Jonathan Siegle Designer Angela Allen Calendar Editor.Robert Webb Copy Editor Ateta Zak Photo Tech.Erich Boekelheide Production. Karen Kajiwara 25% WHITE BOND FREE COLLATING O'lilTE SERVICE EUGENE PRINT 20 E. 13TH AVE. 484-2601
