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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.
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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
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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.
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