Volume 16, Number 3 · February 25, 1971
Pages from a Chronicle
By Robert Craft
November 18. Pompano Beach. The state of culture as advertised along the mental five-and-ten of Route USIA: invitations to bowl, roller-skate, have your fortune told; play shuffleboard, miniature golf, jai alai; buy plastic driftwood, electronic fish-finders (isn't that 'unsporting'?), 'Spanish Colonial Furniture Custom Made'; patronize 'U-$ave Shopping Centers,' 'Drive-in Funeral Homes,' 'Happy Hour Cocktail Lounges,' a 'Jungle Garden Safari' ('See 100 Lions in the Wild'), the 'Wigwam Village of Tuckabuck-away and Tribe' (those thrifty Seminoles?); try a garage selling 'Personalized Waxing' (how personal can waxing get?), and a First Church of Christ Scientist selling a sermon: 'Where Will You Spend Eternity?'
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