CLINTON ST. QUARTERLY cis much fun o s you con heme in public Dec. Sundays Mondays Tuesdays 18-20 Thurs.-Sat. 24-25 Wed.-Thurs. 26-27 Fri.-Sat. 31 Wednesday Jan. Sundays Mondays 2-3 Fri.-Sat. 6 Tuesday 7-10 Wed.-Sat. 13-14 Tues.-Wed. 15-17 Thurs.-Sat. 18 Sunday 20 Tuesday 21-24 Wed.-Sat. 27-28 Tues.-Wed. 29-30 Thurs.-Fri. Feb. Sundays Mondays 3 Tuesday 4-7 Wed.-Sat. 10 Tuesday 11-14 Wed.-Sat. 17 Tuesday 18-21 Wed.-Sat. 24 Tuesday S low tra in Paul DeLay Band The Bill Feldmann Band Johnny and the D istractions Closed — M e rry Christmas The Odds The Sleezy Pieces — New Year's Eve Party S low tra in specials SUNDAYS A l l w in e tw o fo r one THE SINGLE WOMAN IN PERU Last night I heard a young woman screaming in the street several houses down. "No Poncho, no Poncho . . .!" Her voice rose to a desperate wail. "No Poncho, please wait a little for me, esperame zm ratito, Pon- chooo . . . 1" I listened to his retreating heels on the sidewalk. She sobbed. Then I heard her slam the ragged gate into her courtyard . Lynn Darroch Paul DeLay Band The Sleezy Pieces The Bill Feldmann Band Trigger 's Revenge The Ma lch icks Johnny and the D istractions to be a rranged The Bill Feldmann Band Upepo w i th special guests The Balloons The Ma lch icks The Hots S low tra in Paul DeLay Band The Bill Feldmann Band S low tra in D r iv ing Sideways The Sleezy Pieces D r iv ing Sideways The Bill Feldmann Band The Bill Feldmann Band MONDAYS A l l tap bee r tw o fo r one TUESDAYS Free pool, f re e foosba ll, f re e p inba ll MONDAY-FRIDAY 4-6 pm Happy Hour 2 for 1 on all refreshments and free pool SOME THOUGHTS ON THE EXERTIONS OF TRAVEL SACKS FRONT AVENUE, SW FRONT AND YAMHILL By Martha G ies “The Passport Office welcomes photographs which depict the applicant as a relaxed and smiling person. ” U.S. Government form DSP-111068 Th is vaguely poignant invitation suggests that there is some strain which is showing up in our passport photos. How many hundreds of thousands, of American faces were examined before the Passport Office concluded we are a worried people and, given that bureaucracies are typically characterized by indifference, how did this tender concern develop? How did it become official policy? Som e travelers invariably spot celebrities, or think they’ve seen a famous fugitive. When Patty Hearst was missing and, as a citizenry, we were all presumed to be keeping an eye out for her, Zephyrus Image Press issued a handy wallet-size card designed to simplify the chore. It carried a standard wire service photograph of Patty, over which a number of tabs could be folded which reconstructed her face under an assortment of disguises. By referring to this card, one could avoid the embarrassment of fingering the innocent — the ticket taker at Marineland, or the Dartmouth student on an interminable holiday stopover at O’Hare. Ch r istophe r Isherwood once pointed out that the American is far more romantic than the European: he can live in a concrete block motel room and his imagination will supply all of the texture and detail, while the European needs the physical reassurance of beautiful or interesting architecture. The Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons are wonderful institutions in this respect. They allow one to subordinate the fac t of being in Atlanta, say, to the idea of being in Atlanta, a practice favored by all true romantics. Am ong people who travel frequently, there may be a handful who make a point of arriving at the airport an hour before'flight time as the airlines recommend, but most seem to take amusement in playing the game of seeing how close they can cut it without missing the flight. This becomes a personal style, an important part of one’s self-image, and minor rituals (e.g., packing so as to avoid baggage check, or the skid-in-and-ditch system of returning the Budget car) are developed around it. The game culminates in a dizzying race down concourse D, where it is necessary to squeeze ahead of entire families invariably clogging the weapons detector, in order to make it, just make it, to gate 57, breathless and drunk with pride. T h e word traveler suggests adventure and activity, both of which are missing from the word tourist. These are proper etymological legacies. Travel comes from the French travail, to labor, hence, the exertions of recognition, imagination and acceleration are appropriate to the art. Tour comes, through both Anglo Saxon and French, from the latin tornare, to turn in a lathe, and connotes the brevity of the spell, the finitude of the circle, the inconstancy of the turn. We’d rather be taken for travelers than tourists. 10 Illustration by Dana Hoyle
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