| Show ON THE TH E SET SETy e fc to 3 Jik M A 7 by Helvetica Bold or Mt St. St Helens to whom this column is dedicated ON THE STREET I take it the place to be on on the street is 3rd South and State At almost any time night or day hundreds of people are lining up to see the Star Wars sequel TIle The Empire Strikes Back My mother taught meto me meto meto to never run for a bus to avoid standing for two two- half and-a-half hours in a line to see a movie is another piece of good ad advice vice Has the New Wave Vave that's washing over the musical landscape of America dragged you under tossed you about and left you lying on the beach with sand in your suit Has Punk got you sunk In other words have you ever wondered what happened to the days when you and your buddies could stand around eyeing the girls maybe get lucky even do the stroll or rub bellies to Buddy Holly or Dion and the The Bongo Lounge lo located located located lo- lo at 2965 Highland Drive still remembers and lives these days every Thursday and Sunday evenings no cover charge please The Bongo offers an added attraction however besides their pool and game rooms and freely- freely flowing draft They have a disc jockey Jim Denos cloistered cloistered cloistered clois clois- in the back room with a seemingly bottomless stack of Oldies just make a request and the song you like to hear is piped to the dance floor loud and clear A warning to these nights have become ve very ry popular and the bar reaches the legal limit of patrons quickly sobe sobe so sobe be prepared Manager Nancy Nelson expressed a bit of wonderment that the novelty of this routine hasn't started to slow up even after seven years I guess theres there's just not a lot of places doing things on Sunday nights she said Tuesday nights will be Country and Western evening with again the chance to hear your time old-time and current favorites by request Friday and Saturday nights are singles singles singles sin sin- nights and date nights respectively with the customers customers customers cus cus- evidently providing the impetus for good fun We HWe just run some tapes Nancy confided So if discos disco's got you dumped and jazz has you jangled bop on d down own to the Bongo The Prom was never like this I RANK THE CANDIDATES Jimmy Carter You know the Democrats are in trouble when their three top candidates candidates candidates candi candi- dates are named Jimmy Teddy Teddy Teddy Ted Ted- dy and Jerry Sounds like the Mickey Mouse Club Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter is such a lump that he keeps Billy around just tomake to tomake tomake make him look smart But even Karen Ann Quinlan couldn't help him now Ronald Reagan A former former former for for- mer boyhood chum of King Tut Reagan boasts that he has the most legislative experience experience experience exper exper- which he does But Joe DiMaggio has a lot of experience experience experience exper exper- playing baseball yet you dont don't see him trying out for the Yankees again Besides Besides Be Be- Besides sides could foreign powers take seriously a President who as an actor is best remembered for his role playing playing playing play play- ing second banana to a chimp in a film called Bedtime For Bonzo John Anderson We know about as much of this clown as Leon Spinks knows about the realistic neo-realistic of war post-war art I think hes he's our man |
