Word: shuffleboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names...
Barbecue & Bingo. From their modest start in Camden (NJ.) in 1933, the drive-ins have grown too big to be dampened by rain. They woo the family trade with an imposing sideshow of picnic areas, merry-go-rounds, dance floors, shuffleboard courts and bottle-warming, car-washing and laundry service. Among the latest gimmicks, planned or already drawing customers to the airers: nightclubs, golf-driving ranges, Shetland ponies, barbecue pits and motorized bingo (the jackpot goes to the right speedometer mileage...
...stretched out on the 'deck with the rest of the family to try her hand at target shooting (see cut). Margaret banged out a bull's-eye on her first shot, but young Elizabeth fired 30 rounds without a hit. There were bouts of deck tennis and shuffleboard, and-for the Princesses-a giddy series of tea parties in the midshipmen's "gun room," with charades and some earnest discussion of swing bands. At one formal dinner the Princesses sang the latest hits together as Margaret beat out a syncopated piano accompaniment...
...dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture on the future of Atlanta...
...like something G.I. Joe had dreamed of but never expected to realize. One veteran of Italian foxholes complained that he could not sleep-the Miami Beach beds were too soft. There were badminton, tennis, golf, shuffleboard, but most soldiers preferred to loaf in the sun. Wives could be brought along for a mere...