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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:29:26 EDT
From: Thinkmatic@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Loss?
In a message dated 6/21/99 9:55:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com writes:
> Otto,Cleve,Jimmy,Michele(vilkom back!), and other residents of/visitors to
> Boston who might have gone to Weylu's, I have sad news! We were taking
> some outta-town friends there yesterday to see the Roadside American Route
> One in scenic Saugus, MA......and Weylu's has closed down!
> While not a "tiki" restaurant per se, it certainly is a beautiful vestige
> of America's one-time obsession with things Exotic. It is a MASSIVE
> structure, shaped like the Imperial City! It had also sorts of gorgeous,
> ornate, (or tacky, depending on your proclivity,)Chinese and Japanese
> decorations, gardens, ponds, lots of red velvet and gold! This place will
> be missed, and is just another sad example of the Polynesian beauty of the
> past, turning into the ugliness of dust and ruins. We were hopeful,
> though, as some Japanese-investor types pulled in to "size up" the joint!
> Hey, if they need a music consultant for a possible "new Weylu's", I'll
> surely help them out!
> Jane Fondle...
As a former Medford, MA resident, I share your mourning, as do the Kowloon
(also a prominent Route 1, Saugus vestige of exotic splendor) salt and pepper
shakers that watch over me from atop my bookshelf.
- -Roy
"When I die, I want to go as my grandfather did: quietly, peacefully, in his
sleep. Not like his passengers."
- -Anonymous
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:34:26 -0400
From: itsvern@ibm.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) collecting
> Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb has made some comics together involving the self inflicted moral problems in collecting records, Harvey wanted every jazz record in world. He stopped when his greed forced him to steal LPs from a radio station.
> Is there other writers describing the weird situations in collecting lps?
Peter Bagge has mentioned old records/record stores in some of his comics....I know 'Hate' had a few stories that included the characters flipping through the record racks. Highly recommended is his 'Neat Stuff #3', a comic he did back in 1986 where the character Buddy Bradley is criticized by his
friends for looking at records more than ten years old. At one point a Sandler and Young LP is highlighted.
Movie wise, there is the scene from 'Diner' where the husband and wife are driving down the street at night, arguing about the importance of the husband's record collection. That's the scene where the wife is criticized for disrupting the system he has for organizing his records.
Vern
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