Cadillac Man pursues Americana and what better place than at a soda fountain, specifically Blake's Pharmacy Soda Fountain in West Union, Ohio.
His mission is 'making America greater one soda fountain visit at a time.'
'Soda jerk' is a term of deep respect and big fun because Indies are Americana and nothing else ever can be. There's no corporate sponsor and they don't want one, most likely because it's easy to get glitzy but that style is temporary and soda fountains have been part of America for maybe two centuries now. You can go for 'a little bit of mambo' or a Harley Davidson and you tell me which will still work a hundred years from now.
(Ed: sometimes music goes the distance like that!)
Indeed it does. Fortunately most doesn't but "Imagine" will likely last another hundred years ... and people still won't understand it (larfs).
(Ed: easy on the cynicism, Carbuncle, as no-one needs cynicism in a soda fountain. That's a place for going when you like to hang out but you really don't want to deal with drunks or hipsters and you want a cooler vibe than that.)
If this isn't Americana, tell me you ever thought of "Happy Days" with a cast from Greece with all the music played on bouzoukis.
(Ed: I thought you love bouzouki music!)
I do but I never heard any in a soda fountain. Take it away "American Graffiti" and who was the stunning blonde in the Thunderbird?
There's a whole lot of thought here on Ithaka about 'what's real' and maybe that's widespread with Boomers who have become highly-disenchanted with disingenuous politicians, plastic people, and the preternatural obsession with LED lights in the New World so we look about, surely there's something real left somewhere. As you see, Cadillac Man is doing just fine in his search for reality and, what do you know, I don't see a campaign banner in the place.
Cadillac Man, sorry I missed your messages but I was in a state of deep intellectual study and ...
(CM: you mean you were sleeping like a bear in hibernation?)
Remarkable perspicacity, Watson!
His mission is 'making America greater one soda fountain visit at a time.'
Two of Blake's soda jerks
and Cadillac Man
(proudly wearing his Ohio State shirt)
'Soda jerk' is a term of deep respect and big fun because Indies are Americana and nothing else ever can be. There's no corporate sponsor and they don't want one, most likely because it's easy to get glitzy but that style is temporary and soda fountains have been part of America for maybe two centuries now. You can go for 'a little bit of mambo' or a Harley Davidson and you tell me which will still work a hundred years from now.
(Ed: sometimes music goes the distance like that!)
Indeed it does. Fortunately most doesn't but "Imagine" will likely last another hundred years ... and people still won't understand it (larfs).
(Ed: easy on the cynicism, Carbuncle, as no-one needs cynicism in a soda fountain. That's a place for going when you like to hang out but you really don't want to deal with drunks or hipsters and you want a cooler vibe than that.)
If this isn't Americana, tell me you ever thought of "Happy Days" with a cast from Greece with all the music played on bouzoukis.
(Ed: I thought you love bouzouki music!)
I do but I never heard any in a soda fountain. Take it away "American Graffiti" and who was the stunning blonde in the Thunderbird?
There's a whole lot of thought here on Ithaka about 'what's real' and maybe that's widespread with Boomers who have become highly-disenchanted with disingenuous politicians, plastic people, and the preternatural obsession with LED lights in the New World so we look about, surely there's something real left somewhere. As you see, Cadillac Man is doing just fine in his search for reality and, what do you know, I don't see a campaign banner in the place.
Cadillac Man, sorry I missed your messages but I was in a state of deep intellectual study and ...
(CM: you mean you were sleeping like a bear in hibernation?)
Remarkable perspicacity, Watson!
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