Better to Reign in Hell by Jim Miller

Author:Jim Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2011-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Ghost of Raiders past—Coulter Steel, Emeryville, California (note the edge of the door on the right)

Seven

At Ricky’s

Since good food and drink are often the accompaniments of good schmoozing,

trends in the numbers of various sorts of eating and drinking establishments in

America are both startling and suggestive. Between 1970 and 1998 the number

of full service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fell by one-

quarter, and the numbers of bars and luncheonettes were cut in half . . . These

cold numbers confirm the gradual disappearance of what social commentator

Ray Oldenburg calls “The Great Good Place,” those hangouts that “get you

through the day.” In effect, Americans have chosen to grab a bite and run rather

than sit a while and chat.... Whether we live alone or not Americans are stay-

ing home in the evening and Cheers has become a period piece.

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone

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