Chester's, who's counting?

[Jim Strong]

Okay, who's got the words / comic strip panel for LA's
Wille & the 36 Flavors poem (Feds n' Heads 1968??).
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Billy Jim


--- Connie Clark <connie_3c@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Most of my years as a student, I walked everywhere I
> went.  24th and Rio Grande was on the way, sorta,
> between our vortex (the Chuck Wagon) and the ghetto.
> 
> Even though Looings poem was about Willie and the 36
> flavors (ummm, cantelope and curry), I remember the
> actual number being greater than 36, but less than
> 40.
>  Say 37 flavors, or one up on B-R.
> 
> During that time, I would frequently find my friend
> and notorious speed freak, Tommy McCampbell, crashed
> on the sofa, chair, or wherever he was when his
> 3-day
> (or was it 5-day) speed trip would abruptly cease. 
> Once I found him passed out on the floor with a
> soldering gun in hand next to the broken stereo
> speakers, frozen in his ambitious gesture.  
> 
> After about 18 hours sleep Tommy came back to life.
> To
> compensate me for having raided my fridge, he took
> me
> to Chester's to share a Matterhorn.  It was 14
> scoops
> of ice cream covered with whipped cream and a cherry
> on top.  I think the Matterhorn was Chester's
> biggest
> creation.  Tommy always managed to get me to turn my
> head while he snatched the cherry.  That made me
> mad,
> and he chortled, pleased with himself.  Practical
> joker he was.
> 
> So that is what I remembered about Chester's.  Now
> next door at Bevos,  one night, we all went there
> for
> something.  Was it just to drink beer? or hear some
> music?  It was in the 60s, maybe into the 70s.  I'm
> not too clear on the decade, but remember that the
> night ended when Don Taylor got into actual fist
> fight
> with some frat rats out in the parking lot. Anybody
> else remember that night?
> 
> So Charlie Loving is turning 60.  I hope to make it
> to
> the party on Friday, the 14th at 909 West 23rd
> Street
> (pretty close to Chester's!).  I'm sure I walked
> passed that address many times.
> 
> 
> Connie
> 
> 
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