After writing my earlier message, I was inspired to pick up
Ralph Dennis' THE ONE-DOLLAR RIP-OFF (1977) which I had never
read. The novel opens with Jim Hardman and his friend Hump
Evans at George's Deli and a bartender at the nearby Moe and
Joe's comes over with the Monday Night Football pool. Hump
ends up being cheated of his winnings but in the meantime
Ralph Dennis has evoked memories of Monday Night Football
when it meant something...when Howard Cosell was on the
broadcast as well as memories of the two bars in Atlanta.
One, George's, which he could not know would one day be the
location of his wake.
So to hell with the month of the 50s as Dennis takes me to
the one block in the city of Atlanta that has little changed
from the two bars to the hardward store and the fire station
on the corner. And now I am doubly glad that I took my
daughter to Moe and Joe's so she could get a better sense of
Atlanta.
Hell, anybody can take her to the High Museum.
Richard Moore
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