Thanks for sharing this fascinating background on the lunch
group. Gault mentioned losing a real friend when Willard
Temple died in the early 1980s. I didn't realize he had
brought the lunch idea with him from Sarasota but it makes
sense. There was a Sarasota group that included John D.
MacDonald, McKinley Kantor, Joe Millard among others. It also
was closed to women. It may be that Temple was a member in
Sarasota and brought the concept with him to
California.
Thanks again!
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Lynds"
<dennislynds@c...> wrote:
> > The Santa Barbara Writers Lunch---actually
brought from
Sarasota, Florida,
> by Willard Temple, a slick magazine writer, in the
Fifties---was
totally
> unstructured. Held every other Wednesday in the same
place---
Josie's El
> Cielito restaurant---you came, you sat in any open
chair, and you
drank,
> talked, and eventually had lunch in the midst of the
talking. No
one
> introduced you, you just took a seat and got to know
those around
you.
> Sometimes it took weeks to meet everybody, but what
usually
happened is
> people left as they pleased and the remaining
writers sort of
collapsed
> inward and as the group became smaller you met other
people. By
the time I
> arrived---1964, directly from the upper westside of
Manhattan---it
was a
> large group at one point reaching 60
writers.
>
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