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A LOOK AT A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING PART OF TEXAS CULTURE, THE SMALL DINER.
Source | CONUS Archive |
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Record ID | 174169 |
Story Slug | Counter - Culture |
Location | Austin, Texas |
Format | Pkg* |
Date | 11/22/1999 |
Archive Time | 35:09 |
TRT | 2:20 |
Supers | Williamson County, TexasRice's CrossingGeorgy McCurry, Marcy Teague'sMotherJim Swift reportingSusie Kely Flatau, Author |
Video Description | EXTERIORS OF STORE, WOMAN COOKING, SOT WITH OWNER, SOT WITH MOTHER, BURGERS COOKING, EXTERIORS OF STORE, STANDUP, CLOSEUPS OF BOOK, MAN EATING BURGER, PEOPLE SITTING IN STORE, SOT WITH MOTHER, WIDE SHOT OF STORE. |
Description | A LOOK AT A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING PART OF TEXAS CULTURE, THE SMALL DINER. |
Script | LEAD: FROM DRUG STORE SODA FOUNTAINS TO COUNTRY BARS, 'THE GOOD OL' DAYS KEEP SLIPPING AWAY. THAT'S WHAT MOTIVATED AN AUSTIN WOMAN TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT OLD TIME TEXAS SPOTS THAT HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: A COUNTER TOP. JIM SWIFT TAKES US ON A COUNTRY DRIVE TO ONE AREA ESTABLISHMENT THAT EASILY MADE THE CUT.----------(TAKE PKG)---------------- SCRIPT: (woman asks, "do you know what a kolache is? another woman answers, Isure do.)APPROACH THE RICKETY FRONT POARCH OF THE "OLD TIMES BAR AND GRILL" IN RICE'S CROSSING, AND YOU'LL HEAR TWO THINGS: PLEASANT CONVERSATION AND THE SIZZLE OF MARCY TEAGUE'S WORLD FAMOUS HAMBURGERS COOKING' ON THE GRILL.(teague says, "years ago, I started just cooking hamburgers and it has been, uh, famous for me. "everybody says I habe the best hamburgers around."MARCY RUNS THE BUSINESS JUST AS HER MOTHER DID BEFORE HER, AND HER MOTHER BEFORE HER.(marcy teague's mother georgy mccurry says, mama would call, say the revenuers are comin! papa would take that slot machine put em in in burlap sacks and toad sacks and we had a big trash pile out there. he would bury em in the middle o' the trash, down in the middle, down in that trash pile and when the revenuers left, out came the slot machines and the soldiers went to playin' again)IN FACT, BOTH MARCY AND HER MAMA GREW UP IN THE PLACE.(mccurry says I remember I would set on the soldiers lap and they'd call me lil sister. and I had I had I was cotten headed and uh and had braids. course now I'm blonde again, but thanks to miss clairol.)HAPPILY, THE STORY OF THE OLD TIMES BAR AND GRILL HAS BEEN RECORDED, ALONG WITH THE STORIES OF FORTY SOME OTHER OUTFITS, IN A NEW BOOK, A BOOK THAT CHRONICLES THE ADVENTURES OF THE AUTHORS AS SHE CRISS-CROSSED THE STATE IN SEARCH OF THE "COUNTER CULTURE" OF TEXAS.(author susie kelly flatau says, "already, since the book has come out, uh another place has closed. Three have closed that were included in the book and now Pampell's, the cover photo, has also closed their doors. And I just also learned that they're auctioning off all their soda fountain memorabilia."(man says, Best burgers in Texas)THE BOOK BY SUSIE FLATAU AND PHOTOGRAPHER MARK DEAN IS A TRAVEL GUIDE TO A DWINDLING NUMBER OF OASES IN AN EVER GROWING CONCRETE DESERT.(flatau says, "there are a whole lot of trusting people out there that have good stories, um, they're loving and actually, they're just happy.")(mccurry says, we had a water bucket over here with a dipper bucket and that dipper and get a drink o'water and put it back in. "might be a little spit on it but who knew.")OUT ON THE PORCH, JIM SWIFT REPORTING.SOUTHWES |
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