{i} i} and «I went over to the corn-beef joint on Flower. It suited my mood. A rude sign over the entrance said: ‘Men only. Dogs and Women Not Admitted.” The service inside was equally polished. The waiter who tossed your food at you needed a shave and deducted his tips without being invited. The food was simple but very good and they had a brown Swedish beer which could hit as hard as a martini.” But that was L.A... Planet of the Arts Page 7 ‘At one minute past seven Pete Anglich, narcotic squad under-cover man, rolled over on the hard bed and looked at the cheap strap watch on his left wrist. There were heavy shadows under his eyes, a thick dark stubble on his broad chin. He swung his bare feet to the floor and stood up in cheap cotton pajamas, flexed his muscles, stretched, bent over stiff-kneed and touched the floor in front of his toes with a grunt. He walked across to a chipped bureau, drank from a quart bottle of cheap rye whiskey, grimaced, pushed the cork into the neck of the bottle, and rammed it down hard with the heel of his hand. “Boy, have I got a hangover”, he grumbled In this line of work I travel alot. I get off-island more than I care to think about and for reasons you shouldn’t even know about. But I still gotta eat. I go to the Bread Garden on First at Burrard — open 24 hours, and dinner for under five bucks. I don’t go for clip-joints, but somtimes I'll take the scissors to the Straight or the Discor- der, snipping out them little discount coupons. Coupons for The Eatery (W. Broadway) are good for burgers. Burgers? Try Darby D.’ Dawes on 2001 MacDonald at 4th. Two-for-one burgers (big, the way I like’em, with fries or salad) Monday to Wednesday after 7:30. With beer your dinner will be four bucks. And you can play darts. No burgers? O.K., try the Buddhist Vegetarian Restaur- ant (363 E. Hastings — 687- 5231). This place gives big servings and , like me, it’s rewmnevwy UNlicenced. No license i S jp 4 means the price BY \ ‘ee i \ 2) goes down. Just Mf like me. x G4 na Me and my pals, we put our hats and coats on, went fora ride. Just the four of us. We got happy, we got fast and we got plenty hungry. We ended up at the Bangkok Thai (143 E. Broadway — 873-2221). A good feed, under $25.00 for all four of us put together. Believe me, we hadda be put together. One morning, | don’t remember which: ¢ “Scramble two light, coffee, toast, no spuds.” “Dat ain’t no food for a he-guy,” Mopsy com- plained. “T been drunk”, I said. The girl at the end of the counter looked at me sharply, looked at the cheap alarm clock on the shelf, at the watch on her gloved wrist. She drooped, stared into her coffee cup again.” The cheapest breakfast around. The Pine Coffee Shop (1980 Pine — 731-7110). And then sometimes there’s just the two of you, all cozy and looking for something exotic. Go on, try the Noor Mahal : (4354 Fraser — 873-9263). Interesting variety of Indian food from both north and south, and you can get of there for under $15.00, feeling great. Closer to the home beat. (G.I., I mean) is the Dar Lebanon (695 W. Broadway if you live east; 1961 W. 4th if you live west; 564 Howe if you live downtown). For $4.25 you can get exotic fillings of chicken or meat for your pita bread, or stick to the vegetarian felafel for $2.75. A side order of spicey carrots will wake you up. ‘The owners are Lebanese and unfailingly friendly. If you wake up in Japantown sometime (and it happens to us all, sooner or later) you beter try the Japanese Deli(38/ Powell — 681-6489). My luck, the morning I woke up there was some big guy in a cheap purple suit and a Panama hat standing beside the bureau. On the bureau were two guns. One of them was mine. Smil- ing, he lifted my wallet and my gun. “Eighty-seven bucks. Nice money. Some of its mine from the crap game, but I’m lifting - it all, pal.” “Gimme a greak, Smiler,” I said, recognizing him from the clip-joint. “That’s every dollar I gotin the world. Leave a few bucks, huh?” What happened next I can’t tell you, unless you want to face a grand jury. Just let me say I had enough money to go down the street to the Japanese Deli for lunch, and still get a one-way ticket outa town. Tough choices to make — about six daily specials, plus it was a Wednesday, which meant the $4.95 all-you-can- eat tempura. special was.on (Tues. — Fri., noon to three), and so. was the $7.95 all-you- can-eat sushi special (Wed. and Thurs., noon to three). Hell, I figured life was raw, so why not lunch— I had the sushi. As I was paying my tab I eyed the red boxes of caramels near the cash register. Pink top on the box means a prize for girls, blue for boys. At65¢ each I got a bunch of ’em. Life’s a gamble — Why not play? Besides, they’d come in handy where I was goin’. huskily.” That’s my pal Pete. Some- times, to unwind, we go out. Nice quiet places, you under- stand. Like the Vancouver Aquarium (Jn Stanley Park). It costs only ten dollars a year for students to become members of the Aquarium, and then you get in free all year. Go ten times and that’s a dollar a visit. Go twenty times and it’s 50¢. Fifty visits in a year and it’s — heck you figure it out. Tuesdays sometimes we go to other quiet joints. The Vancouver Art Gallery for example. Free on Tuesdays. Likewise the U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology. Culture, and plenty of it. From Wednesday to Friday you can get a real cheap thrill at the Granville Island Market — watch the C.B.C. record a radio sketch for “Chez Gat- tuso”. Rehearsals start at three o'clock and the performance is at 5:30. Go there and drool at the quantity of quality record- ing equipment and photo- graphic luxuries those guys get to play with. And be on time — the show is a whole three minutes long. The price is right. If Pete’s hangover is particu- larly unforgiving we might spend the evening sacked out in a cheap movie-house, just watching and not doing anything more strenuous than chewing popcorn. With me it’s always The Hollywood Theatre (3123 W. Broadway — 738-3211), first choice. Re- minds me of that place back in Chi, where the blonde who looked after the big candy counter wasn’t young any more and her eyes were cynical from standing off cheap dates. But the Hollywood, you get double bills, always for three bucks, except Monday night when the price goes down to two. — @ The other main-drag theatre with good prices is the Van- couver East Cinema (2290 Commercial Dr. — 253-5455). A year long membership costs five dollars, which lets you in outof the rain to see a double bill for three dollars, always. Like they say in poker — deal. If your next stakeout is near the Endowment Lands you might as well go see the nightly flick at the U.B.C. Student Union Building (S.U.B.), Cinema 16 (228-3697) That'll set you back about a buck fifty. Even cheaper entertainment is to phone the pre-recorded ' tape of schedules, where some Cea joker is always practicing fora q\ Mt career in show biz. It slays me. fi \ Wwe Let’s say you got rolled — \ \— ia efit the psycho selling watches on Ape \\ the street corner wasn’texactly | / 6 on-the-level and pulled a gat. \|"” A voice says sharply: “Hold it! f Mitts high, chump!” You feela gun hard against your chest, hurting your breastbone. Quick steps come up behind from the alleywayand another gun prods your back. “Grab air, pal” says a voice, and you reach, real slow. The rest is over real quick and then there you are, no watch, no wallet, not enough spare change for the bus. In this case your best bet is E.C.C.A.D. Film Nights. (Room 138, sometimes room 143), absolutely free. Every Wednes- day at 7:00. Further entertain- mentis provided by Rich in the guise of “technical difficulties”. Alsoif you have some hot ideas | about movies you golta see, it can be arranged. ’ “The car slid along Los Angeles to Fifth, east to San Pedro, south again for block after block, quiet blocks and loud blocks, blocks where silent men sat on shaky front porches and blocks where noisy young toughs of both colours snarled and wise- cracked at one another in front of cheap restaurants and drugstores and beer parlours full of slot TON HOWARD | machines. » And behind all those blocks and blocks are the alleyways you want. You're going out for an evening of Smithrite Surprise, the cheapest assorted supply of random equipment you'll ever find. Some tips from true professionals in the bin biz include establishing a regular route in nice residen- tial areas — stay away from the restaurant circuit because what you find in those dumpsters you in no way wish to bring home with you. Mount a carrier-box on your bike for transporting your treasures. Take gloves with you. Always be quit and neat and very careful not to spill garbage out of the bin as this will be seen as unsociable by some citizens. One last note: never jump into a dumpster balanced on a downhill incline. If you’re a bit delicate and don’t care to get your supplies in the aforementioned man- . SQ = — «a The Imagination Market (1435 Granville — 688-8811, or cruise way over to the Champlain Mall location). Plenty of recy- cled “art” junk here, and they {| sell paper by the pound. | Student memberships mean} even better prices. / On the weekend you might | gamble 50¢ to get into the Vancouver Flea Market (703 Terminal — 685-0666). Open only on the weekends and holidays from 8 — 4:30, this is a good place } to pick up a cheap toupée or a slightly used waffle iron. hat does a cheap detective like . the covers off and send ’em sonalized stationary. Then put Peace around the trash you’re Besides run ning the detox centre and the home-for-girls, the Salva- tion Army (261 E. 12th — 874-4721) does a pretty fair trade in second-hand goods. Phone for the location closest to you and go root around in the basement for furniture, appliances, clothes, and books you'll probably never see anyplace else. In a similar vein is St. Vincent de Paul (640 Kingsway — 682-3161). Unpredictable and varied, there’s no denying it’s che: . g es Ne \ ——— Y\\\ valle 4 k ‘A _ Ma i! “He looked at her slowly, with an empty up-from- under look. ““You’re down and out, knee 4 deep in nothing, baby. I’ve been that way often enough to know the symptoms.” And the best way to ditch those symptoms is to go for the cheapest beer, the loudest music,some wild dancing. I’m 4 talking pub nights. Okay? i a . Ut : WNW Yi \ we ite y Z : \ \\ \\\\ \\ \\\ \ \\ \\ \\ Wy pp a if 7A UA \\ KN AW 1 went over to the com-beef joint on Flower. Ii suited my mood. A rude sign over the entrance Dogsand Women Not Admitted.” ‘The service inside was equally polished. The waiter who tossed your food at you needed a shave and deducted his tips without being invited. The food ‘was simple but very good and they had a brow Swedish beer which could hitas hard asa martin Bath “Atone minute past seven Pete Anglich, narcotic squad under-cover man, rolled over on the hard bed and looked at the cheap strap watch on his left wrist. There were heavy shadows under his eyes, a thick dark stubble on his broad chin. 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