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IL. New Years and we're out here on the corner
of llth and Delaware, down here where the Loop turns
East. PUBLIC NOTICE is on the watch for possible
jam-ups as East Lawrence heads for the City Limits,
in a lemon-colored cadillac.

i votes, he had the consolation of the mayorality. He

f is a fierce watchdog for the town in a trying moment.
— Who: would have thought Lawrence would get 200 , 000
i residents this quickly ?

i East Lawrence and Old West alike are rolling towards
? Kansas City on wheels of fire, and they are traveling
: the multi-million dollar Haskell Loop route,

a They finally built the road they call the Loop in 1989.
S Within a few years Lawrence was the bean capital of
the U.S.A. New beaneries dot the floodplain, and it
takes a ton of trucks to radiate out the rich harvest.
East Lawrence itself is now a bullish industrial cap-
ital. The two new IBM factories guarantee a quiet
future for the whole town, industry -wise.

That's what brought us here to llth and Delaware to-
nite, all of this and more. So we're standing around
a newpaper fire in an ash barrel, munching weenies,
keeping warm. We've been here since 2 and we in-

tend to stay here all night.

Traffic peaked at noon. A spectacular wreck involv-
ing a candy-apple red plymouth and a truck full of
swinging meat hardly stopped the rush of traffic
downtown, coming in from boarder out-lying areas,
headed for Ray Audio Appliancences and White Goods.
Late, all the afternoon, they streamed past us and

Ee on West to the suburbs, some north across the double
a4 gleaming Kaw spans. Lawrence is finally, after

: years of struggle, knocking on Topeka‘s door.

 

But now itis night. The last f La wrence.

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Underneath the skyline

survivors, Harry Puckett, George Elston, Tom
Patchen, Ed Down, Mark "The Clown" Kaplan, and
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Harry Puckett, long time lover of life says, "Well,
the road took everything. I built these houses with my
own hand, and now they‘re all gone. I told Mayor
Clark it was wrong. In 19871 put a new roof over that
house. He's in Washington now. I put 280 roofs on
over here. Sol know whatI mean. In 19321 put
plumbing in this place. Last year the last few places
went, now mine. It's no good this way. I told Clark.
I know what I mean."

That's what we'd like to know. A community paper can’t function for long without response from the community. These
two pages begin a regular feature section on EAST LAWRENCE. Got neighborhood news? Send any and all to BOX 114.

 

PUBLIC NOTICE

Opinion

We all smile, remembering. Harry is passed a toast-
ed dog cooked ina no. 10 can over the flames.

 
 

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George asked, 'Why in the heck did they let Turkey
Tims chain in here ?'' (They line the Loop access
roads now).

No one had the answer. We turned to Tom, recently
arrived, who's now a giant supplier to International
Business Machines, still at the corner of 9th and Has~

kell Loop. ‘It's a mystery to me, ''Tom said good-
naturedly, ‘This was all zoned residential at one time,
you know. "'

Mark walked up griping in a clownish way then,
Woozie Suzie was combing her hair over in the dark.
Kirshenbaum called to say he wasn't coming--that he
wanted to watch the all new Fred Pence address the
five-county area.

We were all really waiting for Buford, humbled now.
Then we saw him twist his body out of a coffee-col-
ored Lincoln. We passed him a dog.

These reunions are getting slimmer now, as the years
roll by, as townspeople begin, once again, to lose in-
terest in the East Side, We'll he here again next year
though, We invite everyone to come out. We need
fresh blood, WRITE BOX 1l14.

 
 

 

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