University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
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Busts boost pastry sales
By United Press International
THORNTON, Colo. — Gene Alarid sells doughnuts, but the most popular item on his menu is cheesecake.
Alirid began operating last week what may be the nation's first and only tollet doughnut shop.
"The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea."
"Business was really rotten," he said. "Then one day a customer said that what I needed to boost business was a bunch of topless dancers.
So now the waitresses at Fat Daddy's Coffee Shop, when they are not waiting on tables, strip from French maid's uniforms to pasties and a bikini bottom. They time their act to the beat of a jukebox on a small, mirrored stage in a corner of the shop.
A CUP OF coffee is $1 and doughnuts are 75 cents each, but customers are not complaining
"The doughnuts are good," said a customer, James "Okie" Allen, "but the girls are excellent."
Alarid said that Thornton officials had told a topless doughnut shop presented no problems, because all of the baked goods were coffee and no alcoholic beverages.
"I put an advertisement in the newspaper for toastless doughnut waitresses, and the response was great. He and I were the ones with any previous dancing experience — I figured the inexperienced ones would be better."
Trumpeting motorcycle gives highway concerts
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HARFTORD, Conn. — Bill Traverse gets his share of double takes when he rides his 1980 Harley-Davidson motorcycle from the 135-pound, 135-inch portable brass section.
"No one has ever seen anything like
himself on the job," she self-
employed North Haven salesman.
The gleaming black-and-chrome motorcycle carries 64 glittery silver trumpet horns, mounted eight rows of eight across in an aluminum and Plexiglas frame he designed for the back of the bike.
The frame has room for 12 air compressors to blow the horns in any of a dozen tunes Traverse can choose by switches mounted near the handlers.
"I CLAIM that I haven't seen or heard any other motorcycle with more horns," Traverse as he gave a mini-concert on a visit to Hartford.
The motorcycle's repertoire includes "Never on Sunday," "Wedding March," "Bride on the Yankee Duck," "Bridge on the River Kwaal," and "Yes Sir, That's My Baby."
It can also play "Oh, Susanna," "O Sole Mio," "In the Summertime," "The Godfather" and the first 10 notes of "Somewhere Mv Love."
Traverse estimated that he had invested 500 hours of work and $15,000, including $5,000 in horns alone, in the motorcycle.
It is outfitted with a public-address system, a television and antenna, AM-FM stereo, citizen's band radios
When he gets tired of riding, he pulls off the road and watches ballgames on a miniature television mounted on the dashboard, he said.
and a burglar alarm loud enough to protect it all.
"I started off with one set of horns for the novelty of it and people liked it." Traverse said. He kept adding until last year, when he had eight sets, or 44
Then he redesigned the system, a job he completed three months ago.
HE HAS MADE it a big investment, but he says, "It's not my full-time hobbie. When I go on vacation I like to take it with me."
His full-time hobby is collecting spittoons. On the wooden nickels he passes out to the curious, he laims clay world's largest spittoon collection.
Traverse said the motorcycle attracted considerable attention and he obliqued onlookers with a song or two / even police.
"I've had state police do dances on
interstate 84 when I hit the tunes." he
said.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For three weeks, a 16-year-old boy told authorities that his name was Raven Darkholm and that he lived a secluded, vagabond existence with an absurdist woman until she abandoned him.
And for three weeks, everyone covers and psychologists believe bullied.
But Aug. 11, chagrined authorites admitted that the boy's richly woven tale was a fantasy inspired by characters and plots in Marvel Comics' best-selling "X-men" series about a group of strange avengers.
THE BOY EVEN borrowed his name from the comics: a voluptuous, blue-skinned villainia in the "X-men" series is named Raven Darkholme.
"This certainly is a strange one," said Sgt. Mike Mintel of the police department's juvenile division. "We were at school and I had come from the comics, Weird, buh."
Authorities were still trying to determine the boy's identity, where he lived.
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Those questioning the boy were suspicious at first, but slowly came to believe him. He was maladjusted but bright, they said, and had detailed knowledge of geography — proof he had traveled extensively
strange story. Shortl said the few leads police had were not "going wrong."
The boy began telling police his comic-book fantasy July 29, when he reported his luggage had been stolen at a bus station where he was abandoned. Stewart a redheaded woman who married him when his mother died 14 years ago.
Since then, he said, he and Amanda lived in hotels as they crisscrossed the coast.
HE NEVER KNOW what she did for a living, he said, but she spoiled him. He never went to school, but learned from books and television. He had no living family, friends or identification number. He worked as a worker, "coming out of a cave."
But his story began to unravel Aug. 10.
Two detectives working on the case.
Desiree Shirley and Sandy Lelegandg.
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repeatedly asked where he could buy comic books.
THE DETECTIVES WENT to Perry's Comics store and leafed through "X-men" comics in issues going back six years. As they read them, the similarities between stories became obvious.
Then, a newspaper reporter mentioned that a 16-year-old comics fan, Don Lindlich, said much of Darkholme's tale paralleled the "X-men."
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The yellow-eyed Raven in the Marvel Comics lived in an imaginary universe, also home to a woman named Amanda Sefton. The comic-book Amanda is a perky blonde airline stewardess who loves small children and traveling.
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"We think he is hiding something or hiding from something," said Officer Dana.
When the detectives recognized the truth, they groaned.
Authorities then confronted the boy with the truth, but he did not budge from it.
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The boy is in the custody of the state. He is living in a foster home, but may be moved to a home for mental patients, authorities said.
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