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Village Inn provides sobering atmosphere
Opinion by David Wars
One of the almost inescapable facts of
Lincoln night life is that the bar steward is
just not going to let you dance all night at
the expense of his sleep or his liquor
license.
However, in spite of the immovable 1
a.m. deadline, you need not go home early,
if you can forego visions of alcohol, and
instead knuckle under to the curious
charms of wretched coffee and variable
quality side orders, both of which may be
had in abundance at the Village Inn, at 29th
& 0 Streets. , M . , .
The Village Inn is a member o! a chain of
pancake houses all boasting roughly the
same decor, much on the order of the
International House of Pancakes organi
zation. However, where the International
Houses are furnished with bright lighting
and what one might charitably call a coldly
clashing color scheme, the Village Inn
emphasis is on a lower-level of lighting
with color emphasis on red and brown
tones, the result being a warm low-keyed
atmosphere that encourages slouching and
long conversations.
The menu offers a fairly wide assortment
of things to be had for under $1. Standouts
in this category are the English muffins
and the bagels, expecially the latter, served
with jam and cream cheese.
For those who feel thev can let
themselves go, moneywise, a sure bet is
the redoubtable Chef's Salad, an imposing
pile of lettuce liberally heaped with tomato
wedges and slices of. cheese, ham and
turkey, making the salad a treat at $1.85
plus tax.
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Diners do not always fare so well. Hash
browned potatoes sampled over a
three-year period have run the gamut
between nearly raw to carbonized.
Buckwheat pancakes have exhibited a
similar variance. Happily, the Inn has
managed to turn out a consistently edible
waffle, but the same cannot be said of their
so-called French Pancakes, which have
verged on decency only once in this
writer's experience.
On the theory that the less said about
something unpleasant the better, the best
thing to say about Village inn coffee is
nothing at all. However, one finds one's
self drinking prodigious quantities of it in
spite of the corrosive nature of the brew,
so this writer suaaests a powerful antacid!
(in liquid form for emergencies) as a
companion for Inn-going.
There are compensations, though, for the
erratic quality of the edibles and potables.
One does not stumble into an
establishment at 2 a.m. expecting
Cordon-Bleu caliber cooking. Rather, what
one searches for is a place to carry on a
conversation started at a bar or perhaps to
sober up in before attempting the long
bicycle ride home.
Essential for both of these functions is a
quiet, nonabrasive atmosphere and lots of
coffee. The Village inn supplies both. In
addition, the service, while often times
interminably slow, has never been
deliberately rude, something that cannot be
said for certain other Lincoln establish
ments. In the final analysis, though, it is the
people that haunt the Village Inn that make
it such a delectable last stop at night. They
come from all age groups, income brackets
and racial categories. Blacks, whites,
greasers, gays, high school kids and senior
citizens, all are attracted to trie Inn, where
one may watch them from the obscurity of
a window booth, arid secretly rejoice that
in his insomnia, he is not alone.
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STUNNING! SLEEPER HIT OF THE YEAR!
IT HAS TEN TIMES THE ENERGY
OF MOST CONTEMPORARY FILMS!"
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''Harold and Mauda" finally ended its run in
Minneapolis, after 798 precedent-shattering days (or 26,z
months, or 2 years and 2VSt months, however you count).
Some picketing neighbors, tired of looking at the same old
marquee, breathed a sigh of relief. But thousands of H and M
devotees, who had been seeing the movie over and over, were
left wondering what they would do with their Saturday nights.
"Harold and Maude" are ours now. We don't anticipate
any picketing - there are a number of other marquees in the
neighborhood, after all. But if the record making crowds are any
indication, we do anticipate a long, long run. Maybe even longer
than the one set by Minneapolis.
. Can we match them? Can we beat them?
Let's go.
HAROLD and MAUDE
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Wednesday
7:30 a.m. College of Arts
and Sciences Dean's Office
Nebraska Union
8 a.m Arts and Sciences
Advisory Board-Union
. 11:45 a.m. YWCA-Union
3 p.m. Women's Action
Group, "Madonna Gilbert"
Unien 3. 7 and 9 p.m. "Anais Nin
Observed", Documentary Film
Sheldon 3:45 p.m. Accounting Club -
Union
4 p.m. Phi Chi Tneta-Union
5 p.m. All University Fund
Union 5:30 p.m. Gamma Lambda
Union 5:30 p.m. Engineering
Toastmasters-Union
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7 p.m. Student Volunteer
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7 p.m. Interfraternity Council-Union
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8 p.m. George Shearing
Quintet, Lincoln Community
Concert, Season Pass only,
Pershing Auditorium.
9 p.m. Mortar Board-Union
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