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Entertainer notes and city quirks from Cedar Rapids Theater
A humorous hometown column recalls a theater lock up gone wrong, local film chatter about Playboy, and a Cedar Rapids photographer accused of nude work. It also riffs on Dr Pepper, beer glasses at Village Square, a wait for ham burgers, sauna baths, hairdos, and Collins payroll rumors, finishing with nostalgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara McDade
Times
Roy Metcalf
Playboy
Jayne Mansfield
Hugh Hefner
Chicago
SOPTY
Stamates Publishing
Cedar Rapids
Citizen Times
Gus Scolari
Third Ave. S.W