Champs Elysees, U.s.a.
October, 1976
Despite the current semantic inquisition against franglais, the American craze in Paris just won't stop. Every café and corner tabac in the Latin Quarter has one or two Gottlieb pinball machines (Fast Draw and Spirit of '76 are very big) and Fats Domino on the Rock-Ola jukebox. You will hear Be-Bop-a-Lula more often in a month there than during all your years in high school. There is even an approximation of a singles bar, called Rosebud, on the Rue Delambre just around the corner from the Café...