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O c t O b e r 2 0 1 5 2 9 Zeitgeist A visit from Arnold Palmer Purpoodock Golf club cape elizabeth October 3-7 1984. Arnold Palmer head- lines a group of senior golf tour stars at the UnionMutual Seniors Golf classic including Don January billy casper and Doug Sanders. the event was the inspira- tion of UNUM president colin c. Hamp- ton UNUM VP bud Guthrie and Maine golf great John Mills. two years later in September 1986 Palmer shot an eagle on the 16th hole to win the tournament and a 38000 first prize with coverage by the New York Times. Palmer said his 65 in the opening round put me in position for the victory. Orono. I was going to go to Boston but Julie said Its going to cost us 70 bucks a month to live in Portland between the three of us. You say yes to that. But when the girls arrived the woman they were to house-sit for had postponed her tripleaving them no job nowhere to live but a future wide open. They rented a room at the Eastland Ho- tel which in Sues words was the skeeviest place in the 80s. It was a lot of people just moving through. When you flushed the toi- let it sounded like the room had exploded. Even so her eyes light up talking about the summer it all began. The WAy IT WAs As Sue would pour to the sounds of DJ Kris Clark Sid and friends would decide wheth- er to stay or move on to Squire Morgans for free chicken wings and then to Moose Al- ley or Kayos for one of the many live bands Portland had to offer. You could go anywhere and see friends of yours playing says Sue. All of my friends at the time were musicians. Char- lie Brown he was an amazing keyboard- ist he had a band called Vito and The Groove Kings. She stops to make a mental checklist. The Clouds Buffalo Chip Tea. See now Im goingtoforgetsomeonesbandandtheyrego- ing to be pissed. If you were truly in in the music scene you might find yourself at a tiny hole in the wall on Brown Street called Genos. You had to know somebody to get in and if they didnt know you youd have to say who you were with says Sid. Punk rock had a home there at that pointthe re- ally early punk rock. Sid adds a fun fact. Where they are now used to be a porn theater. The State Theater was a porn place too. Waitaccording to Google Maps the city had two porno spots 230 feet apart. Does that mean Portlanders only had two dirty movie houses to choose from ArT-house heAven O bviously pornography wasnt the only thing available in the cinemas. In 1980 Steve and Judy Halpert took over the Movies on Exchange which of- fered independent foreign and documen- tary films to a town that craved it. There was a real need for it says Steve. There was a group of people who wanted to see those movies so we could really do just about anything we wanted to do. There was no competition. Films such as 1985s Buddies said to be the first to tackle the topic of the AIDS pan- demic brought the Exchange Street audi- ences the same films that were current in NewYorkandL.A.Portlandwelcomedfilms that touched on controversial subjectsand foreign films. The Halperts sought the rich- er films with sophisticated characters. I came to the theater and an hour early theyre lined up Exchange Street to see The Seven Samurai Steve recalls. I thought how starved people arehow many are lined up to see Kurosawa and its not even a new movie. The Japanese classic dates to 1954. The Halperts ran the Movies for more than three decades. the swan Dive on Forest Avenue harks back to the smoky days when every decent place had its own matchbook. High designnext to Portland Stage Comedian George Hamm working the door at Three Dollar Deweys in his salad days.