Bill wrote:
"Roadhouses seem very strange now. Driving to some place far
away to do some drinking, then driving back, would appall
people today. I do remember Marlowe and the Op going to
roadhouses, but I can't recall in which stories. They knew
how to handle their liquor, but I don't know about the guys
who were dancing with the B-girls."
I recall those stories, too, now that you mention them. (And
there are a fair number of roadhouses in film, but most I
recall were pretty swanky joints, even if they catered to
vices -- the men all wore suits, nice jazz in the background
-- not down and dirty.) However, I remember them as being way
off in the backwoods, so maybe they didn't run across
(or into) too many other drivers.
Plus there were much fewer drivers on the road in general. We
recently had to think about whether or not the Op had his own
car. Aside from Matt Scudder in NYC, is there a single PI
today who does not have a car? It's so ubiquitous that the TV
series Harry O drew humor from the times Harry's car was in
the shop and he had to use the bus.
Mark
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