(BroadsideBalladeer) Come
Unity CRAZY PLANET BAND 1989 NEWARK COMMUNITY DAYSONG
BY VIC SADOT(5 min 00) Free download https://soundcloud.com/broadsideballadeer/come-unity
“Come
Unity” is a recording of the Crazy Planet Band from a Newark, DE
“Community Day” back in the time when there was a popular
local movement to preserve some of the most beloved of Main Street
places: The State Theater and The DeLuxe Luncheonette. The Copyright
on old paper copy of the lyrics says Sept 7, 1989. The
song was performed only this one time and never anywhere again. See
published lyrics…
I
have fond memories of the State Theater from when I was a kid. But
also from the later era when Dave Bartholomew and Barry Solon
introduced more international cinema offerings to the mix, which was
fitting for a college town. The Laskaris brothers ran the Deluxe
Luncheonette for 50 years. But they never owned the building next
door to the State Theater! Many U of D alumni have precious memories
of their “hang-out” where a number of them fell in love or met
life-long friends. Many “Townie” folk remember the State
Theater as the place where they saw their first movie when they were
children. Both places are irreplaceable cultural and architectural
losses to the town of Newark that will have to live on in our
memories only. Whether you were a child growing up in Newark, DE or
you were a college student hanging out at “The Greasy Spoon”,
that part of the landscape was wiped off the map by a man later
convicted of defrauding the government and laundering the money into
local real estate, and by the U of D planning department. Citizens
made a valiant effort, but it was all in vain unless we learned
something about our need for “unity” in future struggles for our
“community”.
Vic
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