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Going Back to Malibu Jack's

  One of Malibu Jack's matchbooks. Source:  Reddit .  The reader's willing suspension of disbelief depends on believable detail, driven by plot and characterization. I have the perfect locus of nostalgia and a watershed moment when a happy time and place crashed, burned and ended. First, the location. I and my dear friend, artist, Chris Dorosz , keep talking about Malibu Jack's, a California-style restaurant which opened in 1985 in the ByWard Market in Ottawa, Canada . Picture this:  Lost Boys  and  Less than Zero  were in cinemas;  Miami Vice  was on the television. Everything was covered with neon and palm trees. Malibu Jack's tapped into the fad and Ottawa's teenagers converged there for crab croissant sandwiches, cheeseburgers, homemade potato chips and tacos. People remember the restaurant on  Reddit ; and some of its recipes are still circulating online . One of the busboys, Stephen Beckta, was so impressed by his experience there ...

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This is the writer's blog of author, L.C. Douglass. It concerns her writing practice in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and academia. It accompanies her main website at: WWW.LCDOUGLASS.COM.

Her first blog, where she considers the impact of technology on the history of the new Millennium, is Histories of Things to Come.

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