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• ISBN 10:1569246815
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• Author:Ray Oldenburg
“Third places,” or “great good places,” are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places–coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present–and offers a vision for their revitalization.
Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place–opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.
Great Good Place 1st Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1 The Problem of Place in America
THE ENSUING YEARS have confirmed Lerner’s diagnosis. The problem of place in America has not been resolved and life has become more jangled and fragmented. No new form of integral community has been found; the small town has yet to greet its replacement. And Americans are not a contented people.
What may have seemed like the new form of community-the automobile suburb-multiplied rapidly after World War II. Thirteen million plus returning veterans qualified for single-family dwellings requiring no down payments in the new developments. In building and equipping these millions of new private domains, American industry found a major alternative…
CHAPTER 2 The Character of Third Places
THIRD PLACES THE world over share common and essential features. As one’s investigations cross the boundaries of time and culture, the kinship of the Arabian coffeehouse, the German bierstuhe, the Italian taherna, the old country store of the American frontier, and the ghetto bar reveals itself. As one approaches each example, determined to describe it in its own right, an increasingly familiar pattern emerges. The eternal sameness of the third place overshadows the variations in its outward appearance and seems unaffected by the wide differences in cultural attitudes toward the typical gathering places of informal public life. The beer joint…
CHAPTER 3 The Personal Benefits
PRECIOUS AND UNIQUE benefits accrue to those who regularly attend third places and who value those forms of social intercourse found there. The leveling, primacy of conversation, certainty of meeting friends, looseness of structure, and eternal reign of the imp of fun all combine to set the stage for experiences unlikely to be found elsewhere. These benefits also derive from the sociable and conversational skills cultivated and exercised within the third place.
The benefits of participation both delight and sustain the individual, and the worth of the third place is most often counted in personal terms. Yet, even those profits…
CHAPTER 4 The Greater Good
FROM THE OTHER side of the breakfast table, a former colleague gave me the first reaction to my third place thesis. For a long time he pored over the draft with interest and apparent approval. Suddenly he erupted in anger. I was then accused of promoting a way of life in which the masses spend their time lounging about coffeehouses or taverns while all hope of a better world crumbles about them. People, he argued, would be far better advised to join political action groups than waste their time in the manner I was advocating. I was unable to determine…
CHAPTER 5 The German-American Lager Beer Gardens
“SOCIAL LIFE TODAY,” wrote the Wisconsin historian Fred Holmes, “offers few meeting places like the old German saloon. Compared with it, the modern tavern is an arrogant pretender.”¹¹⁹ In their saloons and even more so in their lager beer gardens, the immigrants from Germany set an example of controlling the use of the alcoholic beverage and literally building communities around its tempered use. Our history records no finer example of the successful third place than the German-American lager beer garden. In reflecting upon it, I recall that the man who wrote that “nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of…
CHAPTER 6 Main Street
RIVER PARK WAS typical of small American towns of the era that came to a close at the end of World War II. The old, young, and everyone in between claimed its Main Street as their own; it accommodated and unified them all. Outdoors and in, third place association was frequent and diffuse along its short reach. The desire for a break in routine, to catch up on the gossip; or merely to have something to do was as easily satisfied as a stroll uptown.
CHAPTER 7 The English Pub
UNLIKE THE AMERICAN tavern or cocktail lounge, the English pub enjoys a good press, an aura of respectability, and a high degree of integration in the life of the citizenry. Three-fourths of the drinking done in England still takes place in public settings and, in the face of many forces that discourage its use, the pub hangs on. The typical London drinking establishment, in the estimation of Robert Goldston, is the remaining claim to a civic spirit within a city that has all but lost its civicism.¹⁶⁷ The ordinary English citizen also defends the locals for, apart from their daily…
CHAPTER 8 The French Cafe
IN HIS SALUTE to London, Paul Cohen-Portheim lamented the lack of cafes of the continental type in that city. It seems ordained, he wrote, “that you can have either cafes or clubs, but that both do not flourish under the same sky.”¹⁹⁷ Like many before and after him, Cohen-Portheim had come to appreciate the differences between the English pub and the French bistro. Pubs, he found, are “only pleasant for a short time,” whereas the continental cafes are “places to dwell in.” Joseph Wechsberg, who has described the typical third places of many cultures, was similarly impressed by the sidewalk…
CHAPTER 9 The American Tavern
A RECENT BUSINESS REPORT on bars and cocktail lounges begins with the warning that anyone going into the bar business these days will face numerous difficulties.²³⁴ The report describes today’s customers as a fickle clientele who crave new surroundings and excitement; who are susceptible to gimmicks; and who are quick to abandon old watering holes without so much as a backward glance or a twinge of regret. In order to make a go of it, would-be publicans are informed, they must be able to keep up with trends, cater to an increasing demand for sophistication, be flexible, and be prepared…
CHAPTER 10 Classic Coffeehouses
HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS INDICATE that those loungers who invaded the old country store helped themselves to a considerable variety of consumables stocked in bulk. In the days before the Smith Brothers introduced individual packaging to protect their cough drop enterprise (proprietors were putting cheaper substitutes in the Smith Brothers jars!), the hangers-on at the general store dipped into barrels, buckets, crates, tubs, and jars for such items as Herkimer cheese, dried prunes, licorice, dried herring, pickled herring, crackers, and tobacco.²⁵³ Notably absent from the inventory of consumables are liquids: There is no evidence that cider, tea, coffee, sarsaparilla, or even water…
CHAPTER 11 A Hostile Habitat
LIKE ALL LIVING things, the third place is vulnerable to its environment. Far more important than the architecture and appointment of these establishments is the habitat in which they may or may not be able to blossom and thrive. There is much in their favor. Unlike hospitals or libraries, which have exacting, complicated, and expensive internal requirements, third places are typically modest, inexpensive, and small by comparison. Further, places not even built for the purpose can be taken over by a local citizenry and pressed into service as informal social centers. The simplicity of its requirements has made the third…
CHAPTER 12 The Sexes and the Third Place
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF the third place contained within the first section of this volume is sexually neutral. Men and women stand to benefit in equal measure from participation in the core settings of informal public life. Yet, a neutered depiction of the third place ignores much of the reality surrounding it and obscures the important fact that the most and the best among third places are the haunts of men or women, but not both. The joys of the third place are largely those of same-sex association, and their effect has been to maintain separate men’s and women’s worlds more…
CHAPTER 13 Shutting Out Youth
A SMALL GROUP of us sat at poolside helping ourselves to the potent slush at the bottom of an ice chest, which had been filled with frozen daiquiris when the festivities began. Our annual luau had reached its mellow stage. The last remaining ort of suckling pig had disappeared, and the men were congratulating themselves on another smashing social and gustatorial success. It had been more than pleasant, this sometimes raucous but mostly cozy al fresco affair, this crowning event in the year’s progression of monthly dinner parties. “Only one thing wrong,” I intruded, my mind having wandered back to…
CHAPTER 14 Toward Better Times . . . and Places
WORLD WAR II marks the historical juncture after which informal public life began to decline in the United States. After that war, in both the land of the victor and the land of the vanquished, people retreated into their homes on a scale not seen before. The Germans took refuge in the woefully small unit of the family because their whole social order had been destroyed by the war and nothing else remained. Americans proved unwilling or unable to preserve or create an urban habitat sufficient to the requirements of community life and we, too, sought refuge in homes and…
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