It was six years since the Lucy Evelyn caught fire and burned. The Bee Gees’ songs were tops on the pop charts. Folks thronged to theaters to see “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “Laverne and Shirley” ruled the small screen. Earlier in the year, the first GPS satellite was launched, the Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the Brittany coast and Resorts International casino opened its doors in Atlantic City.
HOTSPOT: The author spent several teenage summers working in the kitchen at Morrison’s, seen in its heyday, and paints a vivid picture of the efforts to feed the restaurant’s hundreds of diners daily.
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