Around 1977, I was in a large cabaret on the west side of Yokohama station, the Hollywood, which subsequently morphed into a Yodobashi store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It had a band and often featured previously well-known singers who were no longer a thing; \u4e00\u7bc0\u592a\u90ce, and the like. The Hollywood was sometimes used as the location of movie scenes. But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A young thug walked in, evidently heading to a table already occupied by others of his party. He made the serious mistake of passing by the table of someone he should\u2019ve shown proper respect to, but ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a kerfuffle that went on between two tables\u2014I was one table away\u2014and the ultimate resolution was that someone from the late-arriving thug\u2019s table came to the offended thug’s table to make things right, doing something I had only ever seen in movies (\u4ec1\u7fa9\u3092\u5207\u3063\u305f\u308f\u3051), as the band played on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If this had happened today, I imagine a bunch of jerks would take out their iPhones and take photos of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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