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here are a few changes in Athens
from my original days of living
here that still throw me. The Grill
now being where Schlotsk/s was.
The Last Resort now a fancy date restaurant
instead of the bar where Glenn Phillips slid
knees-first across the dance floor while play
ing electric guitar. The Georgia Theatre now
a respected concert hall instead of the cheap
bar and movie house called The Carafe and
Draft. People not knowing I mean Gyro Wrap
when I say Russo's, its original name.
But it's the shell of the Bluebird Cafe—now
deserted on the comer of Clayton and Thomas
streets with the unlit neon sign still outside
the building and the murals visible through
the windows—that stings.
The Bluebird Cafe was a vegetarian res
taurant originally located in the ground-floor
of the Morton Theatre when I was a student
Before my time, it was called the El Dorado,
and several Athens musicians, including mem
bers of The B-52s, worked there. But for me, it
was the home of Powerhouse Eggs—glorious
scrambled eggs topped with a hearty spat
tering of soy sauce, a handful of nutritional
yeast and globs of
melted white Ched
dar cheese—and
the homebase of my
Athens life.
My first memory
of the Bluebird was
freshman year at U<
in the '80s. It was
when the campus was
so preppy it seemed
like 90 percent of the
students were in a fra
ternity or a sorority.
Whales smiled from
the fabric of women's
dresses, alligators
emblazoned men's
shirts, and "add-a-
bead" necklaces pro
claimed wealth one
golden nugget at a
time. "How many add-
a-beads are you wear
ing?" a friend once
shot at a cowering girl in our dorm elevator.
"That's enough gold to feed the children of
Kampuchea—forget the concert!"
My all-four-years roommate Robin and
I shared a freshman dorm room in Brumby
Hall. We were clean-cut, middle-class kids
who missed most of the legendary concerts in
town because we were in bed by 10 for early
classes. But we proclaimed our GDI ("I" stand
ing for "independent") status with Animal
House and An American Werewolf in London
movie posters taped to our dorm walls, and
Bruce Springsteen and Robin's boyfriend's end
less collection of Led Zeppelin blasting from
our stereo speakers.
So, we were thrilled when preppies Jenny
and Kim from across the hall walked into our
room one afternoon and proclaimed they had
just gotten back from the worst god-awful
restaurant they'd evebeen to. "People there
were dressed like hippies... rude... vegetar
ian food... art on the walls... 70s music. You
guys would love this place!"
Our status as carnivores aside, it was
glorious. The Bluebird Cafe was a restaurant
from the college days of my older brothers,
unaware and uncaring of the prep scene. And
the food tasted as good as the place made
a lauoo on xne arm or a Former uiueoira uaie
waitress.
me feeL Well, the water in plastic cups did
taste of Lemon Joy dishwashing liquid, as if
the dishwater was never rinsed, but the cof
fee was great. You also had a choice of the
sides that accompanied the Powerhouse Eggs:
whole-wheat toast or whole-wheat biscuits,
and home fries or unbleached stone-ground
yellow grits.
We went every Saturday and ordered the
same thing: coffee and Powerhouse Eggs, with
grits and a biscuit for me and home fries and
a biscuit for Robin. I basically used the biscuit
as a spoon for the apple butter that was in
squirt bottles on every table. I'd break my bis
cuit into several small pieces so I'd have more
surface area to cover and therefore more apple
butter to eat *
My favorite restaurant moment of all time
happened weeks later when our waitress-
peasant outfit, long brown hair pulled back
with a barrette, no make-up, pretty sure her
name was Ruth—sauntered up to the table
and asked, "The usual?" She got a double tip
that day. A few weeks after that, when Robin
and I got there late and had to stand in line
for a table, she walked by us and said, "I went
ahead and put your
in, so it should
when you sit
LIUWII.
Our relationship
with the hip waitress
the next
a pivotal
week-
Robin and
I showed up in the
most spirited and
obnoxious red-and-
black clothes we could
We were already
squeamishly looking
down at the table
when she sauntered
up, crossed her arms
and raised her eye
brow. "It's Clemson!" .
I finally blurted. She
gave it a beat before
nodding and saying,
"Ah. OK. The usual?"
My funniest memory was coming back from
the restroom to find Robin still laughing from
the look on her server's face when he'd ask<?d
her if she'd like coffee, and she, not looking
up from her newspaper, pointed at my empty
chair and said, "Yes, and my friend would like
some, too." -
When I was told of the Bluebird's closing,
it was with the blahness of someone who
doesn't care enough to tell you of a loved
one's passing until weeks after the funeral.
The Bluebird Cafe was my central restaurant on
every return visit to Athens since graduation,
and I was crushed. When my dad asked my
nephew if I'd ever taken him to the Bluebird,
Steven said, "Once, and the memory of those
Powerhouse Eggs still haunts me."
I've since learned to make Powerhouse
Eggs, and found the unbleached grits at places
like Earth Fare and Whole Foods. The warm,
soft, whole-wheat biscuits and the not-too-
sweet, not-too-rinnamony apple butter still
elude me. The Lemon Joy water, on the other
hand, my friend Ed has offered to make for me
on numerous occasions, and I decline.
Some things are best left to memories.
Marilyn Estes
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