{"id":2244,"date":"2026-04-18T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:53:21","slug":"saturday-memory-for-april-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/saturday-memory-for-april-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Memory for April 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dd4a18be044ae6c68c63d02631b16b29 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#ff003d\"><strong>Saturday Memory for April 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my last year of high school (1956), I worked part time for Bank of America, delivering deposit information to the Federal Reserve Bank. At lunch time, my friend and I would eat lunch at Clifton\u2019s Cafeteria. Almost everyone there was old, in our minds, <em>really<\/em> old. The conversations we overheard we thought were hilarious: talk of being old, hospital stays, friends dying, falling, wheelchairs., aches and pains. We smirked and giggled. I can\u2019t recall now why we thought all this pain and suffering was funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I read in the <em>Los Angeles Times, <\/em>that the proprietor of Los Angeles\u2019 legendary Clifton\u2019s has given up on reopening the shuttered venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wave of nostalgia swept over me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was no longer funny what we heard there seventy years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now Cliftons\u2019 itself has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Memory for April 18, 2026 In my last year of high school (1956), I worked part time for Bank of America, delivering deposit information to the Federal Reserve Bank. At lunch time, my friend and I would eat lunch at Clifton\u2019s Cafeteria. Almost everyone there was old, in our minds, really old. The conversations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}