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TITLE: ESQUIRE
["The Magazine for Men" -- Including all the great writers, illustrators, pictorials, vintage advertisements, fashion and more! -- See FULL contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: JUNE 1985; Volume 103 No. 6
CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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GATEFOLD COVER: THE SOUL OF AMERICA. Two years ago, Esquire went looking for the real America. We found it. Golden Collector's issue of 1985 -- Huge issue: 325 pages! Gatefold Cover Photograph -- Sandra Haber.

FEATURES:
TUACITY AND LASTING TRADITION: Welcome to enduring America, from the oldest established shell game in New York to the ultimate rodeo in Oregon.

ALBANY, NEW YORK JACK AND THE OYSTER by William Kennedy. Using one hand and a worn knife, Jack Rosenstein shucks oysters with consummate craftsmanship.

WISDOM, MONTANA FENCED IN by Geoffrey Norman. Ask any rancher and he'll tell you -- cattle aren't just a career, they're a stubborn man's obsession.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA MAINLINING. Debutantes are born, not made. And the upper crust's most proper girls are born in Philadelphia.

PENDLETON, OREGON THE BLUE-RIBBON AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSE OF RODEO. Ken Kesey For genuine frontier spirit all you need are thrills, spectacle, and laughter. Then let 'er buck!.

SOUL SEARCH FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Speaking ont: papers, bookshelves, argot, and further forms of self-expression.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN THE AUTOMOBILE FROM NUTS TO BOLTS. Nothing changed America like the movers, marvels, and mad lives of the auto industry.

WALL STREET, NEW YORK CAPITALISM'S MAIN STREET by Michael M. Thomas. Those who mourn "the old days" of high finance are deceived: times may have changed, but Wall Street hasn't.


LOYALTY AND COMMON PURPOSE: Community is about sharing, whether it's a family helping one another throu times, a gh hard congregation worshiping together, or basketball fans rejoicing in victory.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH GOD'S HOTEL by Jane Howard. The Westin Hotel Utah is a monument to rectitude. Staying there, a guest just has to feel righteous.

CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA TOUR OF DUTY by Guy Martin. The honor code is basic training in military schools. It teaches cadets southern loyalty -- and how to avoid it. 96 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN WILSON by Douglas Bauer. Durgin-Park has the best waitresses and the biggest plates of prime rib in Boston -- that's Yankee thrift.

SOUL SEARCH THE WORK ETHIC. Nine to five: farmers, failures, lawyers, and various departments of commerce.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA Too BUSY TO HATE by Art Harris. Over a century after Sherman torched it, an integrated Atlanta is burning bright -- with enlightened practicality.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA THE BASKET-CASE STATE by David Halberstam. What's all the hoopla about? It's basketball championship time in Indiana, and sports mania is epidemic.

SOUL SEARCH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. Benefits: doctors, safety, teachers, and other favorite assets.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA TRUE BLUE by Lynn Darling. When the mills closed, Falco Paterra discovered something stronger than steel: the family.


AMBITION AND CONTINUING PROSPERITY: A nation reaps its rewards on The Street in New York, in the skyscrapers of Dallas, and in the boutiques of Los Angeles.

LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA MR. JIMMIE HITS PAY DIRT by John Ed Bradley. California gold or Texas crude, men have always dreamed of striking it rich. Jimmie Owens did.

MIAMI, FLORIDA MELTING-POT HIGH by John Rothchild. From the Goldfarbs to the Marielitos, the question was always the same: Will the outsiders assimilate?.

SOUL SEARCH THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Paths to feeling good: churches, vices, movies, and other retreats.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK PROPER PLACES by Tom Wolfe. Residents of Manhattan's glamorous Good Buildings know what happens when the American Dream comes true.

DALLAS, TEXAS A FEW WORDS WITH THE BIGGEST MAN IN DALLAS by Bob Greene. In a state where everybody thinks big, Trammell Crow has built an empire out of thinking like a giant.

SOUL SEARCH DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE. Standing up for something: dropouts, soldiers, voters, and other types of freethinkers.

WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA TINSEL TEENS by Charlie Haas. The currency of hip youth scenes past was ideas. The currency of today's hippest youth scene is currency.

ABOARD THE EASTERN SHU7FLE THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY CROWD by Peter Davis. Some say it's New York, some say D.C., but the real power trip is between the two, on the Shuttle.


INDIVIDUALITY AND RECKLESS IMAGINATION: America celebrates the rebel with a cause, whether he's showing people how to laugh at themselves in the Catskills or how to find strength in themselves through the Chicago blues.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA OFFICER HICKS, GAY COP by Joe Kane. Shut out elsewhere, the disenfranchised find their hearts in San Francisco, the city of tolerance.

MONTICELLO, NEW YORK THE FINE ART OF MOUNTAIN TUMMLING by Joyce Wadler. Uncle Miltie brought it to TV, Woody Allen brought it to the screen, butJewish humor started in the Catskills.

SOUL SEARCH AMERICAN PIE. Foodstuffs: hot dogs, soft drinks, candy, and additional forms of daily bread.

TUCSON, ARIZONA KEEPERS OF THE FLAME by David Quammen. Sanctuary-movement activists JimCorbett and Darlene Nicgorski are conductors on a new underground railroad.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS BLUE IN CHICAGO. Visit one of Chi-town's smoky clubs and you'll find out -- this city's red hot with the blues.

NORFOLK, NEBRASKA THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE by George Plimpton. Orville Carlisle gets a bang out of a lifelong obsession -- displaying fireworks.


FAITH AND BOUNDLESS OPTIMISM: Anything is possible if you just believe -- a Vietnamese shrimper can achieve the American Dream, a politician can fight for his constituency, and one man can make a ghost town into a boomtown.

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA THE GOOD LIFE AND LONG HOURS OF NGUYEN NGUU by Joe Klein. The verdict on Vietnamese fishing practices? Guilty -- of rampant industriousness.

HOUSTON, TEXAS FLAUNTING ITby C.D.B. Byan. The people of Houston's most opulent district know what to do when they've got it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. JUST ANOTHER GUY FROM THE DISTRICT by Sally Quinn. Congressman Stan Pains is a lone pragmatist worried about just one thing -- doing a good job.

SOUL SEARCH HOME ON THE RANGE. Living conditions: neighbors, condos, weather, and the rest of the day-to-day.

BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA ENCOUNTERS AT THE MIND'S EDGE by George Leonard. California has always been a land for dreamers -- from the prospectors to the founders of the Esalen Institute.

RHYOLITE, NEVADA DESERT DREAMS by Bill Barich. The truth is, Death Valley is the cutting edge of weird -- a place where eccentricity is essential for survival.

DEPARTMENTS:
BACKSTAGE Place Bound by Lee Eisenberg.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY.
THE ESQUIRE JOURNAL The Spirit of Place by Phillip Moffitt.
THE EYES OF AMERICA.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.


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