European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Feature foot sore fair goer weary but Happy resting up after a visit to Belgium big show at lefts How to francs by Ernie staff writer by red gran0y joyous you can spend plenty youll love every minute of i s m be 8 twinkling of afo Mitun Are something youll always Virginia there is a worlds fair at Brussels and youll remember it for a lifetime after youve seen and since worlds fairs dont just happen very go even if you have to Rob Piggy Bank and eat commissary Beans the rest of the take a few words of advice from a weary but Happy first of like chocolate the exposition must be taken in Small like a Small Hoy at a three ring we tried to see everything at once and regretted our we were eagerly standing outs Side the fairs main Gates at 10 Oclock in the morn ing when it fourteen hours later As the cleanup Man put the last chair on the table and prepared to mop the we were wearily walking Halfway to Brussels where we had left our car at one of the fairs official parking the next morning we Felt As though we had gone several rounds with sugar Ray Robinson and wrestled to a few Falls with a japanese sumo so we relied on one of those put putts that shuttle old and Rich people around the but we Felt a Little  As smiling steering from was playing russian Roulette with the Pedes so we paid him for the half hour two of us around and re turned to the shoe leather talking about you hear a lot about High actually there Are restaurants at the fair for All take the restaurant High up in the we splurged the first Day and acted As though we had Money All our the menu was in French not to show our we ordered without know ing what was it turned out to be filet of sole ctn boiled veal a Cream dessert and two Small this came to each plus 50 cents extra because we didst order being Thrifty souls and not wanting to waste a half a we ordered 3 bottle of wine suggested by the waiter and our for came to with the we never regretted the Money spent because we had a table by the window a Beautiful View overlooking the Felt like Prince Rainier and tract of were at the fair that the fussed Over us f i Frt oar Butler without having of Phil of etching their from Ihnn on were on an austerity we sort of tapered off by fro ins to the restaurant of the soviet Pavilion jmj having Borsch baked cakes two glasses of Crittman Aine fur Tho capitalistic Price of for we found out was Par for restaurants in foreign of which half Are not operated by the country represented in the but by Belgium then we ran into a Young Friend who is working at the fair this summer before going Back to school in America and Learned How to find inexpensive Little res there Are quite a few he told of them have a self service sign which is the Tipoff that youll save a few then look for Large families sitting at the a Man Doest bring his wife and five kids into a restaurant unless he knows the prices Are they were not hard to find we just kept our eyes open and soon ordering Rumps Cak and French Fried potatoes for a or a plate of spa Ghetti for 80 we even got the Price of a gla3 of Beer Down to 14 the germans Vic met had even a belter Tuey stayed at Camps outside the City and bought All their food then Jiey made thick generous Sand Wiches held together by Black car ried them in their Brief ordered a Beer or soft drink at an outdoor table and had a picnic if this sounds More like a dining out column than a Story of the its Only because we seemed to be eating and drink ing More than rubber necking around at the greatest show on continent makes you hungry and so you look for the nearest which in variably happens to be at a cafe there Are very few benches at the and Yon just cant sit then out staring the so you buy something we paid Fuffy Learned was that you can easily Cutch a chill sitting at an outdoor restaurant during the eve after walking around All Day and working up a you will get stiff from the cold one place you better be prepared to open your Wallet and let the Franca Fly where they is in the 12acre make believe joyous it 3s a replica of an old fashioned belgian Village which supposedly Only existed before la every ones sentimental now where on Earth can there possibly be Mere cafes per Square More my More organized confusion than in joyous Belgium the whole place looks Tike a Hollywood set Leff Over from a Jeanette Macdonald Nelson Eddy Pic it All comes to life after 6 Oclock the exhibits close their it want that the Dronka were sex ran about 40 cents a wine 40 cents a hard liquor 60 and up it was the spirit of the thing that reduced the Girth of our franc studded by the language Barrier had melt i and we were drinking an undying Friendship with the people at our table whose names we would have forgotten 1c we not exchanged name but whether you Pinch pennies and see the fair on a few dollars a a Little More daring like us and spend mom than a Day each or even open up All sups and forget about you wont regret going to the big seeing the twinkling atom Fum at Sunset coloured lights of the fair Start going is alone Worth the and when you go Back to Iowa you com bore Heck out of your and relatives for years telling them Bow wonderful the Brussels worlds fair was Back in so Ndoye july 1958 the stars and stripes