AN IDEAL FUN WAY FOR A COMMUNE TO MAKE HEAVY BREAD
Work when you choose, with people you like and make as much as you want or need.
It's not hard to organize a commune, "tribe", "family" or loose coop these days. Everyone - it seems - knows o f, has lived in or has eyes for some such federation.
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Bread, to finance the venture, is another matter. Usually, nobody - but nobody - has any money or any idea of a groovy way to get the loot to convert the bus or buy the land or do all the other things so dear to the heart of the average communard.
And don't start giving me that rap about "Comes the Revolution, we won't need money" because I've heard it all before. This is still before the Revolution, brother, and even the Berkeley TRIBE needs rent money. I don't see Abby Hoffman or Jerry Rubin turning down those heavy speaking fees and book royalties:
So, OK. Wouldn't it be great if there was only some way for the whole "family" to work together . . . when and where they chose . . . for as long as they wanted . . . in a fun atmosphere . . . while doing a good ole-timey downhome gig . . . and still make some heavy bread . . . with almost no investment?
Well, interestingly enough, I noted just such an operation last summer . . . not once, not twice . . . but three times. In every case (including-and most especially-the one operated by gentle freaks), it was doing a land office business. What is it? A lemonade stand.
Yeah, I know. That brings to mind a vision of little kids on the front lawn. Believe me, this is an entirely different proposition.
I saw the first of the three stands last summer at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In at Rockford, Illinois. It was run by a real family: Grandpa down to belt-high grandson. They were selling a 12 oz. cup of fresh-squeezed lemonade for 25-cents from an obviously home-made stand . . . and they were selling a lot of those cups, too. Their establishment had windows on two sides and it was quite common to stand in line five minutes waiting to be served.
There's a little Lake Erie resort town in Ohio called Geneva-On-TheLake and that's where I saw the second stand. It was a permanent circular stucco resort town monstrosity and the customers in front were lined up three deep.
The third stand was a "grab" tent pitched under a shade tree outside a display barn at the Great Geauga Co. Fair in Ohio. This was the one run by the freaks: Several teenage kids of various colors and dress and one bearded guy in his early 20's. There was 4-6 people in the tent all afternoon and they were selling 16 oz. cups of made-while-you-wait lemonade for 35-cents each as fast as they could serve them.
I'm sure there must be a number of similar lemonade stands scattered around the country, I'm sure they're all doing as well in the summer and I'm sure there's room for many more.
All three of the stands I saw used the same gimmick: A tangy, fresh glass of lemonade individually and personally made right in front of the customer's eyes. Get the picture? None of this premixed, pour-it-out-of-a-jug stuff.
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