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| | Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | At the center of Cherryland stood Harold James: owner, cook, waiter, maitre de, dishwasher, janitor, bouncer, literary critic, theologian, realist, existentialist, romantic, transcendentalist, free-thinker, liberal, conservative, Pickwickian, and chess enthusiast. |
 | | Other than chess, it would be difficult to assign a single description to Cherryland; actually, it would be impossible, for it was so many things to so many different people. |
 | | You didn't have to be a chess-player to be welcome; indeed, it was then what eludes the PC crowd of today; the Cherryland Café was the most open, tolerant, racially diverse, economically diverse, religiously diverse, and most educationally diverse public cultural center in existence... |
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