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Lucky Strike

By Ted Schupp

About a hundred years ago, when Oliver was still a dirt road, I smoked my first Lucky Strike in the balcony of the Orpheum Theater. I was in the second grade. Fifteen years later I returned to the Orpheum with a young lady to whom I have now been married for these past 40 years. It was our first date. We return to the Orpheum every chance we get, but we can no longer sneak in boxed hamburgers from King’s X.

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