There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.
When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
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