John Donohue              (Use the Back Button To Return) Work History 1967 NY, NY Times Square

For much of the summer when I was 18 years old, I became the 'Quintessential New York City Lunch Counter Waiter,' at a tiny place on Broadway at 43rd. I did not understand the magnitude of the irony at the time, that I literally very often said things like "two on a raft, wreck 'em," and thought it mundane. It was a living Runyonesque tableau.     Israel was invaded in that year. New York City understood the issues of that war and argued about it loudly on street corners. There are many reasons why that summer, and the twelve months to follow, was the most significant time between World War II and the destruction of the twin towers (then newly risen) sixty blocks south of my lunch counter. Now, if only we at IdeaLab would just incubate a way to roll back the clock so I could revivify just one day of Summer, 1967, in that city ...