“Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.”

—  Douglas Coupland , book Shampoo Planet

Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge."
Shampoo Planet (1992)

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