Monthly Archives: August 2016

Pepe Le Moko

August 29, 2016 – 1:17 pm

An ex-girlfriend from Paris saw this photo and remarked that I resembled the French actor Jean Gabin in PEPE LE MOKO. She wasn’t too far off. But I think it was the hair. I’m sitting in the 169. I wish it was on this wall. Algiers I think.

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A Not Very August Afternoon – The Beacon Street Union

August 28, 2016 – 11:34 am

Back in 1968 the two best Boston bands were Ultimate Spinach and Beacon Street Union. My best friend and I attended several of their psychedelic Saturday concerts on Cambridge Commons near Harvard. The longhaired coeds dressed like peasants. None of the hippie girls were fat and few wore bras. Chuckie and I hadn’t been to […]

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Rockaway 116th Street

August 27, 2016 – 4:58 pm

The Sand Bar on 116th Street in the Rockaways was a great place to kill the end of a bay at the beach, until Tropical Storm Sandy destroyed the legendary dive bar. The city condemned the property to pave the way for a nine-story luxury condo development by the Marcal Group without out any plans […]

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Lily’s Time Out

August 25, 2016 – 10:32 pm

When you’re bad, you go to the sin bin. Even Lily. A blonde as pure as snow and a bad girl in good light. This postcard from the 1920s served as an inspiration to many like Lily Bayliss for Pete Townsend’s first power pop hit. To hear the Who’s PICTURES OF LILY please go to […]

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Out Of My Small Hands

August 25, 2016 – 9:41 pm

NRA president Charlton Heston famously told a gathering of gun-lovers at the 129th NRA convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 20, 2000, “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.” While the slogan’s originality has been attributed to the Hollywood actor, however the line was first popularized by […]

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