Category Archives: 60s

Horace Silver SONG FOR MY FATHER (1964)

June 16, 2013 – 12:32 pm
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BACKWARDS ON ICE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2013 – 10:06 am

Last night the Bruins overcame a horrible 1st period to tie the Blackhawks and force another sudden death overtime. This time the flow of time was in the Bruins’ favor and Paille scored the game winner. Game 3 will be in Boston. I love hockey. Several years ago I beat my cousin Oil Can on [...]

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Bobby Hull’s 8th Hat Trick

June 9, 2013 – 3:23 pm

The Boston Garden was a hallowed destination for fathers and sons in the 60s. The pride of the city was the Celtics, who were NBA champs year after year. I was a basketball fanatic and my father brought my older brother and me to several games after our move from Maine to the South Shore [...]

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We Miss You Bobby

June 5, 2013 – 5:56 pm

It’s been 45 years since RFK was murdered in LA. The pain doesn’t go away. But neither does the dream Robert Francis Kennedy was a hero. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Few people living today know what we missed, but it wasn’t the world of now. I always thought BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS accompanied [...]

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Painting Like Warhol

June 1, 2013 – 12:36 pm

In 1969 my friend Joe Gator hand-painted his Chevelle SS white and slapped a ragged black slash down the middle. “It’ll make it go faster.” I think the BC High senior used the same paint as Warhol slopped over this BMW M1. Andy echoed Joe’s comment, “I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car [...]

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