Category Archives: boston

1970s Boston Bruins Fight Song

May 19, 2013 – 12:25 pm

3pm the ref will drop the puck for the Boston Bruins versus the New York Rangers in game two game of the Stanley Cup quarterfinals. THE NUT CRACKER by the Ventures rocked the original Garden in the 70s. Go # 4 and let’s not forget the great Derek # 16 And now # 63 Brad [...]

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Go ZomBs

May 19, 2013 – 12:17 pm

Faced with elimination by the Toronto Maple Leafs the Bruins rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third period of the seventh game. I counted them out, but continued to listen to the WBZ broadcast to hear the ZomBs rise from the grave to score three goals to tie the game and then win the [...]

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HORSENECK BEACH by Peter Nolan Smith

May 19, 2013 – 8:05 am

The morning after my senior prom I drove my date down to Horseneck Beach in my VW Beetle. My schoolmates were having a beer bash, but I couldn’t find them in the dunes and Patti suggested that we cruise the beach road. “Maybe they went someplace more secluded.” The junior’s blondish brown air was sweeping [...]

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PROM QUEENS CRY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 18, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Few loves are more true than that of a high school sweetheart. Sophomore sessions of kissing on sofa were upgraded to petting during junior year and pledges of eternal devotion for the final year of high school. I was lucky enough to find myself in such a situation in the Spring of 1970. Kyla Rotta [...]

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NORTH END MIRACLE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 12:16 pm

Every Friday evening throughout the 1960s my mother would drive our station wagon into Boston and pick up my father at 50 Milk Street, where he worked for Ma Bell as an electrical engineer. We would have dinner at a restaurant and then drive back to our suburb on the South Shore. My parents loved [...]

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