Category Archives: south shore

Saturday Afternoon 169 169 Bar East Broadway

August 10, 2023 – 10:19 am

Saturday afternoon Summer. Early The 169 Bar East Broadway Jimmie Smith and his organ On loud. No one here, But Cass and Vince. Bartenders / friends Cass serves a cranberry.soda. Cranberries. In 1969 I raced my VW through the bogs west of Plymouth On Qualludes. I ditched the Beetle in a pond My three friends […]

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My Senior Prom 1970 – Horseneck Beach

August 8, 2023 – 8:16 pm

After my senior prom I drove with my date Pattie Hopkins, A Fontbonne Academy junior A classmate of my sister. I should have been with my girlfriend. Kyla. I had broken up with her At Easter Mass. I was not in the right state of mind. But knew to stay with Kyla was give up […]

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Mission Delta 88

July 25, 2021 – 2:44 pm

People drove big cars in the early 70s. My father bought a four-door Delta 88 Royale in 1973. Only 7000 were made that year. The overhead-valve high-compression V8 engine owed its existence to muscle cars such as the GTO. The Delta 88 was no family car. A heavy foot on the pedal rocketed the ton […]

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The First Words On A Telephone

July 23, 2021 – 10:40 am

On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell said the first words on a telephone to his assistant, Thomas Watson, “Mr. Watson–come here–I want to see you.” Five years later the native of Salem Massachusetts resigned his position with Bell to farm stones in East Braintree, then became a successful Shakespearean actor until founding the Fore […]

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Rattlesnake Alert

December 20, 2020 – 11:34 am

Last year local wildlife officials were called to the Blue Hills south of Boston in response to 911 call alerting to the presence of a timber rattlesnake in a populated area. Officers captured the serpent and released rattler into the Great Bog. My sister called me with this information and I asked, “Do you remember […]

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