Category Archives: youth

The Wimple Winch – Save My Soul

September 7, 2010 – 9:32 pm

English garage. Way cool.

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Drunk Driving Hour

September 7, 2010 – 9:30 pm

My college tuition in 1973 was $2000 for the year. I hacked a cab for Boston Taxi to support myself. Our garage was next to the old Boston Arena. If a driver booked more than $100 a night, the payout jumped from 45/55 to 50/50. My classmate Frank McGurty and I were the top earners [...]

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BAD BOY DRIVING by Peter Nolan Smith

September 7, 2010 – 7:22 am

Labor Day Weekend rivals the summer kick-off July 4th for car accidents in the USA. This holiday mayhem was much less than that of the 1970s. Cars were more lethal back then and people drank without fear of a DWI arrest. In Boston the weekend signaled the return of college students and my BC comrades [...]

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Who do you love – The Misunderstood

September 3, 2010 – 9:39 pm
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MEETING ARTHUR by Peter Nolan Smith

September 3, 2010 – 9:36 pm

In 1979 I was going out with a blonde model from Buffalo. She came home late one night. Her excuse was Arthur Weinstein. The name was familiar, since I was was working at Hurrah, which he had owned before selling out to Robert Boyngon. I ran into Arthur on 2nd Avenue. The goodlooking nightclub impressario [...]

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