Tag Archives: 1980s

A La Porte De Le Balajo

October 13, 2012 – 2:37 pm

In the mid-80s DJs Albert Grintuch and his partner Serge Duprat took over the Bastille nightclub, Le Balajo. Once a week our crowd of rockers filled the large dancehall. While I worked the door with Jacques Negrit as security. The barmen and waitresses were the same surly staff as the other nights of the week [...]

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HERMAPHRODITE by Peter Nolan Smith

September 20, 2012 – 9:56 am

Back in the early 80s the Louvre belonged to art historians and serious affectionados of the better things in life. The lower classes avoided the haunted halls of the dusty museum and I would regularly accompany Alabama Tony on his guided tour to naive American models through the Ancien Regime’s royal galleries. I was working [...]

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Passing Paper

September 1, 2012 – 1:54 pm

Back in the late 80s my friend worked as a narcotic detective for the NYPD. The 27 year-old Brooklyn native belonged an elite squad trained to raid crack houses and dealers’ apartments in Red Hook, Brooklyn’s biggest housing project. His job was simple, but dangerous. Once their battering ram smashed down the reinforced door, Rocco [...]

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The Language Of Thieves

April 12, 2012 – 1:15 pm

Back in the 80s I lived on Ile St. Louis with a South African model. Her husband paid the rent. He lived in the South of France, where he had a clothing factory in Biot. Vanesse had lied to her husband and said that I was gay. “I have nothing against ‘gay’. Guy had fought [...]

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