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Closing The Go Go Bars

January 11, 2020 – 2:22 am

I liked old go-go bars. My first was the 2 O’Clock Lounge in Boston’s Combat Zone. 1971. Drums, bass organ, sax, stripper. Paradise. I hate gentlemen clubs. They have no class, but class went dead in the beginning of the 21st Century, except for those who never gave up the dead.

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Combat Zone Amnesia

January 11, 2020 – 2:10 am

In the 60s urban social scientists suggested to Boston officials that the city create an adult entertainment area between the bus station on Boylston Street and Chinatown to contain the wickedness of mankind. The experiment green-lighted prostitution, drag queens, piano bars, go-go bars, rent boys, and pornography along Washington Street and the adjacent blocks. The […]

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Old Friends Never Fade Away

February 13, 2018 – 8:48 pm

combat zone, check cabs, strippers, boston

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Goodbye Jacob Wirth

January 21, 2018 – 1:26 pm

Last week the owners who been operating Jacob Wirth since 1975 announced that debt has forced him into selling the 150 year-old beer hall in Boston. Kevin Fitzgerald owes over $2,000,000 to the IRS and state as well as employees and food purveyors. Several years ago I met the owner during a slow Sunday and […]

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Sex Quotes

September 8, 2015 – 11:56 am

“There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz SL500.” – Lynn Lavner “Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.” – Camille Paglia “Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.” – […]

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