Monthly Archives: July 2021

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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15 Ways to Know That You’re Old School South Shore

July 25, 2021 – 12:56 pm

1.) You have dove off Shipwreck at the Quincy Quarries and lived to tell the tale without getting a car antenna in your arm. 2.) What about the SS Mayflower at Nantasket Beach? I had a head-on crash there in 1969. VW versus a Delta 88 was no contest, but my four passengers and I […]

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Lee Remick – Quincy Beauty – You Bet I Would

July 25, 2021 – 6:48 am

Lee Remick came from the South Shore of Boston. She was a great actress. Especially in THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES.

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Da Friggin’ Quincy Quarries

July 25, 2021 – 3:47 am

On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. Their death-defying leap into Swingles Quarry was followed by low-drive from Rooftop. On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. How high was from the Rail to the water? 120 feet? We’ll never know. The Quincy Quarries were buried […]

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The Ruins Of The Acropolis

July 23, 2021 – 3:24 pm

The years pile on us like a stack of cards from losing hands at a casino. Strangers ignore my passing and friends failed to recognize me. Ancient as dust I regard my body in elongated shadows at dawn and dusk. A ruin like the Acropolis. Once great, but now shattered, but then I recall the […]

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