Category Archives: 60s

AFTERNOON by Tom Poulton

October 7, 2024 – 3:23 pm

Now this is a drawing from the 1960s by a great English illustrator. How daring. How very very naughty. Tom Poulton. Now more than ever.

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A FINE DAY FOR SAILING by Peter Nolan Smith

August 30, 2024 – 11:17 am

My grandmother hailed from County Mayo in Ireland. Her last name was Walsh. At the age of fourteen Nana traveled to Boston by ship. Most of the other passengers were cattle. “It was an awful crossing. Storms most of the way. We sailed in the Year of the Crow,” she told her grandchildren in her […]

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The SS Showboat Mayflower Nantasket

August 30, 2024 – 3:11 am

From 2012 A fleet of side wheel steamers plied the waters of Boston harbor in the early part of the 20th Century. The flotilla was reduced to one by a fire in 1919. The Mayflower remained in service until 1948. After its decommission its new owner had the white-hulled ship hauled close to shore several […]

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The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil

July 27, 2024 – 5:41 am

Few better songs from the Rolling Stones SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

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Bouffant The 60s the Surf Nantasket

July 17, 2024 – 12:38 pm

In 1966 I met Joe Kane from Mattapan at the Surf Nantasket, a dance Mecca, for teenagers on the South Shore of Boston. Her bouffant was lacquered stiff as a football helmet by Aquanet hair spray. Once a week we went to the Mattapan Oriental theater for the matinee to make out in the balcony. […]

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