Category Archives: 60s

Si Drole 1961

January 12, 2015 – 9:16 pm

France waged a long and bloody war of repression in their Algerian colony from 1954 to 1962 against the FLN or National Liberation Front. The French army outnumbered their adversaries, but the NLF had the support of the populace from Algiers to the Magreb. There were few pitched battles and every street was considered a […]

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$1.19 Steak At Tad’s

November 18, 2014 – 10:37 pm

I ate my first steak at Tad’s. 1964. Someplace near Penn Station $1.19 I made five times that as a newspaper boy. We were not wage slaves in the age of Tad’s Steakhouse.

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Very Seriously Cool

October 26, 2014 – 11:01 am

Jacquiline Bisset Steve McQueen. BULLITT Steve had his hands full.

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BULLITT 1968

October 24, 2014 – 11:46 am

Last night I returned from dinner. AP was in the TV room. His children were asleep. I poked my head into the room to say hello. AP motioned for me to sit down. “BULLITT. It just started.” I needed no further encouragement. No man had been cooler than Steve McQueen in 1968 and I joined […]

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WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN

October 22, 2014 – 9:41 pm

Summer ended in 1966 on a Cape beach with me dancing with a girl on the last day of our vacations. WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN played on a radio. Her father beeped the horn. She kissed me and ran to the car. The back of station wagon was packed high. I never saw […]

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