Category Archives: 60s

135 IN THE SHADE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 29, 2013 – 4:23 pm

In the last week of August AK and I left Southern California on a cloudless morning. Our long vacation had come to an end. Victor drove us over the Hollywood Hills east out of the Valley. AK and the dancer sat in the front of the Mercedes convertible. I couldn’t hear their conversation with the […]

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Horace Silver SONG FOR MY FATHER (1964)

June 16, 2013 – 12:32 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdm1yuoU_Q

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Painting Like Warhol

June 1, 2013 – 12:36 pm

In 1969 my friend Joe Gator hand-painted his Chevelle SS white and slapped a ragged black slash down the middle. “It’ll make it go faster.” I think the BC High senior used the same paint as Warhol slopped over this BMW M1. Andy echoed Joe’s comment, “I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car […]

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Sucker Punch

June 1, 2013 – 11:13 am

In the winter of 1967 I stood outside the parking lot of BC High with a Southie girl. The G Clefs were performing soul hits on stage. Debbie and I had danced to their version of MUSTANG SALLY. We were talking about school. Her eyes widened in surprise and I turned to see why. A […]

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PROM QUEENS CRY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 18, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Few loves are more true than that of a high school sweetheart. Sophomore sessions of kissing on sofa were upgraded to petting during junior year and pledges of eternal devotion for the final year of high school. I was lucky enough to find myself in such a situation in the Spring of 1970. Kyla Rotta […]

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