Category Archives: 80s

CASSE-TOI BRIGITTE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 10, 2022 – 12:01 am

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. Vadim was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. The tough zek smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. Only […]

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When We Were Young

November 28, 2022 – 9:38 am

I didn’t work that often in the late-80s. In fact I can’t remember what I did for money from 1987 to 1989. I was in my mid-30s. I hung out at nightclubs, but I didn’t sell drugs. I drank for free and hung out with beautiful women. Was that a crime? Because I seem to […]

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FURY FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 28, 2022 – 12:51 pm

FURY FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith New York City has been bled of out-of-towners with a merciless fury. Jobs once abundant for aging emigres to Manhattan dries up, as your age passes 40. Successful friends move out of your pay bracket and your old work slow has been replaced by twenty year-olds willing to work […]

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A La Porte De Le Balajo

July 13, 2022 – 11:37 am

In the mid-80s DJs Albert Grintuch and his partner Serge Duprat took over the Bastille nightclub, Le Balajo. Once a week our crowd of rockers filled the large dancehall.I worked the door with Jacques Negrit as security. The barmen and waitresses were the same surly staff as the other nights of the week featuring accordion […]

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Nice 1985

June 21, 2022 – 1:45 pm

The summer of 1985 Albert, Serge, Jacques Negrit and I opened a nightclub in Nice. Our vehicle was Albert’s Chrysler Imperial. The city’s narrow streets were hell on the mirrors. The long black car had class, although we wished it was a convertible. Our villa was covered with grape vines. There was no AC or […]

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