Tag Archives: 1975

41 BLANCO STREET AUSTIN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 25, 2025 – 7:37 am

In late January of 1975 I drove a blind piano-tuner in a Delta 88 from Miami Beach to the East Texas. Everyone at the Sea Breeze Hotel on Collins Avenue had warned me about Old Bill’s driving. I thought that the old coots had been kidding, but outside of La Grange the blind man ordered […]

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MIAMI BEACH BLIND by Peter Nolan Smith

April 7, 2025 – 11:04 am

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. Lenny Bruce MANGOZEEN BOOK 2024 Rain, drizzle, snow, and ice pellets greeted Boston on the first dawn of 1975. Equally foul weather graced January’s second morning, but by noon the temperature rose into the 40s and I walked from my Beacon Hill apartment to the Mass Pike […]

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Biloxi Wintah January 1975

March 25, 2025 – 9:37 am

A gray Monday morning in Clinton reminiscing on a drive across the USA. Biloxi Wintah January 1975 An hour after sunset we passed through Ocala. Old Bill was the co-pilot. I was at the wheel. The cowboy town looked mean and I drove the speed limit. Florida was a big state at 55. We joined […]

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Bowie and Cher 1975

May 24, 2024 – 4:24 am

David Bowie’s career saw ups and downs. The worst period was in the early 70s. The English glam rocker succumbed to heroin. His best friend was Iggy. Money went faster than it came and his financial commitments required his appearing on the CHER SHOW in 1975. Their duet covered YOUNG AMERICANS and several pop classics. […]

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SOUTH OF MATZATLAN 1975

February 12, 2024 – 1:56 pm

A drifter stand on Route 15 The Sonoran Desert
 All around Bobby BeBadd Hot Asphalt Under his feet
 The sun parching his Gringo skin Skag soothing his soul
 But Bobby wants
Water
 Shade
 A cold cerveza
 More Culiacan heroin
 And Mazatlan.
 A coastal city.
 THe magic of its name.
 Mazatlan.
 Old Aztec magic.
 Nahuatal for abundant […]

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