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CHAPTER 9 – AMONG THE REDWOODS from BACK AND FORTH by Peter Nolan Smith

June 19, 2017 – 12:35 am

Overfishing in the 1940s had closed Monterey?s canneries. Gone were the bars and people immortalized by two of John Steinbeck?s Great Depression novels and the only sign of life along Ocean View Avenue were two cats fighting over a mangled fish carcass, so I wandered away from the forlorn harbor toward the Presidio. Two young […]

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The End Of The Road

March 3, 2014 – 7:44 pm

The other day I was speaking with Bruce Benderson. Both of us were lamenting the hard economic times. “I’m four months behind in my rent.” Bruce still lived in the East Village. “I’m only one month.” I had been economically cleansed from East 1Oth Street by a $10,000 buyout from the managment company. The money […]

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