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WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 4

February 28, 2018 – 2:52 pm

The first week in February I moved into an apartment in Brighton’s Bug Village. The walls were thin as a potato chip and a single electric space heater warmed the living room. I colonized it with a color TV. Wayne came over to crash with Marie after concerts. Neither of them had a car. She […]

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Old Friends Never Fade Away

February 13, 2018 – 8:48 pm

combat zone, check cabs, strippers, boston

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La Eleganza

January 21, 2018 – 9:02 am

La Eleganza said hip without having to spell it in big letters. I had bell bottom trousers with buttons on the split flair, but no one in Boston ever wore these bold threads. Not even in the Sugar Shack, the home of black pimps of the Combat Zone. The house band was George Clinton’s Funkadelics. […]

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Jacob Wirth – Boston’s Bratwurst Himmel

January 20, 2018 – 11:29 am

A group of 40-year old Boston College alumni discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally they agree upon meeting at Jacob Wirth on Boylston Street restaurant where some of the patrons at the bar have low cut blouses and nice breasts. 10 years later, at 50 years of age, the group meets again and […]

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PASSING GRADE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 20, 2018 – 8:44 am

My older brother worked too much. Frunk had a big house on Milton Hill and I was in Boston to visit my father. Frunk was at his office, as were most lawyers in Boston on a weekday. “Meet me at Durgin Park.” I loved their chowder. “Can’t.” He sounded stressed. “What about Jacob Wirth?” Their […]

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