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Pong

July 24, 2015 – 4:33 pm

During the late 1960s and early 1970s I played pinball at the arcades on Boston’s Washington Street. My skills flourished and I competed against older wizards on machines such as Centrigrade 37 and Strikes and Spares. We loved the lights and bells accompanying our struggle to prevent the steel ball from ever dropping into the […]

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The Punch Bowl – Boston

October 16, 2013 – 8:00 pm

From http://archive.guidemag.com Steps away from Park Square, in Bay Village, gay patrons poured into Mario’s, a restaurant with an upstairs bar; Jacques, a drag venue that still exists; Cavana’s, a boisterous women’s bar; and, in a former speakeasy space, the more formal Napoleon Club. Not far away, straddling the block between Providence and Boylston Streets, […]

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