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HillBilly Ranch Bar Boston – 1999

February 20, 2024 – 4:45 am

As you get old you forget. as you get older, you are forgotten – anon I know that I didn’t come up with that quote, because I haven’t really forget everything yet and several years ago I reminisced about Lost Boston with a few old-timers during an afternoon Jacob Wirth’s bar, while killing time waiting […]

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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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Jacob Wirth Boston World Cup

July 13, 2010 – 9:23 pm

A heat wave is defined in the USA as 3 consecutive days of 90-plus temperatures. The July 4th Weekend the thermometer hit 100 every day. The meteorologists were predicting no relief for New York. Wednesday morning I left my Fort Greene apartment. A taxi across the Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown. It was a work week. […]

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