[xkaydet65]

The trucks were found on tge West Side below 14th street where the actual meat markets were found. For some reason the meat packing industry was home to many gays and some were known to use the meat delivery trailers as a place to meet up with teens who were gay or who were unsure of their preferences or who could not successfully make a connection with a girl. Cops were notoriouly brutal to the adult men who took advantage of these teens. A scene in Sinatra’s movie The Detective is quite accurate in showing this brutality.

[Steely Tom]

Thanks for the movie recommendation.

I heard about them from someone who had seen them. It was the most grotesque thing I ever heard, at least until I heard about The Anvil and The Mineshaft.

[wardaddy]

I lived in Manhattan 80s

Wrangler
Mine Shaft
Glory Hole

All those leather bars you’d see west of Sheridan square

Then homosexual men’s wasting disease hit in 83 or 84 before they called it AIDs. (Politicized) and Christoper street went from Mardi Gras homo bacchanalia to somber walking dead promptly

Id go down to McNultys frequently for exotic bean and observe it

A risky lifestyle for twinks and bears alike