Posted on 05/19/2015 5:24:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
Lower east side around Houston and Second?
Yes. Actually East 3rd, between 1st and 2nd aves.
Had friends that roomed exactly in that neighborhood while attending Cooper Union in the early-mid sixties. I visited them more than a few time before moving to NYC.
IIRC there was an old bar that served mostly fortified wine. The Bowery bums were allowed in before legal opening hours. Bartender set out empty shot glasses in front of each. Ten to twenty bleary faces stared at the clock tick slowly to the appointed hour when the bartender could pour the port and then bang down the first drink of the day.
Interesting neighborhood before the “hippies” found St. Mark’s Place.
In some ways I prefer the hippies of the 70s to what we have there now and throughout most of NYC today: Starbucks yuppies. At least the hippies had some ‘character’. Seriously, I liked the old shops along St Marks Place back then where they sold stuff like blacklight posters, incense, scented wax candles, 60s rock albums, rollin’ papers, bongs... :)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/waco-texas-biker-shooting-caught-video/story?id=31143743
$ .29 cold draft beer, is that how they drew in clientele? Must have been during certain times of course.
Somebody should buy the restaurant and rename it “The OK Corral”....
They all appear to have two things in common - ugly and stupid.
Thanks, thought it was 4.
....”have been in close proximity of Hells Angels, Bandidos, Vagos, and Outlaws with no trouble whatsoever—by minding my own business”....
In other words abiding by their doctrine....staying out of their way.
To paraphrase William F. Buckley, I'd rather be ruled by the first 100 biker members picked randomly from the nation's roadways that by any Democrat and most Republicans.
I grew up in CA.
Those Vespa people could be violent pricks.
They oftentimes became emboldened in a group, including the females, who would try to start fights knowing the group would protect them.
Compton isn't nearly the battlefield it was 25 years ago (murders are a quarter what they were in 1989) and Cabrini Green has been demolished and is being rebuilt as a yuppie neighborhood.
Thanks Bubba, not up to par on the newest hell holes. :)
Yea the 80’s & 90’s were like that.
The skinheads were around and the group was younger.
Now they all have kids & mortgages and the bikes are too expensive for the younger people. Average age of our club is prolly 50.
We never see ‘closing time’ anymore.
The book I was referring to was “Under and Alone” by William Queen. Good book and very revealing, but the part that was a little unbelievable was his disavowal of having done anything illegal while in the group. He rose in the ranks and I can’t believe that would happen without participating in some illegal activity. Of course, he can’t admit that.
Of course you’re right. There will be an investigation. Still, I’m having a hard time conjuring up any sympathy.
O.K. Here’s my second hand biker story.
20 years ago or so, several of my friends got into the Harley Biker thing. All had grown up on motorcycles but they bought Harleys, vests, leathers etc. and started a local “club”. It was all in fun......Business owners, lawyers, factory workers, white collar. All responsible working guys.
So, about 10 of ‘em get together and ride down to Phenix City. Went to a strip club. Didn’t think anything about it. Not long after they got there several other bikers came in. They were not the business owner, white collar, working guy types. They were real bikers. And they thought “my” bunch was there to take over their bar. Apparently several of their biker chicks worked there, if they didn’t outright own it.
They strongly suggested that my buddies come with them. Kidnapped them at gunpoint actually. Took’em back to their clubhouse. Blindfolded. Thought they were dead. Didn’t touch them though. Did a lot of talkiing and a lot of checking stories. Kept them for about 8 hrs before letting them go with a suggestion that they don’t come back. They didn’t.
I don’t think one of them has put on leather since.
I’m curious to know how many handguns were recovered in the parking lot.
-—————————————————————————————I’m curious to know how many were shot by cops and why.
I’m also curious how many illegal handguns were recovered. Illegal because Texas has pretty liberal gun laws and just because “weapons” were recovered doesn’t mean diddly.
And I’m also curious how much law enforcement and courts have to profit from this. As in, how much are the confiscated bikes and property worth?
And I’m also curious as to how 170 people were arrested when there were probably, what? 10 involved in the so-called brawl?
And I’m curious how many innocent bikers were killed by the Police. Not saying any. Maybe all dead were shooting and generally causing mayhem. Maybe. Maybe not.
I have no sympathy for them either
Having computer problems but I’m pretty sure I just read on The Conservative Tree House that ALL dead were killed by the Police. And ALL wounded.
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