Rockabilly community - people living like it's 1951

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32. Same here. Even the winos in Boston

had rooms to live in when I moved there in 1969. Marginal workers like restaurant dishwashers had the same sort of digs, rooms in what had been townhouses 60 years earlier.

Now marginal workers live 10 to a room or in shelters, if they're lucky. The rooming houses have been yuppified and gentrified back into mansions where two adults and one rugrat rattle around like peas in a barrel while patting themselves on the back for "saving" the mansions, never thinking of the 30 or so people they put out onto the street.

I saw bums on the street back in the late 60s. I never saw homeless workers and certainly never homeless families. Someone was always there to whisk them off the street and into rooming houses where they could get back on their feet.

Then Reagan got in.