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Atman

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5. Larry Garron, Boston Patriots fullback, also lived on our street.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 11, 2016, 11:18 AM

Feb 2016

I still have the football he gave us.

My dad a had sticker on his car, a black hand and a white hand intertwined over an American flag. This was 1966. More than once we got accosted by people who screamed "nigger lover" at my dad. Weird. America seems to be going backward. Make America Great Again. Racist dog whistle.

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Shameless name dropping. Harry Belafonte. [View all] Atman Feb 2016 OP

LOL malaise Feb 2016 #1

Great, I do also remember those days. I had a problem in that I never could wrap my brain LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #2

Larry Garron, Boston Patriots fullback, also lived on our street. Atman Feb 2016 #5

You dropped the "a" from your namedrop. It's Harry Belafonte. DetlefK Feb 2016 #3

I told you, I was just a kid! Atman Feb 2016 #4

Watch "Guess who's coming to dinner" - Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, K. Hepburn, Ann-Margaret flor-de-jasmim Feb 2016 #6

Their other biz partner was in one of the James Bond movies. Atman Feb 2016 #7