Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoons around 3:30, Joe ("Green") Verdi, Angelo ("Foots") Colombo, John ("Detroit") Agresti and other properly and not-so-properly nicknamed neighborhood men gather at Rose's Tavern for a glass of beer from the 7-ft. wooden cooler. Then they drift out back toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard...
Where your pub runs out of beer, Where there's redbacks on the toilet...
...went to Whitney's, on Boylston St., the Buildings and Grounds bar. This is another really fine place, in its own way. The television is visible from every seat in the bar, and the beer is only a quarter. This just may be the cheapest bar in Cambridge. Whitney's carded a date when we tried to go there after a movie, and I don't think they really encourage a student clientele. Nowadays Whitney's is comfortable, although it has been a little plastic ever since the building was refurbished about two years...
...area pretty well defined by a pair of bridges, Again, the water looked good, but so early in the season nothing much was happening. The people I was with managed to lose every lure they had (something of a feat), and proceded to lie in the sun, buy some beer and relax. The air warmed up in the afternoon, though the water stayed cold. All in all it made a pretty relaxing first fishing trip of the year...
...York City carpenter, started off on a bottle of Canadian whisky from the family liquor cabinet when he was twelve, and from that moment would drink whatever and whenever he could. "If it was beer, I laughed a lot. If it was wine, I would get very mellow. If it was whisky, I was sure to go wild and get into a fight...