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The Shitline
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Summer in New York City is hot. As unpleasant as it is today, in the mid 60’s and before most apartments didn’t have air conditioning. Even if our families could afford the inefficient units, the wiring in the pre WWII buildings was not capable of supporting the electrical load. The only air conditioning I remember was in movie theaters and big stores....
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Grand Union
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When I was 16 I worked as a cashier at Grand Union, a grocery store in NYC.
Most of us who worked at that age worked in grocery stores, some as bag
boys, some as delivery boys, and some as stockboys. I worked as a stockboy
for awhile, but being a cashier was much better suited for a person using
heroin. We were all bonded and all our "mistakes" on the register were
covered by insurance.....
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