It was an amazing place with much tradition behind it, but it was also the place to go to try to buy back your TV or your stereo or your car battery or your hubcaps after they were ripped off.

But seein' Blind Arvella Gray and Jim Brewer jammin' with Mike Bloomfield & Chicago Slim while breathin' in the smoke from those sausage things grilling/burning over 50 gallon drums o' burning whatever was almost worth being mugged on the way home. (My knuckles still show the scars where I missed the guy and hit a brick wall by mistake.)

Every coin has two sides!

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