my dad came from old town maine he trained to be a boxer there was a guy named punchy more drank sterno thats why my dad joined the army in 1940 he was 15
my flaws make me im not a mistake
A friend of mine came from Maine..
He told me of his Father ..who .drank sterno..when he could not get booze..
Eddie..my friend..was a toughf n rumble guy...
Sadly gone now..
Do to drinking n smoking himself ...
To..death..
Eddie's Son in law..worked fer me..for years..drillin..
The second world war dragged a lot of young men into the services. Unfortunately the 40's and 50's offered a way to cope for men who were struggling to re-adjust and re-settle. By the time I entered the working world in the early1960's there was a lot of alcohol abuse. Eventually the tide of alcohol seemed to recede just in time for a tidal wave of drugs of every description.
Don Reno would’ve been more famous if WWll hadn’t come along,, he was hired by Monroe but had to go fight in the war,, then along came Earl who got a deferment from the draft due to his father’s passing and was then able to support his mother by working in the textile mill before setting the world on fire as a Blue Grass Boy. Next thing ya know, old Earl’s a millionaire…
Drank Sterno.
There's a song about that: Canned Heat Blues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHw1ugBLS5g
"Canned heat is killin' me."
BTW, Dad would rent a cottage in Old Orchard, Maine, when I was about four, five, six. We'd go down from Montreal. I remember the route back, through one of the notches - practically vertical. I also remember the Boston and Maine diesel blasting past. Also, some poster advertising a "man-eating clam" with an illustration of a pearl diver whose foot is held fast by a huge clam. Dad would say, "I saw a man eating clam - at a restaurant."
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