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Boston
Our first trip was via a Greyhound Bus to Boston and from the date on the ticket, it looked like 1972. Although we departed from Schenectady, I think we had to change in Albany - that was a seedy Bus Station back then!
I don’t remember where we stayed in Boston but I do remember going to see Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House down in the Jazz Workshop's smoky basement.
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| Bus Ticket to Boston |
New York City
Our trip to New York City was crazy and scary but laughable in retrospect.
Once again we departed by bus from Schenectady. This time we were armed with an already outdated book titled “New York on $5 A Day” and arrived at the YMCA only to find it was way out of our meager price range…
After wandering around midtown for a while, we finally settled for a room at the funky Hotel Wolcott that we could afford. There was a smelly wino teetering in the lobby and the bathroom water was a rusty orange! Ah but we were on a hardcore jazz adventure so we “grinned and barred it.”
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| Hotel - $11.20 - yikes!!! |
We then wandered down to the Lower East Side (that area was pretty down and out way back then) searching for a jazz club called “Slugs.” After a scary walk through a block of Hells Angels in the dark (our knees were quaking as we timidly passed their motorcycles and tattoos), we arrived at Slug’s only to find it had closed down weeks if not months earlier!
We eventually saw McCoy Tyner over at the Village Vanguard (another smoke-filled basement) and called that trip a memorable success!
