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Today Hank and Oe live together in Florida,at least that is what I have heard.It seems Hank had a health scare and Oe was there for him. I guess Oe was there for Hank after all, but twenty some odd years ago they are not there for each other. If you knew them back in the day, them living together would have seem impossible to believe. While they rode the road to success in the club world, they were untouchable. Every club owner wanted them to run their club, but they had the most successful club. If they were only satisfied, but they weren’t they wanted more. How can you have more when you have it all? That is where the beginning of the fall began.
But, I am rushing things, Casper, Sammy and I had become good friends. We did everything together. Back then there were no call waiting or number ID. We thought we were cool because Sammy knew someone at the phone company that could patch the three of us together. We made collect phone calls and third number calls. If you are under thirty these words are foreign to you.
Sidenote here...Third number calls were when you call someone from a payphone and charge it to your home number. I used to fight the the operation all the time because someone had to be at your home number to accept the charge. "I live on my own, how can someone be there to accept the charge?"
All the fun times we had going into the city and getting lost chasing Mr. Right. First,we would start off the night deciding the destination that we were going to end at, usually David’s Pot Belly. We loved their potato balls. Then, we would have a drink at the Monster and usually by the time we finished the first drink we had guys buying us our second.
There is nothing better than a New York Romance.
A few drinks at the Monster and then buying a fifth and walking down to Christopher Street pier. The romantic banter and warmth of each other’s hands as we would stroll down the avenue, commenting on the unique stores that lines the way. At the pier you could see the boats on the Hudson and the New York skyline was your backdrop. They were beautiful one of a kind moments that I shared with many. We would usually go back to their place and I was sure this was it! By 3:30am I was at David’s Pot Belly with Sammy and Casper, laughing at our night adventure. Sometimes Dominick or Chris would pop in and we would have a Jersey reunion in NYC. Those days were very typical back then.
Sammy usually found at least four boyfriends – sometimes at one time- a night. Casper always found the party and the drugs. OMG he could sniff out a party like a cat sniffs out a mouse. Sometimes we would meet at go back to the party he had found. Back in those days the party started at Feathers and we drank our free drinks and then at about 11pm hit the city, at about 4am hit the after hour clubs and then at about 7am find our way home so we could do it again the next night.
PRIDE week-end was the best and ones that I could never do again. The running question when the three of us get together is how did we survived those days?
We would start drinking at Feathers at about 9:30pm on a Saturday night until about 1am then hit the city at about 4am we would hit the Tiffany diner and then hit the afterhours clubs until 7-8 am. There would usually be a circuit party that kept us dancing until noon when the Parade started. After the Parade was the pier dance and then Monday morning would find us in someone’s apartment looking for a piece of mail so we could find out who we went home with!
It is at this moment that I have to thank Eddie the manager, if it wasn’t for him God knows where I would have ended up. While all this partying was going on Eddie and I were friends also. Eddie was a strict anti drug person and told me he would disown me as a friend. Well, thank-God I valued Eddie’s friendship because I never got caught up in the drug scene. I cannot say I never tried drugs, but I never got into the scene. Besides I didn’t want hot guys, I wanted John, my angel….Not saying he wasn’t hot…See how I always get myself in trouble!
Till Tomorrow, Be kind