Dear Jim, Wish I could tell you this in person! Last March, I told you about a truck project that provided a hands-on learning experience from the ESM automotive service program we have at my HS. After I showed you pictures of the truck in progress and told you what it...
Larry's Market Boys could not help but get involved in the dark underworld of gambling. Jimbo and I were no exception. I would supplement my College drinking budget by circulating football betting tickets around campus, covering all the action myself. They were the sta...
I'll be sporting a new blazer at the wake tomorrow, courtesy of Jos. A Bank. As fate would have it, the first parking spot I could find was in front of the Pub, one of the many watering holes frequented by the Great One. My purchase complete, I popped into the Pub @3:3...
Back around 1980 I worked as a lifeguard at Rye Golf along with Eddie Pellon and Brendan Holden. After we closed the pool at 8 PM we would wheel a keg in once in awhile and have an unauthorized "guard party". We often invited others including Jimbo and some of these pa...
My wife Maureen was babysitting Jimbo the fateful night the red Mustang played bumper cars on the Post Road in Mamaroneck after Jimbo headed to Sherwood's for a night cap when his bar-tending shift ended at AYC. The rest of the family was in Boston painting Tom & Brita...
On a beautiful August afternoon a makeshift football game broke out in the front yard of the Lofgren family. We all had football fever as the NFL was only weeks away from the kickoff of their season and the Rye Garnets first official practice was around the corner. My...
Years ago in November on one of those early winter days when the windchill felt below zero and snow whipped across the fields, one man made sure a group of 20 girls stayed warm. I’m still not sure how he actually did it but I had noticed his car running for most of the...
Our family has only known the Jo-clan for 4 years. I got to know Jim on an SU lax field. I remember it being 95 degrees, the games were running late and we had to pick up our daughters from the dorms at the same time I had a meeting. There was Jim, a huge iced cooler o...
We are neighbors of Jimbo and he was one of the best! My 2 boys are younger than Jimbo's boys but that never stopped them from opening their home for a game of football, baseball, basketball, video games or just some relaxing on the back porch with ice cream. The Mulhe...
The first two stories are ones that my two boys absolutely loved hearing Jimbo tell, and sometimes even repeated... Story one: The story of Sam Gorman. Story two: Jimbo (aka Cheese in my household, Uncle Cheese to my boys). Jimbo told us this story, but my boys repeat...
