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Three Stories (1967): First One

            Taken in 2008.

I don't know what's in this building now but back in the Sixties it was the home of Campbell & Hall, a book wholesaler in Boston's Allston neighborhood. Late in 1967 I got a job here as an order checker and stayed for about six months before leaving for grad school at Berkeley.

If you needed pot (or anything else of that nature) there were guys upstairs in the warehouse to talk to. I met my first "out" gay couple there. Like a lot of the people who worked there, I was way over-educated for the job (Harvard degree) but one of the guys upstairs outdid us all in that category -- he pulled books from shelves at just over minimum wage despite being in possession of a year-old Harvard Law degree. The girls on the first floor (where I worked) who handled the company's records -- all of which were on paper, of course, no computers yet -- regarded him as a loser. One of those girls, despite her meager pay, not only had her own apartment and fed herself, but had a live-in boyfriend (a student at Boston College who worked with us) who offered her not a single cent toward his upkeep. Just before his graduation, he told her he was going to California and she wasn't going with him. Not comprehending, she asked me one day, "Would a guy really do that to a girl who had housed him, fed him, and slept with him for a year?" (Gloria Steinem was a little ways off.)

Taken on: April 19, 2008

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Camera: Canon PowerShot A650 IS, f/6.3, 1/640 sec, 12.7mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot A650 IS
Lens:	7.4-44.4 mm
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	12.7mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	-1/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 18.0 (Macintosh)
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