It was in the late fifties and I was just coming into my teenage years and forever I will remember that day.  My lifelong friend Alan Belinfante (owner of Beach Sales in Revere) and I were walking the Revere Beach Boulevard taking in all the sights and sounds on a warm summer’s day with the noise of the people and amusements drowning out our conversation. We had just passed the MDC Police Station (now Revere […]

My father and I went to the Bruins game at Boston Garden sitting in my season tickets on Row 73, seats 3 and 4. It was December 26 or 27th, 1966, just one month into my new job. During the game one of the Plexiglas panels got shattered after a puck hit it.  The shooter was Murray Oliver of the Bruins and it delayed the game about 30 minutes for the repair. We went home […]

Every year around this time I remember a great story from my newspaper days. It was Christmas Eve Day a Saturday and we were all working for the Sunday Advertiser (name of the Sunday paper.)  It was in the late 60s, before we moved from our 5 Winthrop Square, downtown Boston location to the Herald’s current location in Boston’s South End. The Photo Department was on the third floor about 75 feet from the newsroom […]

PARACHUTIST DOWN BUT NOT OUT Monday October 11, 2010 My first shift of the week started off early. I got a call from Joe Roche on the assignment desk at my station WCVB-TV about a hit run fatal in Revere by the Wonderland Dog Track rotary. Second call on this story got me to Lynn where the suspect was found at a methadone clinic and where his car was located. It was towed before I […]

It all began for me in May of 1966. I was finishing up a one year course in photography at the “Franklin Institute of Boston” in Boston’s South End.  I had been chasing fires and accidents for many years and a couple of years before this my father said to me “you are there why not take photos” and he got me a camera. I had a great experience at the school and my instructor […]