the hippies place was this hole in the wall ice cream parlor on city island
back in the 70's
it was located approx. where remy's shop is now.

we used to ride out there on our big fat noisy motorcycles, girlfriends on
the back of course.

the special ice cream was something called the "deep throat"

the story is that they ran this shop to rebuild the "freeedom sloop" to
pursue a world tour.
well...........one night it became obivious that they were going to be
raided by the police(everybody was doing what everybody did back then)
and they left thru the back door..............customers still in the parlor
boarded they're old wooden piece of junk and set sail for they're ocean
voyage and set off down hell's gate for the open ocean

as i understand it, the "freedom sloop for jesus" sunk off the coast of
brooklyn..............never to be seen again.
the ice cream parlor was shut down by US marshalls
and city island has never been the same again..............

gf.







"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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so do you know the hippies place?


Do you mean Ketch 22???


RB

as i understand it, the "freedom sloop for jesus" sunk off the coast of
brooklyn..............never to be seen again.


Good story! You learn something old every day.

RB