Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

As I am recovering from my recent hip surgery, I came up with a silly bunch of questions. As a fan of Facebook, I always see all kinds of various quirky quizzes. I thought it would be fun to list a few questions from those formative, youthful, insane days growing up in Somerville with my fellow Baby Boomers. Feel free to add more!

Warning: Do not attempt … again!

Have you ever:

– Held a political sign?

– Walked out of school in protest?

– Witnessed a bar fight?

– Been in a bar-fight?

– Known a real gangster?

– Mushed a car? (hold on to a moving cars’ bumper in the snow)

– Been chased by the cops?

– Been handcuffed by cops?

– Been in a jail cell?

– Been to Good Times Emporium formerly at Assembly?

– Been at Khourys’s State Spa-at closing?

– Gone “for a ride” in Somerville Police’s old “Meat Wagon”?

– Gone “scooping?” (looking for a love hookup)

– Played hooky?

– Stayed out all night without letting your parents know?

– Skipped church and just brought “The Weekly Bulletin” home?

– Talked your parents into buying you a leather jacket?

– Gotten a tattoo in someone’s cellar?

– Steamed up the windows of the car while “going parking?”

– Parked “down The Mystics?”

– Hitch-hiked ?

– Been inside the Powder House or Prospect Hill Tower?

– Purchased beer on Sunday before it was legal?

– Smoked cigarettes ?

– Smoked cigarettes in school?

– Ate early morning breakfast at Kay and Chips or The Golden Egg?

– “Made out” in the balcony of one of Somerville’s movie theaters?

– Set off fireworks?

– Took off for a 3-day musical festival in NY without telling your parents?

– Marched in Somerville ‘s Memorial Day Parade?

– Took off for an anti- war protest in Washington DC?

– Brought a stray dog home?

– Used a fake ID?

– Purchased and/or delivered The Record American or Herald Traveler newspapers?

If you answered yes to 10 or more you are at the very least an honorary Villen!

You should’ve seen the questions that I omitted!