“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
Repurp Episode 49 My 1957 Quincy Market Wildcat Strike
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Repurp Episode 49 My 1957 Quincy Market Wildcat Strike.
When I was 17 and working as a driver salesman for a Quincy Market meat packer, I was surpised by a wildcat strike by the sausage makers. I had begun to load my truck with my previously ordered 10 pound boxes of frankfurters. After I had loaded my truck, breaking through the picket line many times to do so, I went back inside to sign off on my load and get my sales book and written orders. The sales book was about 10” x 12” with aluminum covers and closures. As I was walking in the dark space between trucks to drive off, two swarthy, hatless union paid goons in short black leather jackets surprised me. I was able to get away with bleeding nose and mouth with broken teeth and bruises but another driver salesman ended up in the hospital. More to follow.
