Jerry Jacobs and I were friends. I just found this, apparently from
“New Bodega's” (a local hangout (along with D'Angelo's, the
“Straw Bar”, and Kurt's) that had just closed and moved
downtown, May or June 1961). Later, after my family returned prematurely to
the States (so that I missed graduating from FHS), Jerry sent me a beer mug
from “Little Mayer Gustl's”. A year later I was in the Army,
basic training in Fort Gordon, GA. After basic, I took the bus back to DC
and stopped in Fayetteville to see Jerry because we had stayed in touch.
When I called from the bus station I learned from his brother that he had
just died in a car crash.
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