Shipwreck
My dad, Tony Sullivan Sr., hung out at Revere Beach bars every day he wasn’t working and every single night of the year. Unless, of course, he was in bed or on the couch suffering from debilitating clinical depression. Tony Sr. grew up in Revere, Massachusetts, a north shore suburb of Boston, during the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Revere was a working-class city back then. Nowadays, most of Revere, especially near the beautiful beachfront, had been gentrified by new money. The condos went up in the 1990’s and dominate the beach skyline today. The only parts of the beach that looked like the “old days of the 70’s, in the 90’s, were the bars that dotted the landscape.
