Dubious Ties?

From shortly after their marriage, and until mid ’47, Mary and Ted ran a dry cleaning store in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. One of the stories from that time is that there were ‘numbers’ run out of the basement or back room of the business by the local chapter of “the mob,” and that Mary had even babysat for the soon-to-be driver of the getaway car for the perpetrators of the infamous Boston, Brinks robbery of 1950. Of course, this was happening unbeknownst to her, those facts being discovered much later during the gangsters’ trials, which ended in the mid-50s.

For whatever reason, maybe a little of ‘this’ and a little of ‘that’, Mary and Ted decided that they would be better off in Ted’s old hometown of Lorain, OH. The final determinant was never revealed to me. So in mid-summer, they embarked on a three-day, overland migration to Lorain Ohio, at the mouth of the Black River on the southern shore of the Great Lake Erie.

To be continued

–LE