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It was December. Bobby lay in a car for three days at the Tulsa gas station. An ambulance had been there to take him to the hospital. He’d screamed that he didn’t want to go, that he was being kidnapped and so they left him there. Now a motorcycle cop rode into the gas station, stopped and got off the bike.

Banging on the car window, ”Open the door. NOW! Listen! Here’s how it works. Sign this paper saying that you were offered help and refused it. If you don’t sign, I’m bringing the ambulance back and making sure you get in.”

Bobby signed. The police officer left. That night, the temperature went below zero. By the next morning Bobby’s legs were frozen and had to be cut off.

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These were the Reagan years and nobody – double amputees, mental patients, what not – stayed in the hospital for very long. One day, an ambulance pulled up to the Tunnel Bar and lowered a wheelchair with Bobby in it down to the gutter.

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http://secondthiefbestthief.com/shortstories/2014/02/21/bobby-legs/

What’s the link to JC?

Do you have any tube bar stories?

This is Jersey City PG — PreGentrification — just outside of the Holland Tunnel.

Found our transplant lol.

Isn’t this the bar that inspired the Moes tavern phone prank?

Nice work detective.

Yeah I was thrown off by “Tulsa”

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Ummmm that’s special investigator thank you.

Any idea what the address or cross street was?

The Tunnel Bar it the Tulsa gas station? The Tunnel Bar was 15th and Henderson. The Tulsa I believe was 17th and Henderson. The demolition of the Tulsa was a disgrace. Not needing it for anything, the Newport development removed it because they considered it an eyesore. The oldest gas station in Jersey City.

Thanks. I thought there would have been train tracks on what would be 17th and Henderson at the time. I thought those were cleared out for I assume where the Acme is today. What year did it exist?

By the way, did you used to help at voting stations on election day in Ward B by any chance?

Train tracks were on the RR bridge at 16th Street. No, I never had anything to do with the polls in Ward B.

Oh no, they got rid of a gas station. The horror!

For the people who worked, there it was not good. And the demolition was done like a number of others by a crew going “accidentally” to the wrong place early in the morning. Then, an inspector would appear to condemn the structure. The mechanic lost a historic car that was inside.

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That’s the tube bar