Winter Quarters

When the show pulled into Winter Quarters in 1961, the first thing we spotted was a hole in the wall bar across the street owned by a Cuban named Rafael. He had a natural, a bunch of thirsty alcoholics descended upon the place and within a short while he expanded to twice his size.
Tammy-s bar became a hangout for show bums, clowns, candy butchers and Bally Broads.
Every once in awhile some redneck cracker would wander in and get the hell knocked out of him for making a pass at the wrong girl.
Harry "Shotgun" Eagles started cooking in winter quarters. One afternoon, after painting trucks we went to the cookhouse where Shotgun and his helper were dishing out spaghetti. The first guy in line took a plate sat down and took a bite, which he immediately spat out, 'This tastes like shit", he said.
Shotgun ran out of the kitchen in a rage, grabbed the guys plate and threw it in the trash, then he brought out the pot of spaghetti and threw it on the ground.. "You bastards are always complaining about my food so you can do without", he said.
Pete the owner hearing this ruckus, came out and told him to calm down and make sandwiches.
Later I asked the cookhouse helper why was shotgun carrying on like that and he said, "The truth is that Shotgun was putting on an act to cover up his own mistakes, he had picked up a can of Comet Cleanser thinking it was Parmesan Cheese and dumped it into the Spaghetti." Not wanting Pete to find out about it he threw a temper tantrum at the first guy to make a beef.