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Jack Hyde correspondence, 1930-1976
Jack Hyde to Pearl Hyde Page 2
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2 shows. So we ran our jeep right up to the ticket office, unlimbered a 30 cal. Browning machine gun & set it up to command the street. One guy manned that, another stood up in the jeep with a Tommy gun, and the other fellow & I went inside, right up on the stage (with Tommy guns) and stopped the show. Man, talk about a place going crazy! You should have seen that joint. They pulled out of there in nothing flat. A few bursts (blanks of course) from the guns, & they tho't all hell was breaking loose. After we cleaned the place out & took the manager & cashier in tow, we went outside & next-door was a dairy-bar full of kids between 18 & 25 yrs. old. We went in there & a few of the boys tho't they'd play hero, I guess, but the feel of the Tommy-gun in their bellies made them fold up like accordions. When we got out of there,
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2 shows. So we ran our jeep right up to the ticket office, unlimbered a 30 cal. Browning machine gun & set it up to command the street. One guy manned that, another stood up in the jeep with a Tommy gun, and the other fellow & I went inside, right up on the stage (with Tommy guns) and stopped the show. Man, talk about a place going crazy! You should have seen that joint. They pulled out of there in nothing flat. A few bursts (blanks of course) from the guns, & they tho't all hell was breaking loose. After we cleaned the place out & took the manager & cashier in tow, we went outside & next-door was a dairy-bar full of kids between 18 & 25 yrs. old. We went in there & a few of the boys tho't they'd play hero, I guess, but the feel of the Tommy-gun in their bellies made them fold up like accordions. When we got out of there,
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