Monday, November 10, 2025

Can you remember back so far - so vividly?

 
This is Frank Visco - posing at the machine I worked on. This  
is the only photo of the brothers or the store that I could find.
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It's funny how memories like that get so vivid in your mind that you can actually see/hear and kinda smell 'em. They - the Visco Bros - sold all kindsa sports shit, but they also made trophies and lettered team jackets for schools. That's what I did. I'd engrave the plates for the trophies and layout and press on the names on the letter jackets.
Anyway, every Saturday around one o'clock the other guy that worked with me - the only name I ever knew him by was 'Mustard' - would go to the deli next door and get a couple big-ass fuckin' subs, the kind of which we all had no choice in. They were gonna be whatever Mustard felt like eating that day. 
The brothers tended to squeak a bit when they walked, so there were no free sodas in a fridge somewhere - there was a frickin' coke machine in the front of the store - supposedly for 'the customers'. Inside the store. I kid you not. Great memories, though...
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2 comments:

  1. New Hermes Engravograph. Spent many hours on one .y misspent youth. Quality machine.

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  2. That looks like a manual New Hermes engraving machine.

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