Dec. 14, 2010—
Maybe some of you have been to Ruby’s Bar & Grill on the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn, N.Y. Maybe not.
But everyone has the desire for an endless summer.
Ruby’s closed last month. It opened in 1934 and was the oldest bar on Coney Island. You could sit outside, stare at the Atlantic Ocean and understand just how small you are in this world. Life is not meant to be taken so seriously. They knew that at Ruby’s.
I remember dancing to Tito Puente and Ronnie Hawkins’ “Who Do You Love?” near Ruby’s jukebox. One time I saw a middle-aged African-American woman in breathless hip-huggers and chesty halter top. She was sucking on a [...]
