Johnny Holiday Blog

• Tom Kaplan, Bar Back at the Round Up November 30, 2020
  Tom Kaplan was glad to be working, glad to be at the Round Up, and glad to have a place to be on a stormy night. On this night he was particularly glad to be there because his older brother had come in with his pals from the ROTC; they came all the way from […]
• Hank Jeffers November 23, 2020
  Hank Jeffers had an appointment to keep at the Round Up. He made it there well before the rain began to soak the city, he got there early thinking he might do a little business and take a few bets for his bookie before meeting the tall blonde lady who had become the biggest brightest […]
• Joe Samuelson (A Round-Up Regular) November 16, 2020
  Joe Samuelson sat at the end of the bar near the place station where the waiter picked up drinks, to carry to the tables. The Round Up was the third bar he stopped in on his walk home. At each place he had a pint and a shot, talked for a little bit with whoever […]
• Sandy O’Rourke (Beat Cop 5th Precinct) November 9, 2020
  Sandy O’Rourke caught up to his partner, wheezing and out of breath. He stopped, doubled over, and vomited into the rain filled gutter. What spewed from his mouth was little more than sputum and bile, and that minute he spent hacking with his head between his knees was the last long minute that he struggled […]
• Randy Parsons (Beat Cop 5th Precinct) November 2, 2020
  Officer Parsons was miserable. He had left the Chicago slaughter yards and come to Saint Anthony to join the police force. He was young and strong, and happy to follow orders, but he had no idea what being a police in a city like Saint Anthony would mean when he came here, becoming little more […]
• Jane Lovejoy, Patroness on the Strip, The First Day October 26, 2020
  When Jane Lovejoy’s husband phoned to tell her the news that he had been passed over for the promotion he had been hoping for, and denied the raise he expected, she knew that she would have to do something special to raise his spirits, and she knew that she would have to do the heavy […]