Brockton Photos In Boston

In our continuing series of "Things We Feel Guilty About Not Going To That Are Either In Or Related to Brockton," here are a couple of Gerald Parker's photos, and his brief comments. He's appearing at the Old South Meeting House tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. The photos are from "Preserving Memory: Streets of My Youth in Brockton, Massachusetts," published in 2005 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Globe's Josh Glenn wrote about Parker earlier this year.

Barbershop Owner Joe Florio: "More than a prankster, Joe behaved in peculiar ways bordering on insanity. One minute a raving lunatic, the next minute he would be calm and reserved... He is wearing a mascara mustache and piece of black paper over a front tooth.”

School Street Barbershop: “With a collapsed economy and the new preference for long hair (during the 1970s), nobody other than old timers went to barbershops….I listened to their stories about Brockton and came away feeling that they possessed honor and dignity, but had become lost amid forces none could control.”