• @sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    461 month ago

    “He used to hang around the old No. 1 fire department on Greene Street all the time and the firemen started calling him ‘the little bum,’” one friend told The Miami Herald in 1976. “He was always bumming things—asking for favors, like little kids do.”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      251 month ago

      See? You’d think a guy named Farto would have that nickname by the time he was 4 for the much more obvious reason.

      But also, it’s an interesting article.