Sauro Motel - The Collected Writings of Bobby Sauro.

Now known as just The White Diamond, but glad to see it’s still open. In the 1970s and 80s, square burgers, smaller than a compact disc, sizzled on the flattop as pieces of onion slipped into the grease. Even with hundreds of diners dotting the Garden State landscape, there was no better late-night buzzed munchie stop…. Continue reading »

The Hojo’s in Times Square, shortly before it closed and gave way to a re-development of luxury wares. One of the few Howard Johnson’s restaurants that did not have the iconic, orange roof.

I took … Continue reading »

Mind-wandering to a trip to Vegas from many years past. I hurried past the Vince Neil Tattoo Shop inside O’Shea’s, and past an ancient stone reader, who was waving me in. I fought through the Bosnian crowd dancing to DJ Mika as she spun “PYT (Pretty Young Thing)” to her adoring fans. Down many corridors and up two … Continue reading »

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

Bobby Sauro’s short fiction has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Fiction Attic, Connotation Press, Fiction Southeast, elimae, Burnt Bridge, Corium, Dew on the Kudzu, and Red Fez. 

His story “Forgotten Flyers” was included in the anthology Flash in the Attic … Continue reading »

In the days before GPS or Google Maps, known to some wild at hearts as the 1970s, you loaded up on free road maps from the service stations before you left Portland, Maine or Pawtucket, Rhode Island or Clark, New Jersey for that summer road trip vacation to Florida. But these weren’t just boring old maps. … Continue reading »

From Wired to Tired. Highway 140. Waleska, GA

This North Georgia IGA is perfect if you are on the road and need to go from “Tired to Wired.” Just watch out … Continue reading »

The Matterhorn Motel. Sedona, Arizona

August 1992. Trying to find the road into Sedona, Arizona in the pitch night. My map reading skills were lacking at the time. To the trepidation of my companions, I veered onto an unpaved, gravel road. After a tense, rocky hour-long trip, slipping past survivalist camps … Continue reading »

Asbury Park Boardwalk circa 1977

Wish I had some photos but I did save the postcard. @criterion_ap on the boardwalk at #asburypark. In the 70s, my grandmother sent my sister a tub of #taffy for her birthday that we all shared. It usually lasted until … Continue reading »

After study, we cut class and went down the Shore. We drove slowly, marvelling at the mansions in Deal until the cops escorted us to the Asbury line. It was too cold for the beach, but the guy at  Asbury Lanes turned on Lane No. 1 for … Continue reading »

My brother and I visited Asbury Park, New Jersey recently to see for ourselves the new development that everyone from Travel & Leisure to The New York Times have been featuring. We didn’t stop by a real estate sales center, however. We did what Bruce Springsteen and older Asbury residents have done for years on hot, summer nights: we drove … Continue reading »