Jim Martin
Jim Martin was born in 1925 in Philadelphia, which he always considered his home, even though he lived in New Jersey most of his adult life. He worked as an electrical designer, mostly at shipyards, where he contributed to company newsletters. Many years later, he wrote for a small newspaper, The Speedliner. He often said that he didn’t like to write, he liked to have written.
He loved to tell stories about his old neighborhood, and finally decided to commit some of them to paper. The result...