November 2018
A bunch of drunks
How a couple lucked out by living around the corner from Manhattan’s 24th street clubhouse
My wife Frances was running a rooming house on West 25th Street when we first ran into AA back in 1940,” said Tony—the “Mr.” half of this fabulous couple who are among the best known “man-and-wife” AAs in Manhattan. “Frances was cleaning up a guy’s room in our house when she saw the AA book on his dresser and took a gander at it. Then she spoke to this character and he told her the AA Clubhouse—the old one—was right around the corner on 24th Street and what AA was all about.
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