" Emo "- Patinkin column ( June 23, 1998 )
I have known the subject of Mark Patinkin's excellent column
today ( " Mo quotes Robert Frost and rescues cats " -June 23 )
- " Emo " Hovannesian - neighborhood philosopher, rescuer of stray
cats, down and out lost soul eccentric, heir to an imagined Czarist
Russia oil fortune, now pathetic victim of Mayor Cianci's " neighborhood
improvement " --since 1970.
He is a chartered member of Our Gang.
I can assure Providence Journal readers that he is no " fabrication ".
He is our answer to New York's Ratso Rizzo of " Midnight Cowboy "
fame. In fact playing " Emo " would be a perfect role for brilliant
actor Dustin Hoffman, a sure Academy Award Winner !
When THEY are demolishing his humble house at 327 Dexter St., I
want all Rhode Island to hear his plaintive cry : " I'm here! I'm here ! "
I first met Emo at the former " wild-hippie " Armando's Bar in
downtown Providence.He was the friend of another " our gang " friend-
now a math teacher at URI - who now and then -too drunken to go home-
crashed in my bathtub in a squalid rooming house on North Main Street.
Those " welfare blues days " !
" Emo" was the gang's technical advisor on race track gambling. Once
I made a " grandma bet " and won enough money to treat myself to an ice
cream sunday at Lincoln Downs.
He is still one of the few people in Providence with whom I can
discuss IDEAS- and the OLD DAYS.
I hope Mark Patinkin's column will help people to see him as I've
always seen him - a saint without God.
I thank Mark again for finding a great - if rather pathetic story.
The property you are searching for is no longer an active listing.
" Emo " was evicted from 327 Dexter St.
today ( " Mo quotes Robert Frost and rescues cats " -June 23 )
- " Emo " Hovannesian - neighborhood philosopher, rescuer of stray
cats, down and out lost soul eccentric, heir to an imagined Czarist
Russia oil fortune, now pathetic victim of Mayor Cianci's " neighborhood
improvement " --since 1970.
He is a chartered member of Our Gang.
I can assure Providence Journal readers that he is no " fabrication ".
He is our answer to New York's Ratso Rizzo of " Midnight Cowboy "
fame. In fact playing " Emo " would be a perfect role for brilliant
actor Dustin Hoffman, a sure Academy Award Winner !
When THEY are demolishing his humble house at 327 Dexter St., I
want all Rhode Island to hear his plaintive cry : " I'm here! I'm here ! "
I first met Emo at the former " wild-hippie " Armando's Bar in
downtown Providence.He was the friend of another " our gang " friend-
now a math teacher at URI - who now and then -too drunken to go home-
crashed in my bathtub in a squalid rooming house on North Main Street.
Those " welfare blues days " !
" Emo" was the gang's technical advisor on race track gambling. Once
I made a " grandma bet " and won enough money to treat myself to an ice
cream sunday at Lincoln Downs.
He is still one of the few people in Providence with whom I can
discuss IDEAS- and the OLD DAYS.
I hope Mark Patinkin's column will help people to see him as I've
always seen him - a saint without God.
I thank Mark again for finding a great - if rather pathetic story.
The property you are searching for is no longer an active listing.
" Emo " was evicted from 327 Dexter St.
327 DEXTER ST, Providence, RI
$119,900
What others say this house is worth:
$286,790
$243,771 - $329,808
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