Weekend Lockup

By: buddhawannabe

Full disclosure: About forty years ago, I was standing in the middle of Herbie's Ramrod Room in Boston (at its old location, on the site of Edgar Allan Poe's birthplace, I'm not kidding), watching "Weekend Lockup," which the proprietors were projecting on the wall of the bar, and being groped by a leather daddy. Turned out that's all he was interested in doing, which brought about the demise of what paltry shreds were left, even back then, of my youthful innocence. But I'm not the only one with hallowed memories of this Al Parker classic. True, the photography's a bit fuzzy and murky, and the men aren't comparable to modern porn gods. But if you like the early Falcon type--slim men with ripped abs, hairy legs and crotches, tight butts, and "bar-clone" hair, mustaches and beards (in fact, Al Parker may be said to have popularized what became known as the "bar-clone" look), then you'll like these five "loops" and the ample supply of early trailers that fills out the disc. And the feet . . . my god, the feet! Yes, there's plenty of footage here of men fucking the continentals out of each other, without condoms, but you can get that in 'bareback' videos today, when everyone seems to want to keep their socks or boots on. What you can't get is footage (so to speak) of hot men on their backs, with their legs out in the air and those beautiful bare feet waving around at the end of them. Hama hama. So it's a trip down memory lane, at the very least, and even if you're a young 'un you may find yourself shooting a cup o' cum-shot yet for auld lang syne. (It's New Year's Eve as I write this.) Incidentally, Herbie's was torn down to make way for the new Transportation Center. Herbie tried to get the building preserved as a National Historic Landmark because of its being the Poe birth-site, but today you could justify the listing on the basis of Herbie's having been one of the great leather bars of the 1970s. Auld lang syne, indeed.