Hamp's

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

In Hamp's world, where I lived out my youth for two summers, a helmet coming off for any reason would have been an invitation to apoplexy.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Football Playing Head Games Michael Conniff 2010

Even now, I'll be on the way to a meeting in West Hollywood and find myself tapping out Marcie or Hamp's 1982 phone number on the steering wheel (both of which still work, by the way).

at least there's ye olde waffles 2009

Even now, I'll be on the way to a meeting in West Hollywood and find myself tapping out Marcie or Hamp's 1982 phone number on the steering wheel (both of which still work, by the way).

think of the tender things... that we were working on 2009

I remember all the old timers in Hamp's Barbershop, which was next door, coming out to watch Rodney and me as we struggled to push the behemoth aside on Forest, an east-west street that crisscrosses the city.

Lester Sloan: The Old Packard Plant: From the Detroit Stories 2009

Hamp's parents were especially kind to me – I stayed in their house countless times, ate hundreds of meals, sleeping in the room with the big double bass, playing with their dog Dusty, and basically doing everything I could to get out of my own home.

aux barricades! 2004