Barefoot Bob

Barefoot Bob is dead. Robert Salamone, originally from Chelmsford, MA, a hop, skip and jump away from Tyngsboro, MA where I spent my high school years, passed on on June 22 in Key West. Robert -- Bob -- operated the bar known as Barefoot Bob's during the 1990s. If I have it right, the club was first at the Duval St. location of today's Willy T's. And I remember going just once to Barefoot Bob's on Telegraph Lane. It was a Deadhead hangout then, a dark place with black and strobe lights, walls painted in psychedelic scenes and colors, and a booming sound system playing stoner tunes.

I didn't know the gentleman, though I knew of him. You can't say that you know anyone from what is written in his or her obituary, but his reflected a caring person to me, someone in the business he was because he liked people, liked being around people having fun.

I kinda wish I had come to know him.