Chapter 2: Local Meat Speak
Achilles rode the trains and worked odd jobs across the country until, at the age of 19, he arrived in New York City on the eve of Prohibition, January 19th, 1920. He found work in a speakeasy, known as the Local Meat Speak, located in a former butcher shop/pharmacy underneath his apartment on 6th Street and Avenue C. Although he spent most of his time polishing patrons shoes for small change, he made friends with the bootleggers unloading smuggled liquor into the tavern through the sewer system.
