Red Emeralds Motorcycle Club, Boston, Mass

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	Before 1964 there where only a few Motorcycles gangs in New England. The Roadrunners, Huns, Nomads, and the Deacons. Before that most of them just rode together (no real clubs) They would ride coast to coast, Nantasket to Revere.

1960-1970's

. The Emeralds didn't just ride together, they grew up together, were neighbors, school mates and friends. You knew who to trust and who not to. They all hung around the Mister Donuts in Mattapan or Cleary Square in Hyde Park. Billy Wagner was one of the catalysts behind the forming of the club and he was the first president, then Harry Vee.

The Original Red Emeralds Boston Chapter leased an old two story blacksmith shop in Jamaica Plain on Danforth Street. Members would keep their bikes, equipment, and tools downstairs. The front of the building had a huge sliding door and a regular entry door. To get to the second floor they climbed a perpendicular staircase on the back left, which many troublemakers descended horizontally. The second floor is where they attended meetings, played cards, or just hung out. The second floor had a large Formica bar on the right, with bar stools as you stepped through the door, around the corner at the far end of the bar to the left, you entered at rather large hall, there sat several easy chairs and a sofa, with the final touch, a huge juke box holding up the left corner wall. Other club occupants include rat's as big as cats, which many of the original members, remember well.

The club had it's soft side and annually raised money during the holidays so each orphan at the Home for the Little Wanderers could have gifts for the Christmas.