“No way. It’ll be gone. Razed in an urban-renewal program. Changed into an Elks’ Hall or a Bowl-a-Drome or an Electric Dreamscape Video Arcade. Or maybe burned down one night when the odds finally ran out on some drunk shoe salesman smoking in bed. All gone, Richie—just like the glasses Henry Bowers always used to rag you about. What’s that Springsteen song say? Glory days . . . gone in the wink of a young girl’s eye. What young girl? Why, Bev, of course. Bev . . .”
~ Part 1: the Shadow Before, 3. Six Phone Calls (1985): Richie Tozier Takes a Powder








