Charlestown's Mickey O'Halloran did a LOT in the world of Boston nightlife during a decades-long career, which started in the late 1960s. There's no need for me to rehash too much of it here, since the Music Museum of New England has a short but solid bio of him, by A.J. Wachtel, on their site: https://www.mmone.org/mickey-ohalloran/.

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Chuck White, of Motherlode and the David Bieber Archives [see Chuck's Business Card Collection page], was one of Mickey's proteges, and at some point Mickey gave Chuck many of his archives to preserve. These archives currently reside at the David Bieber Archives in Norwood, MA.

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Among the many items Mickey gave to Chuck was a file folder with a stack of dozens of newspaper clippings from 1969 - 1971. Most of them were from the Boston Herald - Traveler. Mickey was managing the Kenmore entertainment establishment K-K-K-Katy's at the time, and the club advertised their events weekly.

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Looking at these clips is an amazing trip into the world of nightlife in Boston and its suburbs (stretching to Framingham and beyond) during that era.

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These scans in the slideshow below were done 1/3 of a page at a time, so some ads can be redundant. Forgive us.

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And this is just a sampling of Mickey's amazing clippings folder, we may add more slideshows at a later date.

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Enjoy!