Stick around long enough, you will see him in the most random spots: Washington Street near the Forrest Hills over pass at 2:00am, Boylston St, Huntington Ave, Dick's Last Resort, Park Square, Ferris Wheels in JP.

He is just one of those Boston characters. You see them for years and you run into them at the most random places/times. Off the top of my head, here are a few others (I feel like I am repeating a thread, my appologies):

1. The "Repent Now/Jesus Saves" sandwich board guy
2. The African American guy who plays the flute (Jethro Tull on request, even!) at Kenmore, Downtown Crossing (I've been seeing this guy for almost 15 years)
3. Dexter, a patron of Daisy Buccanans & lingerie salesman who is known for...well, let's just say you will know him when you see him.
4. The "Guys, do you have any spare change" Guy
5. The "Excuse me ladies and gentleman" kids who sell candy on the T
6. That really happy, enthusiastic T cunductor with the peppy announcements on the Orange Line
7. The older woman from Dorchester who rides the T (drinking tea) and makes up songs that are laced with profanities and racial slurs
8. The Roxbury Chargers
9. The older gentleman who plays keyboard at Downtwon Crossing, usually playing Randy Crawford's "Street Life"

There are a couple others I am thinking of...they are distinct enought that I know who they are, but not descript to the point where I can give them a short name.

Can't forget Mr. Butch

By adamg on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 8:00pm.

Thanks for compiling that list!

And don't forget....

By Rhea on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 8:26pm.

10. The would-be deejay who rides the subway carrying a stack of LPs under his arm along with a turntable (haven't seen him in a while, though, so maybe he's switched to compact discs)
11. The blonde guy on the T who whinnies and bucks like a horse.

12. The rollerskating baton

By Kristin Thomas on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 7:07am.

12. The rollerskating baton twirling guy in the Fens.

the spare change guy

By LaDivina on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 10:09am.

I haven't seen/heard him around lately. Does anyone know if something happened to him?

Aren't there a few hundred

By Ron Newman on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 11:55am.

Aren't there a few hundred of those around the city? (Sad to say.)

Unfortunately, there are, but...

By LaDivina on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 1:48pm.

THE spare change guy is the one featured in Greg Kulaga's video that Adam just posted.

Sad to say??

By MisterGoat on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 1:59pm.

What would be sad about having a few hundred baton-twirling roller-skating folks around the city. That'd be awesome, and I wish that it were true!

I've seen tricycle guy

By Fiddler on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 11:03am.

I've seen tricycle guy fairly regularly when I'm busking in the Public Garden. I have it in my head that he's the Unstoppable Force and just has not yet met an Immovable Object.

Don't forget about the

By meaty joe on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 1:11pm.

Don't forget about the karoke guy at Back Bay on the orange line platform. My fave is when he sings over Mariah Carey; he can never hit the high notes (what with singing in a monotone voice). That guy is so bad, he's awesome.

Hollerin' Man

By Whit on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 1:07pm.

If you don't like hollerin' bike man, you ought to leave the city and live in the suburbs where you belong. He's a fixture. One of the things that makes living in the city worth the goddam trouble of it all. Can't say the same for roving turntable man, who I am glad to say I have not seen for awhile. What-a-jerk, if I am thinking of the same guy. Actually, "Do-you-have-any-change?" guy drives me crazy too--so maybe I ought to move to the burbs myself.

The hollering tricyclist of Centre Street

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