Clay Coppedge
Jun 10, 20209 min read
A Bolillo’s Short History of Roy’s Taxi
My sometimes exciting career as an Austin cab driver began in 1977 when, looking for something better from a base of zero, I walked to 90...
Clay Coppedge
Aug 27, 20189 min read
Hub City Hip
The first time most of the wider world ever heard of Lubbock was after several people saw a group of bright lights zooming across the...
Clay Coppedge
Jul 25, 20189 min read
Unsafe at Any Rate or How I Moved To Austin
The first car I bought after I left home was a 1961 Corvair station wagon, the car that Ralph Nader wrote about in Unsafe at Any Speed....
Clay Coppedge
May 31, 20188 min read
Fool’s Gold
My own experience verifies what cops have told me — that 10 percent of the criminal population commits 90 percent of all the crimes they...
Clay Coppedge
Apr 16, 20189 min read
Cop Karma
Before the meter clicks even more time on my taxi memoirs, let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude and appreciation to...
Clay Coppedge
Mar 9, 201813 min read
Bozo’s Wheelman
The passenger I would know only as Bozo turned out to be the only Anglo I ever picked up at the Green Spot, the only hippie and the only...
