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Leonard Nimoy came from Boston's West End shtel. His Russian father owned a barbershop in Mattapan Square. I had my haircut at the Terminal Barber Shop next to the terminus of the trolley line. I can't recall any other barber along Blue Hill Avenue. Tired of giving us a buzz-cut my father drove my older brother and me to the shop

A native of Maine he believed in high and tight.

His instructions to the barber were the same.

Once my old man left the establishment on River Street the barber asked, "How you want it?"

"Like Bob Dylan."

"Gotcha."

This was in 1963.

Bob Dylan had ended the 1950s with his hit BLOWIN' IN THE WIND.

The barber knew his clientele.

He never mentioned a son in the theater.

Leonard Nimoy never had a Boston accent.

In 1966 he starred in STAR TREK as the Vulcan science officer to James T Kirk.

His Vulcan gesture for 'live long and prosper' was based on how the kohanim or Jewish priests holding their hand when giving blessings.

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Spock was our hero.

Logic over emotion.

When he died the other day, I broke into tears.

Like my mossaich had passed into the other world.

Trekkies loved Spock.

He transcended TV