Clay Coppedge
- Jun 10, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 8 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 13 min
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...
