Diners at Ashley’s Breakfast Shoppe on Bowdoin Street stared Thursday at his photograph on the wall as they reminisced about the irrepressible man they still call “the mayor.”
People downtown shouted the news to strangers. Sadness flooded an East Boston coin laundry as his image flickered across a television.
“God bless him,” laundromat owner Alvaro Garcia said in Spanish as he folded a pair of sweat pants. “The good ones don’t last.”
The death of former mayor Thomas M. Menino Thursday hit Boston like a punch. People winced in pain as news ricocheted from barber shops to boardrooms, dry cleaners to pizza parlors.
“I just closed my door and sat there and cried,’’ said Marie St. Fleur, a former state representative who later served in Menino’s Cabinet.
“God bless him,” laundromat owner Alvaro Garcia said in Spanish as he folded a pair of sweat pants. “The good ones don’t last.”
The death of former mayor Thomas M. Menino Thursday hit Boston like a punch. People winced in pain as news ricocheted from barber shops to boardrooms, dry cleaners to pizza parlors.
“I just closed my door and sat there and cried,’’ said Marie St. Fleur, a former state representative who later served in Menino’s Cabinet.
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