Barney Rubble Quotes

Eleven thousand five hundred and fifty-one years old, and yes, I feel every day of it. (Acheron) Wow, I had no idea. Hell, I didn’t even know we had people back then. (Nick) Yeah, I was part of the original Bedrock crew who worked in the quarry on the back of dinosaurs and ran with the Flintstones. Barney Rubble was short, but he played a good game of stone-knuckle. (Acheron)

I’ll just need your names?” She took out a guest book and a pen, and looked at Jamie expectantly. Something came over Jamie then. He lifted his chin as he said, “Barney.” I cocked my head to the side. “Rubble.” Stella put her head in her hands. “And this,” he said, a smile spreading across his lips as he sidled up to Stella, “is Betty.” He put his hand on her shoulder. She smiled weakly. “And this is our daughter.” Jamie placed a hand on my head. “Bamm-Bamm.” I stepped on his foot.

November 10, 1962, is a day that will go down in Black Detroit ignominy. The police invaded the Gotham Hotel in what newspapers called the biggest numbers raid in Detroit history. Not long after the hotel was raided, Lou Sarko (a man referred to in the press as Detroit’s own “Barney Rubble,” and identified as a close crony of the mobster Tony Jack Giacalone) was hired to demolish the building. With a single payment the Detroit City government simultaneously destroyed evidence of Black Camelot and enriched the white Cosa Nostra. A dying era no longer had a tombstone.