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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: March 3, 2020
Oral Historian: Richard Kendall
Interviewer: Barbara Kanellopoulos
Topic: Falmouth Heights Baseball
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welcome to the program
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and um thank you very much about
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Falmouth Heights well if we're talking I
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think I’m talking a little bit about the
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ballpark
#falmouthheights
#falmouthheightsballpark
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at the great park that was set up in
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1870
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Falmouth the Heights as a summer resort
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was really starting to be put together
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and over the next three years
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the six gentleman from Worcester
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Massachusetts acquired all of the
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properties
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and uh zoned it on their own zoning map
#1870
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very tight restrictions decided where
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the parks would all grow
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uh go so they had a really uh
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it was the first planned unit
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development in the history of
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Massachusetts
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so it ran in those years and it evolved
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as it as the years went by but that
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particular year set up everything
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every single park throughout the
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the system the whole Falmouth Heights
were all
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part of the grand design
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and when you walk through Falmouth
Heights
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you can take a look at that
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and and uh admire it and the largest
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parcel of all was what we call the ball
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field
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and that has been used for all sorts of
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things everything from
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uh a children uh boys and girls
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campground with tents and religious
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training uh had
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had political events uh Herbert Hoover
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had a
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fundraiser in there on that that with two
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thousand people
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uh there's all kind of uses but even in
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the 1870s baseball was an attraction
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so in my contact don't go back to 1870
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although I’m
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wondering how I look like I might go
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back to 1870
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but it was taken over the the developers
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of Falmouth Heights
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did so in such a way that you would
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always have an area
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that could be used for spectacular
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events
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and baseball was one of those for them
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and it was for myself as I grew up as a
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youngster 10 11 years old there were
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teams from Falmouth Heights teams from
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Falmouth and we would either ride our
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bikes from Falmouth to Falmouth Heights
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or we would if we were lucky we would
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had a nickel we could go on Palmer's
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bus station which was on Walker Street
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and for a nickel you could ride to the
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ball field
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and that's how we went back and forth
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but Belvidere Plains had a team Falmouth
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Heights had a team
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and we all played on the Heights ball
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field and I remember
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most of my youth traveling to that ball
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field and I went back
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as years went by to play on it as in
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Cape Cod League which was
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already it had been going on since I
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guess there were baseball in the Heights
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since the
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1870s but the Falmouth All-Stars a lot
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of the local people that you would know
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Willard Boyden who was principal of the
#willardboyden
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East Falmouth Elementary School was the
#eastfalmouthelementaryschool
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coach for the Falmouth All-Stars
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and the old original Cape Cod League
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with great players like
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Butts Jonas if you remember about Jonas
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so Roche Pires is just
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outstanding athletes who competed in the
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league
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there was a team from the military
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reservation
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uh had great stars the young uh
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professionals who had been drafted who
#capecodbaseballleague
#falmouthallstars
#rochepires
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played in the cape league
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Mass Maritime had a team Mashpee had a
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team Barnstable
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went all the way down to Eastham and
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baseball league
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say we were the Falmouth Falcons so we
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were the second team from Falmouth
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playing on the
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Falmouth Heights ball field so many of
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the names that
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we that I’m familiar with I just happen
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to be talking to Billy Swift who's doing
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another tape for you folks
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who played left field for our team in
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that league and could tell you the same
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stories of
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Cape League baseball three days a week
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and we just lived for it
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as soon as somebody was old enough to
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have a driver's license we were on the
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road
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but Norman Allenby uh Billy Swift
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[Charlie Board] and Jack Cavanagh a list
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of 100 people that probably played in
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the leagues during that decade
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but the ball field was always there for
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#williamswift
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the folks who need it by deed it had to
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be available and accessible for every
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property owner and that was the mandate
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that was
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by the original planners who founded
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they were the Land and Wharf
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Company and they just they dictated
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everything rezoned it much like our
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zoning maps of today
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only with very carefully placed parks
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all of those parks in Falmouth Heights
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were turned over to the Town of Falmouth
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for one dollar
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so the ball field and all of the parks
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throughout Falmouth Heights were deeded
over
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to the Falmouth
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Town of Falmouth for posterity and I
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think that was a great
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uh a great thing to have been done but
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the ball fields themselves
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everybody has a story about games on the
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on
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the Falmouth Heights ball field and
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practices on the ball field
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and I go down periodically and I’ll see
#falmouthheightslandandwharfcompany
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youngsters playing
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up front not from the pitching rubber
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but playing from 20 feet earlier in
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underhand maybe a little bit but playing
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on the big field
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or watching uh seniors play softball on
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the field it's always a ball field
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it hasn't changed in a hundred years the
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the desire to have
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events out there are just I guess it's
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instinctive you have a big field and you
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got to play a game
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so that was my part of the uh the
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baseball year the Cape Cod League for
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several years
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my brother Bob and I would be there
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Charles Robb
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Billy Swift who as I mentioned just has
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another taping for you
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but many were very memories a great deal
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of memories
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all together but
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were the games organized today we have
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um
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organized baseball for young people and
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yours seemed to be rather pickup games
#robertkendall
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whenever you could get the groups to get
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together
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that that's the big difference there was
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no Little League or Babe Ruth League and
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what we would do is organize
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teams in our region as Belvidere Plains
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or Falmouth Heights or East Falmouth
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or North Falmouth and we would use the
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Heights as our ball field so we've made
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up our own teams
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with our own bats and our own balls and
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we coached them within ourselves
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it was just youth youth youth baseball
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a lot of fun but no organization and
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there was no
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you never really won or a loss you just
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played the game
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so it wasn't too competitive it was very
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competitive the team from the base had
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uh
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probably four minor league double a ball
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players our star pitcher for the Falcons
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was
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had played double a for the Red Sox so
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no the competition was good
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the leagues now were outstanding
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collegiates waiting to be drafted
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our league had professionals former
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professionals
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college stars high school stars
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it was a very competitive league I’m
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sure that some of you looked up to the
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stars oh absolutely absolutely when you
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got up when you came up to bat as a
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late teenager and you had a former
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double
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a major minor league pitcher going
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against you you were
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in awe you were definitely you know
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a lot of ball players the older Jack
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Cavanaugh had played Navy baseball
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so they were the league was fast
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Roche Pires as I mentioned probably one
of
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the fine
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when the Negro leagues were the only
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place that uh that a non-white could
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play
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and Roche Pires was a triple sport
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athlete magnificent
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by any stretch of the imagination would
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have been a high high minor league or
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probably a major leaguer
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given the opportunity and when you faced
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Roche Pires in a game you knew you were
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going to whiff three times
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so that was before blacks were
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bigger I’m talking about the 40s 40s
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40s and 50s and do you remember some of
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our own Falmouth
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boys who went on to become professionals
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well Rusty Robbins was in my high school
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class he became a lieutenant in the fire
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department here
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Rusty was the three sport athlete in
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Falmouth High School
#falmouthhighschool
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the Boston Braves before they moved to
#bostonbraves
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Milwaukee gave him a
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minor league contract and Russ went down
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to Florida to play for a minor league
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team
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he broke his leg as I recall early on in
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his career and came back to Falmouth and
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did not continue but Rusty was a real
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real prospect
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probably the finest prospect that I saw
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in my years
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you had to mention the fact that the
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land
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has what's given uh does it
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it seems that there were a lot of
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wealthy
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summer residents who bought property and
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were quite generous
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the corporation that bought from
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Worcester the six gentlemen business
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people were civic minded and they
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understood the responsibility they had
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they zoned it
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we would be pleased with the zoning it's
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it's equivalent to what we have today
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uh it was all residential but the parks
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had to be in
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these spots here but the big changeover
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was
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when they had sold out all of their real
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estate
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they wanted to make sure that the parks
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remained under care
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and so everything was deeded as I
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mentioned earlier to the town
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were they retiring these gentlemen
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the six people they would know they were
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in the business to make money
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they made a fortune they bought up all
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of the Heights you think of Falmouth
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Heights
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as a land mass with no property owner
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except one
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and so it was re-zoned and they sold
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every single piece of property
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that was to be there and allowed it to
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be there's a building on the water that
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we now know as the casino a an
#casino #casinobythesea
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equivalent building to the casino has
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been there for 100 years
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so the Heights then was
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the ball field but how about uh the rest
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of the Heights did you have the kinds of
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restaurants and
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no they came later they came later what
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you had was a really elegant
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summer resort and people from
everywhere
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that could travel that distance
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would go to Falmouth Heights and that
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was their desire
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to establish the most elegant summer
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resort uh
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and as I think I mentioned in my early
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mentionings it had been
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around since the 1600s when the queen of
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the Narragansetts
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summered in Falmouth Heights so
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Falmouth then was the watering hole for
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the rich and famous
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I would say the the Rose Kennedy
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actually lived on the Heights looking
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overlooking the ball park
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as a summer person John Kennedy's
mother
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they were what was it about Falmouth I
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suppose it wasn't very crowded at that
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time
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the population was very small
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well by comparative I don't know what
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the high school classes are today but
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our classes were
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50s and 60s a little different
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small town and uh well well managed as
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it is today
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very well managed but Falmouth is a has
#kennedy
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been growing and growing
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responsibly for some time
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do you um do you think that was the
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climate
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different than uh do you see
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for playing outdoors or did you have
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any longer summers than we seem to have
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today
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I go back a few years but not that far I
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think
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I think the other things that were going
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on the beach at Falmouth Heights
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was deeded over to the town and
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purchased by private sector people and
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needed over a lot of the Falmouth
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Heights
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perks really came by uh gifting
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or donating over by a wealthy group
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that owned the whole Falmouth Heights
one
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financial institution owned all of the
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real estate on Falmouth Heights
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when those individual owners had
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property
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the was the situation the way it was along
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Surf Drive where
#surfdrive
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when you owned a house really not a
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cottage but kind of a palace
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did you also own the beach the beach was
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public
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uh restricted to and mandated that the
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beach was always successful
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accessible to property owners so there
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was never a restriction at all
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and that that was one of the clever
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things in the deeding
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they made sure that the population would
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get to enjoy the benefits of what they
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had
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including the ball field and
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uh so um when you were playing ball
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um how about the rules of the game did
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you have to have
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a ball of a particular weight or the
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right kind of bat
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or was it well we
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we probably so I think I don't think
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that has changed a whole lot and we
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struck out as much as
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against the good pitches and walked
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against the other ones who were not
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quite so good
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did you have your own you had to bring
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your own ball and back oh you did always
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well you everybody came with their own
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bat and you thought that that was magic
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and your own glove everybody had their
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own glove for sure some of those
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players that you played with were they
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at the high school
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and perhaps uh we were a mixture
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our particular teams and the Falmouth
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All-Stars too were made up of
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high school Russ Robbins who I
mentioned
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earlier who had signed the contract
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high school he played for the All-Stars
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I played for the Falcons a couple of
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high school players
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were in on the League the rest were
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college ball players are
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players who were really good in high
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school maybe played college who wanted
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to continue to play
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in the Cape League was a fast enough
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league that they wanted to play in it
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was a good league it was probably
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competitive the better teams
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would play competitively with the
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college kids today and the base team
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would have
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the athletes who were minor leaguers who
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had been drafted into the military
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but we're probably the equivalent of
14:45
almost a triple a
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team you you never beat them most of our
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ball games today
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are go for a field but um
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have you seen still pick up games going
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on
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today at the ball field I’ve been well
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as
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Falmouth fortunately has set
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up ball fields around the town I guess
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when my
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two youngsters played Little League and
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Babe Ruth I followed them to their
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respective
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game fields Falmouth is
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very good and very conscious of youth
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youth activities
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yes yes yes well I thank you very much
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for
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telling us about Falmouth Heights and
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the baseball field
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well I thank you for inviting me and I’m
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glad that uh
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I didn't tell you how many times I
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struck out in the Cape Cod League
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there's a history that I probably should
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mention
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without delay one of the pitchers for
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our team was named Phil White
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and I’ll talk about Phil was a very good
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pitcher pitcher at the University of
15:47
Massachusetts and very good in the Cape
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League
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but I think I want to add a little bit
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to his father and mother
15:53
who ran the Lawrence White dairy on
#lawrencewhite
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Shore Street for those who don't
#shorestreet
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remember it it's right at the foot
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of as you come up Clinton Avenue and in
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Shore Street intersection
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but and they they actually had a running
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dairy where they delivered milk in the
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bottle but all that was left in my
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generation was the stalls for the cows
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and next to it a field that
#philwhite
#universityofmassachusetts
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did the corn and the hay for the cows
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but Phil would be young enough to have
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remembered when his dad
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was delivering milk and the cows were
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being milked on a regular day
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[Music]
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Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 27, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, and Iconic Hotels and Motels of
Cape Cod by Christopher Setterlund
Also mentioned: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
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hello everyone I hope that a lot of you
were
here last week and you came back to see
part two
of my pair of events with the Falmouth
library so I wanted to start off so you
can see me but we're gonna dive right
into
the actual PowerPoint presentation
it's gonna be nightlife and hotels
Falmouth in the area around that so
let's go right into it I’m going to
open up my presentation
and we will start from there so
this presentation is going to combine my
fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights
and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod
and so what we're doing
is basically for those of you that
weren't
here last week I am a 12th generation
Cape Codder
through the Doane family that helped to
settle Eastham
and I included this photo here this is
the
monument to my ninth great grandfather
Deacon John Doane
who helped to settle the town of Eastham
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in 1644.
this is in the Cove Burying Ground in
Eastham on Route 6
if anyone's ever gone past there
and like Sue said I am author of
six books all dealing with Cape Cod and
the Islands
the first three were all titled In My
Footsteps I’ve kind of used that
title for a lot of projects
three books um a blog that I have
and a podcast so
after that I jumped into a second
trilogy
that included historic restaurants
historic nightlife
and bars and hotels and motels
so this trilogy essentially
tells you in history where Cape Codders
went to eat
where they went to drink and where they
went to then sleep off the damage they
did to themselves
from those previous two things and that
was actually how I pitched it to my
publisher
when I was pitching book six the hotels
and motels I said this
is a can't miss marketing opportunity
eating drinking sleeping
it's all part of life
so Cape Cod became a vacation
destination
in the years after the book Cape Cod was
released by Henry David Thoreau in 1865.
Thoreau’s connection to Cape Cod he did
four walking tours basically in the
years
leading up to the book's release and he
is actually
semi-responsible for one of the
original Cape Cod hospitality spots
the Highland House in Truro basically
during all four of his
walks on the Cape he stayed
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with his friends the small family
in Truro they had the property that was
surrounding Highland Lighthouse
including the golf course that's there
and some of the cottages that are around
there
during one of his trips walking up there
he and the I think it was James Small
they talked about this farmhouse that he
had there that was basically
empty and they both kind of talked about
how it could make
a good boarding house basically that's
how it started
the Highland House is now a museum but
when it first started it
was a popular hotel and eventually hotel
and restaurant for about a hundred years
so bringing it back around to Falmouth
in the late 19th century that's when
Cape Cod
really started to cement itself as the
summer destination
and a lot of summer resorts popped up
this included the Terrace Gables which
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so the Terrace Gables was originally
known as the Draper Cottage for a man
named Charles Draper
and it was a high-class resort in
1902 it was expanded after it was
renamed the Terrace Gables
the people that owned it they also
bought the nearby
Menauhant Hotel which they actually used
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for overflow from the Terrace Gables it
got so big
that they bought their competitor to use
as overflow for their hotel which was
just fascinating
that was in 1912. at its peak it had 125
rooms but as you'll see as we go along
in this
during the 40s and 50s it was changing
times on Cape Cod
what ended up happening was in 1960
they tried to change with the times and
they created this
restaurant cocktail lounge called the
Club 46
which it didn't really make much of a
difference
the times changing with the highway
the Terrace Gables kind of went the way
of a lot of hotels from that time
and it became the Brothers Four
nightclub which was Cape Cod's largest
entertainment complex you'll see that
again
later but that was in 1971
and now it's condos a lot of these
places
I found that they had one of two ends
they either
burned down or they were turned into
condos a lot
of them in doing the especially the
hotels and motels book
the Hotel Attaquin on the right was on
Route 130 in Mashpee
that was opened by a Wampanoag Native
American named
Solomon Attaquin he opened it in 1840
and it was a smaller bed and breakfast
type of hotel with 17
rooms but it also there were amenities
surrounding it that made it a really fun
place to visit including going
fishing at the nearby Mashpee and Wakeby
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and Solomon Attaquin became a big deal
in Mashpee in addition to his hotel
he was a selectman he was a town
treasurer
he was the first postmaster of Mashpee
when it was incorporated as a town
after he died in 1895 the hotel
continued on
for another 60 years
although they got into trouble in 1928
they were raided
during Prohibition for illegal
gambling and alcohol
they got more fame during the
early days of radio when they had
the Hotel Attaquin orchestra which would
be featured on
Station WOCB they would actually be part
of
some variety shows locally
the end came like I like I said it's
either condos or
a fire and in 1955 Christmas eve
there was a fire at the Hotel Attaquin
that
ended its reign as a hotel it's now
the site of the Mashpee Community
Gardens
on Route 130 so if you go by there
that's basically where it used to stand
and the rise of these resort hotels the
first the originals it continued into
the early part of the 20th century
on the left the Cape Codder not to be
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confused with the Cape Codder that is in
Hyannis
it opened in 1900 originally known as
the Sippewissett Hotel
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the land that it was on overlooking the
ocean
was originally a sheep farm
owned by a man named Richard Swift 180
acres
before it became the Cape Codder after
it was the Sippewissett hotel it was then
the Mayflower Hotel
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before finally becoming the Cape Codder
in 1931.
it was a four-story resort hotel
and by the late 40s it was the largest
hotel under one roof meaning that there
were no cottages there were some
hotels on the Cape that had
a main building but then also cottages
and such that were
seen as part of it an example of that is
The Pines in Cotuit
which was a huge complex with a main
hotel
and the people that owned it would buy
nearby cottages and mansions and made it
all
part of The Pines but the Cape Codder was
the largest under one roof
and at one point their kitchen
could seat 1500 people a night they
could serve
and it was owned later on by the
Peterson family
all the way up until 1988
when it was knocked down to make way for
condos which still stand
on the right the Coonamessett Inn which is
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still going strong now
but it's in a second location so
Coonamessett first opened in 1927
it was named for the pond by which it
stood
and it was the original Coonamessett was
based in the William
Chadwick farmhouse which was built in
1826
it became a really
well-known hotel and restaurant
especially after a woman named Edna
Harris
took it over in 1930
so the Coonamessett was owned by
uh William Chase the man that also owned
Great Island
in Yarmouth the Chase family still owns
most of it
but Edna Harris leased it she had
already become well known by running the
Megansett Tea Room
in North Falmouth and those of you that
saw my
presentation last week I had a picture
of the Megansett Tea Room
because I couldn't find an actual
picture of
the Hangar Tea Room
Edna Harris made this the place to be
and interestingly in 1953
after more than two decades of this
they had politicians there they had
military officials there
had all these the Falmouth Playhouse was
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and Edna Harris was very well known and
well regarded
and interestingly in 1953 she was told
that her lease on the property was not
going to be renewed
and this is where her story she became a
legend in my eyes when I was researching
this
because she had already done the Megansett
Tea Room
and she made the Coonamessett Inn the
place
to be
she actually also leased the Popponeset
Inn
and had her daughter Hilda Coppage run
it
so she had her fingers in a lot of pies
as far as Cape Cod
hospitality but what she did with the
Coonamessett was legendary
so the Coonamessett was going to become
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in the 1950s what she did though
was Edna Harris owned the liquor license
so she bought property on Gifford Street
311 Gifford Street which was
a home originally owned by a man named
Robert Longier
and she bought that house had it
converted and got uh
the license to run it as an inn she took
her liquor license
with her and then because the old
Coonamessett
property
was going to be a Treadway Inn she took
the Coonamessett name
with her and the furniture
so she basically took the Coonamessett
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reopened it
at the spot that it's located at now
and it's just fascinating I’m actually
working on
an article about Edna Harris in just her
life because
it's incredible to think the stuff that
she did in the early part of the 20th
century
but like I said in the early 20th
century
the automobile made travel easier now
that was a blessing and a curse because
people that were coming down to the cape
by a train
or I mean I guess some could come down
by horse and buggy but mostly train
they would stay in one place for many
weeks
long stays at the same place automobiles
made it where
people didn't have to stay in one place
for too long
so the stays became shorter and it put a
lot of pressure on
these hotels and resorts to capture
the imaginations and the attention of
these tourists because that's how they
made their money
and another thing that came up during
this early part of the 20th century was
Prohibition
and with the advent of the automobile it
was possible to drive to
nearby dancing and entertainment
complexes
and both of these were nearby in
Buzzards Bay
and ironically they were on the same
street so you could have gone to both
so the Bournehurst on the Canal
was at 320 Main Street right in the
shadow of the Bourne Bridge
interestingly its whole run
was basically during Prohibition it
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opened in 1920
and it was seen as as a large
entertainment complex because when you
can't serve alcohol you've got to have
some other ways to entertain people
so opening night at the Bournehurst was
July 10th of 1920 and there was more
than
2100 people there for that event
they had basketball games they had
boxing matches
they actually in 1922 they opened a
lunchroom
inside run by a man named Fred Lutz
it was well known for its clam cakes
it was also a spot in the late 20s where
young up-and-coming jazz musicians like
Duke Ellington and Cab
Calloway played at the Bournehurst
the biggest event
I suppose at the Bournehurst was July 26
1930 when Rudy Vallée and his orchestra
came and played there the Bournehurst
inside was packed
outside there were hundreds and hundreds
of people
waiting just to get a glimpse of Rudy
Vallée
State Police had to be called to try to
subdue the crowd which eventually they
did but that was
one of the last hurrahs for the
Bournehurst
October 18th 1933 a fire broke out
with eyewitnesses said it was the
hottest fire they'd ever seen
and unfortunately that it didn't end the
Bournehurst
but then there was another fire 10
months later
and that was really what did it so
in the summer of 1934 the burn
Bournehurst
burned to the ground and sadly it was
right
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then when Prohibition was repealed and
the new Bourne Bridge
was built so it's unbelievable to think
about
if it had only stuck around a few more
years what it could have done and could
have been
on the right the Blue Moon Dancing
Pavilion
was at 230 Main Street in Buzzards Bay
this opened in 1931 it was also a tea
room
it was mainly outside so
they had a blue neon sign
their dancing stage where you can see
all the people out here
had blue lights half-moon shaped stage
it was perfect for summer funny thing
was that they had midnight frolic
dances which would start at midnight
I’m sorry to 12:01 a.m on Mondays once
Prohibition was lifted
because liquor sales were not permitted
on Sundays
so literally the minute that it was
Monday
they opened up and had people out there
dancing and drinking
it was mainly seen as an outdoor dancing
pavilion
or some people also called it a summer
dance garden
it was owned originally by a man named
George Blakeslee
he owned it for the first decade it
changed hands a few times
before finally being bought by a man
named Alex
Byron in 1957
what happened there was that it became
part of the larger Buzzards Bay Summer
Theatre complex which was theater in the
round
essentially the same as what the Cape
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is with a stage in the middle and seats
all around it
so it stayed open I guess
through the mid-1960s before the Blue
Moon itself was closed
the property itself stayed
being used by Alex Byron it became part
of the Byron's Landing restaurant
until 1986. it's now a veterinarian's
office
so the building is still there the
outdoor dance pavilion is not
though
and then after Prohibition nightlife
boomed
and so the casino which someone last
week had brought up
I said you know what better way to read
from the book
the actual story of the casino
so in the 21st century the area known as
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Falmouth Heights
has become a very popular summer
destination
but in 1870 the beachfront neighborhood
was born from what was then known as
Great Hill
it was at that time that George Davis
sold the property
to the Falmouth Land and Wharf Company
which retained its rights
before it ultimately fell into the hands
of its president G.
Edward Smith over the first 50 years of
the Heights’ existence
land values increased more than 600
percent
around the turn of the 20th century a
Falmouth icon would be born
adding serious clout to the village of
the Heights
in 1901 the Casino at Falmouth Heights
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opened on Grand Avenue
nearly opposite the Terrace Gables hotel
the building 80 feet long by 32 feet
wide
with 184 feet of piazza
was run by Charles L. Hopson the building
was enlarged several times
eventually containing the Cottage Club
Falmouth Heights Post Office
a barbershop and general store
the casino was completely destroyed by
fire in
April 1909 with Hopson immediately
getting to work
starting on the rebuild the barber shop
was the first to reopen just over two
months later
the building was enlarged again in 1914
and became known as the Cottage Club
rather than the club simply being a part
of it
in January 1915 Charles Hopson died
and his waterfront property would be
owned by his wife
in 1937 a year after her death
Hopson's son Harry purchased the casino
it was here that the biggest changes
would begin
on July 19 1939 after extensive
remodeling
the Casino Bar at Falmouth Heights was
added to the property with
soon soon-to-be local legend Joe Miron
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Boston
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the bartender served up the drinks his
customers desired
and then followed that by sketching
their likeness while they drank it
beyond caricatures had skill with
the brush when it came to landscapes and
watercolors
by his third season at the Casino Bar
his works were being showcased at local
art shows and galleries on the cape
he rightfully earned the nickname
Painting Bartender
in an attempt not to focus strictly on
the alcohol output
the kitchen was revamped in 1940 the
establishment was open until
1am and the bar could seat 150
so it was natural to try to incorporate
food to go with the drink
Hopson also tried to maintain the
entertainment complex
feel by adding an E.M. Loew motion picture
theater in 1941.
after trouble with erosion from
hurricanes in 1938 and 1944
Hopson sold the casino bar to Worcester
Massachusetts resident William McCann in
1945.
from there the bar's popularity
skyrocketed
along with that of Captain Joe McCann
focused on creating a positive work
environment
including putting as first priority
feeding the kitchen staff McCann also
supra
supplied room and board to his employees
if it was needed
Joe Miron created a spot in the bar
called Amen Corner
it was named for the those patrons who
drank their
fill and sat in the corner to
philosophize
it was here that hung some of his
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favorite caricature sketches
the notoriety only grew when Miron was
featured in
the October 1943 issue of Click magazine
there he was referred to as Boston’s
bartender artist
the popularity of the Casino Bar led to
the need
for a staff of 27 people per shift
including
four bartenders the fun spot of the
Heights
added horseshoes in 1946 a new sun deck
in 1947
and another name change occurred in 1949
when the establishment became known as
the Casino by the Sea
the seasonal spots popularity continued
to grow
with 1940 1951 being reported
as its most successful year yet
throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s
Joe Miron continued to thrill guests
with his skill
as both a mixologist and his artistic
gifts
summer afternoons routinely saw Captain
Joe
proudly shout down to the casino's
private beach via megaphone
during cocktail hour cocktail spree
Cape Cod fishballs many guests heard it
as cocktails free
and they came running they were
disappointed
things changed again in 1966 when
William Sweeney Jr.
purchased the property and gave it more
of a nightclub feel
making it extremely attractive to
college students and young adults
during the summers of the late 1960s and
70s
the Casino by the Sea experienced
another swell of popularity
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during the golden age of Cape Cod
nightlife
however after spending nearly the
entirety
of the 20th century entertaining folks
at the Heights
time came for last call in 2000
the fading legend was purchased by
developer Frank Messina
the casino property was torn down in
November 2003
to make way for the upscale Casino Wharf
FX for those wondering what it
might have been to have a drink with
Captain Joe Miron pouring
it's possible to replicate it with a
popular drink from the 1940s called the
sidecar
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book
Cape Cod nights I put drink recipes
at the end of the chapter for each spot
in there
and I pick the decade that I see as when
it was
most popular and so the 1940s I picked
for the Casino
but after Prohibition
and with the rise in popularity of
nightclubs and bars there was a need for
more hotels and resorts
this included the Red Horse Inn which
for those of you who were here last week
you'll remember that the Red Horse Inn
started as The Bellows
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#frankmessina
#2003
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Reading from Cape Cod Nights ends
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and it was a tea room slash lunch and
dinner spot
owned by a woman named Thekla Hedlund
opened in 1933 on Falmouth Heights Road
after Hedlund died in 1946 it was run
as a restaurant for two more years
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the name was changed to the Red Horse
Grill and then to the Red Horse
Inn and it's been standing ever since
Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with
Edna Harris
it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee
right in the middle of New Seabury
in 1941 it opened as
an actual resort it was originally owned
by
Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought
the property in 1929
interestingly before it became the
luxury resort
it was leased out by a nurse named Norma
Armstrong
and she ran it as um
a campsite where basically
people that were going there they had
the money to rent rooms at these
high-class resorts but they actually
preferred
staying in this trailer park slash
campground
that was affectionately known as tent
city
and it was 4 000 acres
then in 1941 when it became the
Popponesset
Inn then it took off where
it started with 10 rooms then quickly
added 15
more as I said Edna Harris took it over
in 1947
and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in
charge
once New Seabury was built and finished
in 1964
then it became a popular wedding
destination
and it was actually owned by the Chase
family until
1998. it's
known for its spectacular views fine
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and relatively isolated location
especially back in the 40s and 50s when
it first got started
and as I said soon it was the golden age
of Cape Cod nightlife
and there you see the Brothers Four
which was previously the Terrace Gables
so the Brothers Four opened in 1971.
it was three clubs under one roof known
as Cape Cod's largest entertainment
complex
it was so big that it had sister clubs
in Somerville and Nashua New Hampshire
the Brothers Four they were the Robbat
brothers
George Russell Stephen and Allen
Brothers Four is also well known for
being the
finish line of the Falmouth Road Race
where
Falmouth Road Race creator Tommy
Leonard
created it when he ran from the Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole to
the Brothers Four which is why it has
such a unique
mile distance the Falmouth Road Race
because it was a run from
one bar to another
the problem with the Brothers Four was
the zoning
where being this huge nightclub it ran
into a lot of problems with the
locals that lived around there for
noise and drunken disorderly behavior
things like beat the clock happy hour
didn't help
and so basically from the late 1970s
up until it's ending in 1987
it was a constant battle between the
Robbat brothers
and the town of Falmouth to keep the
place going
they even created the Yesterdays
Bar inside there they were trying to
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make it
more upscale but Brothers Four was known
as
a really wild hangout
in 1987 it was torn down and like I said
with the Terrace Gables it is now
condos
but it was also the golden age of
hospitality
I had mentioned the Coonamessett Inn that
moved to
Gifford Street it is still well known
and highly regarded
for its food and its lodging
the Sea Crest is at 350 Quaker Road
#seacrest #quakerroad
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this one has a fascinating story also
where
the Sea Crest Hotel got its start as the
University Players’
summer theater and that was in 1928 it
opened and some
Hollywood heavyweights got their start
at this theater including Jimmy Stewart
and Henry Fonda
it was chained the name was changed to
the Beach Theater
and in 1936 there was a fire
naturally because fire and condos are a
running theme with these
places when it was reopened in 1937
it was named Neptune’s Tryst then it was
the Old Silver Beach Club then it was
the Latin
Quarter which was run by a man named
Lou
Walters
whose daughter Barbara Walters is pretty
well known
1948 it was finally renamed the Sea Crest
after being heavily renovated
and by that point there was 250 guests
could be accommodated with the
dining room holding 350 seats
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it got more of a shot in the arm with a
famous owner when Red Auerbach of the
Boston Celtics bought
a share in it in 1963
and currently it's 264 rooms
but whether you went out to drink at a
place like Smith's Olde Surrey Room
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which Smith's Olde Surrey Room got its
start as the Falmouth Bowling Alley
which was opened in 1939 by a man named
Lester Crane
in July 1946 the Surrey Room was
opened by Lester crane he saw more
value in an eating and drinking
establishment
over a bowling alley and the lead up to
the debut of the Surrey Room on July 1st
1946
and the Falmouth Enterprise there were
these ads that were just
question marks basically the mystery of
what
what was coming and it ended up being an
unusual nightclub
you'd walk in there and there were
actual surreys which were forms of
carriages
that were located in three corners of
the property
inside there was bright red trim
and yellow window recesses but they
stuck a little bit of
a throwback to how they started by
having
the bowling club lounge
in 1950 the property was sold to a man
named Daniel
Smith and that's where it got the name
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room
and there was another connection where
smith's chef was a man named Daniel
Bartolomei
he would go on to create Danny-Kay’s
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which I mentioned last week in the event
there were two big extensions to the
club they had to make it bigger and
bigger because of how popular it was
and their biggest shot in the arm came
when
they were mentioned in the Duncan Hines
Adventures in Good
Eating magazine in 1961
however now it is affordable apartments
at 704
Main Street
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but you could have gone to drink or
sleep off a great night
and that's the Gray Gables Inn which was
at
217 Presidents Road this was known as
the first
summer White House and it was
a home built for Grover Cleveland
and he lived there
and um until his basically
Grover Cleveland would come and stay at
the summer White House
and Joseph Jefferson who was a famous
actor of the very early motion picture
days of the
late 1890s he actually played Rip van
Winkle
in the 1896 version of the film
so he would come down he would fish
offshore that's why
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse is named for
him and Grey Gables was
the name basically of the railroad
station where he would come in by his
train
it eventually became the name of the
whole village there
but once rumors got to be
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creating a Cape Cod Canal
Cleveland decided he really didn't want
to
be there while all this construction was
going on
so he stopped coming in 1908
and after his death his son sold it in
1920
basically the entire property because
they owned more than just
the actual house the whole property was
subdivided
and by 1926 there were 50 houses there
but they kept the actual Grey Gables
home
intact and it became a summer resort
owned by a man named John Stackpole
they had dining they had a cocktail
lounge it had a real nice
community feel and they even kept some
Grover Cleveland artifacts in there
including his desk that he used to write
at
and when Grover Cleveland’s grandson
came and visited he got a tour and he
was
very happy with how the owners had kept
it
close to what his grandfather would have
wanted
in 1961 a woman named Peggy Alden
took over and she was known for having
children come down for outings there
where they could come and stay
and do the fishing and things like that
to get in touch with nature
unfortunately December 10 1973 there was
a
suspicious fire that burned down the
Gray Gables Inn
and the property actually stayed
overgrown and
for almost 30 years at the turn of the
21st century
a couple came and they bought the
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property
and they actually built an exact replica
of the Gray Gables in but it's a private
home
I have been told that they
expect people basically to come and take
photos of it so they don't
mind if you you know don't go on the
property but if you get to
the edge of their driveway you can take
photos I have not
gone and tried that yet but that's what
I’ve been told that they're very
warm and welcoming to people that are
at least respectful of the property
but all these icons deserve to be a part
of
Falmouth's rich history whether it was
the Casino
or the Cape Codder Hotel
and naturally I end it like I did last
week with
a nice throwback image of Main Street
and Falmouth
and thank you all for coming back
for the second presentation and
are there any questions and I will stop
sharing my screen
okay that was great we do have a couple
questions in the chat
so far you want to take a look
can you see those Chris or want me to
read them
let's see can you hear me
I can okay so there's one about where
were any of the hotels and venues
integrated
if so what years and then also how did
World War I and World War II
impact any of these venues and did Otis
impact any of these venues
well interestingly I’m not sure about
integrated I don't know anything about
that specifically
but I will tell you that world war
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Coonamessett
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so she got this huge influx of
military officers it kind of grew the
popularity of
the Coonamessett which made it all the
more
weird that the Crane family would then
decline her
lease in 1953
and then also surprisingly the
breakout of World War Two actually
spurred on the creation of the Popponesset
Inn
because what ended up happening was
Norma Armstrong
the nurse she was running the property
as the
kind of tourist summer camp and then
the military wanted to use it
basically for training the whole
property because it was
down before New Seabury and before all
that it was really isolated
and so they used it the late 1930s
but then really didn't have a need for
them to be out there training
when World War II happened so then the
property was
not abandoned but they were looking for
something to do with it and
it's like all right why not use it for a
hotel
so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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put your video on
so I have a question um can you tell me
a little bit more about how you've done
some of the research for these
books for these sure
so the nightlife one was actually a lot
of fun because
basically I asked my especially my
parents I said where did you used to go
when you were younger to go out drinking
and partying
and so that's how I got a lot of the
initial ones
then it was a matter of researching
the research is a lot of fun you kind of
find
broad terms nightclub bar and you look
up what places appear a lot
and a lot of them you growing up on Cape
Cod I could pick out a lot especially
from the 80s on
but then the real fun came with
putting out posts on social media and
getting folks that
may have remembered what it was like in
the 50s
and picking out places and you get a lot
of
varying opinions on who who like what
places
places like Brothers Four and Casino those
were easy
I had so many people in there's a
history group on Facebook for Falmouth
and I
I put a blast in there and I said where
did you like to go
to drink and party and Brothers Four
came up
so much it was Brothers Four and
Yesterdays and I didn't realize they
were the same
under the same roof I thought it was a
different place
yeah yeah those are pretty active groups
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definitely so
do you go into all these different
groups all over the Cape
or yes so
after social media I would then reach
out to
historical societies the Bourne
Historical Society was very helpful with
the Blue Moon Dancing Pavilion and the
Bournehurst
and even places that I didn't end up
using for the book like
Quintals they would send me photos
Falmouth I think Falmouth Library sent
me a bunch of
postcards of and it was essentially
just like these places might be ones
you'd be interested in and I would look
at the postcards and then I would start
researching from there and that's where
a place like
Smith's Olde Surrey Room came from I
didn't know it at all
and I saw a postcard of and I said that
looks interesting a big
carriage inside the bar so it was
so much of this was other people helping
me because my knowledge
of restaurants hotels and nightclubs is
very limited you're talking 1980s to now
and mainly Mid-Cape because that's where
I grew up
so I had to rely on a lot of people to
help
me put this together these three books
yeah so what made you decide you wanted
to write a book like this
about restaurants so the restaurants
one was actually pitched to me
so I have a friend of mine Bill DeSousaMauk
see this is what I like is I like when
other people share
what they know because my knowledge is
based on my research and
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very few when it came to the nightclubs
very few people had coherent memories of
them
basically what I would get was oh yeah
it was fun but I don't remember much
because I was drunk so like all right
well
I can say everyone had a good time but
that's about it
but the restaurants book was pitched to
me
by Arcadia Publishing and they actually
wanted
historic restaurants of Martha's
Vineyard and I told them I said I
couldn't even name you
five current restaurants let alone 40
that used to exist
so they came back to me and said we see
you've got a deep connection to Cape Cod
would you like to do that book I said
all right now you're talking
and it kind of went from there because
restaurants
naturally evolved into nightclubs and
bars
and then I pitched the hotels and motels
to go from there yeah
oh someone someone just typed something
in the chat too
Packet Landing in now where is Packet
Landing
in Orleans I don't know
I don't know if anyone who's there if
you went to
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room or I mean the
Coonamessett is still around and the Cape
Codder
see the hotels I think there'd be less
people in the chat that would have
stayed there because you're all
basically from here so why would you go
and stay at the Sea Crest
that's where the the bars and nightclubs
really come into play but even then it's
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places like the Bournehurst and the Blue
Moon that's
way back we're talking the 20s and 30s
so
that's kind of difficult yeah
Brothers Four in the Casino I would
think
you get some folks that would remember
that
yeah and by the way I want to recommend
these books because I I have looked at a
lot of these books they're great books
so
I encourage people to buy them or get
them out of the library and I’m not just
saying that because he's here
and the Casino part that you heard I
actually read
from the book I read it word for word
which
because someone last week had brought up
the casino and I had mentioned that I
would be talking about it this week and
I decided
we were talking this is behind the
scenes that
these events people that come to them
like to hear the authors read from their
books so I
picked a chapter that I thought would
fit and the Casino has got a
a great history Captain Joe Miron the
the painting bartender I did an article
about
his actual life so I do a deeper dive
and that I think is on capecod.com I did
a lot of writing for them
for several years and I stopped writing
for them a few years ago because I
I got to the point where i wanted to
write about
things I wanted to write about and so
you'd have to pitch ideas to the editor
and sometimes they wouldn't be on board
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so an article like Edna Harris who
ran the Coonamessett that would be one
where they might not be interested in it
but now I don't have to worry
it's a part of the In My Footsteps
Podcast Blog
that goes along with the podcast
yeah do you have any do you have any
other books about Cape Cod or the
Islands that you're
that you have in the works sir well
so I’m starting work on
a photography book now
the thing with that is I’m waiting for
contracts I guess you would say it's
basically been approved
and so it's going to be
Photographers’ America is the name of the
series that started
and the Arcadia Publishing they came to
me with three different
titles and they said you want to do
these and I said well I can't do all
three
I’ll pick one and so
I picked the photography one and I’m
waiting to get
official confirmation I’ve already
started taking photos it's going to be
beyond just the norm like I’ll have a
lot of places that are well known
but there's going to be some street
scenes I’ve got pictures I took in
Provincetown at the
Lobster Pot of people in line and
things to give people a feel of what the
heart and soul of Cape Cod is all about
beyond just what everyone goes to as a
tourist
so that's one I’ve got another one that
I’m
working on but it's more
tight-lipped I want to say it's
something
big and exciting but I don't have an
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agent I don't have a publisher yet but
I’ll just say it's
true crime and it's working hand in hand
with a documentary film that's coming
out
so that's one where I’m really excited
about but I have to keep it kind of
hush just in case I don't ever like to
share things and then have it fall apart
yeah I know that you happen to take some
gorgeous scenery photos
of the Cape you know that oh thank you I
I post a lot on Instagram I
I believe I just passed my 10 year
anniversary on
Instagram and I have somewhere in the
neighborhood of
4 500 photos on there which I figured
out comes out to
basically 1.3 photos per day for 10
years
so I like Instagram yeah
so that's on the photography oh and
someone just said something the Casino
had a life-size
papier-mâché statue of Captain Joe that
was part of the flagpole
wow oh I would have loved to have seen
that
yeah yeah Captain Joe I’ve seen photos
of him
but he seemed like just a fascinating
guy
so I had to do a whole article about him
yeah if anyone does have any memories of
those places that they can remember yes
that's the big
catches do you actually remember going
to these places
yeah yeah the restaurants probably more
so
which was last week yes it was
interesting
when doing the research for the three
books
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I had a lot of help with the restaurants
a lot of help with the hotels not as
much
with the nightlife because people didn't
remember
but I got a lot of names of places that
was about it no stories though
I think people are also fond of
restaurants because they grow you know
it's part of their childhood or their
summers they remember
going to these things absolutely
it's more family fun rather than
nightlife where it seems like you get in
a lot of trouble
yeah yeah and definitely yeah take
take a look at our postcard collection
on our website too because there are a
lot of
great historical postcards if you
haven't seen them if you go to
falmouthpubliclibrary.org we do have a
digital
page where they have a lot of these
great postcards that Chris has probably
seen
yes I highly recommend it that's I
always joke that
when it comes to obscure Cape Cod
history I always think it's
this might only interest me but I’ll
share
things that I find and that's why things
like the postcard collection I love it
no there's a lot of interest in in Cape
Cod history because I yeah of course I
work in the Reference Department we get
a lot of questions
a lot of those questions
yeah there's random things that I’ll
find interesting I was out for a run on
the
bike path down in Harwich last week and
there's a building
called Depot Storage and it's just a
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storage building
and I’d run by that hundreds of times
this time I went by there
and they had I guess removed shingles
and it revealed this old mural that was
I guess it used to be an
Ocean Spray cranberry warehouse
so now there's a painting of Ocean Spray
cranberries from the 20s
what was that that I did
oh someone said the Falmouth Enterprise
more is an interest is an amazing source
of photos and articles I’m not sure what
you mean by more do you know that
there is a ton of stuff in there though
well the Enterprise
I was just on the website this morning
doing my research for Edna Harris
oh and I I go down the rabbit holes
where I’ll find something else and I’ll
say okay
put a pin in that I’ll go look at that
later
that's the I find that interesting the
old newspaper archives I think are
fascinating
yeah they are and yet we do have the
Enterprise I don't remember the exact
date off the top of my head but we have
the Enterprise microfilm pretty far back
pretty far back yeah it's interesting to
even go
and just you start by researching
something you're interested in and then
you never know where it goes
oh and Kim just Kim just did a link to
the Joe Miron postcard
in our Digital Commonwealth that you
guys can
you can click on now or you can look
later
he's a very interesting character I wish
I could have met him
Kim is our cataloger by the way she
works here as well can do well
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so she knows and she puts together much
of this all of it
so I encourage you guys to check out
Chris’s site chrissetterlund.com
because
you know this there's even more on that
site
oh [unintelligible] oh okay I’m okay
good to know yeah I was like I didn't
think I didn't think that was a mistake
but
more see that's I should know that
but I guess I didn't and by the way we
do have the Enterprise digitized but
only unfortunately up to 1962 so
if you want stuff from 62 to the present
you do have to go to the microfilm
sadly we hope to have it digitized all
the way up at some point so you don't
have to go through the mic oh I would
love that
see I didn't want to bother you about
that cause I was gonna say it only goes
up to like 62.
and by the way yeah we we will search
the microfilm the microfilm
you know for people within reason if
they have a date and a specific thing
if they come to us and say I think it
was 82 maybe it was 83
and that's a little harder but if
someone has a specific request
you know with some kind of pinpoint of
the day we can we're happy to look if
you can't get in here
and Kim said that he painted the mural
at Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole which is pretty cool
that would make sense
I’ve actually never been in the Captain
Kidd so
that might be a destination yeah Chris
lives Chris lives in Yarmouth by the way
so Falmouth isn't his regular
spot but he did a lot of digging to find
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out
you know specific found the things
because his books are about Cape Cod but
he looked
he's you know he did go beyond and find
some Falmouth information that isn't
even in his books for these talks
yes I wanted to make sure that it was
relevant to you who came
to actually check out this event
so that it wasn't just like oh there's
all these places in
Eastham and Provincetown and it's like
you may not have ever heard of them I’d
rather it be at least
relevant to the town you're in yeah that
was great
that was great all right and
just a reminder to everyone that we are
recording this and FCTV is recording it
they're going to edit it for us and
make it look nice and then I’m going to
post it on our social media and
what I try to do is I’ll try to email
you guys all the link to it it'll be a
YouTube it'll be up on YouTube and I’ll
give people the link because I know
sometimes people
you know didn't hear it well or they got
in late or something they want to hear
the whole thing
yeah that I’ll definitely share it all
around too
absolutely yeah it'll go light on our
promotion
yeah it'll go on our Falmouth YouTube
page and our Falmouth Library YouTube
page
and does anyone have any questions
before
we let Chris go
yeah if you think of any shoot me an
email and I can shoot him an email too I
think
he has his email on his website too oh
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yeah definitely I’m always
I get people that contact me about
places to stay I had someone
who listens to my podcast asking me
where he should bring his wife for their
anniversary they're not from here
so I was pitching in places to go I
don't know where he stayed but
I kind of ran the gamut from resorts
like Wequassett
down to little bed and breakfasts oh wow
well the Captain David Kelley you might
remember Sue
um oh I’m trying to think of the name of
the man he's he
would do spinning at Mid-Cape
and he he and his husband they own that
and so I always promote him so that's
where I’m hoping they win
oh wow David Kelley House in Centerville
he had his scones
oh he's I’ll have to ask Kailyn she
knows his name
wow yeah so if anyone needs a place to
stay in Centerville
yes who knows anyone who does okay
well I want to thank everyone for coming
and yeah
we're really glad that you came and we
want to thank Chris for coming too that
was a great presentation
thank you so much to everyone who came
out and took some time out to
listen to me talk about these books that
I took a lot of
pride in creating yeah no it was
wonderful
and have a good night everyone we will
see some of you guys
at the next event and we have a thank
you here well thank you so much
I really appreciate it
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Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: September 23, 2020
Presenter: Gus Widmayer
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: A Gentleman’s Guide to the Belvidere Plain in Falmouth, Massachusetts & The Belvidere
Plain Revisited, by Gus Widmayer
Available in the Falmouth Public Library Reference Department REF LocHist 974.492
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Also mentioned: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler, available from CLAMS
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Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
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good morning I think it's appropriate
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on the sesquicentennial 150th
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anniversary of the postcard
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that we also acknowledge that it's the
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sesquicentennial of Belvidere Plain
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a real estate development from 1870
#1870
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I believe it was completed around 1872.
#1872
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so I want to draw your attention to uh
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where it is located
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on the shores of Vineyard Sound
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nestled in between the beach
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most people recognize this house
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it was owned by
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fairly prominent on the point it sits
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today just behind the Falmouth Yacht
#butler
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a nice tennis court and I
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Boston
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probably in the 1990s
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probably 75 years
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and you'll be able to see by the time
04:02
we're done
04:05
various homes that are no longer
04:08
no longer there
04:12
particularly these two what we call
04:15
beetle houses
04:17
which I’ll point out a little later
04:21
um this photograph
04:24
is about circa 19
04:29
20 I I would say
04:36
this photograph uh which I acquired
04:40
on eBay from an auction
04:44
in my mind is the oldest
04:48
known photograph of the Belvidere Plain
04:52
I don't want to say absolutely
04:55
positively
04:56
because
05:01
I don't have proof so I’ll leave that to
05:06
a younger generation to figure out for
05:08
me but
05:10
the back side of this stereo card does
#wyman
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say Falmouth Harbor and
05:17
these this is a
05:20
windmill that drew water from the ocean
05:27
onto flats where it dried
05:31
in the 19th century
05:34
for salt and uh
05:38
this hill here um
05:42
I believe to be Falmouth Heights it
05:44
doesn't look that tall
05:46
but you know perspective is very
05:49
um a very tricky thing in the 1870s
05:53
1880s um
05:56
I believe we can also date it from this
06:00
man's hat
06:01
this man's hat so uh in time
06:06
one of you might be able to
06:10
research this to nail down
06:14
a date and these
06:18
two structures here might also
06:22
help us but um
06:25
I’m keeping my fingers crossed the
06:28
oldest
06:29
beach photo Belvidere Plain
06:35
now I’d like to tell you about a book
06:37
that I acquired from
06:39
my father's second cousin Rita Keckeisen
#falmouthheights
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she was a librarian
06:47
in the Butler Library at Columbia
06:50
College
06:51
in New York City and when she passed
06:54
away
06:55
in 2003
06:58
her family distributed her possessions
07:01
and then asked me if I’d like to go in
07:05
to see if there was anything that I
07:07
wanted
07:08
because Rita and I had been
07:11
a 30-year correspondent uh
07:16
had been correspondents for 30 years she
07:18
more or less was my mentor
07:20
she taught me everything uh I needed to
07:23
know to be a good
07:25
uh thorough genealogist my hobby has
07:28
been
07:29
uh family tree research uh practically
07:32
all of my life
07:34
and uh it really inspired my
07:37
um interest in the history of Belvidere
07:40
Plain
07:42
so Mortimer J. Adler he
07:46
is um a well-known editor
07:49
in New York circles back in the day
#mortimeradler
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and it struck me as very odd that he
07:56
wrote a book
07:58
entitled How to Read a Book
08:01
and uh I’d never seen anything like that
08:04
before so I read it
08:06
cover to cover and I’ll give you the uh
08:09
I’ll give you the cliff notes he
08:11
essentially
08:13
is um asking
08:16
us as as the readers to
08:20
imbibe every aspect
08:24
of every book that we read don't just
08:26
open it and start reading page one
08:29
start at the fly leaf on the cover
08:32
start uh with the um
08:36
publisher page publishing page
08:39
read every line in the table of contents
08:44
he really wants us to treat every book
08:46
like a fine bottle of wine
08:49
savor every sip and so
08:54
I thought that was appropriate for this
08:56
morning's talk because
08:58
the same uh rules can apply to postcards
09:03
we need to not just see them for
09:06
a picture or a quick note but
09:10
there's a lot more there's a lot more
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behind it
09:14
and we can start with
09:18
postage stamps now
09:21
if a postcard is 150 years
09:25
old then
09:28
the first stamp that was designed for a
09:31
postcard
09:32
the one penny stamp in 1926
09:37
means that an awful lot of postcards got
09:40
shipped um before and after
09:45
for a penny and in fact it wasn't until
09:47
1952
09:49
that the rate went up so
09:53
if you see a postcard with a one penny
09:55
stamp on it
09:57
it's not going to be too too helpful
10:00
because
10:00
there's um there's a 75
10:05
year period there where where they
10:09
posted for one cents you get
10:12
luckier from 1952 on because
10:16
postal rates seemed to outpace inflation
10:21
and they kept going up and
10:24
in fact if you see for example
10:27
a postcard with seven
10:30
cents on the stamp you can actually
#1926
#1952
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tell yourself you can actually date that
10:39
postcard to
10:40
three months in 1975.
10:44
so as you see the dating methodology
10:48
becomes much clearer
10:51
the later you get now at some point and
10:54
I don't know when this was
10:56
but probably in the 2000s
11:00
um these became these stamps became
11:04
forever stamps
11:05
so I don't know if 2006
11:09
is um applies but if you see a postcard
11:13
with a forever stamp
11:14
that's 24 cents it could have been
11:17
posted last week
11:19
I mean they last forever
11:22
um here's an example of
11:26
an early I think 1902
11:30
one cent Franklin stamp so you'll see a
11:33
lot of these
11:34
on postcards I think Lady Liberty is on
11:38
one
11:40
in 1952 it went to two cents
11:44
but uh this is an early two cent stamp
11:47
from 1902
11:49
which you would not have seen on a
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postcard
11:55
so going by Mortimer J. Adler’s
11:59
methodology what are all the ways that
12:02
we can
12:03
um partake of postcards
12:07
we know there's a picture on the front
12:09
side
12:11
if we're lucky we see a really beautiful
12:17
post mark on the back here's Falmouth
12:20
Mass
12:20
July 28th 1pm
12:24
1943. uh
12:27
you can't get any better than that um
12:31
another thing you can determine from a
12:33
postcard oh and by the way
12:34
see the one Lady Liberty stamp here
12:38
um obviously we've got until 1952 before
12:42
that goes up
12:43
to two cents published by E.D. West
12:46
Company
12:47
South Yarmouth Mass you can actually go
12:51
on eBay or you know your favorite flea
12:54
market
12:55
and collect postcards
12:58
that were published by E.D. West
13:01
there are a number of different
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companies you can collect all of them
13:05
and they oftentimes will
13:08
number them so you can
13:11
collect them in sequence once in a while
13:15
you can also
13:16
identify the photographer
13:19
that's a little bit tricky you sort of
13:21
have to
13:22
find his body of work first and then
13:26
tie it in to a postcard
13:30
the other things that postcards tell you
13:33
are
13:34
the sender and
13:37
the recipient those are sometimes
13:42
fascinating and this particular one
13:46
tells you that is that the vacationer
13:50
stayed at the Catalpa Cottage on Shore
#shorestreet
Gunning_Village_Sts_0080 through
0084
Hunt_Village_Sts_171 & 172
13:52
Street
13:53
in Falmouth um in July of 1943
13:59
so uh if you happen to
14:02
live at that address you might
14:05
know Cokie and
14:08
Mrs. Carl Gulchmark
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Riverside Drive New York City
14:16
so as you can
14:20
see there are many many interesting
14:22
aspects
14:23
to a postcard
14:28
this is the earliest postcard
14:31
in my collection um
14:36
I date it to 1905.
14:39
it shows Belvidere Plain in the
14:41
foreground
14:42
these um these
14:46
beetle shaped roof lines
14:50
they were probably practical to
14:54
have wind off the beach go right over
14:57
the house
15:00
though not very successful because
15:03
in 1938 these two
15:06
were knocked off their foundation by the
15:10
hurricane
15:10
this one still stands at the tail end of
15:13
Spinnaker Lane
15:16
one thing you'll notice about early
15:17
postcards 1900 maybe to 1910
15:22
is that the um the pictures
15:26
do not extend to the boundary of the
Variant from the Hunt collection:
Hunt_Village_Har_113
#1938
#hurricane
#spinnakerlane
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paper
15:30
that's a function of the technology they
15:33
once they got very popular they quickly
15:36
learned how to print these
15:40
by bleeding the photograph off the edge
15:43
of the of the
15:44
card
15:48
and this is another trick that you can
15:51
try
15:52
with I use a photo editing software
15:56
called Adobe
15:57
Photoshop and I can take that same
16:00
postcard
16:02
get rid of the arrow where the sender
16:05
was staying
16:06
get rid of an ink mark
16:10
clean it up brighten it up and
16:15
make it presentable for and in my case
16:18
for the book that I was
16:20
publishing
16:23
you need a good scanner and you need a
16:24
good software program
16:26
I highly recommend Adobe products
16:31
here is a postcard taken from the Old
#oldstonedock
Variant from the Gunning collection:
Gunning_Village_Har_0180
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Other postcards of this site:
Gunning_Village_Har_0173 through
0188
Hunt_Village_Bch_0089 through
0095
16:34
Stone Dock
16:35
in Falmouth which used to be Falmouth’s
16:37
harbor
16:38
at the end of Shore Street and you see
16:41
the same view
16:42
the um the
16:47
houses here along the beach in Belvidere
16:49
Plain you can see
16:50
Falmouth Heights in the distance
16:54
a couple of young boys running down the
16:57
jetty
16:58
and some sailboats again this would need
17:01
to be heavily cleaned up
17:03
I don't think I used this one in the
17:05
book I used another
17:06
copy that I found that was much cleaner
17:11
oh this must be it
17:14
and what I would do is just brighten it
17:16
up so that when it's printed in the book
17:18
it's um it's uh
17:22
it becomes clearer and
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black and white versus this is scanned
17:29
in color
17:37
this is a picture of the old harbor
17:41
from the other side and oops and
17:46
there's a nice little um
17:50
note here please send as usual to last
17:53
address
17:53
by Tuesday if possible E.B.
17:58
Salandin he was probably looking for a
18:01
rent
18:02
of his on his summer cottage
18:08
I include this photograph of the
18:11
Heights from around the same time period
18:14
19
18:15
1905 because uh you can see
18:19
from uh perspective from a different
18:23
perspective
18:24
at the end of this long wooden wharf
18:27
the Butler house that was in the first
18:30
photograph that I shared with you
18:33
this is the Tower House Hotel
#towerhousehotel
Gunning_Heights_Bldg_1207
through 1210, 1217 through 1223
Hunt_Heights_Bldg_244 through
251
18:37
which I think came down in about 19
18:41
50 Jill Jill’ll know better
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on that excuse me
18:49
excuse me for a minute I had to get a
18:52
drink of water
18:53
so in this photograph you can see
18:56
the windmill
19:00
that was on the old Waterside estate
19:04
and you can also see
19:07
the Weinberg house here so
19:10
that was built in I think 1914
19:14
and it looks pretty new the wood looks
19:16
clean
19:17
so I would date this postcard to
19:22
1914.
19:26
let's take a look at the next one
19:29
it is the mouth of the harbor being
#waterside
#weinberg
Variants from the Hunt & Gunning
collections:
Hunt_Village_Bch_084,
Gunning_Village_Har_0190 & 191
Similar cards:
Gunning_Heights_Pnd_1311 &
1312
19:33
dredged by the
19:35
barge Wollaston and
19:38
it was colorized obviously and
19:41
we can also see that by 1910
19:45
the pictures are bleeding
19:48
off the edge of the postcard there's
#1910
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our focal point that always tells us
19:55
where we are
19:56
the Butler house on the uh
20:00
on the end of Falmouth Heights
20:03
this by the way was Clinton Road
20:07
Clinton Avenue used to uh run right
20:10
across
20:11
here and that's essentially what they're
20:13
digging away
20:14
is the spit of land
20:18
across which was Clinton
20:23
this is a really great photograph that
20:26
shows
20:27
in perfect detail
20:30
that activity in 1919 you can see the
20:34
name on the
20:35
barge here the Wollaston and these two
20:39
were dredging the harbor there are a
20:42
number of
20:44
aspects to this photograph that
20:47
helped to date it this is the William
20:50
Wyman
20:51
house on the edge of the harbor
20:54
this is the tower on
20:58
11 Wheeling Avenue which
21:01
came down in
#clintonavenue
#1919
#wheelingavenue
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I believe around 1913
21:12
so we know that
21:15
this was taller this used to be taller
21:20
in its day um this house number four
21:24
Wheeling Avenue
21:25
burned to the ground I’d have to look up
21:28
the actual
21:29
year that that happened number one
21:31
Wheeling Avenue
21:34
this is 20 Tim Nye's Cartway
21:38
16 Tim Nye's Cartway those
21:41
are the houses in which I grew up as a
21:43
boy
21:46
and this is the
21:50
back end of 151 Clinton Avenue which
21:54
sits on the
21:54
edge of Tim Nye’s Cartway and this
21:58
is the house on the at the foot of
22:00
Sheridan Avenue
22:01
on Clinton Avenue on the corner of
22:04
Clinton
22:05
and Sheridan and you can see how all of
22:08
this
22:08
land was vacant at that
22:12
time so when the family who lived
22:15
in our family homes
#timnyecartway
#sheridanavenue
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was here in 19
22:22
up until 1925 they had
22:26
a beautiful uninterrupted view of the
22:29
harbor this
22:32
house here
22:39
is
22:45
um I can't think of the family's name
22:48
but this is also gone
22:50
and has been replaced by
22:53
a new house if I think of it I’ll
22:56
mention it
22:57
later postcards were
23:00
also made from
23:03
pictures from photographs that you could
23:06
mail into a company and they'll return
23:10
back to you
23:11
a set of 10 or 20.
23:15
this happens to have been a photograph
23:19
taken by a member of the Lowry family
23:22
Mrs. Lowry was Bill Wyman's mother
23:25
and this house front and center is
23:29
43 Harrisburg it's now been moved right
23:32
up to the water
23:34
this is the Tim Nye Cartway house that
23:38
my family moved to in 1967.
23:46
this is number one Wheeling Avenue on
19
#lowry
#harrisburgavenue
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23:50
the corner of Girard
#girardavenue
23:52
this is the old Lowry house with the
23:55
tower
23:56
this uh house is number four Wheeling
23:59
Avenue that burned
24:00
to the ground and it's gone you can
24:03
still see some
24:05
you can still see some concrete
24:07
foundation
24:08
markers there unless they've been
24:11
removed recently
24:13
and this is one of the
24:17
uh beetle shaped homes that
24:20
was knocked off its foundation by the
24:24
hurricane in 1938 so that
24:27
is now gone and it's a private private
24:29
community beach
24:32
here are the two homes that were knocked
24:34
off their foundation
24:36
they're both uh they're both gone they
24:39
must have been beautiful
24:41
beautiful homes right on the beach again
24:46
this is a photograph that was turned
24:47
into a postcard
24:49
there are notes and stamps on the back
24:56
this is a similar view probably
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25:00
around 1914 you can see
25:04
some familiar structures these are the
25:06
two
25:08
Wheeling Avenue homes that were
25:11
destroyed
25:12
and this is the Weinberg
25:16
house on Girard Avenue
25:19
um brand spanking new I would say
25:23
the uh the wood looks still looks bright
25:25
and clean
25:27
it hasn't aged so this postcard is very
25:31
likely
25:32
1915 1914
25:36
and uh there's a nice wooden pier here
25:39
that
25:41
that is no longer there
25:45
same view um showing a better
25:49
perspective
25:50
on the houses on the at the end of
25:54
Harrisburg um this is the Drummond house
25:58
now
26:01
this is the Burns house again the homes
26:05
on Wheeling Avenue the two
26:07
I don't know why I want to call them
26:08
eyebrow houses but the two
26:11
beetle beetle houses on Wheeling Avenue
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#drummond
#burns
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26:15
and the Weinberg home
26:20
it's a beautiful beach my father loved
26:22
this beach
26:24
he used to this is the uh now
26:27
this is now the the neighborhood
26:32
beach where this house used to be and my
26:34
father would sit there and
26:36
say to me where he said to me one day
26:40
how could you believe that God doesn't
26:42
exist when
26:43
he created such beauty as this beach
26:48
he was he was enraptured
26:53
this is a fascinating shot it took me a
26:56
while
26:57
to stare at this photograph
27:00
to understand what exactly I was looking
27:03
at
27:05
but it clearly says Deacon's Pond Harbor
27:08
the fleet at anchor Falmouth Heights
27:11
Mass so here's the harbor um
27:14
it has access to the ocean but
27:17
it doesn't really look like this is
27:20
where
27:20
Falmouth Heights should be and it took
27:24
me
Variant from the Hunt collection:
Hunt_Heights_Har_314
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27:25
a little while to determine that the
27:27
publisher had reversed the shot
27:30
so when we turn this around
27:34
you will see this makes sense
27:37
here are the two beetle houses on the
27:41
end of Wheeling Avenue
27:42
here is the Wyman house the jetty at the
27:46
end of the harbor
27:47
here's the where the Clam Shack is
27:51
at the tail end of Clinton Avenue
27:55
and um this is the
27:58
house that I’m trying to remember the
28:00
name of
28:02
and it will come to me
28:06
this house I don't recognize but
28:09
uh one of you may or Jill might be able
28:12
to help us out
28:13
a house with two little outbuildings
28:17
a little further down on Scranton
28:21
so I wouldn't be as familiar with it but
28:24
I’m sure
28:26
I’m sure we'll get it identified and in
28:29
in the uh
28:31
in this shot you can see the same house
28:34
with the two out buildings
28:36
somewhere down along Scranton Avenue
#scrantonavenue
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28:40
um if you find out
28:44
let me know I’d like to know who that is
28:47
I skipped past this one but I do want to
28:51
point out that this is Waterside
28:54
at the end of Shore Street at the beach
28:58
where you turn that 90 degree turn
29:03
along the public beach there I don't
29:06
quite
29:07
recognize these homes but
29:10
with a little further analysis I’m sure
29:12
we could figure them out
29:15
and this home here is across
Hunt_Village_Bldg_068 & 69
Gunning_Village_Bldg_0417
29:19
Shore Street on the other side and it
29:21
belonged at the time
29:23
to an old Navy man named Richard Olney
29:27
there's probably quite a bit written
29:29
about him
29:31
that you can look up at the library
29:35
it's a nice shot colorized obviously
29:43
I love this shot it must have been taken
29:46
right after the harbor was dredged
29:47
because these two jetties look brand new
29:50
they still look like piles of rock
29:52
and uh the beach is still kind of taking
24
#richardolney
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29:56
the contour
29:57
of where the old spit of land used to be
30:02
this is all fill very clearly all
30:05
fill um
30:08
this house someone
30:12
can identify for us on Falmouth Heights
30:16
I don't recognize it but I’m sure it's
30:18
been gone for a very long time
30:20
and just out of frame here would be the
30:25
Butler house our our point of reference
30:29
on on Falmouth Heights
30:32
oh and it even says new harbor so that's
30:35
a brand spanking new
30:37
photograph 1919 in 1919
30:44
um this
30:47
is a photograph not a postcard but a
30:51
photograph
30:52
that a neighbor sent to me taken from an
30:56
airplane
30:57
you can see Falmouth Harbor
31:02
Clinton Ave Clinton Avenue has been cut
31:05
so this is uh post 19
31:09
19 1920 maybe and you can see Clinton
31:13
Avenue here
31:15
uh this house on what is now Settlers
31:18
Path
#settlerspath
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is brand new so I’m guessing 1920s for
31:25
sure
31:27
and this is the little inlet
31:30
at the mouth of Falmouth Harbor I
31:35
blew it up a little to get a better view
31:38
but obviously the plane was shaking so
31:41
whoever took the photograph
31:42
had to contend with a little vibration
31:48
you can see the columnated building here
31:52
which I forget what that
31:55
was but we'll be able to identify that
32:06
this is Harrisburg this
32:09
is Timothy Nye’s Cartway
32:12
Clinton Avenue this house
32:16
um uh Vivian Center lived in for years
32:20
and years and years and I interviewed
32:22
her
32:22
for my book as I did
32:26
um many of these residents
32:30
and you can see the Butler house right
32:33
here
32:35
and the Tower Hotel
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it's too bad it's really too bad that
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this wasn't clear
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because it's just an amazing old shot
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that you just wouldn't see
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otherwise
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this photograph um was taken about 1920
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by Theodore
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Gerloff the father of Miss Anna Gerloff
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who was quite
33:00
elderly when I uh knew her
33:04
in the late 1900s
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but it was probably taken um right after
33:12
this house was built
33:14
on Harrisburg Lane
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you can see the roof line of the
33:21
two beetle-shaped houses that were blown
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down in 1938
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you can see the tower here on the Lowry
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house has been
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brought down in height
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this is one of my favorites again um
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1920 these two big sloops here you can
33:45
see a couple of old
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Model T's that were still hanging around
33:51
and this house which is the big
33:55
yellow mansion that belonged to
33:58
to [Dr. K Leland] for many years
34:03
I believe that went up in 1920
34:09
so
#gerloff
Variant from the Hunt collection:
Hunt_Village_Har_111
Sp. unknown. May be “Kay” for Dr.
Katherine Leland.
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let's see I’ve got my I believe that one
34:16
up in 1920 so we can date
34:20
we can date the postcard
34:23
if it didn't have a postmark on the back
34:26
to about that period
34:36
and this is a similar shot this was one
34:38
where
34:39
um you know I mentioned that all aspects
34:43
of the postcard are
34:44
are fascinating and this one was
34:48
kind of fun because it was from
34:51
one young sailor to a friend back home
34:56
and uh he's he
34:59
says he wrote dear Newbold
35:02
we're having a fine time up here and
35:05
wish you were near us
35:07
will you come to lunch when we get home
35:10
Bayard Kane Fox posted 1935
35:16
and addressed to Master
35:20
Newbold Black
35:23
two school school chums keeping in touch
35:26
with one another
35:32
and um I wanted to show this
35:36
circa 1952 aerial shot
35:39
of Falmouth Harbor
35:43
this is the Butler house this is the
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Yacht Club the Tides Motel
#tidesmotel
35:50
Belvidere Plain pretty much encompasses
35:54
this entire
35:55
flat land uh
35:58
and you can see even even by 1952
36:02
standards
36:03
quite a lot was not yet developed
36:05
there's a lot
36:06
of open land and in
36:10
in the early days in the 1800s
36:14
people would buy lots along
36:17
Clinton Avenue that stretched in long
36:20
rectangles
36:21
all the way back to Main Street so a lot
36:24
of these lots if you follow their
36:26
history they go back
36:29
from Clinton Avenue to
36:33
Main Street and the Belvidere Plain
36:38
as we saw from the early development map
36:41
probably stopped at King at
#kingstreet
36:45
Queen Street and everything
#queenstreet
36:48
beyond would fall under the
36:52
classification of Falmouth Center
36:58
this is a closer view you can start to
37:00
see some of the houses
37:02
that are familiar in
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on Belvidere Plain this is the Robertson
37:08
house
37:11
this is the um
37:14
Regatta the Regatta
37:17
Hotel this is the Regatta restaurant
37:24
it's a nice clear shot I’m not sure
37:26
where I got it I probably bought it on
37:27
eBay
37:30
and then that this is a close-up Clinton
37:33
Avenue
37:34
this is Sheridan Avenue
37:38
this is the Wyman house
37:49
and then I wanted to uh just add in this
37:52
um
37:53
later view probably 1950ish 1945
37:57
maybe shows the Butler house um
38:01
the the uh
38:05
oh the old sailor what is this name
38:07
begins with the letter g
38:10
Gallagher Gallagher used to live in this
38:12
house next to the Yacht Club
38:14
and the um
38:18
Tower House Hotel
38:24
so in 2003
38:28
I believe I published
38:32
the stories of the various families
#robertson
#regatta
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who lived on Belvidere Plain
38:38
and I included photographs and chapters
38:41
on each of their houses
38:43
and I did research on a lot of the
38:48
titles land titles the deeds that passed
38:53
and put it all together into uh
38:56
into book form published it
39:02
I was very uh very happy to get it
39:05
in print because I had talked to a good
39:09
many neighbors and had scraps of paper
39:13
you know from my various interviews
39:17
with them it really was a fascinating
39:19
hobby I started when I was
39:22
probably 13 or 14
39:26
and I loved just loved hearing
39:29
stories of the history of the
39:32
neighborhood
39:36
oh and I want to show you this postcard
39:38
because the cover of my book
39:40
see these green shutters and red roof
39:43
uh comes from this postcard
Variants from the Hunt & Gunning
collections:
Gunning_Village_Har_0172
Hunt_Village_Bch_079
39:47
so obviously I oh and you know I think
39:51
the back cover
39:52
this extends to the back cover this
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would be the spine
39:56
and this is the front cover of the book
39:59
this is a
39:59
this is another one of my favorite
40:02
postcards
40:05
um this book is
40:08
out of print there are no there are no
40:11
more copies although you can
40:16
read it at the Falmouth Public Library
40:18
they have they have a copy
40:21
but I I expanded it
40:25
and re-published it
40:29
in 2018
40:33
with this cover
40:36
um no slip cover
40:39
just a hard cover book and called it The
40:43
Belvidere Plain
40:44
Revisited it's approximately
40:48
twice the number of pages
40:51
quite a few more photographs and a
40:53
number of new stories
40:55
from people who um
40:58
who let me know that I forgot about them
41:02
in the first
41:04
in the first printing so we got him in
41:08
to this one and I think that's
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it ah here's the
41:14
author as a young man 1967.
41:20
um when we first when my family first
41:24
arrived
41:26
in Falmouth
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[Music]
#1967
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Transcript of Gus Widmayer's Zoom Presentation on the Belvidere Plain
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1967
author talk
Belvidere Plain
Burns
Butler
Clinton Avenue
Deacon's Pond
Drummond
Falmouth Harbor
Falmouth Heights
Falmouth Yacht Club
Gallagher
Gerloff
Girard Avenue
Gus Widmayer
Harrisburg Avenue
hurricane
king street
lowry
mortimer adler
Old Stone Dock
Postcards from Falmouth
queen street
regatta
richard olney
robertson
scranton avenue
settlers path
sheridan avenue
Shore Street
spinnaker lane
the belvidere plain revisited
tides motel
tim nye cartway
tower house hotel
transcript
vineyard sound
vivian center
waterside
weinberg
wheeling avenue
wyman