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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: July 30, 2021
Oral Historian: Joel Peterson
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: The Dome Restaurant
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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Joel welcome glad to have you here today
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thank you so we're here to talk about
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one of Falmouth's most iconic spots
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the Dome in Woods Hole and throughout
#thedome
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your life you've had an involvement with
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that so take us first through the
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history of how the Dome came to be
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and then we'll talk about how it was a
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community gathering place for so many
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years
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well my father was an architect in
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Falmouth
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fairly controversial one unfortunately
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because his architecture was what they
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called contemporary or modern
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which
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Falmouth didn't think was that great
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and
#egunnarpeterson
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so that went on for a while and then he
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decided that he thought it would be a
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good idea to
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build a hotel
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and then building a hotel maybe we'd
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have a restaurant with it and of course
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it had to be different
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you know and it had to
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there was a lot of controversy when we
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were building it
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I at the time it was 1953
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I was 12 years old
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but I do remember it very well
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the Dome was the most controversial
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most of the people in Woods Hole and
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you’re familiar with the
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ethos if that's the word of Woods Hole
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um we're
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vehemently against it
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in
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all of the stuff that you see now about
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“save the Dome” it's going to go down it's
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was the exact opposite if it goes up
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it's going to ruin life as we know it
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and
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and
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it's very amusing that probably the
#nautilusmotorinn
#1953
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grandchildren of the people that were
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fighting it going up are now fighting it
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going down yeah
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but uh anyway my father
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Bucky Fuller R. Buckminster Fuller was
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the
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inventor if that's the word the father
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of the Dome
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and uh
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my father thought it would be fun to
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have
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that as a restaurant
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so he got in touch with Bucky who who
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was quite a guy in his own right I mean
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he was on a stamp and you know I mean he
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was Bucky was quite a guy
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and
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personally he was like a grandfather to
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me
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as I say I was 12. he and his wife came
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and lived at our house
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for the summer of 1953
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and lived with our family
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while the Dome was being built
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in the Dome um
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is an interesting structure in that it's
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very lightweight and it can span large
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areas like a baseball field for instance
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you know but
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but at that time
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he had only built one commercially he
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built one in Dearborn Michigan for the
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Ford Motor Company
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and when he got through with that job he
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came to Woods Hole
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the Woods Hole Dome is wood
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and all the wood was pre-cut
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at MIT and was brought down on a couple
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of trucks
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the dome structure itself is is uh he
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called it dynamic he used he made up the
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word geodesic which
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describes the construction but
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dynamic being that
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there are multiple panels
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all
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engineered and fit together
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and what enables a large space to be
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to be
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constructed without
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without falling down and without any
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supports
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is that one piece was pushing on the
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other
#geodesicdome
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so the building is always moving and if
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you're in there
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and there's no people or nothing
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you can hear it it's cracking all the
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time
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and it's not just wind it's just it just
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does that
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of course that makes
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the outside rather tough because you've
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got a solid outside in the insides
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moving
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so consequently it leaked a lot
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that was really the hardest part
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and we were working on that all the time
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a guy named Dave Gardner was the
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was the roofer and he tried everything
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in the world you know that he could find
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uh elastomeric you know to keep to seal
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the joints
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it was originally covered in Mylar
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in
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1953
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Mylar is a clear plastic
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it was glued on
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to each panel
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and
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that
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first year we were open we opened in
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1954
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and
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those of you of my age remember that in
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1954 Hurricane Carol
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came through at the end of August
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and while you could walk on
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on the Mylar it was strong enough to
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hold you if you had something sharp that
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was a different story and it got pierced
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and the whole thing got ruined
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so one year after it was up
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it was gone
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the structure was fine but the covering
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was gone so then it was covered with
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what it is covered with now which were
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sheets of fiberglass
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and fiberglass was brand new at that
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time as I recall there was a company in
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New Bedford that made it that made these
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panels
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and
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the panels at that time were pink and
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green you know preppy stuff
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and so the whole dome
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the different uh panels were either pink
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or green and then there was a big
#1954
#hurricane #hurricanecarol
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picture window behind what was the
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sunken bar
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ah let's see so
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that went on for a few years and then
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ultimately we had to start coating the
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outside so the pink and green went away
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just because it was
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not painted but essentially painted with
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this
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elastomeric stuff
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so it moved a lot it leaked a lot it was
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it was an issue
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so that that's a wonderful history that
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only someone who lived it like yourself
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could recount spent Hurricane
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Carol in the cellar of the of the
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kitchen
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wow yeah
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and that was quite a storm
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I was not alive then but I have read
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about it and heard about it I was here
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uh of course for Hurricane Bob which was
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uh that was a good one 30 something
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years later and that was a good one too
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but so after the reconstruction in 1954
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then the Dome began its run as
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one of the premier restaurants in
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Massachusetts certainly on Cape Cod and
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over those years
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it's funny you should mention the
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leaking because I still share stories
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and I run into Cape Cod once in a while and
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we can get to him in a minute but people
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to this day tell stories about having
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large dinner parties and fun and
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food and drink
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and the roof leaking and they would just
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go right through it because that was
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part of the Dome experience part of the
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ambiance but
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we have pictures of people sitting in
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there with umbrellas though
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uh just
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you know to pull our chain little but
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but that's isn't that part of what was
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the experience because it was a local
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place right people understood that they
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expected it so it wasn't as though they
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were put out by that but it was part of
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what made it so special well that's what
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we told them anyway
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well it worked because uh and and that
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became uh you know uh
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obviously a huge part of your life for
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many many years so tell us about the
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evolution of the restaurant and and and
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it continued uh
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uh to be such an important part not just
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of the Woods Hole village but of the
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Falmouth and the Cape Cod community
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well
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I I guess
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it was because I you know my father was
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a local boy he went to
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Lawrence High I went to Lawrence High
#lawrencehighschool
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you know I mean we're we're locals
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the town and back in those days was a
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lot simpler than it is now you literally
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knew everybody now I know you knew a lot
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of people and know a lot of people but
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uh
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you sort of knew everybody so when you
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were
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in the business it wasn't I’m going to
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the Dome it's I’m going to go see Joel
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you know I mean
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you know it became a
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personality thing I think and uh
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heck if I ever took a night off
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you know I’d run into somebody you know
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say like you downtown and say hey I was
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there the other night where the hell
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were you you know
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you know
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you know you got that a lot so
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you know it was a
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it was a
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summer
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tourist place
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but the locals went there
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for sure I mean I grew up uh off of
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Davisville in East Falmouth and
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uh you know the opportunity to to travel
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to Woods Hole in general but you know on
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a very special occasion we would go
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there and that was always a highlight
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for the family and that's those memories
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uh you know last a lifetime and so your
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place has been part of
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uh so many memories for thousands of
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people and that's what I still get you
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know I still run into people at you know
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the hardware store or whatever who'll
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say just that you know God I remember
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coming there on Mother's Day I remember
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there's some you know
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different things of course weddings and
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I just had it out in the hallway here
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your previous
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guest
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was telling me stories about a wedding
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he went to there and
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and talking about Cape Cod and yeah I mean
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so it goes on all the time oh absolutely
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and Cape Cod was a big big big part of it
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so for those watching this Arne of
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course is Arne Grepstad who was
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uh
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general manager was his title or manager
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or but he was part of the heart and soul
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of that place and certainly the
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personality Arne Grepstad was was a uh
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an exchange student
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at at
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Lawrence High
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I don't know if it was Falmouth High
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then no it's still Lawrence High then I
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think and uh
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and
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for some unknown reason they asked me to
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be one of his advisors
#arnegrepstad
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and I wasn't that much older than him
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and he was very well adjusted and didn't
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seem to be having any problems so I
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would take him to Red Sox games and you
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know I mean we just did stuff and
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and became friends so when his year was
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up
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I said
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you know what are you going to do I’m
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going back to know yeah but what are you
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going to do
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and
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and he didn't really know
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so one thing and another I went to the
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Cornell Hotel School and so we got him
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into the Cornell Hotel School
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and then he started working summers for
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me and then when he got through I said
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what are you gonna do and I said well
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why don't you come here and he just came
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and never left and uh
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you know he
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as we like to say he's like a rash you
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know you get
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it of him
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Arne’s the best no question about it
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and uh absolutely he's a
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bit of a character but uh
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I could tell you Arne’s stories for a
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long long time
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but that's what makes places like the
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dome so special because as you just
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experienced people identify
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their life story by people places and
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things and the Dome had all of those it
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was this amazing thing in the middle of
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the village a special place and had
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people like you and Arne that made it
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an experience it wasn't going to Anyplace
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USA to you know for a ham sandwich
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it was going to the Dome
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for that whole experience and uh and so
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people still very much identify with
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that as
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as you know uh Phil Stone is my stepdad
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and uh is one of your contemporaries and
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you know to to this day he tells stories
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about
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the Dome and about Woods Hole
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oh sure Phil and Dick
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yeah oh yeah and and but that's I think
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places like the Dome are woven through
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the fret of the thread of the community
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and make it really the special place
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Quarterdeck today is that kind of a
#quarterdeck
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place you go absolutely you know it's
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all
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people I know for the most part you know
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it's
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it's home you know it's Falmouth like
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Cheers where everybody knows your name
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right exactly
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exactly so so
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if you could pick out just a couple of
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uh memorable stories from the Dome uh
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famous people that dine in there or
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experiences that that happen are there
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any that stand out
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well you're a baseball fan yes of course
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my favorite player
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was Jackie Jensen
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right fielder
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the outfield of Williams Piersall and
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Jensen Pearsall of course lived in
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Hyannis and
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Ted Williams needs no introduction
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Jackie Jensen played right field
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and
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if you're a trivia buff
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which I’m sure you are and you would
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know that Jackie Jensen is the only
#jackiejensen
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person
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who played in both the Rose Bowl and the
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World Series
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because he was football player
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California
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and then a baseball player in the World
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Series unfortunately not with the Red
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Sox but with the Yankees
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and
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anyway he was right fielder
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when I was about 14 years old I was
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washing dishes in the Dome
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and I was too young really to run the
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dishwasher but
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I did anyway
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until the labor people came in
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and said that this kid's too young and
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this is dangerous equipment and all that
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other stuff and told my father that
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they had to let me go
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so they did let me go until he got out
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of the driveway and then
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and then I went back but that year
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58
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was one of Jackie Jensen’s best years
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and I used to write what he did every
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day on on the on the shelf down in the
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uh cellar of the restaurant
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anyway don't know why I did it
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now come ahead
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god 20 25 years
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and this guy walks into the restaurant
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I’m standing there at the desk and I
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look and I said it's Jackie Jensen
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couldn't believe it
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I said yo Jackie Jensen he says yeah
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nobody knows anymore I said no I do
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anyway he had dinner he's taking his
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daughter to the Vineyard
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spending the night at the Nautilus
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and uh came up for dinner
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so I took him down in the cellar and
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showed him what I had done back then he
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absolutely couldn't believe it but you
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know talk about
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meeting your hero sort of you know I
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mean it was it was neat
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so that really uh exemplifies what we're
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talking about and how yeah
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places like the Dome are just special
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and I’m sure you know he remembered that
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for the rest of his days uh after his
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time in the Major Leagues was over and
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he had
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he was one of those that
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the other thing he he was well known for
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was he wouldn't fly
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which
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you know was a problem for a ball player
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so right
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sort of like John Madden right exactly
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exactly Madden got more famous for it
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and had a bus and all that stuff you
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know Willie Nelson you know it's got his
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own bus but uh
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yeah
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so there's one um
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oh we had the president of Finland
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really yeah that was fun
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so tell us about that
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uh the president of Finland his name was
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Urho Kekkonen
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and
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he was
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obviously planning a visit to the states
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and he wanted to go to Oceanographic
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uh
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he was very interested in oceanography
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and I guess there's a lot of
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oceanography in Finland you know I mean
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that kind of stuff
#urhokekkonen
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so that's what got him to Woods Hole but
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they had to put him up for the night so
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this was
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oh my lord he had
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he had more U.S. Secret Service than his
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own he had one
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one little group of people that were
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guarding him
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and then a whole bunch of our people
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that were guarding him you know Secret
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Service guys and they had to come
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through and check out all the employees
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and we all had little pins that we were
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wearing that were okay to get close to
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them and all this sort of stuff that was
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sort of fun
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wow and
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you know we fed him and you know it was
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a good time
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he had a good time Jimmy Carter stayed
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with us really yeah
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yeah he was at the National Academy of
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Sciences
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so
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his
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Secret Service guy came to me and said
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um
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and he wasn't president he was past
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president when he came he wasn't
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president at the time
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and I said he he wanted to take a a jog
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he said he liked to jog a mile or two
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every morning
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which was well known you know you know
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Carter was a runner I said well you're
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in luck
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we're right on the course of the
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Falmouth Road Race
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so he said well show me
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you know where where he where he'd go so
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I
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took the Secret Service guy and
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down Church Street around the lighthouse
#falmouthroadrace
#nobskalight
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of course and you know back up through
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and then you know make the loop
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perfect he thought that was great so
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sure enough at six o'clock the next
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morning
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there are two police cars
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two Secret Service cars
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four Secret Service agents running
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right by him and Jimmy Carter in the
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middle and they're jogging around the
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lighthouse
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at like six in the morning now if Carter
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had run all by himself
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and anyone saw him they'd say oh that
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guy looks like Jimmy Carter you know I
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mean that would have been about it but
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with the lights going and the
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police cars and you know all that uh
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it was uh
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you know what a great story so we can
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walk up everybody we can say President
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Carter ran the Falmouth Road Race right
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that's great yeah and Hugh McCartney was
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down interviewing him
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as a matter of fact so the all of the uh
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dating back over 100 years the Falmouth
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Public Library who is sponsoring this
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series also had an effort that the
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Enterprise newspapers going back more
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than 100 years are now digitally
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preserved and online okay so I’m going
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to go back and uh and try to find that
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story and I’m sure over the years there
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were a tremendous amount of photos and
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stories about the Dome when it was in it
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oh yeah so you can
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well now that it's archived you can
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yeah when I have some time one of these
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days I’ll take a look
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well this has been tremendously
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want to share with us about your
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personal story related to the Dome or or
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about the facility itself well it was
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you know I
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everybody eats three meals a day so
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they're all experts you know yeah you go
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to the doctor and the doctor says do
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this and you do it because you're not a
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doctor and you're hurt you know but you
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go to a restaurant or actually a hotel
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because you sleep every night right
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you're an expert
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you know it's it's uh it's an
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interesting dynamic but I certainly
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enjoyed I enjoyed the people the most I
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mean what you're talking about
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the fact that people you know just like
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what happened out in the hallway here uh
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that's
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the best part you know that's just a lot
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of fun that you know you made people
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happy and uh even if it was raining on
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well yeah I mean that was like as you
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very nicely pointed out that was just
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it rained at Fenway too the other night
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you know
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a good point and people still had a good
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for creating this opportunity for
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at that spot don't forget Arne and
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Arne that's right and you know what
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maybe we'll have him in here to do one
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of these uh one of these oral histories
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too because uh
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uh you know I was thinking when you
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mentioned the President of Finland
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before we close
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is Arne Finnish
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no Arne’s Norwegian okay yeah
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he wishes he was Finnish
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I will ask him that question
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that's great well thank you for sharing
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some time and your memories with us and
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helping us preserve this beautiful slice
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of history for Falmouth my pleasure
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: September 23, 2020
Presenter: Tom Turkington
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: Before I Forget: A Boyhood of Little Drama, by Tom Turkington
Available from Falmouth Public Library under 920.71 Turkington
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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good morning everyone this is a big
adventure
for both uh Tom and I this is the first
time
that I’ve done such a large Zoom event
with
people that I don't necessarily know
we've been doing a lot of
Zoom staff meetings um but this is quite
of a different level
and um I’ve also been hoping that we
could have Tom Turkington
talk to us for some time and I’m glad
that this this
morning is finally the time that it can
happen
um it's really a delight uh to
to be here and I’m glad that you're all
here
so let me just tell you a little bit
about what
what was the beginnings of this program
and
that is uh Postcards from Falmouth which
was
which is a special local history project
of the Falmouth Public Library
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that is based upon our historical
postcard collection of noted buildings
landmarks
and locations within the town of
Falmouth
introduced in 1869 as a way of sending a
simple message
postcards quickly evolved beyond their
practical purpose
to become the universal souvenir that
brightens everyone's mailboxes
and I have to say one of the things we
did when we were closed we would send
a lot of our patrons postcards which was
people
were delighted with um however postcards
also provide us with rare glimpses into
the past
and serve as a way of documenting
history
that is why we jumped at the chance when
we saw the opportunity
for a grant to develop projects that use
historical documents
such as our historical postcard
collection to discover unknown facts and
stories about
Falmouth during days gone by after all
to collect preserve and share such
resources
is what the Falmouth Public Library has
been doing since 1792
Postcards from Falmouth has been made
possible through a Library Services
and Technology Act grant which is
administered through the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
this series of talks is also made
possible thanks to the Falmouth Public
Library Trustees
and of course FCTV and we hope by the
end of this series
that those of you listening will be
inspired to look at our postcard
collections
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and share your memories of Falmouth and
somebody who has
a lot of memories of Falmouth is Tom
Turkington
and I have to say I I have been
delighted um reading the book and I
think you will be
as well um Tom did write a memoir of his
childhood
in Falmouth which is a revelation in so
many ways for those of us
I’ve been here 30 years and I still
learn lots of things from his book
Before I Forget A Boyhood of Little
Drama
and there will be time for questions at
the end which you can type
into the chat so without further ado
although I will say I particularly Tom
liked
all the information about Panis
silversmiths I have a Panis ring right
here on my finger
and um uh Matt Pearson with whom I live
remembers this has many of the same
memories you have of Panis so
um a really uh a treat to read about
Panis and
and your relationship with Panis
silversmiths um
for those of you that don't know Panis
read the book if he doesn't mention it
this morning so I will now
give over the screen to Tom Turkington
thanks Jill for that nice introduction
after a long
awkward wait uh but that's Zoom for
you um
just myself I was born in Falmouth in
1949
and spent most of the first 18 years of
my life there
uh I was there for another 15 years as a
young adult I live in New Hampshire
now
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the book was my entry to this
program but you got to understand the
book
is not there was no research
everything in here um
just I drew it from my memory bank and
um
surprisingly enough people have looked
and said uh hey
there's a lot of details that how do you
remember those things
uh and so accurately and I guess I just
have a mind that that does that sort of
thing
it came about because I found as I was
I actually wrote it four or five years
ago I found as I was getting into my 50s
and 60s that
I sort of developed an interest in my
parents’
history my grandparents what were they
like when their kids
and what was the world like around them
what did they do with their time
and all that and of course they weren't
around to tell me
and it occurred to me that probably my
kids someday would get into their 50s
and 60s
and they would begin to develop the same
interest about me
and I wouldn't be around to tell them so
I put it down a book
and my own kids in
30 or 40 years can refer back and
know a little bit more about where they
came from
uh it is a memoir
so it's not about Falmouth per se
it's about me uh memoirs are like that
but of course because I was in Falmouth
people places events things that were
going on in Falmouth between
in the 50s and 60s are scattered
throughout the book
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this project as Jill was saying sort of
sprang forth from
postcards old postcards and uh
I don't have any postcards here as props
but the way I’m going to approach this
is to just sort of imagine what might be
on a postcard
and then ruminate a little bit about
that thing that could have been on a
postcard
and uh and do some readings from the
books that relate to it
one of the uh one of the most
photographed places in Falmouth
is probably Main Street and uh when I’m
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back in Falmouth which I often am
uh it's kind of fun to go down Main
Street and
look and of course there's been massive
turnover
as there always always has been but in
some respects hasn't changed too much
Main Street when I was a kid yeah you
could
you could get auto parts there you could
get your photos developed at Ortin’s
photo shop
you could uh yeah you could go to a
movie
there were two movie theaters on main
street uh
okay none of those are there anymore but
pretty much what you have now
is places to eat and places to buy
clothes
and gifts and really 50 years ago
there were plenty of places to eat most
of them were lunch counters at J.J.
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and that at the Rexall Drugs
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and at the Sandbar and you know all up
and down Main Street there were places
to eat but they were
fast food and it wasn't junk food it was
fast because you'd go in you sit down
Ralph Sullivan’d and come over say what do
you want
tell them a ham and cheese sandwich and
two minutes later there it was in front
of you
uh so now we have high-end restaurants
instead
okay that says something about the
economy
um and one of the uh
one of the other things that you used to
do on Main Street that you don't do
anymore is
you go shopping for your food
and there's a little something in my
book about
food shop
one indicator of the growth and
modernization of Falmouth has been the
evolution of the food stores
when I was little and we lived on Mill
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Road the closest thing to a supermarket
in town was the A&P on Main Street
it was right next to Town Hall which was
razed in the 60s to make way for a
parking lot in a nice little park
that's Peg Noonan Park there were other
food stores besides the A&P
S.S. Pierce for example but the A&P was
about it for general food shops
it was a little bit larger though not
nearly as neat and clean as the standard
convenience store today
there were maybe four or five aisles
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if you were over by the butcher shop the
smell all around was
meat getting old by the checkout lines
they kept the coffee grinders
very large machines considering their
simple function
and that whole end of the store smelled
of ground up eight o'clock coffee which
never got swept up
my lingering impression of a trip to the
A&P with mom in my early years is one of
having to deal with inconvenience
no place to park hard walking on a badly
ruptured sidewalk
difficulty opening the door sticking
wheels on the shopping cart
traffic jams throughout the store piles
of merchandise stacked in the way
long waits in line but the reward was to
watch
hear and smell the coffee grinder at
work
oh this is more I’m talking about the
evolution of Falmouth I’m not just
reminiscing on going to the A&P when I
was a kid
now comes the evolution first National
Stores was the first chain to offer
shopping relief to the beleaguered
Falmouth housewife
they opened up a snazzy new supermarket
at the foot of Shore Street
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either just before just after we moved
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it had a parking lot automatic doors
wide aisles new carts
and sales and promotions of course it
was an instant success
which was noted by the Stop and Shop
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and onto some vacant eight acreage of
Heights corner where they opened up the
store that was bigger yet
and had a modernistic arched roof and a
huge parking lot and a few other little
stores attached
and reachable by a covered walkway and
they called it Falmouth Plaza
trying not to be outdone but being
outdone nonetheless the A&P
put up a new store on a vacant lot just
off Main Street
it was a whole lot bigger cleaner and
more amenable than their outworn old
place which became a stationary store
but not as much as the new Stop and Shop
or even bigger supermarket that was
later to come to the Jones Road
intersection
and most disastrous of all the fools
built it on Scranton Avenue
there it remained for decades poorly
managed
lightly patronized constantly emblematic
of the decline of the great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company
well if you were to buy a modern day
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you wouldn't have to look long to find
one of Falmouth Harbor
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you get to where the Clam Shack is now
and you just kept right on going
and the next thing you know you were
heading up into Falmouth Heights
uh of course this was pretty much before
automobiles existed
and I’m not sure exactly how it happened
but uh
I would say the town realized that there
were a lot of rich people now
starting to move into town during the
summer and they had
pleasure craft and the Old Stone Dock at
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foot of Shore Street was a was pretty
much a failure
and um so it's decided to
open up Deacon's Pond dredge it and make
a harbor out of it
at the time I lived there Scranton
Avenue was
practically a wasteland and I don't know
why it was very close to the center of
town
but Scranton Avenue which paralleled
right along the side of the harbor
uh there was nothing there there was if
you were heading up from Main Street
towards the mouth of the harbor
it was all field on your right there was
a carnival there every summer could have
had
the Barnstable County Fair there there
was that much open space
uh you got to Queen Street still nothing
still just feels
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three quarters of the way down Scranton
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very modest kind of weather beaten homes
um
in a row and then again nothing until
you got to the mouth of the harbor
I’m not sure why Scranton Avenue was uh
such a pariah in town but
hardly anybody lived there um
but there was there was something
special about Scranton Avenue
I’m going to tell you about it
we moved there in
June of ‘58.
this was not the first time the
Turkingtons took up residence on
Scranton Avenue
the uninhabited wasteland between us and
Main Street
had been for one brief shining moment in
the late 40s
most densely populated neighborhood in
whole town whatever federal agency came
into being for the purpose of providing
cheap housing for returning veterans
built a colony of concrete blocked
road buildings dwellings
when Mom and Dad and baby Eric first
moved to town from upstate New York
that's where they lived we did not
coddle our young veterans
life here was rather spare and the
grateful residents moved out as soon as
they could find something better
which in our case was the house on
Fairview Avenue
just down the street my first home
the block dwellings were demolished when
the need for them passed but one
dominant structure remains until the
early 60s
it consisted of one very large room with
a couple of little ones at one end
I’m guessing now but it may have served
as a play and gathering place for the
residents
so here were rows of apartment-style
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dwelling units
with a community recreation building
open space
all around and an unobstructed view of
the harbor
dig it a rock bottom low budget
disposable development for penniless
veterans
served as the model for the vacation
communities for the bourgeoisie that now
infests
practically every harborfront site in
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um Surf Drive was my beach and um
I think was was the first widely used
public beach
in Falmouth the first beach that was
treated as such with
parking lot and bath house and
snack bar and lifeguards and all that
I lived about a mile away and I used to
go there quite regularly
during the summer time um that's where
the Old Stone Dock was
you look at the Old Stone Dock now and
it's it's just a
pile of rocks that have been gradually
settling into the into the sea but at
one time it was
um it was built to be kind of the
original
Falmouth Harbor um
people would unload there and come in in
little boats and unload on the dock and
then
ship the stuff down Shore Street to
center it down
and other stuff would get shipped back
uh
I I don't think it ever worked out very
well just to look at it you see it just
wasn't that big and uh certainly wasn't
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that stable because it had to be rebuilt
a couple of times
but it was my beach and it was very
popular beach in those days
and one of its most popular features
and enjoyable ones was the raft
not there anymore hasn't been there in a
long time
I spent a lot of summer days hanging out
at Surf Drive Beach which was a public
beach a mile from home
the town had a multi-faceted raft about
50 yards offshore that offered all kinds
of opportunities for fun
it had a diving board just a few feet
above the water
a platform about six feet up and another
about 10 feet up
and it had a long slide with a shiny
metal surface that had a couple of burrs
on it that you had to watch out for
or you'd rip your bathing suit on the
way down if not your flesh
floated on two massive pontoons which as
long as they stayed watertight
kept the raft a foot above the water
this allowed daredevil boys to dive off
the raft swim under a pontoon
and come up for air under the raft we
played a lot of tag on that raft
there were all sorts of tricky extremely
hazardous ways to tag someone if you
were hit
one was to jump off the high platform
and tag a kid standing on the raft as
you went by
then swim under the pontoons and get
away
this meant that you'd be jumping from 10
feet up missing the edge of the raft by
inches
then going underwater and not being seen
again for a while
the beach committee provided this raft
for the amusement of their beachgoers
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with never a thought for liability
accidents that's what lifeguards were
for
now I it's hard to photograph
Beebe’s Woods but Beebe’s Woods has uh
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um become if anything ever more
important part of uh center of town
uh there were two mansions up there uh
there is one remaining and it's been uh
grandly and uh oh
beautifully overdone redone
fixed up made into its original state
that that would be Highfield
it was also Tanglewood and these were
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the mansions that were owned by the Beebes
who uh bought
really just about all the land between
the railroad tracks
the bike path and Sippewissett Road east to
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west
north to south pretty much Sippewissett Road
almost down to um
huge parcel of land uh
in my time as as a kid uh
some sections of that all Beebe’s Woods
were kind of
sold off I think uh Greengate became
one of them
uh one development and Marvin
Gardens Marvin Circle became another
uh there's still a huge parcel of land
out there that
as of late 60s was about to be developed
it was very close to being sold to
some people who were going to just build
more green gates
uh and then J. K. Lilly great
uh benefactor of Falmouth
bought the whole place and gave
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most of it to the town the town has
since put in nice wide trails for
walking
and it's become a very popular place for
walkers hikers joggers people with dogs
uh it's a wonderful asset of course
and the crown jewel in Beebe’s Woods is the
Punch Bowl
which is a kettle hole a large pond kind
of way out and
you know back then it was out in the
middle of nowhere I think a lot of
uh most most
growing boys in town knew where to find
it could direct you to it but uh
you know they're just little beaten
paths i was very easy to get lost in
there
and uh but the Punch Bowl was um
was a real attraction and I had an
episode there I had many episodes there
there was one episode in particular that
stuck in my mind all these years later
Mark Denman and I hiked up into Beebe’s
Woods fairly often
not always with a trip to the Punch Bowl
in mind but we usually wound up there at
some point
our main activities were skinny dipping
smoking cigarettes when we could procure
them
catching and releasing bullfrogs
throwing rocks making funny sounds and
listening for the echoes
one fine June afternoon we were swimming
in the middle of the pond when we heard
shouts from the little rocky landing at
the foot of the trail
Denman Turkington
we looked over and saw Donnie Kudo and
Jimmy Carey
two kids a couple of years older than us
standing on the rocks
we've got your clothes and so they did
by the time we got out of the water they
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had a long head start and all of our
duds
shoes included we had that empty feeling
that he falls all of us from time to
time
usually when we least expect it this
time I’m really screwed
walking on clothes through the woods
wasn't the problem we were unlikely to
encounter anybody there
the problem was what happened when the
woods end
getting to mark's house was our only
viable option as he lived pretty close
to the edge of the woods
trouble was once we were out in the open
we would have to cross the railroad
tracks
run down a short unoccupied dirt road
then get to the other side of palmer
avenue
which was route 28 which was the busiest
road in town however we got through
all that we then would have to cut
through a neighbor's yard to get to the
little wooded area surrounding the
Denmans’
and then what hi mom I’m home and I’m
stark naked
so is Tom well we had plenty of time to
think all this through
and what we came up with was we'd skulk
through the backyards of some of the
homes this side of Palmer Ave
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looking for laundry we could steal from
somebody's clothesline to cover
ourselves up with
we couldn't find any which we probably
wouldn't we'd crouch in the bushes
besides route 28
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in broad daylight in a heavily populated
section of town
hoping to remain unseen until there was
a break in the traffic
then we'd streak across the road through
the neighbor's yard to Mark's house
get some clothes on and catch hell it
wasn't much of a plan but it was the
best we could do
then just a while before the end of the
trail we saw something up in the
branches a pair of underpants
and look over there a shirt and a pair
of sneakers in the middle of the trail
what good guys thanks Donnie thanks
Jimmy
sorry about all those awful things we
said about you hiking back
from the Punch Bowl it's truly amazing
how in a distressing situation appears
to be heading for the worst
and for some reason the worst doesn't
come to pass
we not only are grateful for whatever
prevented the worst from happening
but wholly unresentful of whoever
created the distressing situation in the
first place
relief is surely one of life's most
rewarding feelings
Falmouth managed to cluster all its
schools right in the center of the
village
first there was Lawrence Academy then
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that became Lawrence High School
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next to the library right on Main Street
and that got too big well right across
what is now Bates Road from from the
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was the village school
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elementary school now the Margaret A.
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Mullen School right over there was a
Hall School which was for fifth and
sixth graders
and then when it came time to build a
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built a really fine new high school I
think this was 1953.
and to my mind that building
now called the Lawrence School and
Junior High School uh it's the best
school building this town ever had
and I hope it's there forever uh I spent
six years there
I was in the last uh the last class
it was built as a 7 through 12
and of course within not very many years
after it was built
it was overcrowded and
so they built a middle school over on
Morse Pond
um so I was the last in the last class
that started in seventh grade and stayed
there
through twelfth grade
um it's a very functional building very
attractive building
and I probably didn't feel so at the
time but
now that I look back on it I realized
that
most of my teachers there were really
very good
um I had one
at least one real loser of a teacher and
and uh
that fellow is get some play in the in
my book here
um but uh most of them
were really good um Miss Buchanan I
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locked horns with her a lot but she was
a fine teacher
um Jim Kinney
Earl Mills through the athletic
department and phys ed
these are people I have a lot to say
about
and I can't help thinking back on Pat
Moorman
she was my sophomore year English
teacher
she was very much one of a kind craggy of
feature and lean of build she had an
outsized personality
she was the tallest woman nay even the
tallest person in the school
her nickname among the kids was Moose
she was close friends or perhaps shared
a home with
a secretarial teacher Miss Ogden who was
the shortest
together they looked like Mutt and Jeff
like most staff members in the English
department
Miss Moorman had an undisguised love of
the language in its greatest classic
works
her personal predilection was for
grammar and syntax
we spent quite a bit of time diagramming
sentences in the classroom
and if there was within a kid the
slightest potential interest in this
highly analytic activity
as there was in me Miss Moorman could
come to it
she could get very animated trying to
get across to us the subtleties of a
complicated sentence
what really distinguished Miss Moorman;s
class aside from the total immersion
and grammar was her readiness to put the
lesson aside and expound upon subjects
unrelated to our work
prejudice politics human foibles life's
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ironies
she didn't so much engendered discussion
as inform us of her views and passions
she did so with vigor and then it was
back to the lesson
she was a tough grader and not very
understanding of excuses
but after many years at LHS she still
got a kick out of the kids
didn't hide that fact like most of our
teachers
she had her moments of cluelessness
concerning the ways of fifteen-year-olds
I wonder if there are any teachers left
who still instruct a room full of silly
boys
that an abrupt exclamation is properly
termed
an ejaculation not many I bet
together with my parents and a few
others she was on the team that left me
with a great appreciation for proper
artful use of English
low tolerance for those who care not to
use it correctly
when I’m confronted with a
professionally butchered piece of
writing
as happens more and more frequently as I
age
I can't help thinking or saying this
person
just wasn't paying attention in English
class
it's Miss Moorman’s class I think of them
um another thing about Lawrence was
um
why was it Lawrence I mean it was
Falmouth it was
the public high school in Falmouth
Barnstable High School Bourne High School
Sandwich High School every time you go
to
town has a high school supports the high
school
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high school is named after that town
except in Falmouth it was Lawrence and
um
I didn't really mind that but
uh I was on an athletic team
an athletic team that had an
extraordinary amount of success
go to big track meets and uh
a lot of us performed high and placed
very high in championship
events well one third of the people
watching
would think that we're from the city of
Lawrence oh no wonder they're good
they're
a big city they they got a lot of kids
to drop draw from
and about a third of the people thought
we were some hot shot prep school
downtown
ah no wonder they're good they uh they
can recruit from all over
and then the rest of people knew that we
were we were the public high school in
town
well we were we're proud of our town we
were
pleased to be from Falmouth and uh it
kind of irked us
that um most people thought we were
not what we actually were um
but this goes back to uh again correct
me if I’m wrong hey
nobody's out there to correct me so uh
1840s maybe 1850s there was a Mr.
Lawrence
had a lot of money big man in town
and uh offered the town a
substantial piece of money to um
build an academy uh sort of the first
secondary school and Falmouth
and um well thrifty Cape Cod is
only too happy to take him up on his
offer so
the only obligation was they had to name
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it after him
so that was the first Lawrence Academy
which I believe to be
now the building that is the Chamber of
Commerce
off of Main uh
town grew number of high school kids
kids going to
high school grew so they built a new
building but the name came with
that building was bursting at the seams
after a while so they built a new high
school and the name came with it
finally in I think it was 73
uh they built that new high school out
on Gifford Street
and decided to call it Falmouth High
School
any true history of Falmouth
any comprehensive history of Falmouth
especially mid-century families
would not be complete unless it had some
material
on the track teams
at the high school um
a little bit of self-interest here uh
I was involved with uh running sports in
two different ways
one as a runner in high school very
extremely dedicated and pretty
successful one
and then um as a coach I coached uh
cross-country at Falmouth for 13 years
later on
and was successful and also
lucky but
there was from the through the 60s 70s
80s um Falmouth
running sports at the high school were
were
known statewide for excellence
um it was Jim Kalperis
had the track teams in the 60s
John Carroll started up the girls track
and had
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extraordinary success through the 70s I
was coaching cross country in the 80s
but it all started with Kalpe
and I’d like to tell you a little bit
about it
now about Kalpe some new kids
including myself at one time might call
him Mr. Kalperis
and there are a few ass kissers who'd
call him Coach but to everyone else he
was Kalpe
he bore considerable resemblance to
Groucho Marx
from the hustling gait bent slightly at
the waist
to the mischievous dancing eyebrows to
the ever-present cigar
to the offhand commentary from the
corner of the mouth
to the vague but usually accurate sense
you got when he talked to you
that you were being caught you knew not
he was an operator who saw more clearly
than most
that if everybody follows all the rules
to the letter all the time
nothing worthwhile will ever happen
of course he was not all things to all
people there were those who felt he came
up and might
in the teaching of science which was his
primary job description
he was probably an energetic
knowledgeable instructor but he could be
distracted with
any is the time I’d wander off from a
study hall or a lunch break or another
class with a teammate to drop in on Kalpe
seeing us at the door he would assign
someone to monitor the class while we
all went into the adjoining
audio visual storage room to screw
spikes into racing shoes or
discuss the day's workout plot strategy
for the Dartmouth meet
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there was a rare enlivening mix of humor
gravity
and intensity of purpose in dealing with
Kalpe and participating on his teams
he became a coach of runners a year
after the LHS cross country program was
successfully begun under Don Jocelyn
moved on after that inaugural 1960
season
the team was then made up largely of
underprivileged black kids who so often
went through four years of high school
without ever tasting success in
school-related endeavor
the principal Mr. Marshall wanted to see
the program continue after Jocelyn left
and presently recognized Kalpe as a good
man to take it over so he asked him if
he would
he did Kalpe knew nothing about distance
running when he took over the
cross-country team
and nothing about track events when he
subsequently took over the track teams
but he started winning state titles
right away
as a coach he did not take an
authoritarian stance to put it mildly
I don't believe he ever took attendance
why bother
attendance was not required he never
said he had to be there
he established an atmosphere that made
me want to do that
he never made athletes do the work he
made them want to do the work what a
difference
it wasn't possible to rebel against the
requirements of team membership or the
demands of the coach because there
weren't any
he gave people a whole lot of leeway and
encouraged an atmosphere in which every
kid
felt he could be himself and achieve
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respect for
first from the coach and by extension
from his teammates
he was a master at reading an individual
and figuring out what he was in it for
and this applied to the adult world as
well as the track team
in later years when he was dealing with
the broader spectrum than sports
people often came to him asking for
something
his first inclination was to see to it
that they got it
that couldn't be done he tried to
persuade them that they really didn't
want
that failed he convinced them that they
already had it
it didn't often need to go further than
just looking at my watch here and uh huh
I could go on by the way I ought to warn
you
if you have an interest in this book
I’ll tell you for one thing
it's not out there on the bookshelves at
the
at the bookstores which aren't open
anyway uh
I believe it's still available on Amazon
if you want to get a copy that's the
place to go
um most of the second half of the book
I enter high school I enter Lawrence
high school
as a freshman about midway through the
book
and to be honest with you from then on
the narrative is very heavy on the track
the book's about me and
track was very important to me all
through high school I was extremely
dedicated and
it was my main focus so of course the
book is
the second half the book is full of
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track stuff
um I find a lot of my
memories of track some some pathos
some sorrow some joys some
humor so you know the narrative
continues but
a lot of it's about traffic be warned
but I also cover mentioned
I mean Cuban Missile Crisis
uh assassination of JFK uh
you know just the
you know nuclear test bans
um all the cultural and
world world impact
events that were going on that I recall
a lot of them are in here because I’m
not just talking about because these
things
affected me these things gave me
something to think about
and to wonder about so it goes into my
book
there's one here that we can
finish up with it has nothing to do with
postcards
very little to do with Falmouth um I
have a pretty long
uh section here about being a paperboy
delivering the Falmouth Enterprise to my
customers
but I closed it off with there was a
curious little advertisement that
regularly appeared in the quiet corner
of the enterprise
it read as follows are you having a
problem with alcohol
do you want to do something about it
call KIA
ding ding ding ding that was it
I wasn't sure what to make of it and
apparently worldlier minds than mine
weren't even
the New Yorker frequently lifted
published items or quotations that were
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peculiar or amusing that they merited
reprinting as space fillers at the end
of an article
in that venerable weekly
one day I ran across that familiar item
from the Enterprise
while leafing through the magazine in
search of humor
the notion of admitting to having a
problem with alcohol
and deciding to do something about it
was a laughing matter
to the editors of the New Yorker
it's it's funny we we talk about history
we talk about events of the past and
very often it's just little items like
that that you'd hardly
hardly ever think of that
really highlight major cultural changes
from one generation to another from one
decade to another
and here back in back in 1960
uh the idea of
wanting to do something about drinking
too much it was just
who would do that but there it was
so I’m going to call myself done here I
uh boy I could keep going through this
it's worth writing a book if for no
other reason than that
you'll love every word I can go back and
reread this
every month for the rest of my life and
still enjoy it
I wish I could do that with other books
but I can't I’m gonna
um close with a little bit of um
a little bit of an observation that was
originally uh it was past
passed to me by my brother Eric
um and I think this
might warm the cockles of the heart of
any librarian anywhere
long after the clown has been hacked to
death and our tweets and blogs and
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postings and e-titles have vanished in
obsolescence
we'll still have the books
thank you if you have any questions I
should have mentioned this earlier if
you have any
questions or comments you'd like to make
please I think you're in contact with
Jill
she will be in contact she is in contact
with me
and uh let her know
thanks for joining in thank you so much
tom that was
great and so many great so many really
delightful stories um if anybody does
have a question that they'd like to ask
Tom
right now or a comment you can just open
up your chat
and I will read him the question if you
have something
um I want to also mention that I loved
hearing the bit
again about Clinton Avenue because I
think about Clinton Avenue all the time
and how it just
ends and then picks up in Falmouth
heights and how I would love to have
like we should do something to make them
connect again
you know a bridge a bridge or we should
have little
boats to go across there or something
seems like it must have been such a
different town
when Clinton Ave went right through and
that the people who live downtown
had would have had such great access to
the Falmouth
Heights beaches so except they would
have had to go up Scranton Avenue and
nobody went upstairs
for any reason that too is really
fascinating that Scranton Avenue
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it was you know just not there was a
place that wasn't there
and the the stuff about the grocery
stores is great I mean
it's just so delightful to hear about
what the town was like at that moment in
time
um and we're actually the the fellow
that's going to be talking tomorrow as
part of this series
um Gus Widmayer um has written a book
called the Belvidere
Plain Revisited and he talks
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also about Clinton Ave and how things
again
sort of developed and it will be very
interesting I think to hear that talk
as well it does not look like anybody
has
any questions at this moment in time
but I am uh really delighted
to have had you finally come to the
library if only virtually
I hope next time in your when you're in
found with you stop by the library and
say hello
we reopened the public yesterday so feel
free
to stop by um it was a real pleasure
uh to have you talk about your memories
of Falmouth
and a great addition um to this series
of talks that we're doing
so and thank to all of you that um have
shown up today for this we really
appreciate it um
and thank you to FCTV for making this
all possible
um in terms of making this this
tv part the work the um
it is again our first time doing quite
something quite of this level so
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we really look forward to it a pleasure
tom
to uh hear you talk and I
hope that you all will take a look at
his book and which of course the library
has copies of
as well as um the postcard collections
so thanks so much well thank you thank
you Jill so sorry to have uh
put you on edge at 9 55 this morning
when I wasn't
down but uh I it worked out fine and uh
this is fun for me too that's great it
and it did indeed work out we're we're
delighted
thank you again and um we hope some of
us who
join you to that some of us some of you
here will be able to join tomorrow
for Gus Widmayer’s talk um and then
we have a third uh story third
one coming up um on Thursday which is
Mary L. Martin who is actually
the author and owner of the world's
largest postcard shop that has just come
out
with a new book about collecting
postcards in fact she's written many
many books about collecting postcards
so that will be sort of a different
angle of this week is the postcards
angle
um thank you so much for attending thank
you Tom
checking out thanks Jill
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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
All books available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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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#coveburyingground
#route6
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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
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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
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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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#greathill
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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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#1909
#1937
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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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#1938 #1944
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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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#casinobythesea
#1966
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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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for those of you that have never read my
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
#2000
#frankmessina
#2003
#casinowharffx
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
dining
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#newseabury
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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
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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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#1936
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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