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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
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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hello everyone I hope that a lot of you
were
here last week and you came back to see
part two
of my pair of events with the Falmouth
library so I wanted to start off so you
can see me but we're gonna dive right
into
the actual PowerPoint presentation
it's gonna be nightlife and hotels
Falmouth in the area around that so
let's go right into it I’m going to
open up my presentation
and we will start from there so
this presentation is going to combine my
fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights
and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod
and so what we're doing
is basically for those of you that
weren't
here last week I am a 12th generation
Cape Codder
through the Doane family that helped to
settle Eastham
and I included this photo here this is
the
monument to my ninth great grandfather
Deacon John Doane
who helped to settle the town of Eastham
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in 1644.
this is in the Cove Burying Ground in
Eastham on Route 6
if anyone's ever gone past there
and like Sue said I am author of
six books all dealing with Cape Cod and
the Islands
the first three were all titled In My
Footsteps I’ve kind of used that
title for a lot of projects
three books um a blog that I have
and a podcast so
after that I jumped into a second
trilogy
that included historic restaurants
historic nightlife
and bars and hotels and motels
so this trilogy essentially
tells you in history where Cape Codders
went to eat
where they went to drink and where they
went to then sleep off the damage they
did to themselves
from those previous two things and that
was actually how I pitched it to my
publisher
when I was pitching book six the hotels
and motels I said this
is a can't miss marketing opportunity
eating drinking sleeping
it's all part of life
so Cape Cod became a vacation
destination
in the years after the book Cape Cod was
released by Henry David Thoreau in 1865.
Thoreau’s connection to Cape Cod he did
four walking tours basically in the
years
leading up to the book's release and he
is actually
semi-responsible for one of the
original Cape Cod hospitality spots
the Highland House in Truro basically
during all four of his
walks on the Cape he stayed
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with his friends the small family
in Truro they had the property that was
surrounding Highland Lighthouse
including the golf course that's there
and some of the cottages that are around
there
during one of his trips walking up there
he and the I think it was James Small
they talked about this farmhouse that he
had there that was basically
empty and they both kind of talked about
how it could make
a good boarding house basically that's
how it started
the Highland House is now a museum but
when it first started it
was a popular hotel and eventually hotel
and restaurant for about a hundred years
so bringing it back around to Falmouth
in the late 19th century that's when
Cape Cod
really started to cement itself as the
summer destination
and a lot of summer resorts popped up
this included the Terrace Gables which
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so the Terrace Gables was originally
known as the Draper Cottage for a man
named Charles Draper
and it was a high-class resort in
1902 it was expanded after it was
renamed the Terrace Gables
the people that owned it they also
bought the nearby
Menauhant Hotel which they actually used
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#charlesdraper
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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
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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
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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
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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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Reading from Chapter 8 of Cape Cod
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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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the bartender served up the drinks his
customers desired
and then followed that by sketching
their likeness while they drank it
beyond caricatures had skill with
the brush when it came to landscapes and
watercolors
by his third season at the Casino Bar
his works were being showcased at local
art shows and galleries on the cape
he rightfully earned the nickname
Painting Bartender
in an attempt not to focus strictly on
the alcohol output
the kitchen was revamped in 1940 the
establishment was open until
1am and the bar could seat 150
so it was natural to try to incorporate
food to go with the drink
Hopson also tried to maintain the
entertainment complex
feel by adding an E.M. Loew motion picture
theater in 1941.
after trouble with erosion from
hurricanes in 1938 and 1944
Hopson sold the casino bar to Worcester
Massachusetts resident William McCann in
1945.
from there the bar's popularity
skyrocketed
along with that of Captain Joe McCann
focused on creating a positive work
environment
including putting as first priority
feeding the kitchen staff McCann also
supra
supplied room and board to his employees
if it was needed
Joe Miron created a spot in the bar
called Amen Corner
it was named for the those patrons who
drank their
fill and sat in the corner to
philosophize
it was here that hung some of his
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favorite caricature sketches
the notoriety only grew when Miron was
featured in
the October 1943 issue of Click magazine
there he was referred to as Boston’s
bartender artist
the popularity of the Casino Bar led to
the need
for a staff of 27 people per shift
including
four bartenders the fun spot of the
Heights
added horseshoes in 1946 a new sun deck
in 1947
and another name change occurred in 1949
when the establishment became known as
the Casino by the Sea
the seasonal spots popularity continued
to grow
with 1940 1951 being reported
as its most successful year yet
throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s
Joe Miron continued to thrill guests
with his skill
as both a mixologist and his artistic
gifts
summer afternoons routinely saw Captain
Joe
proudly shout down to the casino's
private beach via megaphone
during cocktail hour cocktail spree
Cape Cod fishballs many guests heard it
as cocktails free
and they came running they were
disappointed
things changed again in 1966 when
William Sweeney Jr.
purchased the property and gave it more
of a nightclub feel
making it extremely attractive to
college students and young adults
during the summers of the late 1960s and
70s
the Casino by the Sea experienced
another swell of popularity
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during the golden age of Cape Cod
nightlife
however after spending nearly the
entirety
of the 20th century entertaining folks
at the Heights
time came for last call in 2000
the fading legend was purchased by
developer Frank Messina
the casino property was torn down in
November 2003
to make way for the upscale Casino Wharf
FX for those wondering what it
might have been to have a drink with
Captain Joe Miron pouring
it's possible to replicate it with a
popular drink from the 1940s called the
sidecar
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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
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#frankmessina
#2003
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Reading from Cape Cod Nights ends
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and it was a tea room slash lunch and
dinner spot
owned by a woman named Thekla Hedlund
opened in 1933 on Falmouth Heights Road
after Hedlund died in 1946 it was run
as a restaurant for two more years
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the name was changed to the Red Horse
Grill and then to the Red Horse
Inn and it's been standing ever since
Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with
Edna Harris
it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee
right in the middle of New Seabury
in 1941 it opened as
an actual resort it was originally owned
by
Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought
the property in 1929
interestingly before it became the
luxury resort
it was leased out by a nurse named Norma
Armstrong
and she ran it as um
a campsite where basically
people that were going there they had
the money to rent rooms at these
high-class resorts but they actually
preferred
staying in this trailer park slash
campground
that was affectionately known as tent
city
and it was 4 000 acres
then in 1941 when it became the
Popponesset
Inn then it took off where
it started with 10 rooms then quickly
added 15
more as I said Edna Harris took it over
in 1947
and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in
charge
once New Seabury was built and finished
in 1964
then it became a popular wedding
destination
and it was actually owned by the Chase
family until
1998. it's
known for its spectacular views fine
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and relatively isolated location
especially back in the 40s and 50s when
it first got started
and as I said soon it was the golden age
of Cape Cod nightlife
and there you see the Brothers Four
which was previously the Terrace Gables
so the Brothers Four opened in 1971.
it was three clubs under one roof known
as Cape Cod's largest entertainment
complex
it was so big that it had sister clubs
in Somerville and Nashua New Hampshire
the Brothers Four they were the Robbat
brothers
George Russell Stephen and Allen
Brothers Four is also well known for
being the
finish line of the Falmouth Road Race
where
Falmouth Road Race creator Tommy
Leonard
created it when he ran from the Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole to
the Brothers Four which is why it has
such a unique
mile distance the Falmouth Road Race
because it was a run from
one bar to another
the problem with the Brothers Four was
the zoning
where being this huge nightclub it ran
into a lot of problems with the
locals that lived around there for
noise and drunken disorderly behavior
things like beat the clock happy hour
didn't help
and so basically from the late 1970s
up until it's ending in 1987
it was a constant battle between the
Robbat brothers
and the town of Falmouth to keep the
place going
they even created the Yesterdays
Bar inside there they were trying to
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make it
more upscale but Brothers Four was known
as
a really wild hangout
in 1987 it was torn down and like I said
with the Terrace Gables it is now
condos
but it was also the golden age of
hospitality
I had mentioned the Coonamessett Inn that
moved to
Gifford Street it is still well known
and highly regarded
for its food and its lodging
the Sea Crest is at 350 Quaker Road
#seacrest #quakerroad
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this one has a fascinating story also
where
the Sea Crest Hotel got its start as the
University Players’
summer theater and that was in 1928 it
opened and some
Hollywood heavyweights got their start
at this theater including Jimmy Stewart
and Henry Fonda
it was chained the name was changed to
the Beach Theater
and in 1936 there was a fire
naturally because fire and condos are a
running theme with these
places when it was reopened in 1937
it was named Neptune’s Tryst then it was
the Old Silver Beach Club then it was
the Latin
Quarter which was run by a man named
Lou
Walters
whose daughter Barbara Walters is pretty
well known
1948 it was finally renamed the Sea Crest
after being heavily renovated
and by that point there was 250 guests
could be accommodated with the
dining room holding 350 seats
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#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
smith's chef was a man named Daniel
Bartolomei
he would go on to create Danny-Kay’s
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which I mentioned last week in the event
there were two big extensions to the
club they had to make it bigger and
bigger because of how popular it was
and their biggest shot in the arm came
when
they were mentioned in the Duncan Hines
Adventures in Good
Eating magazine in 1961
however now it is affordable apartments
at 704
Main Street
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but you could have gone to drink or
sleep off a great night
and that's the Gray Gables Inn which was
at
217 Presidents Road this was known as
the first
summer White House and it was
a home built for Grover Cleveland
and he lived there
and um until his basically
Grover Cleveland would come and stay at
the summer White House
and Joseph Jefferson who was a famous
actor of the very early motion picture
days of the
late 1890s he actually played Rip van
Winkle
in the 1896 version of the film
so he would come down he would fish
offshore that's why
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse is named for
him and Grey Gables was
the name basically of the railroad
station where he would come in by his
train
it eventually became the name of the
whole village there
but once rumors got to be
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creating a Cape Cod Canal
Cleveland decided he really didn't want
to
be there while all this construction was
going on
so he stopped coming in 1908
and after his death his son sold it in
1920
basically the entire property because
they owned more than just
the actual house the whole property was
subdivided
and by 1926 there were 50 houses there
but they kept the actual Grey Gables
home
intact and it became a summer resort
owned by a man named John Stackpole
they had dining they had a cocktail
lounge it had a real nice
community feel and they even kept some
Grover Cleveland artifacts in there
including his desk that he used to write
at
and when Grover Cleveland’s grandson
came and visited he got a tour and he
was
very happy with how the owners had kept
it
close to what his grandfather would have
wanted
in 1961 a woman named Peggy Alden
took over and she was known for having
children come down for outings there
where they could come and stay
and do the fishing and things like that
to get in touch with nature
unfortunately December 10 1973 there was
a
suspicious fire that burned down the
Gray Gables Inn
and the property actually stayed
overgrown and
for almost 30 years at the turn of the
21st century
a couple came and they bought the
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property
and they actually built an exact replica
of the Gray Gables in but it's a private
home
I have been told that they
expect people basically to come and take
photos of it so they don't
mind if you you know don't go on the
property but if you get to
the edge of their driveway you can take
photos I have not
gone and tried that yet but that's what
I’ve been told that they're very
warm and welcoming to people that are
at least respectful of the property
but all these icons deserve to be a part
of
Falmouth's rich history whether it was
the Casino
or the Cape Codder Hotel
and naturally I end it like I did last
week with
a nice throwback image of Main Street
and Falmouth
and thank you all for coming back
for the second presentation and
are there any questions and I will stop
sharing my screen
okay that was great we do have a couple
questions in the chat
so far you want to take a look
can you see those Chris or want me to
read them
let's see can you hear me
I can okay so there's one about where
were any of the hotels and venues
integrated
if so what years and then also how did
World War I and World War II
impact any of these venues and did Otis
impact any of these venues
well interestingly I’m not sure about
integrated I don't know anything about
that specifically
but I will tell you that world war
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Coonamessett
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so she got this huge influx of
military officers it kind of grew the
popularity of
the Coonamessett which made it all the
more
weird that the Crane family would then
decline her
lease in 1953
and then also surprisingly the
breakout of World War Two actually
spurred on the creation of the Popponesset
Inn
because what ended up happening was
Norma Armstrong
the nurse she was running the property
as the
kind of tourist summer camp and then
the military wanted to use it
basically for training the whole
property because it was
down before New Seabury and before all
that it was really isolated
and so they used it the late 1930s
but then really didn't have a need for
them to be out there training
when World War II happened so then the
property was
not abandoned but they were looking for
something to do with it and
it's like all right why not use it for a
hotel
so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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put your video on
so I have a question um can you tell me
a little bit more about how you've done
some of the research for these
books for these sure
so the nightlife one was actually a lot
of fun because
basically I asked my especially my
parents I said where did you used to go
when you were younger to go out drinking
and partying
and so that's how I got a lot of the
initial ones
then it was a matter of researching
the research is a lot of fun you kind of
find
broad terms nightclub bar and you look
up what places appear a lot
and a lot of them you growing up on Cape
Cod I could pick out a lot especially
from the 80s on
but then the real fun came with
putting out posts on social media and
getting folks that
may have remembered what it was like in
the 50s
and picking out places and you get a lot
of
varying opinions on who who like what
places
places like Brothers Four and Casino those
were easy
I had so many people in there's a
history group on Facebook for Falmouth
and I
I put a blast in there and I said where
did you like to go
to drink and party and Brothers Four
came up
so much it was Brothers Four and
Yesterdays and I didn't realize they
were the same
under the same roof I thought it was a
different place
yeah yeah those are pretty active groups
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do you go into all these different
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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
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very few when it came to the nightclubs
very few people had coherent memories of
them
basically what I would get was oh yeah
it was fun but I don't remember much
because I was drunk so like all right
well
I can say everyone had a good time but
that's about it
but the restaurants book was pitched to
me
by Arcadia Publishing and they actually
wanted
historic restaurants of Martha's
Vineyard and I told them I said I
couldn't even name you
five current restaurants let alone 40
that used to exist
so they came back to me and said we see
you've got a deep connection to Cape Cod
would you like to do that book I said
all right now you're talking
and it kind of went from there because
restaurants
naturally evolved into nightclubs and
bars
and then I pitched the hotels and motels
to go from there yeah
oh someone someone just typed something
in the chat too
Packet Landing in now where is Packet
Landing
in Orleans I don't know
I don't know if anyone who's there if
you went to
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room or I mean the
Coonamessett is still around and the Cape
Codder
see the hotels I think there'd be less
people in the chat that would have
stayed there because you're all
basically from here so why would you go
and stay at the Sea Crest
that's where the the bars and nightclubs
really come into play but even then it's
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places like the Bournehurst and the Blue
Moon that's
way back we're talking the 20s and 30s
so
that's kind of difficult yeah
Brothers Four in the Casino I would
think
you get some folks that would remember
that
yeah and by the way I want to recommend
these books because I I have looked at a
lot of these books they're great books
so
I encourage people to buy them or get
them out of the library and I’m not just
saying that because he's here
and the Casino part that you heard I
actually read
from the book I read it word for word
which
because someone last week had brought up
the casino and I had mentioned that I
would be talking about it this week and
I decided
we were talking this is behind the
scenes that
these events people that come to them
like to hear the authors read from their
books so I
picked a chapter that I thought would
fit and the Casino has got a
a great history Captain Joe Miron the
the painting bartender I did an article
about
his actual life so I do a deeper dive
and that I think is on capecod.com I did
a lot of writing for them
for several years and I stopped writing
for them a few years ago because I
I got to the point where i wanted to
write about
things I wanted to write about and so
you'd have to pitch ideas to the editor
and sometimes they wouldn't be on board
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so an article like Edna Harris who
ran the Coonamessett that would be one
where they might not be interested in it
but now I don't have to worry
it's a part of the In My Footsteps
Podcast Blog
that goes along with the podcast
yeah do you have any do you have any
other books about Cape Cod or the
Islands that you're
that you have in the works sir well
so I’m starting work on
a photography book now
the thing with that is I’m waiting for
contracts I guess you would say it's
basically been approved
and so it's going to be
Photographers’ America is the name of the
series that started
and the Arcadia Publishing they came to
me with three different
titles and they said you want to do
these and I said well I can't do all
three
I’ll pick one and so
I picked the photography one and I’m
waiting to get
official confirmation I’ve already
started taking photos it's going to be
beyond just the norm like I’ll have a
lot of places that are well known
but there's going to be some street
scenes I’ve got pictures I took in
Provincetown at the
Lobster Pot of people in line and
things to give people a feel of what the
heart and soul of Cape Cod is all about
beyond just what everyone goes to as a
tourist
so that's one I’ve got another one that
I’m
working on but it's more
tight-lipped I want to say it's
something
big and exciting but I don't have an
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agent I don't have a publisher yet but
I’ll just say it's
true crime and it's working hand in hand
with a documentary film that's coming
out
so that's one where I’m really excited
about but I have to keep it kind of
hush just in case I don't ever like to
share things and then have it fall apart
yeah I know that you happen to take some
gorgeous scenery photos
of the Cape you know that oh thank you I
I post a lot on Instagram I
I believe I just passed my 10 year
anniversary on
Instagram and I have somewhere in the
neighborhood of
4 500 photos on there which I figured
out comes out to
basically 1.3 photos per day for 10
years
so I like Instagram yeah
so that's on the photography oh and
someone just said something the Casino
had a life-size
papier-mâché statue of Captain Joe that
was part of the flagpole
wow oh I would have loved to have seen
that
yeah yeah Captain Joe I’ve seen photos
of him
but he seemed like just a fascinating
guy
so I had to do a whole article about him
yeah if anyone does have any memories of
those places that they can remember yes
that's the big
catches do you actually remember going
to these places
yeah yeah the restaurants probably more
so
which was last week yes it was
interesting
when doing the research for the three
books
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I had a lot of help with the restaurants
a lot of help with the hotels not as
much
with the nightlife because people didn't
remember
but I got a lot of names of places that
was about it no stories though
I think people are also fond of
restaurants because they grow you know
it's part of their childhood or their
summers they remember
going to these things absolutely
it's more family fun rather than
nightlife where it seems like you get in
a lot of trouble
yeah yeah and definitely yeah take
take a look at our postcard collection
on our website too because there are a
lot of
great historical postcards if you
haven't seen them if you go to
falmouthpubliclibrary.org we do have a
digital
page where they have a lot of these
great postcards that Chris has probably
seen
yes I highly recommend it that's I
always joke that
when it comes to obscure Cape Cod
history I always think it's
this might only interest me but I’ll
share
things that I find and that's why things
like the postcard collection I love it
no there's a lot of interest in in Cape
Cod history because I yeah of course I
work in the Reference Department we get
a lot of questions
a lot of those questions
yeah there's random things that I’ll
find interesting I was out for a run on
the
bike path down in Harwich last week and
there's a building
called Depot Storage and it's just a
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storage building
and I’d run by that hundreds of times
this time I went by there
and they had I guess removed shingles
and it revealed this old mural that was
I guess it used to be an
Ocean Spray cranberry warehouse
so now there's a painting of Ocean Spray
cranberries from the 20s
what was that that I did
oh someone said the Falmouth Enterprise
more is an interest is an amazing source
of photos and articles I’m not sure what
you mean by more do you know that
there is a ton of stuff in there though
well the Enterprise
I was just on the website this morning
doing my research for Edna Harris
oh and I I go down the rabbit holes
where I’ll find something else and I’ll
say okay
put a pin in that I’ll go look at that
later
that's the I find that interesting the
old newspaper archives I think are
fascinating
yeah they are and yet we do have the
Enterprise I don't remember the exact
date off the top of my head but we have
the Enterprise microfilm pretty far back
pretty far back yeah it's interesting to
even go
and just you start by researching
something you're interested in and then
you never know where it goes
oh and Kim just Kim just did a link to
the Joe Miron postcard
in our Digital Commonwealth that you
guys can
you can click on now or you can look
later
he's a very interesting character I wish
I could have met him
Kim is our cataloger by the way she
works here as well can do well
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so she knows and she puts together much
of this all of it
so I encourage you guys to check out
Chris’s site chrissetterlund.com
because
you know this there's even more on that
site
oh [unintelligible] oh okay I’m okay
good to know yeah I was like I didn't
think I didn't think that was a mistake
but
more see that's I should know that
but I guess I didn't and by the way we
do have the Enterprise digitized but
only unfortunately up to 1962 so
if you want stuff from 62 to the present
you do have to go to the microfilm
sadly we hope to have it digitized all
the way up at some point so you don't
have to go through the mic oh I would
love that
see I didn't want to bother you about
that cause I was gonna say it only goes
up to like 62.
and by the way yeah we we will search
the microfilm the microfilm
you know for people within reason if
they have a date and a specific thing
if they come to us and say I think it
was 82 maybe it was 83
and that's a little harder but if
someone has a specific request
you know with some kind of pinpoint of
the day we can we're happy to look if
you can't get in here
and Kim said that he painted the mural
at Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole which is pretty cool
that would make sense
I’ve actually never been in the Captain
Kidd so
that might be a destination yeah Chris
lives Chris lives in Yarmouth by the way
so Falmouth isn't his regular
spot but he did a lot of digging to find
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out
you know specific found the things
because his books are about Cape Cod but
he looked
he's you know he did go beyond and find
some Falmouth information that isn't
even in his books for these talks
yes I wanted to make sure that it was
relevant to you who came
to actually check out this event
so that it wasn't just like oh there's
all these places in
Eastham and Provincetown and it's like
you may not have ever heard of them I’d
rather it be at least
relevant to the town you're in yeah that
was great
that was great all right and
just a reminder to everyone that we are
recording this and FCTV is recording it
they're going to edit it for us and
make it look nice and then I’m going to
post it on our social media and
what I try to do is I’ll try to email
you guys all the link to it it'll be a
YouTube it'll be up on YouTube and I’ll
give people the link because I know
sometimes people
you know didn't hear it well or they got
in late or something they want to hear
the whole thing
yeah that I’ll definitely share it all
around too
absolutely yeah it'll go light on our
promotion
yeah it'll go on our Falmouth YouTube
page and our Falmouth Library YouTube
page
and does anyone have any questions
before
we let Chris go
yeah if you think of any shoot me an
email and I can shoot him an email too I
think
he has his email on his website too oh
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yeah definitely I’m always
I get people that contact me about
places to stay I had someone
who listens to my podcast asking me
where he should bring his wife for their
anniversary they're not from here
so I was pitching in places to go I
don't know where he stayed but
I kind of ran the gamut from resorts
like Wequassett
down to little bed and breakfasts oh wow
well the Captain David Kelley you might
remember Sue
um oh I’m trying to think of the name of
the man he's he
would do spinning at Mid-Cape
and he he and his husband they own that
and so I always promote him so that's
where I’m hoping they win
oh wow David Kelley House in Centerville
he had his scones
oh he's I’ll have to ask Kailyn she
knows his name
wow yeah so if anyone needs a place to
stay in Centerville
yes who knows anyone who does okay
well I want to thank everyone for coming
and yeah
we're really glad that you came and we
want to thank Chris for coming too that
was a great presentation
thank you so much to everyone who came
out and took some time out to
listen to me talk about these books that
I took a lot of
pride in creating yeah no it was
wonderful
and have a good night everyone we will
see some of you guys
at the next event and we have a thank
you here well thank you so much
I really appreciate it
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Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: August 10, 2021
Presenter: Paul Clerici
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: A History of the Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod, by Paul Clerici
Available from Falmouth Public Library and other CLAMS libraries under 796.42 CLE
Also mentioned (all by Paul Clerici):
o Born to Coach: The Story of Bill Squires, available from Falmouth Public Library
under 927.9642 Squires
o Images of Modern America: The Boston Marathon
o Boston Marathon History by the Mile, available online via CLAMS
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good morning I’m Jill Erickson I’m Head
of Reference and Adult Services at the
Falmouth Public Library and we're
delighted this morning to have
Paul Clerici come and visit us via Zoom
we are recording this presentation and
it will be available on the Falmouth
public library YouTube station as well
as FCTV we'll be broadcasting it
and you probably those of you that are
already here know we will be muting and
hiding you um during the presentation uh
Paul is actually joining us via his
telephone so but he does have a slide
presentation that accompanies this
presentation
this particular talk is part of a series
we've been doing it was a grant that we
got called Postcards from Falmouth which
is a Falmouth Public Library local
history project made possible by a
Library Services Technology Act grant
and administered by the Massachusetts
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particularly excited that Paul is here
today because as many of you know
this coming Sunday is in fact the
Falmouth Road Race
Paul's book is called A History of the
Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod
and he is the best-selling author and
award-winning former newspaper editor
and sports editor who has written the
authorized biography Born to Coach: The
Story of Bill Squires, Images of Modern
America: The Boston Marathon, A History of
the Falmouth Road Race which he will be
discussing today
and Boston Marathon History by the Mile
um and I see that he also was has run
the Falmouth uh Road Race which is also
delightful um so I will now turn it over
to Paul
oh thank you very much I really
appreciate that um yeah I’ll take you
through the course the history uh the
great race that's coming up on Sunday
um actually the first photo is a nice uh
aerial shot from NASA of Cape Cod
um the reason I put this in and circled
Where the course is is actually people have
asked me where the town of Cape Cod is
um if you live from out of state so I
thought I’d include that
uh at the beginning for anyone here
who's from out of state and if you're
not from out of state it's a fun photo
anyway maybe you can see your house but
it's a great photo um the next photo uh
is of um
Tommy Leonard at the Eliot Lounge
he's actually talking to [unintelligible] a
local uh race director some of you may
know um Tommy Leonard who passed away in
2019 um
thought of this race all it's all
from him uh
it's an amazing man who really loved
running loved the Boston Marathon loved
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the town of Falmouth loved people
most of you probably know of him if you
haven't met him before
um in 1972 when the summer Olympic Games
were on he was working at the Brothers
Four
uh which used to be a place up in the
Falmouth Heights which is no longer
there um and he was watching the Olympic
Games again he loves uh running and
everything and Frank Shorter an American
was leading the race he was all excited
he was a bartender up there and he
stopped serving beer because he was sort
of commenting about the race to
everybody
um and Frank Shorter won so on that is
on television everyone saw it it was
one of the excellent excellent races
really piqued people's interest in
running and Tommy said aw it would be great
to get Frank Shorter to run in Falmouth
and everyone laughed
and Tommy always said you know when
everyone didn't believe me or scoffed at
my ideas that made me even more
determined so he kept that in his mind
this is the 1972 Olympic Games
um and within about I would say the
confluence of happenstance
helped create this race
between about 1970 and 72
um
Tommy Leonard separately Tommy Leonard
um John and Lucia Carroll Rich and Kathy
Sherman found themselves in the Cape
they didn't know each other other than
the couples who knew each other
obviously um
within that time period early 70s no
running boom yet there were road races
and things
um but
Tommy when he was in when he worked at
the Eliot Lounge in Boston he did a
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lot of things with Eddie Doyle from the
Bull & Finch which became the um
Cheers if you know the TV show and
they would have little road races
between the two bars to raise money for
things so he always had that in his mind
as things to do
um so back at the Cape around here John
Carroll uh cross country coach
created the Falmouth Track Club to help
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some of the high school girls compete
after the regular season uh because back
then uh once the season ended that was
it but there was also post-season
tournaments and things
but not for girls they were for women
uh age group so
um he created Falmouth Track Club so some of
his high school girls could actually
compete but they needed funding they
needed some money
um so Tommy found out about this and he
said maybe we can create a little road
race to raise some money to help the
girls out and Rich Sherman worked at
the recreation department uh in Falmouth
so between all of them they they said
hey let's just do a nice little race
here um so for the next photo that
you'll see is the actual t-shirt uh of
the first year uh 1973.
so on August 15 1973 which was a
Wednesday
an odd day for a road race but it was
Tommy Leonard’s 40th birthday
um so
uh
they thought let's do this race we'll go
from uh the Captain Kidd in Woods Hole
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and we’ll run along the shore and we'll
end um at the Brothers Four at
Terrace Gables, which became
the Brothers Four before being
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Falmouth Heights it's like a seven-ish
mile route that Tommy would run on his
own anyway because he's running the
Boston Marathon and you know he didn't
really figure out the distance yet but
he figured let's go from bar to bar
that's what we do in Boston
so uh later on they measured it it was
actually uh John Carroll told me from
door to door
6.999 miles
and over the years it did
vary depending on whose car was used to
measure it did go from
6.99 to 7 and a half
so for your running logs back then
it wasn't certified until 2003 so for
all those other races it did range and
before Garmin that you couldn’t really
figure it out so it was seven-ish for a
while um the seven mile mark was
actually painted in Falmouth Heights you could
actually see the number seven for many
years so they thought this was a great
idea you know let's get a bunch of
locals um
98 officially uh paid
as Tommy would say 92 uh actually
finished officially
and everyone uh could basically fit in
the Captain Kidd um
you know 98 runners everyone was in
there as a rainy day uh on a Wednesday
but the t-shirt that Tommy created that
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you see
does say Falmouth Marathon uh which is
interesting because back then um
if you said road race that actually
referred to automobiles or motorcycle
races
you wouldn't think of running and
marathon everyone loves marathons if
you're a running fan of the Olympics and
everything uh which of course Tommy was so
they put Falmouth Marathon so people
wouldn't think it was a uh a bicycle
race or automobile
um and they started like I said in Woods
Hole which is the next photo the nice
aerial photo from the Historical Society
Falmouth Historical Society which helped
with some of these photos which is great
um right on Water Street in front of
Captain Kidd
again those 98 official runners official
Entrants and 92
finished
which is kind of interesting now that we
have uh around 13,000 on the regular
year
which is kind of neat but it was great
most people lived around here the
Falmouth Cape Cod
people showed up which was nice
they knew where the money was going uh
A bar to bar
race uh
was good people like that um actually
having it finished there I remember they
were telling me that basically
there was no course map
you know no um starting line tape
no cones no police telling you which
turn to do and everything because
everyone's basically local so they
basically say just follow the person in
front of you hopefully no one was from
out of state too much that got got lost
or anything
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the next photo shows a more modern start
line
but that's basically the start line on
Water Street right next to the Captain
Kidd
of a more recent photo but it gives you
an idea of what the start looks like
um
but it's really a small street so they
have uh but back then with only under
100 runners it wasn't you know basically
just said ready set go and everybody
went um but now they have it in waves
and pulses because of so many people um
they send out uh you know a couple
thousand I think it’s about a thousand at a time
time then they wait two minutes next
thousand like corrals to kind of space
it out a little bit
um actually the next photo shows you
um what the weather conditions were and
who the leader was David Duba
excuse me nice black and white photo
from Historical Society that's Dave
Duba from Michigan
who was just on his way to Cape a friend
of his I had a relative who worked lived
near Woods Hole he was a cross-country
runner and he goes okay I’ll run this
and but you can see the weather
conditions it was rainy uh as I said on
uh Wednesday afternoon which is again
sort of a hard time but Tommy liked
doing things like that
um Jenny Tuthill won the female division
um it was a fun race basically just to
raise some money
Tommy Leonard passed around a little
cigar box um at the Brothers Four
afterwards to collect more money for the
girls so they could compete
um and it was a fun race it was uh it
was
again in the rain and once everybody's
finished they just the finish line at
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that time the first two years was at the
Brothers Four
which is for those of you who don't know
it's not there anymore it's at the
top of the hill
when you go down to the finish line of
the race
that's where the apartments and condos
there that's where the Brothers Four was
and the building was
located five ten feet from the curb it
was right there you'll see a photo
coming up soon um so you crossed the
finish line you basically took a left
you walked about ten feet and you're in
the bar which people liked um so the
word of mouth went about that and Johnny
Kelley Johnny the Elder Kelley um
who lived on the Cape uh
he also ran he was a big draw because
everyone loved him um like when he ran
the Boston Marathon he won it twice came
in second place seven times
for most people they always waited until
he finished the Boston Marathon uh
before they went home so he ran uh the
Falmouth Road Race and everyone loved it
uh he's in his 60s I think 65 at the
time of the first race I remember Brian
Salzberg was telling me he was one of
the
gentlemen who has run every Falmouth
Road Race uh there are four now Falmouth
four
and he I remember Brian telling me that
when he finished went into the Brothers
Four
um he looked down on the dance floor
there and he saw this older gentleman
with white hair and a Hawaiian shirt
dancing
just dancing and dancing on the uh on
the dance floor and Brian was really
tired he found out it was Johnny Kelley
He goes here's a guy double my age dancing
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right after running the seven miles I
can't even really walk around he goes aw the
guy’s in great shape which everyone knew
Johnny was um
so that was how the first year started
it was very small there were a few races
around especially down the Cape there
were some as well
but no running boom yet but people
started getting interested um like I
said with the 1980 1972 Olympics
everyone saw an American Frank Shorter
win the marathon so that piqued people's
interest
Title IX was passed in 1972 for equal
funding federal funding for boys and
girls sports so
girls started getting
more accessible for sports and running
and things like that little road races
started to come up
the Greater Boston Track Club which uh
started the same week as the Falmouth
Road Race separately though
in Boston had a lot of great
post-collegiate runners um they had a
big impact on Falmouth that you'll hear
about later so things started to looking
back at it and um
succession of events started to line up
at the time you don't know when things
happen when they happen so the following
year which is the next photo
um you'll see Marty Liquori um 1974.
Marty Liquori is one of our greatest
runners he was the third American high
school kid to run a sub-four-minute mile he's
Olympian
his brother Steve uh went to BC and
Tommy Leonard talked to him to get Marty to
run
um they changed the race to a Sunday
Tommy said if we're gonna do this again
let's do it on a Sunday
which they did
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people knew Marty Liquori I mean
everybody knew him you can see from the
photo from the Historical Society all
the crowd this is the finish line up
near the Brothers Four is right on the
right there you can sort of see the
finish line
the bottom right there but that's Marty
Liquori coming in second place you can
see the crowd this is just the second
year 1974.
and uh
the amount of people from 92 finishing
the first year jumped to about 400 in
1974.
by 1974 like like I was saying the
running boom is just starting but more
people are running more people are aware
of it
uh whether you're competing in the top
runners or you're just running to run
maybe your age group you started to get a
lot so here's Marty Liquori coming to
family um and Tommy Leonard had talked
to coach Bill Squires of the Greater
Boston Track Club if he could bring some
of his guys down
um who everyone started to really know
locally and that included Bill Rodgers
who would come in pretty well in the
Boston Marathon at that time he had not
won it yet if you know who Bill Rodgers
is which I assume most people tuning in
does
um so the race got a lot of attention
and I remember talking to Bill Rodgers
about this for the book
and he said I really wasn't afraid of I
respected Marty Liquori but he's a miler short
distance guy and he goes uh this is a
seven mile race I’m training for Boston
Marathon and things he goes I should win
because I’m not really afraid
of him competitive wise and he wasn't
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Bill won uh and Marty came in second
but it was an excellent race really
brought a lot of attention as you can
see from that uh Historical Society
photo uh of just all the people um
gathered there which was which was
excellent um just to see that attention
come into this town which was nice um
Debbie Richie was the first female and
it's just kind of funny the disparity
back then that uh when Bill Rodgers won
he got a nice big trophy when Debbie
Richie won she was a 15 year old she was
telling me she got a hair dresser and a
bouquet of roses
so it was kind of funny to see the
difference back then but still
recognized as a winner which was which
was neat
again this is finishing at the Brothers
Four the next photo you will actually see
what the Brothers Four look like
this photo Charlie Rodgers took uh Bill
Rodgers’ brother who took a lot of photos
uh
back then when his brother was running
that's what the Brothers Four looked
like so the finish line is just to the
right
on the road there the sidewalk separates
the building from the road it's that
close
so
I remember Dave Duba and those guys
saying it was great he just crossed the
finish line like I said turn left and
I’m in a bar
so the Brothers Four looked like that
was again about the top of the hill as
you're going down to the finish line
that last final portion Falmouth Heights
is what the Brothers Four
your locals
will remember that
um it was great they had great support
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the first couple years
first two years that's where it finished
but then more and more people started to
come
uh people would spill out into the field
the ball field back there where the Falmouth
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Commodores used to play
uh drinking and everything so it got a
little little um
extracurricular activity there so what
they did is they actually moved from the
following year uh from 1975 down to
where roughly where it is now just to
give it more room you can manage it more
so the first two years did finish right
at the Brothers Four
but things were changing that was uh the
interest uh the running boom was just
really starting a lot of people getting
into it um the next photo that you'll
see another Historical Society photo
back at Woods Hole you'll see Bob Hall
for the wheelchair start right there
this is significant um
in 1975
for that Boston Marathon Bob Hall um was
one of our ex
excellent wheelchair athletes
he went to school at Boston State
College where Coach Squires had taught and
coached and he asked Coach Squires I want
to do because he's an athlete he won the
mile
and the other a couple other national
wheelchair championships
that he wanted to do the Boston Marathon
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so Coach said all right let's do it
there's no other wheelchair out there
That’s ever done it this is 1974-75
when you thought about it so Coach
Squires trained him um it was difficult
obviously he had to adjust the training
because of the wheels and everything but
he trained uh Bob Hall
and uh Coach Squires got in contact and
Bob Hall as well with the BAA will call
the race director finally he said okay
if um we'll admit Bob Hall and if he
finishes under three hours he'll be
considered an official entrant official
finisher he'll get a certificate
so a lot was riding on this because
prior to this again no wheelchair
athletes ever and sure enough Bob Hall
finished in 2 hours and 58 minutes
became the official the first official
wheelchair
finisher he basically every wheelchair
category you see in races now basically
started from Bob Hall
uh he created um
this category he created wheelchairs he
helped coach everything like that really
started with Bob Hall
and then being a local from Belmont he
thought about the Falmouth Road Race and
called the race and sure come on over
so 1975 was the first year
uh for wheelchairs and Bob Hall
won the first eight Falmouth Road Races uh
and here's a nice great picture of him
from the Historical Society of him
coming out of Woods Hole and you'll see
the great crowds really starting to pick
up which was nice
because 1975
really
really brought this race to
the forefront of the running community
for those who hadn't followed it before
the next photo which is a nice color
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photo from Charlie Rodgers again
from 1976 but the runners inside you'll
see that I’ll show you who they are
really really catapult this race um if
you look at the photo from left to right
you'll see Tom Derderian in the beard
then there's Frank Shorter uh Amby
Burfoot with the beard Alberto Salazar
has a blue shirt toward the back second
Row so to speak
then Bob Hodge from Greater Boston Track
Club Vin Fleming from Greater Boston Randy
Thomas and then Bill Rodgers on the right
um in 1975 Tommy Leonard's wish finally
came true he got a hold of Bill Rodgers
who got a hold of Frank Shorter because
they knew each other
and Bill Rodgers had by that time won the
Boston Marathon in April everyone who
didn't know Bill Rodgers before us
locals did but he really threw himself
on the map and running everyone knew
Bill Rodgers now everyone knew the
Greater Boston Track Club because Bill
Rodgers was a member of the Greater Boston
Track Club along with Alberto Salazar
and
Greg Meyer and all the other great
American runners
and um
told Frank Shorter about the Falmouth Road
Race and at the time Frank would run in
Europe around that time the different
running circuits for an elite athlete
but Frank said you know I’d love to run
Falmouth to stay local because I get
paid an appearance fee when I go to
Europe
um not to maintain his amateur status
for
the Olympics right the race couldn't pay
Frank so Bill Crowley
um who owned the Captain Kidd and a
couple other places in in the Cape uh on
the Cape there uh paid him
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like an appearance fee
which absolved the Road Race of anything
I remember talking to
um Bill Crowley’s wife
about it uh years later for the book and
she said that they kept the cancelled
check so if the Olympic Committee or
the US [Olympic] Committee or anyone wanted
to
find out where the money came from
they had proof
the race did not pay him so Frank came
and uh he ended up winning and Bill
Rodgers goes you know Tommy Leonard never
thanked me for uh bringing Frank Shorter
He goes I lost
two Falmouth Road Races to Frank
um but having Frank Shorter um the gold
medalist and excellent runner on his own
outside of the Olympics come to Falmouth
in 1975. again this is the third year of
the race
they again started 92 finishers the first
year 400 the second year it jumped to
about I think 800 or so
for 1975.
just
again catapulted Falmouth and the race
and
everyone's knowledge of this area
especially with the Road Race so really
big interest at press conferences
um interviewing um Frank Shorter and
Bill Rodgers they moved the finish line
to the bottom of the hill a little bit
like I was mentioning um also there were
two little factors not many people know
that actually two races in 1975 run run
simultaneously the AAU the Amateur
Athletic Union required you
for their races to have AAU card to be
members and not everyone was a member
so what they did is they ran the race
the Falmouth Road Race but they also ran
at the same time for those of you who
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didn't have an AAU card
a fundraiser but it was within the same
time so that's how they got away with uh
for being able to run the race without
being an AAU member so it's kind of
interesting there's two sets of results
uh when you look it up but it's kind of
interesting uh and Joan Benoit Samuelson
won her first of six
Falmouth Road Races uh that year as well
so it was a big big year Tommy Leonard
always said that he really thanked uh
among many people Coach Squires for
bringing his horses as he said
uh down to the race which really brought
more great attention and you'll see the
next photo um another black and white
photo from the Historical Society
uh just the jam-packed amount of
spectators
down at Falmouth Heights is unbelievable
still is um although this year the ball
field will be closed off the spectators
but
um all those years you will see it
packed on the beach on the right
um the ball field on the left just
climbing up you'll see tons of people
everywhere on the roof of the casino
the interest just came in with
the bibs were still given out in a van
at the start
which changed quickly
but Falmouth even though it's hard to
grow and had to get all this great
attention and thousands of people knew
about it it still kept its uh it's um
small town feel which was nice uh
Lucia’s brother Sebastian um
who plays in an orchestra used his trumpet
to play the call you know called to the
post that you hear
horse races um at Woods Hole
for every start line that will come up
uh he would play that um I think the
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first year or two he's actually on the
fire fire stairs on one of the buildings
that was kind of moving as he would play
so he did the rest of them on the
sidewalk
a little moving around a little too much
for his uh his liking he said um but he
would do that which a lot of people
appreciate is kind of neat uh
newspapers re the newspapers they were
really starting to focus having sections
of the paper about the Road Race which
was neat uh which which they hadn't had
before um and actually 1979
first introduced 1980 it was capped so
it really started to grow
um with that interest which I thought
was which is excellent and the next
photo you actually see again from the
Historical Society back at Woods Hole
um they really started to have to focus
on getting some
semi-crowd control because people would
be milling about the first few years
um but again as it grew and grew and
grew into a couple of thousand runners
it was kind of difficult so again mostly
local but again after the Frank Shorter
and the Greater Boston guys until Rodgers
started to come everyone
from outside of the Cape really started to
focus in on this race and you'll see a
banner there from Perrier interesting
story
around that time Perrier was thinking of
sponsoring road races
and thinking about doing the New York City
marathon uh one year and Fred Lebow the
race director that came to Falmouth
to run with some of his uh people and uh
was talking to Tommy Leonard about you
should talk to Perrier so
Tommy did he put on as you said his best
suit which had pizza
stains on it and his tie was crooked and
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he went down to New York where the
New England division was and talked to
the president there
and he said you know like 90 degrees out
I’m sweating and my forehead's all red
I’m jumping around the conference room
and my arms are flailing and I’m telling
them about the beauty of Falmouth and
the Road Race and you should really
sponsor this and he goes about halfway
through they stopped and said you got us
because your enthusiasm alone
we'll do it we'll sponsor you and
you'll be our first road race this is
1977
even before New York City Marathon which
is a few months later so Falmouth was the
first race
road race that Perrier
uh sponsored and um they've done a lot
throughout the year the road races but
Falmouth was the first one so they gave
a check by the spot that's a couple of
phone calls to Falmouth to uh
Tommy he's in New York with the check
he's like this is great we have it so
you got the banner and it just helped
other things too um but he really
started to show other people know about
this race
which was great so in 1977 that's where
you see uh Perrier sign
started in 77 that was a banner that you
see
for several years they just changed the
year
but you'll see greater interest in the
next photo of color photo from Charlie
Rodgers is back to the finish line in the
background you'll see the Brothers Four
another marquee event was in 1978 a year
after
Tommy got that funding which was great
of uh the 1978 race had
in its field had 9 Olympians 13 sub 4
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minute milers 16 national champions
um
the interest was huge it was a hot and
muggy day which it usually is for the Falmouth
Road Race either hot muggy or rainy
as everyone knows
um
that hasn't changed much
so uh you had a great big huge field
with this race and you had so much going
on
competitive wise and back to the Greater
Boston Track Club
Bill Rodgers was a member Alberto
Salazar as I was saying Dan Dillon
Bob Hodge Randy Thomas great great
runners
in this area that other people started
to know about when they went to other
races
um and interestingly uh Salazar was a
young maybe 21 22 at the time and he
looked up to his fellow Greater Boston
guys
and
[unintelligible] at the starting line uh Coach
Squires who coached them all uh but they
always said you’re friends until
the gun starts
then you want to beat that person and
then once the race is over you have a beer with
them
with them which is true for any athlete
um so Salazar was sort of looking at
Rodgers and uh
these other guys and seeing what
they're doing maybe emulating them
And Salazar was an excellent runner too back
then
um
really starting out um back in 78. so
Coach Squires sort of noticed this so he
told Rodgers once you drink your water
stretch out behind the building here you
know stay in the shade and Bill Rodgers didn't
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know people were looking at him uh
fellow athletes so Bill Rodgers hydrated
got ready
um Salazar couldn't find him just fine
they all did the routine the gun goes
off everyone's running uh Bill Rodgers
skips the first water stop because he's
all hydrated so Salazar go thinking to
himself well he didn't have water I
won't have water not knowing that Bill
Rodgers is fully hydrated um it was that
kind of way cat mouse throughout
Rodgers was very close in the second pack
very hot and humid really bad day and
Salazar and Rodgers really pushing each
other because they were really really
good runners I remember interviewing
Salazar for the book he was telling me
around four and a half four four and a
half mile mark he started to catch up
or wanted to catch up to Rodgers right
off his shoulder and he just couldn't he
couldn't get extra gear he was confused
as to why he mean you're confused
because well I didn't know why I should
be able to I’m training with them I knew
and you kind of know who you can stay
with for a while because you trained
with them because I’m looking back now
and I’m getting heat stroke because
oxygen's not going to my brain but I
didn't know at the time I was just
confused why I couldn't catch up with
them
and it went like that for a mile or two
and to the point that he to this day
can't remember the last
couple two three miles of the race still
can't remember
and what happened was as you can see in
this color photo
this is at the finish line of 1978. Bob
Hodge is uh closest runner right behind
him is Greg Meyer behind him is Alberto
Salazar and Randy Thomas is behind him
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Salazar was probably around fifth or
sixth at the top of the hill where the
Brothers Four is and he was so
dehydrated so in trouble
uh because of the heat that several
people passed him he came in tenth place
and he just collapsed at the finish line
his body temperature was 108 degrees and
the medical staff
obviously recognized the danger of this
the fatal danger of this actually and
threw him in the little kiddie pool of
ice which Falmouth had
which
interestingly
the year before in a medical journal
they had a story um about
having ice baths for athletes to
overheat
to bring their body temperature down how
much of a great safety measure and the
medical staff at
Falmouth was ahead of a lot of other road
races had it
August race in Falmouth near the beach
so they were really cognizant of of this
kind of danger with runners and with 108
degree temperature
all sorts of stuff can go wrong and did
with Salazar he was combative which is a
sign of heatstroke uh they put him in
the ice to bring his temperature down
his father José was really worried to
you know get him to the hospital now
and Dr. Crago was like no we can't we
gotta get his body temperature down now
he'll never make it to the hospital if
we leave right now at 108 degrees
uh they gave him his last rites
actually because it was not looking good
at all um they finally got his body
temperature down brought him to the
hospital he got several IVs of fluid
he did eventually come back for the
award ceremony which was several hours
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later and he kept the gauze back um
gauze pad on his arm it was kind of like
a batch of honor as he's getting the
tenth place trophy kind of like letting
the people know hey this didn't get me
um next year I’ll come back and I’ll end
up winning had a great stretch of
excellent races um but it was it was a
marquee race because of just the way
these guys ran I remember talking to
Bill Rodgers about it and he says we ran
like that we would run you to the ground
that was just how we were
competitive wise because it was very
primitive and dicey that's just how we
ran um
and
Salazar didn't take any offense by it he
goes no that's how that's how you do it
uh also Craig Virgin was there an eventual
winner one of my great American uh
Olympians and he remembers he was struck
by Bill Rodgers he remembers after
finishing that race that Bill won
uh Craig saw Bill Rodgers sitting in a
chair at the ball field with a line of
about
a couple hundred fans
where you get their autograph and Bill
sits there for a couple hours and just
talks everyone gets autographs like he
does now and Craig looks and goes I’m
gonna model myself after him that's how
an athlete should be
so the interest was just going
I’d say worldwide at this point and the
next photo from the Historical Society
you'll see um a makeshift media press
truck
that sort of had to accommodate
the press more people wanted to know
about this race this little town in Cape
Cod
um because everyone wanted us to run all
the great runners you want to run
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against the best they start seeing this
race as being one of them despite the odd
seven plus mile distance
they wanted to come here so this press
truck was sort of hastily built every
year Tony Rivers who always covered this
race still does remarks one year that
they were on this press truck and it
would go slow around the corner and
sometimes the leaders would have to sort
of put their arm out to not get hit by
the truck uh he remembers one year that
he heard a big clunk
and he looks out from behind the truck
and sees one of the wheels pop off and
roll into someone's front yard
it still works he goes well there's
enough there's a bunch of other wheels
so we can deal with it
um the next photo color photos from Gus
Canty you see the Expo
Expo started to pop up the first couple
years some people sold stuff at the
sidewalk it was whole again with this
increased interest from the media from
other runners from just people who want
to watch it they had to have an expo
which was nice with different vendors
this is the old Gus Canty now it's at
the high school
um the next photo that you'll see um is
a real good sign of how this race
enjoys and celebrates its history by
bringing back former winners uh which is
real nice not a lot of races do that but
they do which I thought was great uh and
here's the table with at the top there's
Frank Shorter next is Bill Rodgers
then Meb Keflezighi and Joan Benoit
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Samuelson signing autographs and they
still do they still bring back former
champions they have
celebratory years anniversary years uh
the Falmouth Road Race does so it's
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really nice to see how they do celebrate
that
um the next photo that you see is
familiar to a lot of people in the
summer uh the Bourne Bridge with traffic
uh in addition to the increase of
interest as I mentioned is the traffic
so this is weekend traffic that a lot of
people see at the Bourne Bridge uh I
remember Tommy Leonard saying that um
he promised people because the second
year of the race if we don't get
at least 200 people in the second year
He might as well jump off the Bourne Bridge
and lucky for him they got more than 200
so he didn't have to jump
I said can you swim he goes well I don't
think it'll matter
if I had to jump
um but that's the traffic that you'll see
the next photo is
from the viewpoint of a runner at the
start so you really get a sense of what
the start had become with all this
interest
from curb to curb just people this is
before this photo was taken before the
uh pulse start which which uh
has waves so you just crammed everyone
in
um you got to know your neighbor
everyone knew each other um but it was
really it was really neat because like I
said in 19 in 1973 was 92 finishers
went to 400 the next year 870 1975
1600 1977 by 1980 they had to cap it at
4 000.
and this is just several years after the
start of the race so
um
Falmouth like most races that started
back in the 70s with the running boom in
the first you know
first
half of the 70s
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you were just reacting you really think
that you didn't have a chance to be
proactive and
assume or guess
hundreds and thousands of people
hundreds or thousands of people that
show up you just did what you did when
people showed up
so in 1980 uh Falmouth capped it at 4
thousand to kind of take a breath and go all
right we have to start looking back
what happened they had meetings after
every year to see how they can improve
but they look back all right let's take
control of this thing
because the running boom basically
exploded and Jim Fixx the author did uh
his books uh
and people just
really wanted to run
they wanted to compete on the athletic
on the elite level they wanted to
compete on age group level or they just
wanted to run so all these different
factions of runners wanted to go to the
best races and Falmouth was one of them so
everyone started to show up so other
things had to be you know
like I said with the press truck and the
Expo to accommodate people the number
pickup no longer giving out numbers in
the back of the car
at Woods Hole if you needed that day of
the race uh and you see the next photo
uh approaching Nobska Point Lighthouse um
#nobskalight
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through 0773
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all the people
it's just it was jammed with people
which was great um Falmouth was becoming
Falmouth synonymous with the race and
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people started to really enjoy the Cape
and the town and the community remember
Matt Auger was saying the assistant race
director
you can have the
greatest race the greatest course the
greatest
um
appearance of runners but the community
is not behind you you have nothing and
that's true
Falmouth had their ups and downs they
had their adjustments like every race
every city and town had when they
started a race but the community has
been behind it
and there's been changes along the way
obviously like with anything with any
growth you know from I could say from 92
finishers the first year to almost 13
000
in more recent years which is basically
what they've been averaging uh this year
notwithstanding
and you have to adjust and you have to
accommodate um
one thing Falmouth does which I don't
see in some areas in some states and
things
is you have a global international race
but you still have that small hometown
feel
um they still pay attention to the
Olympians and the elite athletes as well
as the amateur athletes and those in the
back of the field and it's nice to see
that you don't see that a lot of races I
mean you have something you know that
they're worried about people
getting here safely um flying in from
different countries and
getting host families for the lead
athletes and the press conferences and
things like that um then their
requirements that they want to do at the
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Expos for their companies and stuff that
they have to schedule
and also the amateur athletes who if
they want to put their clothes in a
little bicycle locker I mean a little
locker at the starting line that will be
moved to the finish line for them
they'll be able to get they want to ride
their bikes to Falmouth Heights it'll be
in a secure area and they get a bus to
the starting line little things like
that
for the amateur runners um
they still hold on to they still do
which I think is great um so that's nice
to see with family that again you don't
always see uh the next photo that you
will see Nobska Light Nobska Point Light
which is the first mile mark it’s just
very iconic and people just love that
um
even though it's wide open if it's a hot
day you're gonna toast but that's fine
going past that lighthouse
uh the next photo was interesting John
Carroll
took this photo of Surf Drive um this is
from 1991 the locals remember Hurricane
Bob that actually um occurred
right after the Falmouth Road Race the
same day
if it occurred several hours earlier
probably wouldn't have had a race John
Carroll was telling me
it had such a force when it came across
Block Island Rhode Island and Falmouth
that actually moved the course that
you'll see the ripples right here it
actually physically moved the road to
the point that the engineers it almost
took about a year to re-fix it the race
directors were telling me the Carrolls
and Shermans were telling me they got
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close they may have had to reroute
reroute the road race part of the course
around Surf Drive fortunately
after about a year after within that
year they were able to fix it
but it actually moved houses it was a
really real bad fatal hurricane if you
remember from back then
um
it was it came ashore so close to the
race that
the race would finished and they were
cleaning up that the uh the Carrolls and
Sherman
basically told for all you out of town
volunteers go home now this was later in
the day on that Sunday and they
basically the remaining things that they
were going to pack away
at the finish and they just put a big
pile wrapped it up and went home because
the storm was coming it was that close
that they just they just missed coming
with the race
um that's an interesting little side
note there
the next photo that you'll see
is that last final stretch of the race
uh the casino there on the left um
it's an interesting little
stretch down there it's only you know
several hundred
meters several hundred yards down there
but it's interesting that um
there's a crosswalk on the top there
that you'll
kind of see there
and um it's interestingly that in 1988
that sort of confused a couple runners
um
and
Anne Hannam was winning and Betty Jo
Geiger was the second really approaching
her and just said about that crossword
crosswalk there Betty Jo stood up and
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passed Anne and sort of slowed down
and then Anne sort of recognized that I
better pick it up if she's going to
continue and continue down the hill
faster if Betty Jo had stopped she
thought that was the finish line
which everyone's like no no keep going
keep going and so Betty Jo picked it up
again but she ended up coming in second
but people
had some out of state those are
different countries confused at one
point that little crosswalk so you gotta
pay attention actually
um in 2003 Jen Rhines one of the great
American runners
um when she was running uh Olga Romanova
and Catherine Ndereba the three of them
were basically top three
um running for most of the race and
Catherine Ndereba I think about four or
five mile mark stepped off she was
injured so it was Jen Rhines and Olga and
Olga was in the lead ahead enough that
Jen couldn't see her
and then around this hill around this
area here
that you see the runners coming down
everyone started to cheer Jen and they
put finish line tape for her to break
but Jen's going oh that's really nice as
the first American to break the tape
like they do with Johnny Kelley to Boston
marathon whenever he finishes the
tape across the finish line for him to
break
so she broke the finish line everyone's
cheering telling her she won she goes
yeah thank you I’m the first American I
said no no you won the race you know
Olga was ahead of me
and they said no Jen turn around look up
the top of the hill near the crosswalk
that that's where Olga was the heat and
the race just so
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drained old that she stopped
at the top of the hill
and Jen managed the race so well in the
heat she ended up winning which is a big
aspect of this race is managing that
heat you can be the greatest athlete uh
like Bill Rodgers said the marathon will
humble you well so will this weather
you've had great Olympians not winning
because you've got to manage this heat
in in addition to the course and it's
being seven miles um the heat is tough
it's part of it it's an element of a race
when you compete so it's an interesting
little patch there and the Casino by the
Sea there um on the left uh
captain the Bill Sweeney used that
casino um you would always see people on
the roof and out the window cheering you
on which is kind of neat when you're
running from the top of the hill you can
sort of see the peak of the building
before the finish line
nice little burst of cheering uh which
is nice so it's another one of those
neat um aspects of the race of the
runner especially that you see like
little landmarks along the way like the
lighthouse and everything just sort of
keeps you going um another great uh
point of the race the next photo that
you see uh is the great American flag
um that's draped over the finish line um
in 1987
um
a veteran from Falmouth Jim Gehris
read about the Mount Rushmore American
flag going on tour in the country it's
the huge American flag it's 4 000 square
feet 300 pound flag
over Mount Rushmore
and for I think it's for its anniversary
which tour the country the flag was a
big huge flatbed truck and if you had an
event that you would like to have this
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flag on display you let them know so Jim
did in 1987 the
Rushmore flag was the first one that
was unfurled and was draped over atop
the finish line that you see
and they did that for a couple years the
flag now isn't the Mount Rushmore one
but Falmouth continued that tradition
which is which is tremendous it's a
beautiful
uh element of this race that people look
forward to and it's just it's amazing to
see them unfurl with all the volunteers
holding holding it because of its weight
like I say it's 4 000 pounds so it
doesn't touch the ground they they lift
it up it's amazing to see
um but it started uh with Jim Gehris in
1987 really neat
um but you started to see um you used to
have an old chute system where you
finish
in that area there the next photo that
you'll see
from a ground over ground level of the
finish line you had uh the old chute
system
with popsicle sticks from those of you
who would run races when you crossed the
finish line they gave you a popsicle
stick with the number on it that was
your finish and you gave it back towards
the end of the
chute where the official was to record
your time they had
Tape recorders when there's so many
runners coming the same time the
volunteers would just say the numbers in
order with the tape recorder
your your time was on top of the old BBC
building the restaurant down there on
the left
on the roof
yes
you had uh big numbers being flipped
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every five minutes so you would look up
to see your time
uh all these different ways that would
change and adjust over the years which
is kind of interesting
to see all those things uh
now obviously computerized and
everything but it's kind of neat to see
that
the next photo from the Historical
Society is the photo I use for my cover
of the book which actually you can see
the seven painted
uh right before the finish line which they
obviously don't do anymore but it's just
kind of neat to see the actual seven
there and you see all the people on both
sides um again the great interest of
this um
race is just
it just brings so many people to the
cave to the point that people have told
me
that they've bought homes here
uh the president of Perrier that
Tommy Leonard had spoken to said that
he got a rental here he ran that year's
race with some people from Perrier the
first year in 77
and they fell in love with the Cape so
much they got property they got they
they um would rent here and other people
have bought homes here or summer homes
or something because they just love the
place they love the community um and that's
so
felt so welcome
um from Falmouth so it it the impact
that Tommy Leonard did with a small race
for 92 finishers to raise money
for some uh high school girls back in
1973 has become where it is now which is
just truly amazing with the Shermans and
the Carrolls um taking this for so many
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years just under 40 years to to where it
is now with Dave McGillivray uh and
Jennifer Edwards and Matt Auger and them
it's just it's unbelievable the way this
race has just grown and grown and grown
um the next photo you actually see of
the ball field at Falmouth Heights
uh where you go to get your hot dog the
old Bill Dougherty hot dog um I remember
he was saying that
at one point they thought he had to find
a better machine to actually pump out a
thousand hot dogs at a time which is
pretty good
prior to that it's like a little longer each
hot dog but you're on the field you
finished um
you didn't care you wait you talk to
your your friends and everything the
next photo that you see the volunteers
under the tent
um
it's become such a tradition with these
volunteers you see families giving out
water same families year after year if
you run this race
several years in a row you see the kids
grow up
it's become such so ingrained in the
town in the community like I said you'll
see family members helping out and
eventually running as well which is
great um but just to see that interest
just community-wide and spectators
I love it I love seeing that uh the next
photo nice aerial shot
of um Falmouth Heights the Historical
Society provided this one this really
shows you how the ball field is
a little rectangle um and what's neat on
the left that you'll see a member
it was Rich Sherman or John Carroll was
telling me that they actually had to get
uh a US Coast Guard permit because he's
I think we're the only road racer that
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needs a Coast Guard permit
um
there used to be boats that would follow
the race in the water because you could
do that most of the course
most of it other than the inner harbor
when you're going in and stuff
you can see from the water so both would
be at Woods Hole
and they would just go and follow the
race and you had this little caravan of
boats going to Falmouth Heights well
that can be kind of dangerous because
swimmers there to the left of the beach
and everything so they had to get
parameters parameters there
and also if the President
was visiting Martha’s Vineyard which uh
President Obama did for several years um
there's like a no-fly zone where the
president is up 10 miles I think it is
and Martha’s Vineyard is within 10 miles so
you couldn't have helicopters or fly
zones so you had Secret Service
was snorkeling along the beach looking
for things if there's any
all sorts of
added things for a race director that
most races don't need but that's Falmouth
does
and that stretch of beach day was
interesting the first few years um
because the police didn't want
open public drinking of beer that
spilled out into the Falmouth Heights the
ball field there after the Brothers Four
the first couple years
um people got sort of clever and they
would bury the keg
in the sand the night before
um
and sort of mark it where
it was and the next morning they would
bring the tap
for those people who remember what kegs and
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beer taps were
find a little marker to kind of uncover
a little bit of the sand and put the
beer tap in and you see these beer taps
lined up on the beach well the police
got you know smarter than that and they
use metal detectors to figure out where
the kegs were and dug them up so they
don't do that anymore but it's fun
seeing the beer taps lined up
the next photo is uh of Tommy Leonard
right outside of the Captain Kidd that
dedicated the start line which is now
officially called the Tommy Leonard Start
Line and there's a nice plaque there
that people can see and visit if you'd
like uh one thing that was great about
Tommy Leonard uh just just
his
ultimate benevolence
and selflessness and just the things he
did for community for people
that everyone recognized and wanted to
honor him which I’m glad they did while
he was still around to enjoy it
um there's a nice bench uh down near the
ball field um the
Mass Ave. bridge is the Tommy Leonard
Bridge where you run under that for the
Boston Marathon which is at the corner
of Mass Ave. there where the Eliot Lounge
used to be where he worked
um so it's nice that everybody honored
him and then when he did pass in 2019
um there's a nice little painting of his
face and every mile marker so it's
really nice that Tommy was honored that
he knew uh all the people that he
touched and everything and uh so that's
I’m so glad for that
um and the last photo uh will end this
kind of shows the um another effect and
impact that Falmouth Road Race has its
offspring supposedly um the Cape Cod
Marathon and all their related races
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um
were created um as extensions from the
Falmouth Road Race of Courtney Bird and the
Sherman and Carrolls’ influence of these
different local races um
which is great to
expand running and expand
interest in the Cape and everything
which is which is excellent uh Joe
Concannon the sports writer for um
local papers around here in Boston area
um created Litchfield Hills Road Race in
Connecticut seven miler uh based on the
Falmouth Road Race tough race couple tough
hill there in Connecticut also a seven
miler been there for several several
years which is excellent uh the Beach
to Beacon 10k up in Maine Joan Benoit
Samuelson wanted to create
the same kind of atmosphere and
everything that Falmouth had so she
created that she got some ideas from
Dave McGillivray and the Falmouth Road Race
to create terrific race up in Maine
where she's from the Falmouth Walk
that Eddie Doyle and Tommy Leonard
created 30 years ago that still benefits
the community still walks the day before
uh the Falmouth Road Race um and
interestingly the Detroit Marathon
um
well the organizers when it was the
Motor City Marathon in Detroit came to
Falmouth Road Race unrelated to
recreating something and ran the
Falmouth Road Race and enjoyed what he
saw
so much so he wanted to replicate that
in some fashion back in Detroit
so they sort of reinvigorated renamed
the marathon to the Detroit Free Press
free press of the newspaper Detroit Free
Press Marathon and he wanted to have
some of the same kind of perks and
everything that the Falmouth Road Race had
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so it's reached all the way to Michigan
so it's reached away this small little
race that Tommy started
uh and getting little free raffles going
from store to store with his little
shopping cart and putting in purses and
gift certificates and whatever you could
collect back in 1973 to what it is now
uh it's truly amazing uh
thankful to all the volunteers and the
organizers and the community the runners
the spectators everyone's made this race
uh what it is today
a huge international global race with
that small town feel which is why people
keep coming back
um well I hope you enjoy this little uh
trek through the Falmouth Road Race
course and its history um
and that is it I want to thank everyone
for joining in well and thank you that
was really fabulous Paul I you know I
have lived in Falmouth for
30 years now and um I can remember the
the whole hurricane I arrived
shortly after Hurricane Bob um and that
was the photos were great the stories
are great um I had uh and the the photo
I love the photo of all the people on
top of the casino um and I wish the
casino was still there but that was a
great photo um and the whole history of
Perrier is you know their connection to
it
it's just it's fabulous now my question
for you is um
will you be running the Falmouth road
race this year no not this year no I’ve run it
a few times which I
I enjoy every year
and uh there's so many you bump into so
many great people I remember one year
before I really got to know Brian
Salzberg like I said one of the four
gentlemen now who run every year he's
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the one with a long white beard
a couple years they had a ferry that you
could that runners could take
to get to the starting line from
Falmouth I’m sitting next to this
gentleman the white beard and across
from me is this woman who was sort of
nervous and would talk I didn't know who
Brian was at the time and the woman
was nervous and were like are you okay
she actually nervous my first time I
said oh that's you'll be okay she goes
how many times have you run it I’ve run it
about four or five
she was aw really good I said yeah
I was telling a little bit about it
and she asked the gentleman next this is
the 38th running
when I met in the 38th year of the race
so she asked him how many times if he's
running he goes I run it 37 times this
would be my 38th because wow that's a
lot and all of a sudden I I wait I look at him
I said
at the time I said you’re one of the Falmouth
Five aren't you he said yes
I said she goes what's that I go
this gentleman is one of the five men
who run every year and he introduced
himself but it was so funny bumping into him
and going
yeah I kind of run them all you know it
was really kind of funny and you know so
she's like tell me all about it but you
meet all these great people on the
course they'll cheer you on
uh
whether it's like I said with Craig
Virgin seeing Bill Rodgers
you know on the greatest marathoners just
talking to everybody it brings you back
it's it's it's an amazing town anyway
it's like a second half
my godparents have lived here for
decades so I love coming to family
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that's and I have to say I live very
close to part of the race and every year
I live just off of Queen Street um so I
every year we just walk to the end of
Queen Street and one of the great things
is how many locals you still do see
running the race um even in the
trillions of people that show up and how
much fun and and energy you get just
from watching them race and everybody
applauding and everybody
so happy during the day that the road
race happens um it's really a great
thing and in your history the other
thing that I
took note of was that you know how many
local people are still around and or who
we know you know you mentioned Dr. Crago
who is my husband's that was my
husband's doctor um you know that
everybody does get involved and which
makes it one of the great things um I do
want to know if anybody who's listening
has a question that they want to ask you
can just write it up in the chat and I
will share that with Paul
I also want everybody to know that there
are signed copies of his book at Eight
Cousins
and my question for you Paul is
what is your next book project have you
got something in the works
um I was actually thinking about I I
just
in addition to the Born to Coach the
Bill Squires Story book and the Boston
Marathon one um
Modern America I was thinking about
either something on Steve Prefontaine or
maybe even trying to update the Falmouth
book
to include all the neat things as they
approach their 50th anniversary
um coming up I mean 50 years for for any
race but especially this one like I said
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has grown I mean you imagine 92 runners
the first year
to
on again this year that was staying like
13 000 in a small town
uh I remember was doing the research
there was so many different things
um again the town the race grew as the
town grew as the interest grew so a lot
of things were changing and they were
thinking about having a different course
um you know didn't want to have it
finished down at Falmouth Heights and
things or the too many runners
but as the town the growing pains of the
town and the race worked together it's
become what it had
Some towns it started races in the 70s uh
didn't
and they're no longer here so that's
like that's why I told you like that
Matt Auger quote that he was telling me
if you don't have the community behind
you it's true
and whatever the growing pains were it's
it's grown
to what it is now so um you know kudos
to everyone involved over the years and
decades
um with what the with the Shermans and
Carrolls and Tommy Leonard started and
Bill Dougherty and all those guys Courtney
Bird and just you keep going on and on
there's so many people
um
this is the fruit of their labor it's
it's amazing
what um you see and then taking it to
next level and the next level the next
level you know you have Dave McGillivray
and just all these different people
with the same goal of the race
you know that's the important thing and
you see that reflected in like the valet
with the bike uh valet for the amateur
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runners and then you know the host
families uh I remember Catherine Ndereba
telling me her she’s
from Kenya and her host family for years
would bake
uh Kenyan bread for her and take her
blueberry picking and she loved it every
year Deena Kastor one of our great
American marathoners
took her out her family host family took
her out to dinner
uh on Main Street I think I can’t
recall the name of the restaurant which is
no longer there and she just said to the
waiter surprise me so the waiter brought
a big
plate of pasta with a lobster on top and
cream sauce on top of that which she
loved
as the waiter's walking away she's so
how do I eat this and he turned around
and sort of waved his hands at her kind
of like you're using your hands and she
loved it so she's cracking this thing
open
use her hands in the fork with the pasta
ate the whole thing walk down the street
and got her lobster ice cream I mean
these are memories that these these
Olympians
who have raced all around the globe
they remembered these neat little
personal stories when I interviewed them
for the book I mean that's right
years later
you know of course they remember the
race yeah these are great stories
we actually have a question here for you
which is uh Russ Pelletier um asks have
you seen the time the Tommy Leonard
tribute stone across the street from the
Quarterdeck we are dedicating the Tommy
Leonard Crosswalk
this Friday
oh that's right cause they had to delay it that's
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right yeah Russ Pelletier brought that
along yeah the great uh the crosswalk
along uh across the street from the
Quarterdeck where Tommy Leonard had worked
for
years uh there's a nice monument there
it was dedicated um
when not many people could gather
uh several months ago it's a beautiful
stone with a nice plaque you really
should see it it says one end of the
crosswalk and the other end of the
crosswalk on main street is the Quarterdeck
and Tommy Leonard was there like
almost every day cutting fruit in the
morning and he would uh hold court it
was great you'd walk in there
I remember having lunch with him several
times just shooting the breeze and he'd
always look at the menu here's a little
table there and I’m going Tommy
don't you know this menu like you know
back and forth oh I might change and
everything I look at the way waitress
she's like you know whatever he always liked
the same thing but and he would greet
people coming in
I mean just shooting the breeze with him
having lunch and then
being interrupted like 20 30 40 times
which was great interrupt is not the
right word because he loved it and it
was great he would come in talk to
everyone who came in oh Mr. Leonard Tommy
oh I’m
from Texas I’m from this oh wait I
remember I’ve been there and he would
talk it was it was his whole face would
light up
you know it's like Superman getting his
energy from the sun he got his energy
from people
in every walk for life in every instant
so if you can be there for the
dedication it it it'd be so wonderful
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that the
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um
who just basically put this town on
the map in a good way of just being um
so positive I mean it just
you know I I’m sad talking about
sometimes because he's no longer here
but I’m really happy with all the great
memories and the time and everything
that he's given back so tonight
I’m glad Russ brought that up um
you know at that stone was a really nice
monument too to see
um and we have one more question um
asking you how many registered this year
and are they any are there any Olympians
I think we I think this 8 000 they had
to cap it for 8 000 and uh yeah several
Olympians um
and several former champions I don't
want to stop making a list in case I
Forget any of them um but one of the
big ones is Molly Seidel who just won
the bronze in the Olympic marathon she's
and she announced this before the
marathon
that she's going to run Falmouth and
she's going to go out last
and every person every runner she passes
a donation is going to be made to the
Tommy's Place which is a great place off
of Main Street um
in Tommy Leonard’s name really
you should look it up it's a beautiful
beautiful place uh so she's gone through
that she mentioned that even before she
she competed in the marathon
that she was going to do this as a nice
little way uh to give back so um
yeah it's a great fit I mean this
Falmouth has always had even on Olympic
years it had great fields
um especially the since 1980 when Rod
Dixon and Grete Waitz
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they were the first international
runners that really put it on the mark
globally that international runners
said oh yeah I kind of heard about
Falmouth now now you hear about it and
they come here to race
and the community welcomes I mean you
have people from so many different
countries um like you know Falmouth can
become an athlete's village so to speak
in that
you'll look around and you'll see people
from
dozens of countries
in this small little town of Falmouth I
love it it's just it's amazing how it's
just welcome
and then some places they come here they
don't have a beach so they like I want
to go into the water it's just it's
amazing you know these great athletes
you don't think of like normal things
like a beach you know
so it's great and having the host
families and community welcoming it's a
real nice that's that small town feel
that I was mentioning that this race has
in addition to
being this international race so it's a
great combination of the two
well I will um
thank you so much for
doing this talk uh this morning I think
everyone
if you didn't if you didn't see it all
or if you want more uh his book is A
History of the Falmouth Road Race
Running Cape Cod and as I mentioned
there are signed copies at Eight Cousins and
of course we always love it when you
shop locally as well um as well as
running locally um
thank you so much thank to all of you
and this will this has been recorded it
will be on uh our the library's YouTube
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page at some point and also FCTV will
probably have it running again
and thank you very much to FCTV for
actually filming this today for us um
thanks to you who came to listen
and certainly
uh thanks to Paul for telling us all
these great stories and what a great
collection of photos from Falmouth
Historical Society as well
that was a real treat
so uh we will um end it there and um we
look forward to seeing some of you run
the marathon
the marathon yeah I’m now calling that
the marathon which is interesting that
was actually one of the really
interesting pieces yeah it originally
was a marathon but the Falmouth Road
Race uh we always love it it's a great
event and we're so happy that it's come
back this year um and we hope all goes
well
so
thank you
all for yeah
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