1 10 2 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/32209/archive/files/f8c69e2608746c21a768b75e7a73bb9f.pdf?Expires=1779321600&Signature=fiaUHaFrB7Zk0jtMddn%7EmONpgKUpawi5pnAwCZRKwBPMz5fARQcdDgmuiSiBXz16slnU%7ECh3SO5jiRibL5JFT78PYRLATSX7yJSPO4b9JxcoluK74DskWUh6jJ4XwTkCDgEQq2uYlV8DIdjKATBxxF9EGroJ-M9dSG8AjDBd86RHleYzmYZhjL%7EFODIvcKDeI6zty7hhRTNZm3gxrjC7muj58YkyWQY9cWpNN-8LRl1vaPyE1LYPckv%7ETCXh7nAAept1SfzP0FNneig98%7EsUQd1ywjdxSOL4Br9mhUfsAFhV%7EINxijDcTlVXjEXjZnYHgGbA1I9IokfcLLHyQ272pg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM b7424dcd2cb4b4ac3c87d585a9b760f3 PDF Text Text Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript Recorded: July 5, 2023 Oral Historian: Miguel Moniz Interviewer: Phoebe Acheson Topic: Personal Memories and Portuguese and Cape Verdean Life in Falmouth Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital Commonwealth online collection. 0:14 [Music] 0:45 well thank you so much for the invitation for me to talk to talk about this community and about some of these wonderful postcards in this collection I'm a huge fan of this of this project 0:54 and and of the of the Falmouth Public Library really what they've been doing over the over the 1:00 years to help promote some of these community histories that we have and um you know I I'll 1:07 be talking a little bit about some of this today but um if you want to take a deeper look at some of these there's a whole series that I that I did for Falmouth Public Library's Joy of Learning 1:16 about Portuguese community history I'm going to try and not repeat anything that I that I said in any of those and try and come come up with today with all brand new things that I haven't talked 1:24 about before in some of these uh with some of these great postcards that that you have but um yeah as you say um some of the postcards and most of the postcards that people 1 #joyoflearning �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 1:34 um are are talking about are representative of specific communities are represented by specific communities in some of the images and um when I got invited to do this project or to 1:45 do this interview I um I went through the whole collection just beginning to end and tried to 1:51 find some some of those what are those postcards about about uh the Portuguese and Cape Verdean #portugueseamericanhistory 1:57 communities in Falmouth and I found that there weren't really a whole lot you know there's a one postcard of Saint Anthony's Church which is a was a Cape Verdean or is a Cape Verdean #saintanthonyschurch 2:07 Portuguese community founded a church um but but aside from that there really isn't a whole lot 2:16 um if you look at a one of the postcards of Shown in video: Main Street for example um what you don't see Hunt_Teaticket_Sts_362 in this 2:24 postcard it's this one is um if actually if I have one complaint with the the postcard 2:29 project it's that there aren't really a great dates on the postcards I don't know if that's something you're trying to uh yeah they they mostly aren't dated unless they were mailed and have a 2:38 postmark on them so we can really only ballpark it by the styles of cars and that kind of thing right 2:44 right that well you need to maybe crowdsource this because I'm sure there's people in town that can take one look at this and and you know know exactly where it was and when it was photographed 2 #capeverdeanamericanhistory �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 2:52 but this this image you can see in the background here um an image of what was the old East Falmouth 2:58 #agriculture Village School and you know what you don't see to the sides of this are the Portuguese farms and the 3:06 Cape Verdean farms that were interspersed around and about some of these buildings as you as you go 3:11 down Main Street and some of the other postcards also of Teaticket they they are kind of in the 3:16 margins and not really not really quite seen um and this is interesting most of the Portuguese 3:22 were came here to work as farmers and the one the one kind of farming photo that you or a 3:28 postcard that we have is the of the Coonamessett Ranch which was an important large agricultural 3:34 farm that employed a great number of workers many of them Portuguese as it turns out as happened 3:41 in many cases though when the Portuguese and Cape Verdeans were working on farms for others 3:46 they decided it'd be much easier and better for themselves to start their own farms which they did growing the most famous crop and Falmouth of this community is of course the crop of strawberries 3:57 but this was not limited to strawberries they grew yams they grew blueberries they grew all kinds of other all kinds of other other things as well as doing other other kinds of work in 3 #eastfalmouthvillageschool #teaticket #coonamessettfarm #strawberrries �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 4:08 town as well in Woods Hole but also around the rest of town they ended up moving into the eastern 4:15 what was then euphemistically called the eastern part of town which was this kind of area of East 4:21 Falmouth and further over into Teaticket towards the Coonamessett River that was largely abandoned 4:27 farmland nobody really wanted it nobody wanted to live there there wasn't really a lot going on and so these communities moved into these uh started farmsteads and and some of these um in some of 4:37 these plots of land that they had bought built houses um and you know you can see here again that 4:43 you've got this great image of Coonamessett Farm not a lot of postcards of some of these other places 4:49 um this isn't necessarily nefarious intent it's just that these communities were were largely 4:55 invisible I think to a lot of the people that were coming and also why are people buying postcards you're buying a postcard because you visited a special unique beautiful place and you want to 5:04 write home to someone and tell them you know all about this this fantastic place that you've seen and um you know East Falmouth in these areas they didn't have a lot of tourist attractions in them 5:14 you know so they had it was um an area that that was largely relegated to the people that 5:23 live there and the farmers that live there most of them immigrants but some other 4 #eastfalmouth #cranberrybog �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth people that also owned other cranberry bogs for example and which many Portuguese and Cape Verdeans worked at 5:32 and actually also owned a number of cranberry bogs as well but you don't really get to see some of these um in in in in the postcards um although on this on the sides of the postcards 5:43 are all of these are all of these communities um the one postcard that we really have of 5:49 um of a prominent Portuguese institution community institution is of Saint Anthony's Roman Catholic 5:55 Church in East Falmouth and um this uh Catholic Church was built in the 1920s it's famed everyone 6:07 or most people know the story of the the "the church that strawberries built" as it's been called 6:13 um with members of the Portuguese and Cape Verdean community tithing uh parts of their their 6:18 strawberry profits to give to the building of this church what's lesser known are the many many other 6:25 community buildings that didn't get postcards most of them much older including for example 6:31 #holyghostsociety um the many the the sa- the Holy Ghost halls that the town had one of these still stands today it's 6:37 the Saint Anthony's Club on Brick Kiln Road this was a building that also served as an important 6:42 community center as well as the the actual hall itself that got moved next to the church and 5 Shown in video: Gunning_Menauhant_Bldg_0493 #brickkilnroad #saintanthonysclub �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 6:51 um has since I believe been reconstructed but it was um originally also a Holy Ghost hall and then 6:57 of course there's a Falmouth's most wellknown Holy Ghost hall which is the um the Fresh Pond Holy #freshpondholyghostsociety 7:03 Ghost Society on um on Carriage Shop Road and this is a building also that um you know was a very #carriageshoproad 7:09 prominent community center they had there were political meetings at these some of these places 7:14 they had senators coming down the U.S. U.S. Senators coming down governors coming down I talked to 7:21 um to give talks and these kinds of things it's where a lot of the Mass Agricultural College 7:28 um scientists would come to talk to the Portuguese community as a result of people like Bertrand Tomlinson who brought them in to try and help Falmouth's strawberry crop yield and 7:37 protect it against various blights that uh that the that the crop often oftentimes had to face 7:44 um so Saint Anthony's Church of course a very important central central cultural institution 7:50 but again there's all these other other places that would have would have made great great postcards if I was visiting Falmouth I would have loved to have written a postcard at home 7:58 if I wasn't from Falmouth of course of the of the Holy Ghost one of the Holy Ghost halls in 6 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 8:03 town it's not too late anyone wants to make a postcard they're still there so we also have 8:09 um the back of this card is actually something I'd like to talk about a little bit um you know on the on the card it says that you know the Saint Anthony's Roman Catholic Church is Shown in video: Gunning_Menauhant_Bldg_0493 (back) 8:17 Falmouth and then it says a Portuguese National Church which contains a famous painting of Our #ourladyoffatima 8:23 Lady of Fatima so anyone who's ever been inside of um of Saint Anthony's Church knows of this 8:30 this well-known beautiful painting of the version of Fatima there's a great story behind this which 8:37 I'd like to tell a little bit of if I can um with uh while looking at this at this at this postcard of the church I'm fortunately there's no postcard actually of the the Nossa Senhora de Fátima but 8:48 you'll have to stop by the church sometime to take a look at it if you're if you're curious um but what's interesting about this is that it it says right off the bat that this is a Portuguese 8:57 National Church and this was an interesting kind of a a political arrangement that this church had so most churches are arranged as parishes as when you live in a certain 9:06 geography and you go to that church because you uh you live in that in that in that parish that 9:11 that geographic parish territorial parish and in the case of Saint Anthony's church this was not 9:17 um how people belonged you belong to it if you were Portuguese so um this is something that 7 #portuguesenationalchurch �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 9:23 many of us have known in town for a long time especially those of us who you know were baptized 9:28 and had First Communion Confirmation in Saint Anthony's church as I did and um you know it's 9:33 a place that um was always known as a Portuguese church and what's interesting about this is that 9:41 this and the painting itself was part of a broader effort on the part of Portugal's Estado Novo 9:50 dictatorship the fascist dictatorship to promote cultural diplomacy in the United States by relying 9:58 on working with immigrant communities in order to gain political advantage in the places where 10:03 they were this doesn't mean that the people you know some people were actively involved in this consciously involved in this the vast majority of Portuguese in New England of course had no 10:14 idea this was going on you know they were just participating in you know in these power processes 10:19 that really didn't have anything to do with their conscious awareness of what they what they were participating in certainly you know the case of the of of the parishioners of Saint Anthony's 10:28 Saint Anthony's church but some of the operatives that were working on this was a good friend of 10:35 the parish priest at the time of um in in the 40s Father Avila no relationship to the current 8 #estadonovo [Jose M. Bettencourt Avila] �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 10:43 Father Avila that's Steve Avila that's now the the parishion- or the um the the priest of 10:48 uh of the church but Father Avila was involved was good friends with someone named Abecassis who 10:56 was one of the individuals involved in trying to create some of these cultural diplomacy efforts and what they were doing was one of the things they did was to try and send artists and 11:06 um and and literary people into communities in the U.S where they could become friends with some 11:11 high high level people one of the people that they sent to to do this was a man named Henrique Medina 11:17 Henrique Medina was the painter of the Virgin of Fatima painting at Saint Anthony's church 11:22 now Henrique Medina was a well-known he was born in 1900 uh 1901 something like that died in 1988 11:30 but he was a well-known portraitist and a portrait artist and one of his activities working on behalf 11:38 of the Portuguese Estado Novo was to try and get a film made in Hollywood about the Virgin of Fatima 11:43 so the Virgin of Fatima was this apparition of the the of the Virgin Mary to these three pastor 11:49 children in a field in Fatima Portugal there's a huge cathedral and shrine built to this to this 11:57 apparition and um in in any case the painting was designed um for it was it was painted so that it 12:06 could appear as a promo for the making of the film so the painting was made ahead of trying 9 #henriquemedina �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 12:12 to promote the film or get the film made the film eventually did get made but not for many years later but while Henrique Medina was was in Hollywood he actually was asked to paint the 12:23 famous painting in The Picture of Dorian Gray this film that that was that was made I think 12:30 it came out in the 30s or for 40s I think it was like 45 or so but this film came out of Hunt was I 12:37 believe the actor his his painting was the before picture not the after Picture of Dorian Gray but 12:43 um because he was a skilled and gifted portraitist but you can look it up online and see Henrique 12:48 Medina's Picture of Dorian Gray but in any case um I was in an alfarrabista in um in Lisbon and 12:55 an alfarrabista is one of these old ancient used bookstores where you can find things that go back you know hundreds of years uh and uh you know if you're if you're looking carefully and 13:05 I came across a silkscreened print of the Virgin of Fatima this painting by Henrique Medina that's 13:11 had that you know hung in this church that I went to every Sunday since I was a little kid and um I 13:17 was astonished that this was there and I looked at it excited to see uh whenever I'm in Portugal I like to run into people from Falmouth or see things from Falmouth so I got very excited to 10 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 13:25 read “Saint Anthony's Church, Falmouth, Mass” when I read where it was it was in a church in California 13:31 um and I was very surprised by this because the story that I had always heard about this 13:36 painting was that Father Avila had a commissioned directly from uh Henrique Medina as it turns out 13:42 not really quite the case um once the painting was made it was actually given to a Portuguese 13:47 church another Portuguese National Church in California um and uh and then eventually when 13:54 um when Father Avila was looking for this painting and trying to find one he ended up getting the 13:59 painting that had already been made and and was and was brought to him from um you know from from California so it's a kind of an interesting story about how this painting got to this got to this 14:09 church and more interesting even for my own work and research is how these kinds of of activities 14:15 promoted the sense of the Portuguese community here I mean this is a very famous painting people are very proud of this painting also in in town and um it also speaks to how sometimes how 14:26 um the reasons for something creating a community is not necessarily as important as the creation 14:32 of the community itself that the creation of the community has a life of its own beyond sometimes beyond beyond the the actions of 11 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth others to you know to try and create this these efforts 14:42 to help the Estado Novo and in the end maybe maybe didn't didn't quite quite do what they what they wanted to set out and wanted to do um but everybody should go to take a look at that 14:51 go to a Mass sometime at St Anthony's Church and and you can see the the painting hanging above the altar it's really a really a masterwork a beautiful beautiful piece of piece of art 15:01 um another thing I'd like to talk about when we talk about the Portuguese community is also is 15:06 um there are a number of mythologies that get spoken about saying that Portuguese and Cape 15:12 Verdeans weren't very politically active um and there's a great um a postcard here of the 15:20 um the what's now the school administration building uh that got built in I believe 1920s Shown in video: Gunning_Village_Bldg_0233 15:27 I want to say 1927 um but it was thereabouts after the old um Teaticket Village School burned #teaticketvillageschool 15:35 down uh then was briefly rebuilt if I'm not mistaken it's where the VFW Hall is now 15:40 um you also have a postcard of the old Village Teaticket Village School as well 15:46 um but um I I bring this up this postcard up because when Portuguese and Cape Verdeans started 15:52 to get politically active it's really interesting um another very important community institution that I haven't mentioned 12 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth are some of the other clubs in fact one of the oldest in Falmouth the 16:01 oldest civic and immigrant civic club is the Cape Verdean Club of Falmouth this actually started off 16:06 as a as a political club where they used to have meetings at Frank Rose's barber shop on Sandwich 16:12 Road there isn't a postcard of that either and and then eventually they moved their meetings 16:18 bi-weekly meet or bi-monthly meetings rather to the school administration building where they held them from the 30s they also sponsored candidates' nights sometimes they would hold them in some of 16:28 the other Portuguese community halls like Saint Anthony's Club sometimes they would hold them at the uh the Teaticket building eventually they built their own club starting in 1941 changed 16:38 the name of the political organization it was all the same people that were that were the the board members but they just re-changed the name to a to a civic club which is a Falmouth 16:48 Cape Verdean Club another extraordinary Falmouth institution that still is going quite strong today #falmouthcapeverdeanclub 16:54 and has a great a great number of wonderful activities that's on Sandwich Road as well so um why did they start getting involved why the school um you know the school administration #falmouthgovernment 17:05 building well it was very difficult for Portuguese people and Cape Verdean people to get elected to office townwide people 13 #civicclub �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth wouldn't vote for them however school districts were based 17:16 on geography and they were smaller so the very first successful political campaigns that were 17:21 waged and won by by Portuguese were first in the school board and so this is uh this is a great 17:28 postcard to kind of to bring that all home also it's because it's located really at the kind of 17:35 the crux of of what's a major thoroughfare of the Portuguese community so you have um you know Route 28 or Davis Straits turning into Route 28 and going off towards through Teaticket 17:44 and then into East Falmouth and you have Sandwich Road shooting up to Hatchville 17:49 um and um both of these streets were lined with Portuguese and Cape Verdean farms strawberry farms 17:55 mostly as you got further in there were cranberry bogs where many Cape Verdeans and Azoreans especially were working on those cranberry bogs as you got further out you know towards 18:06 Waquoit you also had some Cape Verdean cranberry bogs and Portuguese-owned cranberry bogs but 18:12 um you know this this school administration building is really kind of in the in the smack in the middle of where the Portuguese community started to really grow and it's 18:21 almost a monument to that that community in some ways I also feel fondly about it because my mother also worked when she was a young she was the salutatorian of Falmouth High School 14 #falmouthpublicschools #hatchville #waquoit �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 18:30 there were I think limited opportunities for young Portuguese American girls at that point to go to go to university which she certainly would have done if she was born in my generation 18:40 um but she became a secretary in the school admin building so my mother worked at this building 18:46 um you know for for many years I don't know if there's one of of of the um of the uh the 18:52 fire department but if you had one you could show that now because that's where my my dad worked for for his whole life he passed away in 2017 but but he was he was a fireman there from for his life 19:03 and also it was a was a captain um I would also bring up some of the other political activities 19:09 that took place with some of these communities by looking here at um Terrace Gables um what Terrace Gables and the Heights has to do with the Portuguese community is kind of another 19:17 small little story that um that doesn't really get talked about a lot but um there were two a 19:22 couple of really important civic organizations in Falmouth that that arose out of the movement 19:28 to "Americanize the immigrant" which was this post-1920s Progressivist movement and the idea 19:33 was that immigrants in America were not suitable for citizenship this was the the argument from 19:40 um from from certain quarters that they immigrants shouldn't be allowed to have citizenship because 15 #terracegables #falmouthheights �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 19:46 they were mentally psychologically inferior and they weren't civic-minded people and so 19:52 the movement to "Americanize the immigrant" was a Progressivist movement that certainly had its uh its problems most definitely in its definitions of what it meant to be an American and what it meant 20:02 to belong to a community but what they promoted was effectively the education classes in civics 20:09 teaching people how to participate in political political processes teaching them English these kinds of activities and there were two organizations in town that were deeply involved in 20:20 this one was an organization called the Portuguese Fraternity which was a insurance scheme like these 20:28 beneficent societies that were very common in the 20s there was no personal insurance there was no workman's comp right so you would belong to these insurance schemes that would help you to 20:38 pay in every week and then you would get get it if you were sick or heaven forbid you died you 20:44 would have money for a funeral or you would have money to pay for your you know convalescence while 20:49 you got better so one of the more prominent in not only New England but in the the United 20:55 States was one called the Portuguese Fraternity they had branches that were over 40 branches in its heyday 40 or 50 branches in its heyday and they had an annual retreat every year and in 1926 16 #portuguesefraternity �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 21:08 they held their annual retreat with all their new officers the national officers at Terrace Gables in Falmouth and there's a wonderful article written in the Enterprise another great initiative 21:18 of Falmouth Public Library that everybody should check out is the Enterprise digitization archives and um you know this this archive is uh has some really rich stuff in it and one of the they have 21:29 a great description of this event and in it the Enterprise actually translated from Portuguese 21:35 and into English and then printed this in 1926 in the Falmouth Enterprise an article describing 21:41 the describing this event and the really beautiful way that people the the author described Falmouth 21:47 sort of saying it was no doubt that people from the Azores were so interested in this beautiful place that was on the ocean and how could it not help but you know remind them of home so this was 21:58 uh this was I thought a um there's a couple of great postcards you have in the collection from Terrace Gables this of course was a tourist attraction which is why there's a couple of great 22:07 postcards about it but it wasn't just tourists going there obviously this was a place that um that 22:12 that other people in the community were using and relying on in this case the Portuguese Fraternity 22:18 um you know had had these great meetings there another one that I'd mentioned is the Portuguese American Civic League that also 17 “Portuguese Fraternity Meets in Falmouth,” Falmouth Enterprise, 6/12/1926 Gunning_Heights_Bldg_1169 through 1206 Hunt_Heights_Bldg 229 through 243 #portugueseamericancivicleague �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth was another organization civic-minded organization highly 22:26 involved and they did a number of activities at the Lawrence High School which you have also some great uh some great images of so these were sort of some of the you know there was a spread 22:36 of the you know we sometimes I think think about uh Portuguese history Cape Verdean history as if 22:42 um that's something apart from or separate from Falmouth history but it's not you know it's um 22:47 this is this this is uh Cape Verdean and Portuguese history is it is Falmouth history so um and the 22:53 people that that belong to these communities were not limited to these you know to their churches and their social clubs um they were people that had a reach throughout town that participated in 23:02 many organizations throughout town um that were Veterans of Foreign Wars and um you know that 23:07 uh that also lived in many other places all over town um Hatchville was kind of at the outskirts of 23:13 a lot of these Portuguese the Portuguese farming there were a great number of Portuguese farms in Hatchville spreading off towards North Falmouth as well but they bumped up against some of the 23:24 some of the um the non-Portuguese or the the WASP I guess um Falmouth resident farms and 18 #lawrencehighschool �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 23:34 um personally I grew up I I did the math once and I did all the I kind of measured it all out and 23:41 found out that I was almost equidistant where I grew up on I grew up on Turner Road from all 23:46 the main Portuguese clubs like the Portuguese American Association from the Holy Ghost Feast 23:51 from the Cape Verdean Club from Saint Anthony's Church so um but I was I was equidistant but I 23:57 was kind of a little bit removed from them where I was on Turner Road now by my family 24:02 um there's a great house actually just my my the house that my grandparents had their farm in uh was a home right on the corner of John Parker Road and Sandwich Road it actually just got bought 24:14 recently I'm I I it's it's a gonna be a great tragedy one of the other things that that happens 24:20 is a lot of these old Portuguese farmsteads because they're not in wealthier parts of town or in West Falmouth they don't get historical recognition the way that some of the other houses 24:28 do many of the these old Portuguese farmsteads are older than some of these other places have 24:33 you know I don't want to say they have richer histories every family history is beautiful and important but you know they have they have histories that are important to the town's you 19 #turnerroad #historichomes �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 24:40 know economic life and and community life as well and um you know they will get torn down so 24:46 this old uh you know a beautiful 1800 1800s farmstead um that you know was then purchased 24:53 by my uh by my family when they came to America and then used as a as their base for their farm 24:59 um uh which had land all across along uh Turner Road uh and then as each of one of their kids got married they just built a house on you know on the farmland and there was five of them and you know 25:09 this is a very typical Falmouth story you know I know I know tons of family I was talking to uh to Mary Bishop who's a great Falmouth resident and she was telling me how a very similar thing 25:19 happened to her family on Trotting Park Road and this is a very typical story that that people tell 25:25 um growing up in a place like that I was very was not strange for me I think it was strange anytime I talked to people not from Falmouth about it or not from you know these Portuguese 25:33 communities about it um but you know I had all my cousins and aunts and uncles all in one street and then eventually my grandparents left that house and moved across the street 25:43 um you know um and and you know we had this great life there and it was a very family oriented and 25:49 very fun um I mean at the time I think I probably was I felt a little restricted by it of course um 20 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 25:54 you know you couldn't like leave the house without 20 relatives seeing everything that you were doing 26:00 um which made some of my you know the fun activities that I might have done a little a little more difficult to pull off but um my sister didn't seem to have any problems 26:07 with it you know she she uh but this is always the case yeah the younger sibling always gets away with a lot more than the older one does um so but anyway uh you know growing up on on in 26:18 this in this area my family also um you know we I went to the school district that I belonged to 26:24 was not the Portuguese the school where all the #northfalmouthschool Portuguese were most of the Portuguese residents went which was like Teaticket School or East Falmouth school I went to North Falmouth 26:31 and um this was you know it was interesting because there weren't a lot of there were a couple but there weren't a lot of Portuguese kids at North Falmouth School and um I don't really think 26:41 I ever had a sense of myself as as you know being different until I went to North Falmouth School not not necessarily in a bad way I didn't I wasn't I didn't feel like I was left out of anything but 26:50 I just I got a real sense of like that I was oh yeah I'm really from this Portuguese part of town that's a that's a really different part of town than this than North Falmouth and West Falmouth 26:58 um and and anyway it was it was something that I was made very aware of as a result of um being kind of on these borders um 21 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth but also you know quite interesting as well because it I think 27:09 #oldsilverbeach that it allowed me a facility to kind of move between some of these different worlds um a lot more fluidly um as a result but anyway um I spent most of my days as a young kid on the Old Silver 27:20 Beach in the summers um which was you know in that part of in that part of town my father was a real 27:26 avid beachgoer in fact so speaking of postcards um there's a really famous like it's I think 27:32 one of the most famous postcards in the world if you are over a certain age it's the famous "where the boys are" postcard of Fort Lauderdale Florida and it was a a postcard that came out right after 27:42 the film and as many people did who saw that film they immediately went down to Florida to 27:49 um you know to go um to go go to the beach and go to Fort Lauderdale and these kinds of things 27:55 um my father's family actually would go would go down there before during this time period in the winters they worked construction and were um you know were were people that you can't really dig 28:05 in the ground when it's freezing out so they would sometimes go they would go to Florida um you know and uh and and and get away from the the cold uh but 28:16 um my father is on he's he's the biggest person on the on this really famous postcard 28:21 um and he sticks out like a sore thumb the poor thing he was a huge uh he loved going to the 22 #florida #postcards �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth beach but in the picture he got a little bit of a sun exposure and so he's 28:28 in in this jacket like zipped up and he was very embarrassed about this for the for his entire life being you know zipped up in this jacket and this really famous postcard that's all over you know 28:40 I'm sure that uh that if any if anyone had a relative that went to Florida you know uh in 28:46 Falmouth from you know basically up through the 90s so they they got they got this postcard sent to them by someone at some point uh anyway uh so there's Old Silver Beach my first job also actually 28:57 that's not true my first job um was working as a #falmouthenterprise uh a hawker for the Falmouth Enterprise 29:04 um they um Bill Hough um was was then the editor-in-chief and um they needed someone #billhough 29:10 to walk around selling the Road Race supplement on Road Race weekend so he hired me to I think #falmouthroadrace 29:16 I got like four cents a newspaper and I just went around to selling because they had the the edition had the program to the uh with all the uh the runners in the road race and other little 29:26 interviews and tidbits and what have you so yeah so I would just take these things and they would um you know I sold them all over all over Road Race weekend and then I sold them also in town 29:36 um walking down Gifford Street uh in front of the hospital extension and stopping traffic and 29:41 eventually Mr. Griffin who was my social studies teacher at Lawrence Junior High School he uh 23 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 29:47 they they stopped me and said I couldn't walk down in the traffic anymore and eventually they they had to stop the program because it was um obviously a horrible you know horribly dangerous 29:56 hazard but you know those were the days um uh so anyway um yeah we uh my first real job though uh 30:03 real proper job was working at the Sea Crest uh #seacresthotel in Falmouth and the Sea Crest is a really famed place there's a great postcard here of the Sea Crest Hotel um with a couple of images and this 30:15 is this is actually an image of the old one of the old the older version of the uh of the hotel 30:20 um it's it's a place that that really has a great fame I mean originally there was a a theater there 30:27 with uh Jimmy Stewart I think was part of this and Henry Fonda Margaret Sullivan also and then after 30:34 that it was uh the site of a a music club called the Latin Quarter which was run by Lou Walters who 30:41 was Barbara Walters' father and then eventually um it was it was bought and purchased and tried they 30:48 tried to turn it into a kind of a you know like the Cape Codder or some of these other places some of these other big resorts creating a you know creating a seaside resort in Falmouth and this 30:57 was during this large push you know in the 40s and 50s when they when when Falmouth really started 31:04 turning towards a tourist economy and they really tried to promote Falmouth as a place for 24 Shown in video: Hunt_North_Bldg_396 #latinquarter #louwalters #tourism #1971 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth tourism and eventually it was bought in 1971 and this is who I worked for by Red Auerbach who was the 31:16 the you know the great coach of the of the Boston Celtics and a later general manager um Mr. Battles 31:22 I think I always called him Mr. Battles I think his name was Ken Battles if I'm not mistake and then Steve Hill who who was an incredible uh incredible person who just he was an entertainer a performer 31:33 and what they really did was they tried to create almost like um like a Catskills at at the Sea Crest 31:40 and um you know there are a lot of Jewish families that would come down for uh for holiday uh they 31:47 had mahjong tournaments um you know where the whole place was just filled with um with 31:52 um Jewish women playing mahjong it was just a lot of fun and um I literally had every job at this 31:59 place I worked as a uh predominantly I worked as a waiter and a um and a um a busboy but I worked 32:07 you know I also worked in the kitchen I worked on the line sometimes they'd hired me that I was in the I was in the pantry I was a bellboy I did I did so many things at this place I um you know I 32:16 once waited on Sid Caesar actually uh was was a guest there sometimes and I waited on him a couple 32:22 times great tipper by the way um and um but one thing that they asked me to do um this is when 25 #kenbattles #stevehill #sidcaesar �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 32:28 Steve Hill died shortly after I was only there for a couple years before uh before Steve passed away 32:36 um but he had he created this place that was an incredible venue for live music and entertainment so they would have nightclub shows all the time with comedians and you know like uh 32:44 bands like the The Drifters played there and you know these kind of older bands that that 32:50 um uh that were very popular at the time um would come through and play in Falmouth and 32:56 um they would hire me every every night or on the weekends to work the spotlight so I would like you 33:02 know I was a young kid you know 14 15 16 years old I worked there from like 14 to 17 or 18 and 33:09 um you know it just uh was was quite an eyeopening experience for this young you know Portuguese Catholic boy from a pretty strict family Catholic uh family uh Portuguese Catholic 33:19 family to um you know to be put into this world of uh of of you know entertainment and 33:26 um you know Steve Hill had some really crazy parties that we would we sometimes asked to work 33:31 um and it was a real eye-opening experience for a you know for a young man to um to see this kind of 33:36 world and possibilities and also the Sea Crest had so many people from all over that were working there as well you've had a lot of 26 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth people coming down over the summers from outside of Boston and 33:46 New York and other places you had a lot of people from Bourne working there again like these kind of different communities of people all coming together and it was a great experience to work 33:55 there and and kind of um uh kind of come together with all these people and it really changed me as 34:01 a person I think um I I won't say his name but a um you know there's a a a law enforcement officer 34:10 let's just say on Cape Cod somewhere who was uh um who was a a great a great running mate 34:16 there and was was someone who you know opened my eyes to a lot of things in the world that um that 34:21 he's probably arresting for people now but um in any case uh it was a really dynamic and fantastic 34:27 place to to hang out um and so and also yeah I was working there right so yes to work at as well 34:33 um one of the things that we did um there's some pictures here the of the of the ballpark the Heights um uh you have the Heights ballfield there's three great great images that you have #falmouthheightsballpark 34:44 um one that I'm um really shows the ballpark though as it looks out and I bring this up because Shown in video: Gunning_Heights_Ball_1251, Hunt_Heights_Bldg_267 34:50 you have one of people like in the early 1900s at the you know watching a ball game at uh you know at the ballpark and this was the set #capecodbarleague 27 #baseball #softball �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth the scene of the uh what was called the Cape Cod Bar Leagues and 35:02 this was a a really well known I mean it was it was we got tons of people to come out to our games 35:09 um and it was a real you know it was kind of like you were you were drinking while you were playing of course like most softball is but with the added extra push that this was actually the bar and so 35:17 all the all the big bars in Falmouth had fielded teams and it was a fairly big deal you know the the Enterprise would list um capsules of of the games you know next to the Commodores games they 35:28 kept uh listings of the standings you know they had photographs when teams won the championship 35:34 um and you know I would always look we'd always look in the capsules and read them next day and see where we were in the standings but we played all over teams like a number 35:42 of great Falmouth bars that no longer exist you know like the Yesterdays and the Casino used to have it used to have a team the the Towne Tavern actually had a very competitive team they #casinobar were usually a real good team Captain Kidd had a team the Landfall had a team and then you know the Sea Crest also had a we had we had a team as well and yeah we played all over the place #captainkidd 35:51 36:01 um the one story that I would tell about the about the ballpark here um is um you know is 28 Shown in video: “Yesterdays Fell Yesterday to Landfall,” from the Falmouth Enterprise, August 3, 1984 #yesterdays #townetavern #landfallrestaurant �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 36:06 a uh it's it's uh we were playing a game and um I think it was Brendan McCarthy who who worked there 36:14 as a waiter as well uh his uh he was from North Falmouth his his dad was part of the McCarthy Ice 36:19 Cream McCarthy Brothers Ice Cream which I think they that doesn't exist anymore but as a kid I 36:25 used to think it was so cool that my classmates could just get ice cream whenever they wanted 36:30 um but anyway he uh he must have it must have been all that dairy that that helped him because he he hit a shot uh in a game once at the ball field that went all the way to what was was then 36:40 known as the Finish Line Tavern it was it's now no longer that it's and they rearranged 36:45 the space there's like a bar over there now I think I think it was the a beer a beer joint 36:50 for a while and that place went out of business because I don't it wasn't really good um and then there's a new place there now um but anyway he hit a shot and at that point the kitchen was 37:00 on that side facing the ball field and the ball went rocketing through them it was it was just a 37:06 rocket shot of a of a home run that he hit and it went blasting just smashing through the window and 37:13 unfortunately just spread glass like all over the kitchen into all of the dishes everybody's food 29 #brendanmccarthy #mccarthybrothersicecreamcompany #finishlinetavern �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 37:19 right they had to obviously throw everything out basically shut down for the afternoon and the chef 37:24 um you know I I mean we've all read Anthony Bourdain's book and you know especially in the 80s 37:31 um speaking of all those all those early vices um you know the chefs were often times under the 37:37 influence of of certain of certain things that made them a little agitated and excitable and the 37:42 chef when his entire you know meal service was destroyed for the afternoon came running out of 37:48 the the Finish Line Tavern with his largest knife and uh came chasing after uh poor Brendan McCarthy 37:54 on the you know on the field fortunately cooler heads prevailed and there was there was no damage 37:59 but when when we went back the next year for games there was an iron gate over the over the window of 38:06 the uh you know of the Finish Line Tavern so you know those are the kind of some of the postcards 38:12 I wanted to to talk about in and sort of also doing so I I would just like kind of say that 38:17 um you know this community of Falmouth like we're talking about different communities in Falmouth but really it's one community of Falmouth it's um you know it's it's people that have they're 38:26 all sharing their lives together that we're all participating in all these um you know fun 30 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth activities together um in these different institutions um and um you know families that 38:38 have gone back for generations independent if they were Portuguese or Cape Verdean or not and um and 38:43 all these people living all their lives together in this in this really wonderful place um I really love these postcards and um you know it's a it's it's a great a great treat and pleasure to have 38:52 been able to uh to talk about some of these uh some of these postcards with you 31 � 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Video transcript 1971 agriculture baseball Bill Hough Brendan McCarthy Brick Kiln Road Cape Cod Bar League Cape Verdean American history Captain Kidd Carriage Shop Road Casino bar civic club Coonamessett Farm cranberry bog East Falmouth East Falmouth Village School Estado Novo Falmouth Cape Verdean Club Falmouth Enterprise Falmouth government Falmouth Heights Falmouth Heights ballpark Falmouth public schools Falmouth Road Race Finish Line Tavern Florida Fresh Pond Holy Ghost Society Hatchville Henrique Medina historic homes Holy Ghost Society Joy of Learning Ken Battles Landfall Restaurant Latin Quarter Lawrence High School Lou Walters McCarthy Brothers Ice Cream Company North Falmouth School Old Silver Beach Our Lady of Fatima Portuguese American Civic League Portuguese American history Portuguese Fraternity Portuguese National Church postcards Saint Anthony’s Church Saint Anthony’s Club Sea Crest Hotel Sid Caesar softball Steve Hill strawberries Teaticket Teaticket Village School Terrace Gables tourism Towne Tavern Turner Road Waquoit Yesterdays Bar https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/32209/archive/files/f1cc96be2b2fdea073bde8b6c136b798.pdf?Expires=1779321600&Signature=fr-dpvIdriURKfPCONutbP0GVvAp6J2NpblUwRTIByOejsIznSW35WeCJT%7Eh4xe5135mHWqhs9Jh85vqgtEu-Tjn2bu9EcEhTOROwqOn-oN4YW6S5pZ4YRaOXMHLGc71Gd-5BuPMcfZeuJCqvuR4AzbvQmeHPKHjHL%7EYkAzPAEbFvLkV2RqhwvTHrEk4tPj8CvvotG5b3D%7EkcG6FN81TFbi-k6l3q4C4YLv2llu6Zm74YWoAjC3lqkKY1OsqjVT0uCAf8aMB9Ve9wBtKjtDDyFWMej0Z98sXbkJ2fNIz%7Es4sQ1i-8mBwTnhjRLyGo5I9DuDwxJC3F6bwlsCHCLb3dg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM fe58c392f73839a6fd65400559b2c4ef PDF Text Text 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. 00:00 00:45 00:47 00:48 00:51 00:52 00:54 00:56 00:59 00:59 01:02 01:06 01:10 01:13 01:19 01:23 01:26 01:29 01:33 01:36 01:40 01:41 01:44 01:45 01:47 01:48 01:51 01:52 01:54 01:55 [Music] hello everyone I hope that a lot of you were here last week and you came back to see part two of my pair of events with the Falmouth library so I wanted to start off so you can see me but we're gonna dive right into the actual PowerPoint presentation it's gonna be nightlife and hotels Falmouth in the area around that so let's go right into it I’m going to open up my presentation and we will start from there so this presentation is going to combine my fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod and so what we're doing is basically for those of you that weren't here last week I am a 12th generation Cape Codder through the Doane family that helped to settle Eastham and I included this photo here this is the monument to my ninth great grandfather Deacon John Doane who helped to settle the town of Eastham 1 #doane #eastham �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 01:57 02:00 02:02 02:04 02:08 02:12 02:14 02:15 02:18 02:20 02:24 02:28 02:32 02:35 02:36 02:39 02:40 02:45 02:48 02:51 02:52 02:54 02:56 02:58 03:00 03:02 03:04 03:06 03:07 03:10 03:12 03:15 03:18 03:20 03:23 03:27 03:30 03:33 03:34 03:37 03:39 03:42 03:46 03:49 03:50 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 2 #1644 #coveburyingground #route6 #henrydavidthoreau #1865 #highlandhouse #truro �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 03:54 03:57 04:00 04:03 04:06 04:08 04:10 04:14 04:19 04:21 04:23 04:25 04:27 04:30 04:31 04:34 04:36 04:40 04:46 04:49 04:52 04:52 04:55 04:57 05:01 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 05:04 was on Grand Avenue in Falmouth Heights #highlandlighthouse #terracegables Gunning_Heights_Bldg_1169 through 1206 Hunt_Heights_Bldg_229 through 243 #grandavenue #falmouthheights Gunning_Heights_Sts_1062 through 1074 Hunt_Heights_Sts_320 through 325 05:07 05:10 05:12 05:14 05:18 05:21 05:25 05:27 05:29 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 #drapercottage #charlesdraper #1902 #menauhanthotel Hunt_Menauhant_Bldg_343 and 344 3 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Gunning_Menauhant_Bldg_0492 05:33 05:36 05:37 05:39 05:41 05:43 05:48 05:52 05:53 05:57 05:59 06:03 06:06 06:08 06:10 06:12 06:15 06:16 06:19 06:21 06:25 06:28 06:30 06:32 06:33 06:36 06:39 06:40 06:43 06:44 06:46 06:48 06:50 06:54 06:57 06:59 07:03 07:04 07:08 07:12 07:15 07:19 07:21 07:23 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 4 #club46 #brothersfour #1971 #hotelattaquin #route130 #mashpee #wampanoag #solomonattaquin #1840 #mashpeepond #wakebypond �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 07:26 07:27 07:31 07:34 07:36 07:37 07:40 07:44 07:47 07:48 07:52 07:54 07:55 07:59 08:02 08:06 08:09 08:12 08:13 08:16 08:18 08:22 08:24 08:26 08:29 08:32 08:33 08:36 08:39 08:40 08:42 08:48 08:52 08:54 08:57 Ponds 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 #1895 #1928 #prohibition #1955 #mashpeecommunitygardens #capecodder Gunning_Sippewissett_Bldg_1027 through 1034 Hunt_Sippewissett_Bldg_526 through 529 08:59 09:01 09:02 09:06 confused with the Cape Codder that is in Hyannis it opened in 1900 originally known as the Sippewissett Hotel 5 #1900 #sippewissetthotel �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Gunning_Sippewissett_Bldg_1036 through 1046 Hunt_Sippewissett_Bldg_519 through 522 09:09 09:11 09:12 09:16 09:20 09:22 09:24 09:26 the land that it was on overlooking the ocean was originally a sheep farm owned by a man named Richard Swift 180 acres before it became the Cape Codder after it was the Sippewissett hotel it was then the Mayflower Hotel #richardswift #mayflowerhotel Hunt_Sippewissett_Bldg_524 09:28 09:30 09:33 09:37 09:40 09:43 09:45 09:49 09:51 09:53 09:55 09:57 10:00 10:01 10:03 10:06 10:06 10:09 10:12 10:16 10:18 10:21 10:23 10:24 10:28 10:30 10:35 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 #1931 #thepines #cotuit #peterson #1988 #coonamessettinn Hunt_Hatchville_Bldg_466 through 469 6 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Gunning_Hatchville_Bldg_0544 through 0550 10:38 10:39 10:44 10:48 10:50 10:54 10:56 10:58 11:00 11:03 11:06 11:10 11:13 11:14 11:17 11:20 11:23 11:24 11:27 11:28 11:31 11:33 11:35 11:37 11:38 11:41 11:42 11:45 11:47 11:52 11:57 12:00 12:03 12:06 12:08 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 #1927 #1826 #ednaharris #1930 #williamchase #greatisland #yarmouth #chase #megansetttearoom Gunning_North_Bldg_1376 through 1382 #northfalmouth #hangartearoom #1953 #falmouthplayhouse Gunning_Hatchville_Bldg_0532 through 0539 12:10 close by so you had a lot of 12:12 entertainers there 7 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 12:13 12:16 12:18 12:22 12:24 12:27 12:30 12:32 12:33 12:36 12:37 12:40 12:41 12:43 12:44 12:47 12:48 12:50 12:52 12:54 12:56 13:00 and Edna Harris was very well known and well regarded and interestingly in 1953 she was told that her lease on the property was not going to be renewed and this is where her story she became a legend in my eyes when I was researching this because she had already done the Megansett Tea Room and she made the Coonamessett Inn the place to be she actually also leased the Popponeset Inn and had her daughter Hilda Coppage run it so she had her fingers in a lot of pies as far as Cape Cod hospitality but what she did with the Coonamessett was legendary so the Coonamessett was going to become a Treadway Inn which was kind of a small #popponessetinn #hildacoppage #treadwayinn Gunning_North_Bldg_1425 through 1429 13:04 13:04 13:08 13:11 13:15 13:17 13:20 13:22 13:24 13:27 13:29 13:31 13:34 13:35 13:39 13:40 13:43 13:46 chain in the 1950s what she did though was Edna Harris owned the liquor license so she bought property on Gifford Street 311 Gifford Street which was a home originally owned by a man named Robert Longier and she bought that house had it converted and got uh the license to run it as an inn she took her liquor license with her and then because the old Coonamessett property was going to be a Treadway Inn she took the Coonamessett name with her and the furniture so she basically took the Coonamessett and everything that made it great and 8 #giffordstreet �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 13:47 13:48 13:52 13:55 13:56 13:58 14:00 14:02 14:04 14:07 14:09 14:10 14:14 14:18 14:21 14:22 14:24 14:27 14:30 14:31 14:34 14:36 14:38 14:40 14:43 14:44 14:48 14:50 14:52 14:56 14:58 15:00 15:02 15:04 15:06 15:08 15:10 15:13 15:14 15:16 15:19 15:22 15:25 15:28 15:32 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 9 #buzzardsbay #bournehurstonthecanal #bournebridge �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 15:34 15:37 15:40 15:44 15:46 15:50 15:53 15:57 15:57 16:01 16:04 16:06 16:09 16:09 16:13 16:16 16:19 16:21 16:23 16:27 16:30 16:34 16:37 16:40 16:42 16:44 16:45 16:47 16:48 16:52 16:55 16:57 16:58 17:01 17:06 17:08 17:11 17:14 17:15 17:18 17:19 17:23 17:25 17:26 17:28 opened in 1920 and it was seen as as a large entertainment complex because when you can't serve alcohol you've got to have some other ways to entertain people so opening night at the Bournehurst was July 10th of 1920 and there was more than 2100 people there for that event they had basketball games they had boxing matches they actually in 1922 they opened a lunchroom inside run by a man named Fred Lutz it was well known for its clam cakes it was also a spot in the late 20s where young up-and-coming jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway played at the Bournehurst the biggest event I suppose at the Bournehurst was July 26 1930 when Rudy Vallée and his orchestra came and played there the Bournehurst inside was packed outside there were hundreds and hundreds of people waiting just to get a glimpse of Rudy Vallée State Police had to be called to try to subdue the crowd which eventually they did but that was one of the last hurrahs for the Bournehurst October 18th 1933 a fire broke out with eyewitnesses said it was the hottest fire they'd ever seen and unfortunately that it didn't end the Bournehurst but then there was another fire 10 months later and that was really what did it so in the summer of 1934 the burn Bournehurst burned to the ground and sadly it was right 10 #1920 #fredlutz #dukeellington #cabcalloway #rudyvallee �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 17:29 17:32 17:34 17:37 17:38 17:40 17:42 17:44 17:46 17:47 17:51 17:55 17:55 17:59 18:02 18:05 18:06 18:10 18:14 18:17 18:22 18:25 18:27 18:29 18:30 18:32 18:33 18:35 18:38 18:41 18:42 18:44 18:46 18:48 18:51 18:54 18:56 18:58 18:59 19:02 19:06 19:09 19:13 19:14 19:16 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 Cod Melody Tent 11 #bluemoondancingpavilion #georgeblakeslee #alexbyron #1957 #buzzardsbaysummertheatre �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 19:17 19:20 19:23 19:27 19:30 19:32 19:36 19:39 19:41 19:45 19:46 19:48 19:50 19:54 19:56 19:58 20:01 20:02 20:05 20:06 20:09 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 20:12 20:14 20:15 20:17 20:20 20:21 20:23 20:25 20:26 20:29 20:30 20:32 20:34 20:37 20:39 20:41 20:43 20:45 20:47 20:49 20:51 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 12 #byronslanding #1986 Reading from Chapter 8 of Cape Cod Nights begins here. #1870 #greathill #georgedavis #falmouthheightslandandwharfcompany #gedwardsmith #casino #1901 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Gunning_Heights_Bldg_1151 through 1157 Hunt_Heights_Bldg_208 through 218 20:54 20:56 21:00 21:03 21:04 21:07 21:10 21:12 21:15 21:17 21:20 21:22 21:23 21:27 21:28 21:31 21:32 21:34 21:37 21:39 21:41 21:43 21:46 21:48 21:51 21:54 21:57 22:00 22:02 22:05 22:06 22:09 22:10 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 22:14 coming down from Dinty Moore’s in Boston 22:16 to run the bar 22:18 donned in a striped pullover dungarees 22:20 and a beret 22:22 Miron gained notoriety locally as his 22:25 talent for caricatures became apparent 13 #charleshopson #cottageclub #1909 #1937 #harryhopson #1939 #casinobar #joemiron Hunt_Heights_Bldg_216 #dintymoore #boston �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 22:28 22:30 22:32 22:34 22:36 22:39 22:41 22:43 22:46 22:48 22:50 22:52 22:55 22:57 22:59 23:02 23:03 23:07 23:09 23:12 23:14 23:15 23:19 23:22 23:24 23:27 23:31 23:33 23:35 23:37 23:38 23:41 23:43 23:44 23:47 23:50 23:51 23:54 23:56 23:58 24:00 24:03 24:04 24:05 24:08 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 14 #1940 #1938 #1944 #williammccann #1945 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 24:10 24:13 24:16 24:17 24:21 24:23 24:26 24:28 24:29 24:32 24:32 24:36 24:36 24:40 24:43 24:46 24:48 24:50 24:53 24:54 24:57 25:00 25:04 25:06 25:07 25:11 25:13 25:16 25:17 25:19 25:21 25:24 25:27 25:29 25:30 25:32 25:35 25:37 25:39 25:41 25:43 25:45 25:48 25:49 25:51 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 15 #1949 #casinobythesea #1966 #williamsweeneyjr �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 25:53 25:55 25:56 25:59 26:00 26:02 26:03 26:07 26:09 26:11 26:13 26:15 26:18 26:22 26:25 26:27 26:29 26:31 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 26:33 26:36 26:36 26:39 26:42 26:43 26:45 26:46 26:49 26:53 26:57 27:00 27:02 27:04 27:07 27:09 27:12 for those of you that have never read my book Cape Cod nights I put drink recipes at the end of the chapter for each spot in there and I pick the decade that I see as when it was most popular and so the 1940s I picked for the Casino but after Prohibition and with the rise in popularity of nightclubs and bars there was a need for more hotels and resorts this included the Red Horse Inn which for those of you who were here last week you'll remember that the Red Horse Inn started as The Bellows #2000 #frankmessina #2003 #casinowharffx Reading from Cape Cod Nights ends here. #redhorseinn #thebellows Gunning_Village_Bldg_0386 through 0391 27:14 27:18 27:19 27:22 27:26 27:30 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 16 #theklahedlund #1933 #falmouthheightsroad �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 27:35 27:36 27:39 27:45 27:47 27:49 27:53 27:56 28:00 28:03 28:03 28:06 28:09 28:12 28:14 28:17 28:18 28:22 28:25 28:28 28:30 28:32 28:34 28:36 28:37 28:40 28:41 28:44 28:47 28:48 28:51 28:54 28:55 28:58 29:00 29:03 29:05 29:07 29:09 29:11 29:13 29:15 29:16 29:19 29:22 the name was changed to the Red Horse Grill and then to the Red Horse Inn and it's been standing ever since Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with Edna Harris it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee right in the middle of New Seabury in 1941 it opened as an actual resort it was originally owned by Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought the property in 1929 interestingly before it became the luxury resort it was leased out by a nurse named Norma Armstrong and she ran it as um a campsite where basically people that were going there they had the money to rent rooms at these high-class resorts but they actually preferred staying in this trailer park slash campground that was affectionately known as tent city and it was 4 000 acres then in 1941 when it became the Popponesset Inn then it took off where it started with 10 rooms then quickly added 15 more as I said Edna Harris took it over in 1947 and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in charge once New Seabury was built and finished in 1964 then it became a popular wedding destination and it was actually owned by the Chase family until 1998. it's known for its spectacular views fine dining 17 #redhorsegrill #shoredrive #newseabury #malcolmchase #1929 #normaarmstrong #1964 #1998 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 29:23 29:26 29:29 29:34 29:36 29:38 29:41 29:45 29:48 29:51 29:53 29:55 29:58 30:01 30:04 30:05 30:10 30:12 30:13 30:16 30:17 30:20 30:23 30:26 30:28 30:30 30:32 30:34 30:37 30:39 30:40 30:43 30:45 30:48 30:53 30:55 30:57 31:02 31:05 31:08 31:09 31:11 31:12 31:16 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 18 #robbat #falmouthroadrace #tommyleonard #captainkidd #woodshole #1987 #yesterdaysbar �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 31:18 31:19 31:22 31:23 31:26 31:29 31:30 31:33 31:35 31:37 31:40 31:40 31:44 31:45 31:48 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 Hunt_North_Bldg_396 31:54 31:56 31:57 32:00 32:02 32:06 32:07 32:10 32:12 32:16 32:17 32:19 32:23 32:26 32:27 32:32 32:35 32:38 32:39 32:41 32:42 32:44 32:46 32:50 32:54 32:58 33:00 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 19 #universityplayers #jimmystewart #henryfonda #beachtheater #1936 #neptunestryst #oldsilverbeachclub #latinquarter #louwalters #barbarawalters #1948 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 33:03 33:07 33:09 33:11 33:14 33:21 33:24 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 33:28 33:31 33:34 33:36 33:40 33:44 33:47 33:50 33:51 33:55 33:58 33:59 34:01 34:03 34:06 34:06 34:09 34:11 34:13 34:15 34:16 34:18 34:20 34:24 34:27 34:28 34:31 34:32 34:35 34:38 34:39 34:42 34:44 34:46 34:48 34:50 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 #redauerbach #bostonceltics #smithsoldesurreyroom Gunning_Village_Bldg_0384 20 #falmouthbowlingalley #lestercrane #falmouthenterprise #danielsmith #danielbartolomei #danny-kays �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 34:53 34:57 35:00 35:02 35:05 35:08 35:09 35:11 35:12 35:16 35:20 35:21 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 #duncanhines #mainstreet Gunning_Village_Sts_0017 through 0041 Hunt_Village_Sts_155 through 166 35:24 35:26 35:28 35:31 35:31 35:35 35:37 35:40 35:43 35:46 35:50 35:52 35:54 35:56 35:59 36:00 36:03 36:04 36:08 36:10 36:12 36:14 36:16 36:18 36:21 36:22 36:23 36:26 36:30 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 out there that they were going to be 21 #graygablesinn #presidentsroad #grovercleveland #josephjefferson #clevelandledgelighthouse �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 36:31 36:33 36:35 36:36 36:38 36:40 36:43 36:46 36:48 36:50 36:51 36:55 36:56 37:00 37:02 37:03 37:08 37:12 37:14 37:15 37:19 37:21 37:23 37:25 37:27 37:29 37:30 37:32 37:33 37:35 37:37 37:41 37:44 37:46 37:47 37:50 37:53 37:57 37:57 38:00 38:03 38:06 38:08 38:11 38:13 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 22 #1920 #johnstackpole #1961 #peggyalden #1973 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 38:15 38:16 38:20 38:23 38:24 38:28 38:30 38:31 38:34 38:35 38:38 38:39 38:42 38:44 38:48 38:51 38:54 38:54 38:57 38:58 39:02 39:06 39:07 39:10 39:14 39:17 39:22 39:25 39:28 39:31 39:32 39:36 39:38 39:43 39:47 39:50 39:52 39:53 39:56 39:58 40:01 40:04 40:07 40:09 40:11 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 23 #worldwarone #worldwartwo �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 40:15 Two was interesting as far as the Coonamessett 40:18 because like I mentioned Edna Harris was 40:22 though well she didn't own it she leased 40:24 it 40:25 but Camp Edwards was right nearby #campedwards Gunning_Hatchville_Miltry_0557 through 0561 40:29 40:33 40:36 40:38 40:41 40:44 40:45 40:48 40:52 40:55 40:57 40:58 41:00 41:02 41:05 41:06 41:10 41:13 41:15 41:16 41:19 41:21 41:25 41:27 41:30 41:32 41:33 41:35 41:37 41:39 41:41 41:45 41:47 41:49 41:50 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 24 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 41:52 41:53 41:56 41:57 41:58 42:02 42:06 42:07 42:09 42:12 42:14 42:16 42:18 42:20 42:24 42:27 42:28 42:31 42:34 42:37 42:38 42:41 42:44 42:46 42:48 42:50 42:52 42:54 42:56 42:58 42:59 43:02 43:03 43:07 43:10 43:10 43:12 43:14 43:17 43:17 43:19 43:21 43:22 43:24 43:26 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 25 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 43:29 43:31 43:33 43:34 43:38 43:41 43:42 43:44 43:47 43:50 43:52 43:54 43:55 43:59 44:01 44:02 44:06 44:08 44:09 44:12 44:14 44:15 44:18 44:19 44:21 44:23 44:27 44:29 44:32 44:36 44:40 44:43 44:44 44:46 44:47 44:50 44:51 44:53 44:57 45:00 45:05 45:06 45:08 45:10 definitely so do you go into all these different groups all over the Cape or yes so after social media I would then reach out to historical societies the Bourne Historical Society was very helpful with the Blue Moon Dancing Pavilion and the Bournehurst and even places that I didn't end up using for the book like Quintals they would send me photos Falmouth I think Falmouth Library sent me a bunch of postcards of and it was essentially just like these places might be ones you'd be interested in and I would look at the postcards and then I would start researching from there and that's where a place like Smith's Olde Surrey Room came from I didn't know it at all and I saw a postcard of and I said that looks interesting a big carriage inside the bar so it was so much of this was other people helping me because my knowledge of restaurants hotels and nightclubs is very limited you're talking 1980s to now and mainly Mid-Cape because that's where I grew up so I had to rely on a lot of people to help me put this together these three books yeah so what made you decide you wanted to write a book like this about restaurants so the restaurants one was actually pitched to me so I have a friend of mine Bill DeSousaMauk see this is what I like is I like when other people share what they know because my knowledge is based on my research and 26 #bournehistoricalsociety #quintals �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 45:12 45:15 45:19 45:20 45:21 45:23 45:25 45:25 45:27 45:30 45:32 45:33 45:36 45:36 45:38 45:40 45:41 45:44 45:46 45:48 45:51 45:53 45:55 45:57 45:58 46:01 46:02 46:05 46:09 46:11 46:14 46:16 46:18 46:26 46:28 46:29 46:33 46:36 46:36 46:40 46:43 46:45 46:48 46:51 46:54 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 27 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 46:58 46:59 47:02 47:03 47:05 47:06 47:09 47:11 47:12 47:14 47:16 47:18 47:20 47:21 47:22 47:24 47:25 47:27 47:31 47:31 47:34 47:35 47:38 47:39 47:41 47:43 47:45 47:46 47:49 47:51 47:52 47:53 47:56 48:00 48:02 48:03 48:06 48:09 48:11 48:15 48:18 48:20 48:21 48:24 48:26 like 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 28 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 48:29 48:32 48:35 48:36 48:38 48:40 48:42 48:45 48:47 48:49 48:50 48:53 48:57 49:00 49:03 49:06 49:08 49:12 49:15 49:17 49:19 49:21 49:22 49:24 49:24 49:27 49:30 49:31 49:33 49:36 49:38 49:41 49:42 49:45 49:46 49:49 49:52 49:54 49:58 50:00 50:03 50:04 50:07 50:10 50:11 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 29 #inmyfootsteps �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 50:15 50:17 50:18 50:21 50:23 50:24 50:27 50:29 50:32 50:35 50:37 50:39 50:42 50:46 50:48 50:49 50:51 50:52 50:56 50:57 51:01 51:02 51:05 51:08 51:09 51:11 51:13 51:15 51:17 51:19 51:21 51:22 51:25 51:25 51:29 51:33 51:36 51:37 51:39 51:41 51:44 51:44 51:47 51:48 51:51 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 30 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 51:52 51:55 51:58 51:59 52:01 52:02 52:05 52:07 52:09 52:10 52:12 52:13 52:17 52:19 52:20 52:22 52:26 52:28 52:30 52:30 52:32 52:34 52:35 52:36 52:38 52:40 52:41 52:44 52:45 52:48 52:50 52:53 52:53 52:56 52:59 53:01 53:03 53:05 53:06 53:09 53:11 53:13 53:14 53:17 53:18 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 31 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 53:21 53:22 53:25 53:26 53:30 53:33 53:34 53:38 53:41 53:45 53:49 53:51 53:54 53:55 53:58 53:59 54:01 54:04 54:06 54:09 54:11 54:11 54:13 54:15 54:17 54:19 54:20 54:22 54:24 54:26 54:30 54:33 54:33 54:36 54:38 54:40 54:43 54:45 54:48 54:48 54:50 54:52 54:54 54:55 54:57 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 32 Hunt_Heights_Bldg_216 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 54:59 55:02 55:07 55:08 55:11 55:11 55:13 55:14 55:18 55:21 55:22 55:23 55:26 55:28 55:30 55:34 55:36 55:38 55:40 55:42 55:44 55:44 55:46 55:48 55:50 55:52 55:54 55:56 55:59 56:01 56:03 56:05 56:07 56:09 56:11 56:14 56:16 56:17 56:20 56:24 56:25 56:27 56:30 56:31 56:34 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 33 christophersetterlund.com �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 56:36 56:37 56:39 56:41 56:42 56:44 56:45 56:47 56:49 56:51 56:54 56:56 56:58 56:59 57:01 57:03 57:05 57:06 57:10 57:12 57:14 57:17 57:18 57:20 57:23 57:24 57:26 57:27 57:29 57:30 57:32 57:35 57:37 57:38 57:41 57:42 57:44 57:47 57:50 57:51 57:54 57:56 57:58 57:58 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 34 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 58:01 58:02 58:06 58:08 58:10 58:11 58:14 58:17 58:19 58:21 58:23 58:27 58:30 58:31 58:34 58:35 58:39 58:42 58:44 58:46 58:49 58:51 58:54 58:55 58:58 59:00 59:04 59:06 59:08 59:10 59:12 59:13 59:15 59:18 59:21 59:22 59:24 59:26 59:28 59:29 59:31 59:33 59:47 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 [Music] 35 #wequassetresort #davidkelley #centerville � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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