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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: March 11, 2022
Oral Historian: James Kalperis, Otis Porter
Interviewer: Barbara Kanellopoulos
Topic: Falmouth Public Schools
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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hello and welcome to the Falmouth public
library's program of oral history
I am here today with two oral historians who
will
talk about the Falmouth library’s collection of
historic postcards that trigger memories
of Falmouth's past it is March 11 2022
and we are going to hear about what was
going on in some of the early days of
Falmouth welcome to the program and I'll let
I'll let you introduce yourselves we
have the oral historians go ahead thank you
I'm Otis Porter
from Falmouth lived here all my life and I was
a teacher at Falmouth High School and before
that
Lawrence School the junior high but I was
also a student at the Mullen School which was
then
known as the Village School and the Hall
School which was next door to it which has
been torn down since yes
and I arrived here in 1955 as a teacher science
teacher
and later on and as an administrator and I
retired in 1994. yes and Jim
Kalperis is well known as Kalpy his former
students
always had that affectionate term for him so
welcome to the program let's begin by
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#falmouthhighschool
#falmouthpublicschools
#lawrenceschool #mullenschool
#villageschool #hallschool
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looking at some of the earliest schools in
Falmouth Otis you have some memories of
that yes I do the first school we'll
talk about or mention in brief is the current
Chamber of Commerce building on Academy
Lane and originally it was set up as Lawrence
Academy after Shubael Lawrence around
1842 donated ten thousand dollars to
create this school it was a private academy at
that point and a little bit later on the town of
Falmouth petitioned the general court or the
state supreme court
to take the funds and use it for public school
and it became known as Lawrence High
School and that was the genesis of the public
school there in Falmouth
I'm sure the early history of Falmouth town
meeting would have records of the
of the community coming together to make
that to make that vote oh yes they
probably do and the town records like in
Town Hall with all those town meeting votes
that's
really interesting so now we're coming to the
well before we talk about
Jim your experience of the first of the first
high school that was the Lawrence High
School tell us about what happened to that
high school on Main Street well that was
part of a four building green campus I guess
you could call it before Katharine Lee Bates
Road was put in
there and we'll mention about the elementary
schools but the old high school
went up around 1891 and that was where the
library parking
lot is currently and if you notice on Main
Street across from the Indian restaurant and
the breakfast restaurant there there's a
sidewalk that goes up and that was
originally the sidewalk to the Lawrence High
School from 1891
right interesting thing that I was telling
Barbara and Jim when I was a boy
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going to Hall School in grade six the old
Lawrence High School was torn
down and burned right there you saw the
ashes I saw the ashes I saw
the flames too of course we wouldn't do that
now with a public building or any kind of a
building just burn it right there but right it was
right yeah very interesting
so that Main Street high school got transferred
to what is now the Lawrence School
or the junior high and Jim you remember you
were a teacher there when at the new
high school at the where the Lawrence School
is now yes and
the stories I heard when this the new
Lawrence High School
and by the way the movie Lawrence of Arabia
came out at the same time so it
was you know when I was involved in some
of the sports activities and so on and we used
to go to some of the other schools here comes
the Arabians they used to say to us really
so it was it was fun but I do remember uh
some of the teachers that were in both schools
uh Ugo Tassinari and John
Quick and some of these names that I'm sure
some of these people listening to this
program watching this program will
remember they told me that the day the school
opened the students all assembled in the old
high school and whatever they could bring
and carry by hand
they all marched from that school
over to the new Lawrence School it was quite
an adventure I don't know Otis if you
were part of that or not no I was the second uh
group to go in in 1954 it opened in
1953. well that seemed like a convenient way
to get some some
material transfer it certainly sounds a bit like
New England frugality too
instead of hiring movers that that's pretty
amusing now you were
a teacher at right I was a teacher and that was
interesting at that time
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because that high school was a six year high
school
six seven 9 10 11 and 12. and uh
it was it was interesting from the point of view
that
we enjoy we could enjoy the younger people
it was it was it was nice seeing young people
and
the difference oh yes there were certain
I'm sure Otis remembers this too there are
certain ways you could enter the school
oh if you were a senior you were allowed to
go through the front doors
and up the stairs otherwise you entered on
either one of the two wings of the school the
uh
let's call them the underclassmen the that's
glorious the lower classmen yeah yes and the
and
the uh when the lunchtimes came the younger
people ate first and then they cleaned up the
cafeterias
and then the older I would say the ninth
graders and up yes
went into the school into the cafeteria at that
time what they did Barbara
I was there for grade seven through seventh
grade was on the lower floor
eighth grade went up to the next floor but it
was like on the wings and the rest of it was all
high school
and what Kalpy was just saying that center
staircase was reserved for staff and seniors
only yeah and you could
never go up those center stairs unless you
were escorted right and the funny part of that
was that
when the seniors graduated the juniors even
though they were still
juniors went up those stairs it was a lot of fun
you mean it was a sort of rite of passage rite
of passage exactly
how interesting and everyone paid attention to
it really yeah really they did and I'm I'm sure
yes sir
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but now were you a student there when it
suddenly became very overcrowded yes I
was a student there until 1960 when our
graduating class
happened and it was just starting to get
overcrowded because a couple of years later
they made the intermediate school
which covered uh grade six seven and eight
and I first started teaching there
and then when the new high school the current
one on Gifford Street opened up we all
transferred in junior high
to large school it was taken you know the
name Lawrence High School was taken off
and went to
Falmouth High School yes and we kept that as
Lawrence but there are some other things too
we can
talk about if you wish on the elementary
schools yes let's get to that while we're still
talking about this newly built high school
from Main Street to where the Lawrence
School is now
there's something peculiar about the
architecture because Jim uh wasn't it possible
for some students
to find secret passageways that's interesting in
the fact that
originally in the original plans there was an
elevator scheduled for that school
well for one reason or another it never got
built but the space
that was going to be needed ended up being in
back of the lockers the lockers in that
school were placed all in all the corridors
both the with both wings even in some in the
front isn't that the way it is today
pretty much yes yeah so go on so uh well
not at the high school I ever at Lawrence in
Lawrence yeah but at the high school they
were all down yeah
we'll leave that alone so at the time when I
was uh
doing certain administrative work uh
of which was disciplining youngsters and so
forth once in a while not me though
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no but once in a while somebody would
escape
and go running down the corridor and
obviously I'd go galloping after them
to see if I could corral them and when I get
around the corner they disappeared
and I couldn't understand what happened well
after a while somebody
ratted out on them and told us what was really
happening is that
if you knocked out the back of these uh
lockers there was a big space there and that
space allowed you
to move from one end of the building to the
other and not only that you were able to get
up into the attic off the second floor to the
attic and an interesting situation occurred that
one year we were
examining what was going on there and for
some reason
we got up into the attic and there was an
airplane in there it had been built by
young Teddy Tripp Dr. Tripp's son who was a
magnificent brilliant young man
and I don't know how he got all the stuff up
there but you know the wingspan was at
least 10 feet oh my gosh and yeah
and I'm sure other things occurred up there I
remember one youngster I was told
fell through the ceiling oh good grief you
know he stepped on the right wrong
spot and his leg came down through the
ceiling those are stories that
history let's leave it at that well it sort of lets
us know that students know how to make the
best use of their time
although some of that might have been class
time that that's really interesting so let's
go back then to the of the early we did have a
grammar school yes we did
the grammar school when they went to public
education was on Main Street at the
entrance to what's now Town Hall Square it
later became known as the Community
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#communitycenter
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Center they had a little courtroom in there too
in some town offices before they tore it down
in the 60s when the
new town hall was built and my mother
happened to be a teacher there for a couple of
years
then they transitioned to a brand new school
called the Village School we know it now
as Mullen School and that was no
kindergarten in those days they had
what they call a sub-primary and that was like
a voluntary thing for parents to send their
children to but it
was grades one through five maybe six and
junior high was the later
building called the Hall School which is about
where the parking lot for staff is at the Mullen
School complex
now interestingly enough I was telling
Barbara and Jim when we were talking before
Mullen School was named after the principal
#margaretmullen
Margaret Mullen known as Peg Mullen right
do you remember
red hat red hair and every day she had
something purple
every day and those of us who remember her
as a principal
remember that very well she happened to have
lived down my street in Falmouth
so on occasion when I would go to school
walking to the elementary she'd pick me
up and take me in and not too many people
can say they came to school with the principal
but we I found out from a neighbor Barbara
that I had taken the school bus
outside of our street on Locust Street and all
of a sudden we weren't taking it
anymore well a neighbor found out recently
he was Googling my name came
across an article in the old Enterprise our
neighborhood and Pin Oak Way were
kicked off the bus because we were within a
mile yes of the school oh yes and a parent
down off
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Palmer Avenue had complained because she
had wanted her daughter to ride the bus and
said well why are these kids riding
the bus so we were walkers but I never knew
that story until last year
I know and that's why it was quite it was quite
common at that time not going in with the
principal
was right was not common right no but that
school that we’re- now the facade is still the
same
and you notice they had two wings and then
the main section and up above it says learn to
live and
live to learn were two mottos that we students
you know had to
learn to live with and there was a nice green
campus there they had a large lunchroom
and the Hall School which we were saying a
lot of people think it was because of the had a
big
hall in the center but it was actually named
after Henry Hall right who was the principal
for the junior high
so you had the elementary school the Village
School or Mullen you had the Hall School for
seven and eight
and you had the then new high school right
where the library parking lot is
and the other part of that whole campus was
the Falmouth Public Library so it made a nice
green yes kind of an
educational campus right here on Main Street
and we're fortunate to still have that pretty
much the same except for the
road intersecting police station was a little
farther but it wasn't that yes it was behind the
old
town hall which is where Peg Noonan Park is
and I recall that when the new high
school got going it really did we talked about
when it
became overcrowded and then wasn't there a
program to allow students to leave
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and so kids were coming going in and out
going to Main Street I had the I kind of
imagined
how difficult that was for keeping track of
students I came I came to school on one day
opening school and I next in and in fact I
came in a little bit late the
assembly had started already and Mr. Merson #harrymerson
who was the superintendent of
school said we're going to have a new director
we're going to have a new program
and that director is Jim Kalperis I had no idea
what they were talking about
or what I was supposed to do but the program #opencampusprogram
was called the Open Campus Program
in which there were three divisions you see
the problem was we were so
overcome crowded we went from a school
that was built for 800 students
to 1700 students and in order to get the classes
the variety of classes and subjects that we
needed
we had we didn't we just didn't have room for
it so
what they came up with the idea of
eliminating the study halls and using the study
hall
periods as classrooms and by the way do you
know what the in setting up the
curriculum and the way in which
certain subjects would get priorities do you
know what's as far as
getting the students they needed to get into a
particular class
ability grading or something of that sort the
first the first and
Mr. Dick Jones was the one who was involved
with this as well was interesting because the
in order to
do to get the people the first one was the band
the band kids got the first
they had to have all the band kids in for band
practice
at one time so that changed the whole
curriculum around us with relation to
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where they were going to these other kids
were going to go and then you had the
chemistry and then
you know the A-1s or the whatever you had
for different variety of classes
and we at those years we had shop we had we
had agriculture
we had shop and automotive those
courses were actively- and kids had to come
in and it was a it
was a very big task yes it sounds it sounds
really complex and it occurs to
me that we did not have computers no that
would have helped with- made scheduling
I'm sure it sounds to me as if scheduling must
have been a nightmare well now it's making
me want to because
I was in the band so all these years I thought
my classes were based upon my ability not
because I
was just in the band yeah you had to be
available right yeah some of the other things
that went on at that
time was that which was nice that we when it
came time to put the
grades or master grades and put them
so they would go into report cards we used to
sit in teams of three
that's that were for the same grade level ninth
or eighth and so forth because we
we were able to you know be involved
when you had you had five preparations those
years
all different like eight-one or nine-one or ninetwo or eight-six or
whatever you want and so and what we did
was we'd sit down in
three of us and we say a name Otis Porter
and I'd say well I'm going to give Otis an A
because of he's in general science at this time
and then there was a math teacher there and
we compare so when we get to a
certain youngster that there was
we had B-pluses and A-minuses and so forth
sometimes a youngster would go from a B to a
B-plus only because
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of what we heard and how that she or he were
in that other class I see
so those were that's the way that went on at
that time it was kind of nice to sit back there
of
course we all we all wanted to do the best we
could yes do you know
that might be considered in modern pedagogy
an innovation yes
an interesting way to think about assessing a
student sort of like the
portfolio system so that's sometimes what's uh
what
what's new is really very old yes right it's true
and so
now we that school had a really remarkable
principal I think his name was Russ Marshall
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much admired for his particular
talent as an administrator do you recall him I
do and I unfortunately I
never worked with him as a teacher when I
came on doing practice teaching
he and Peter Clark were co-principals in their #peterclark
last couple of years I guess or last
year you know when I started teaching at the
#henryfrank
junior high I had Henry Frank as a
principal at the intermediate school but back
to Mr. Marshall Mr. Marshall to me was a
man of integrity
he was quiet spoken I've I never heard him
raise his voice
he commanded respect just by his persona and
I think every boy and girl
grades 7 through 12 admired him very very
much I can't say anything about how he was to
work for it was interesting that you mentioned
that occasionally he'd have a
a meeting of all the students in the auditorium
assemblies
and he'd get up on that stage there and it
usually was something serious
somebody had done something in this case
somebody had put in a skunk in a teacher's car
and nobody knew who did it yet Russ
Marshall
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looked right down at one I know the boy I'm
not even going to get involved in that but he
looked right at him although
he was speaking to the whole assembly he
says that is a terrible thing
you did and everybody knew at that time who
that person was
and as one of my one of my first functions as
an administrator was to go and get the
skunk out of the car above and beyond the call
of duty
When Kalpy mentioned the assemblies we
would all gather in the auditorium quickly and
he would come out on stage
and everything calmed right down for the
most part I mean there might be some
whispering here there but
he just had that persona of you know that
gravitas that
exuded confidence and respect yeah very nice
yeah and you're you are
very also quite surprised about what your
duties were going to be I understand that
so sometimes it came as a surprise for
example walking into an assembly and finding
out that you're going to be a
director of - and so you
became a baseball coach oh no I was oh yeah
well that was I had the
junior in 55 you see that
I started at three thousand dollars as a teacher
yeah and the reason I had I could have gone to
Martha's Vineyard for $3,200
and I could have gone I forget where else that
was for $2,800
my wife didn't want to go to the island she
says I don't want to go back and
forth and I said all right so we ended up in
Falmouth at that time
Mr. Merson was a great thinking man and he
tried to
diversify the academic population itself and
he was always changing and
looking for different types of experiences that
he could bring to the
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student body he was a wonderful man he was
a man of all ages let's put it that way
anyway I did coach a little bit
but then we had a wonderful athletic director
and his name- and Physical Ed. at that time
there was just one job athletic director and
physical
education director and that was Earl Mills and #earlmills
he's a he is certainly a star of
stars in this in our minds yes he was in this
community
an outstanding individual just he there's
nothing he couldn't do
to help kids always so anyway
we did
with you I'll tell you the truth right now I lost
I apologize but I just lost my train of thought
well you were talking about
the these schools and the we were asking
about your duties
I don't like to say too much about then I
became track coach and I was very successful
that there was
a lot of young men and I would say that one of
the things that helped us was
that as a six-year high school we were able to
use those youngsters to develop those
youngsters that young seven eight and nine
seventh grader could play
with the varsity if you had somebody that was
really outstanding then the
varsity coaches would bring these youngsters
up even as an eighth grader I remember one
young man named John Souza who went on to #johnsouza
be a
it was a left-handed pitcher and became a
great baseball player baseball pitcher
and he was on my team as an eighth grader at
that time because I had the junior
high kids and the next thing I know Joe Elliot
who
was the baseball coach comes down and says
no John Souza is going to come he's going
to come and pitch the game he pitched the
varsity game and he won it and wow
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what a thrill yeah and I'll tell you another
quick story about John Souza again as I was a
baseball coach we had a big game coming up
and John was supposed to pitch I said where's
John
he's in catechism I said catechism what's
catechism
and he said well where is he says he's over at
Saint Anthony's Church
okay so I got in my car and I go over to Saint
Anthony's Church and I better think Father
Avila was
the priest at the time and I said “Father,” I
said, “I need John”
he turned around and he says “God needs him
more” and that was the end of
John Souza pitching that day I see yes that's a
great story a lot of what
Kalpy is saying is strikes me after the war
World War II and of course Korean War we
saw a large influx of male teachers
coming in oh yes and Kalpy has mentioned
some of the names which makes me think
back to the time
you know being a student in the 1950s right
and some of whom I might talk with
later you know as I started to teach I wonder if
the G.I. Bill
which has was remarkable in changing
American culture the
fact that soldiers could then get a college
education and many of them went into
teaching I think you're right on that I
think it's very true yes Kalpy might know
more about that part of it but
there really were I mean there were male
teachers before don't get me wrong you know
some of the older you know like
yeah that was a good Mr. Barros from East
#eastfalmouth #teaticketschool
Falmouth and Teaticket School and Henry
Hall things like that but not as many as not as
many and not as diversified as this group that
were
coming in oh yes you know they were taking
over so you when you were a student then you
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had lots of male teachers yes I did right yeah
right starting incidentally at the old
Village School we had Frank Verre V-E-R-RE and he taught grade five and then there
were a couple in the junior high at the Hall
School for grade six but really
once we got to the new Lawrence High
School which is now Lawrence that was
where we saw most of the new male
teachers some of them went on to become
principals that's great do you can you have
some names or some
principals of maybe the schools as we
developed the Teaticket
School and others there was a man who was a
teacher
in grade six at the Hall School [unintelligible]
Mr. Berry B-E-R-R-Y and he became
principal at one of the Barnstable school
system one of those I'm not sure which one
but some of the others moved up to a system
principal like Paul Wasseth Paul Wasseth
yeah he went here yeah and
yeah and I remember teaching at Falmouth
High School with Sydney Roberts was he one
of
your colleagues there was a fifth grade teacher
at the Mull— at the Hall School
I think and he became principal at
at the he died he died young in fact there's a
plaque for him and
there's a monument there on the Cape Cod
Country Club golf course
his name is on the tip of my tongue and I'm
sorry I just can't remember him but Morway
Morway was his name oh Paul
Paul Morway and he was a teacher and then
he became a principal yes up at North
[unintelligible]
right he was a teacher and then a principal but
Sid Roberts I believe Mr. Roberts came earlier
in
that earlier group of men he was my teacher in
high school for
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boys’ group he was my
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practice teacher when I was learning and I
enjoyed working with him very much
but he came I think in the 1930s or maybe in
the 40s I don't think he was part of
World War II well I do want to say something
about Otis too yeah in the old days
in that Lawrence High School there was the
classrooms I had room 112
and across the hall from my school was the
principal's office I mean the
superintendent's office oh the superintendent's
office was in the school yeah that's interesting
on the
other side was room 108 but in the in the
middle was a space
and that space became the audiovisual center
and guess who
was working in the audio-visual center Otis
with Stanley Eldridge these are
these two young men and what they did was
and I was in charge that a teacher needed a
projector of either a film projector or a what
do you call the
applied projection slide projectors they'll they
notified us and then the
boys would come on there during their study
hall periods their free periods
and they'd work in there with me or in that
room and then they would deliver those
that equipment and pick it up at the end of the
of that session as well
was that something you enjoyed doing it was
and I could see the movie or the slides
right right whatever the teacher was offering
right right yeah you're sort of your stint high
tech of the 50s compared
to now trying to do remotes and things like
that right right so I'll
tell you another interesting story was as when
I was a track coach a new develop- a new
eight pound shot put to be used indoors
it was it had some kind of material on the
inside and it was all
plastic on the outside and of course we were
throwing it in the gymnasium
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which is by the way named after Russell
Marshall so
there was some there was a complaint or some
some
off the bat somebody else that said you know
this might be dangerous I said oh no no no
they guarantee this is going to be good and
Russ Marshall came to me said listen he
said we have a complaint here about damage
that this is going to cost
so I said well come on down Russ and I'll
show you and then I had Bruce Morgado who
was our
shot put really really competitor and so he's
standing there
and the dis- the width of the gymnasium is 50
feet that's the way
so he launched one out and went high in the
air and came down and broke the
floor really that was the end
no but I mean it wasn't supposed to happen
but it must have been a weak spot
in the floor itself another incident oh wait did
that end the no
no as a matter of fact but that's not Bruce was
a student yes what grade
he was probably at the time I believe Bruce
was
a sophomore I see yeah and then in the winter
time
we still had to compete and so we used to
throw the shot put indoors
and I brought in a former a coach from
Wareham High School Allan Longhi was his
name
and he was an expert on the fundamentals of
the shot put and I had
the kids there to learn and Allan
launched one up and it hit the corner of the
glass backboard and shattered the
glass backboard now I had to run to Russ
because it was a game that night oh my
goodness we had to have a ba- we were going
to have a basketball we had no
basket so but Russ with his magic however he
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it he got a glass backboard there and installed
so they could play the game
that night that very evening that's remarkable
that's why they named that gym Marshall
Gymnasium
but this is a funny side story on that one of the
L's fell down
off his name that's up above oh so my wife
and I were coming up I guess
something at the school when I was a teacher
there and she said who's Marsha L.
so I said what do you mean and she said it
says Marsha L. Gymnasium
I said it's for Marshall right you know the L
fell down that you had that
shortly repaired yes Barbara you were going
to talk about how things changed
well first before we get into that I think we
must say that there's something about your
background was not in athletics but you
became a
a coach with many awards so there must be
tell us about what your secret
was with students you managed to turn out
champion athletes
and of baseball shot put well no baseball was
a short year and it was all
in the minors but the varsity end it was very I
was very fortunate to be able to
to corral youngsters that had never been
involved that lived in
on Sandwich Road and in Mashpee we had
some tremendous athletes
from Mashpee as well and for one reason or
another they took a
liking to me they were never they were always
at the school but other
than very few would ever be involved for
some reason I was able to corral them
and get them involved and we were very
fortunate and I suspect that you built a
personal
relationship with them that you knew them
you knew them and knowing one student
well is critical you see let me tell you
something as a teacher and as a coach
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you have to understand one thing with kid
kids make mistakes
if they didn't make mistakes they don't need us
that's the whole story that's the game
and again when they make a mistake it's how
you
approach that situation and how you deal with
that as
an individual and some you know and that's
how you get the
different what he has said probably explains
the genius of Russ Marshall
knowing how to deal with somebody who's
it's something I was mentioning to you before
that I tried to do pretty much
what Kalpy is talking about that you didn't
fault the kid like he's an awful boy or you
know
not a nice girl or whatever you address
whatever the action was that you didn't like
their action you didn't
you were ashamed of the language that they
used you know that kind of thing yes and
approach it from that way and I think Kalpy
yes doing the same
yeah I always thought of myself more of a
cheerleader than a coach oh really
really yeah that's bad it was it was passing in
passing it's at
all may I ask what some of those awards were
oh
in well I the award obviously we won I don't
know I think one once
stretch we had eight state championships right
in a row
and I and I really I do know that
in I was elected to the high school Hall of
Fame then I was elected to the state track
Coaches’ Hall of Fame in '91 I was
elected to the United States high school
coaches’ Hall of Fame
and also in '91 I was selected
as by the Massachusetts Principals
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as the outstanding principal for that year I
mean
they picked they picked a principal one year a
superintendent
an assistant principal another year in '91 they
sent us out to
to Chicago as part of a program where there
was an
assistant principal from each state
and we sat there and we discussed problems
of a much bigger nature with relation to
education for a whole week
so that was and oh and also in in '55
'56 there was a program
called Atoms for Peace and again that was in
#atomsforpeace
Chicago and
I was elected the science teacher of the of the
Cape
and it was sent to that conference as well I see
I was able to take my wife at the same time
too and that's when you were teaching at
Lawrence High School that's correct
right yes yeah that was a busy and a
fulfilling career well certainly you know it's
well deserving yeah well
thank you it grew it just grew for some reason
it's probably interesting for you to
meet people today who were your students
who it's true we'll look back on a
particular lesson or class that maybe you've
forgotten but they haven't
I was telling you a story once about a student I
have who's involved in
the town government now and he was talking
oh I remember the time when we had chosen a
certain stock I would I
would have the kids at junior high actually
buy stock we everyone contributed a dollar or
something like that from several classes and I
had forgotten all about that but
it made quite an impression upon him you
know following the stock he knew which
stocks we bought
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oh years later he remembered years later as an
adult yeah he was telling me this
when we had seen each other at a gathering
and I thought that was kind of remarkable but
you never knew
what kind of an impression you'd have on
some student yes you know earlier in life how
true this is often said
about teaching that you never really know
what your influence is hopefully it's all good
yes yes yes
hopefully and so well now looking at the past
we'll try I'll ask you first Jim what do you
think then
was very different from the way teaching
might be now well
the when we first started out zero
the philosophy was to bring that youngster as
far as you
could in education in other words
don't flunk them that was the whole story and
if you flunk too many kids
you got a you got a message to come and see
the superintendent never mind the principal
you had to see the superintendent also
the feeling was that both discipline and
education belonged
in that classroom and when you close the two
doors they
felt the teacher was lord and master in that
classroom and should take care of the
discipline
problems if for instance you sent too many
kids to detention or to
or actually kicked them out of class and sent
them to the principal's office you got a visit
from the principal saying
stop that so take care of your own problems a
good teacher was a good class
manager right yeah I remember another
situation where Russ Marshall and I had
to go to court to testify on a youngster that
was really and I forget what the
incident was but it was bad enough so we had
to go to court
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and the judge turned around and looked right
at Russ Marshall and said what are you doing
here he said can't
you take care of your own things at school
that was poor man was embarrassed it was a
terrible situation at that time we really we we
we left with our tails hanging below
right as we walked out that may not be too
different from today where there's much
emphasis on
outcomes on student accomplishment and so
teachers are
accountable for the for that there's a lot of
much more advancement of course with
technology you know when you think that
iPads the my grandchildren at the Mullen
School
and the intermediate you know Morse Pond
School and the older ones
have the tablets so during the COVID you
know they can go on those
tablets and work things like that we never
thought of that before
social media has made such a difference there
and Jim mentioned about the operators club
having the slide
projectors I don't think any kid would know
what a slide projector is today because any
videos we see are shown
on you know right differently yes so there's
and we don't have blackboards we
have the whiteboards now excellent to write
on yes so a lot of technology has come into
play even since he and I have left teaching yes
right it really is quite quite different many
different challenges some of the
same challenges the kind that Jim mentioned
that is class management and
knowing knowing your students well but
so that we've looked at the past and we've
seen some similarities and some
differences and I don't want to leave and
without having some final stories that perhaps
you we have not talked about anything else
that you can think about that
no not offhand without naming names yes Jim
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well like I said it was a wonderful experience
and I was a pre-med in college and
quite frankly I was playing both basketball
and baseball in college and you can't
study for pre-med and play ball much to my
father said grin but we
will go into that so I got married
and I had a child coming along so I had to do
something in my senior year differently so I
jumped out of that and
got into education and I'm not sorry one bit
I've been wonderful for the years you
look back on a fulfilled career well I grew up
in Falmouth went to Falmouth schools ended
up teaching in
Falmouth and you know have stayed here my
entire life but I think teaching helps keep you
young too and I don't mean necessarily
physically but I mean that mental yes you
know awareness
right being around young people that's the key
yeah that's really
very important being around young people
really picks you up yes yes I quite agree I
quite agree well I want to thank you for being
our oral historians and for
telling us these stories and also for urging
getting some of our viewers to check those
postcards that are available on
the website of Falmouth of the Falmouth
Public Library a very
remarkable collection of historic postcards
and I so thank you very much for being
with us and I'll turn to viewers and thank you
very much for tuning in
thank you again thank you our pleasure all
right wonderful
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: September 23, 2020
Presenter: Tom Turkington
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: Before I Forget: A Boyhood of Little Drama, by Tom Turkington
Available from Falmouth Public Library under 920.71 Turkington
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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good morning everyone this is a big
adventure
for both uh Tom and I this is the first
time
that I’ve done such a large Zoom event
with
people that I don't necessarily know
we've been doing a lot of
Zoom staff meetings um but this is quite
of a different level
and um I’ve also been hoping that we
could have Tom Turkington
talk to us for some time and I’m glad
that this this
morning is finally the time that it can
happen
um it's really a delight uh to
to be here and I’m glad that you're all
here
so let me just tell you a little bit
about what
what was the beginnings of this program
and
that is uh Postcards from Falmouth which
was
which is a special local history project
of the Falmouth Public Library
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that is based upon our historical
postcard collection of noted buildings
landmarks
and locations within the town of
Falmouth
introduced in 1869 as a way of sending a
simple message
postcards quickly evolved beyond their
practical purpose
to become the universal souvenir that
brightens everyone's mailboxes
and I have to say one of the things we
did when we were closed we would send
a lot of our patrons postcards which was
people
were delighted with um however postcards
also provide us with rare glimpses into
the past
and serve as a way of documenting
history
that is why we jumped at the chance when
we saw the opportunity
for a grant to develop projects that use
historical documents
such as our historical postcard
collection to discover unknown facts and
stories about
Falmouth during days gone by after all
to collect preserve and share such
resources
is what the Falmouth Public Library has
been doing since 1792
Postcards from Falmouth has been made
possible through a Library Services
and Technology Act grant which is
administered through the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
this series of talks is also made
possible thanks to the Falmouth Public
Library Trustees
and of course FCTV and we hope by the
end of this series
that those of you listening will be
inspired to look at our postcard
collections
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and share your memories of Falmouth and
somebody who has
a lot of memories of Falmouth is Tom
Turkington
and I have to say I I have been
delighted um reading the book and I
think you will be
as well um Tom did write a memoir of his
childhood
in Falmouth which is a revelation in so
many ways for those of us
I’ve been here 30 years and I still
learn lots of things from his book
Before I Forget A Boyhood of Little
Drama
and there will be time for questions at
the end which you can type
into the chat so without further ado
although I will say I particularly Tom
liked
all the information about Panis
silversmiths I have a Panis ring right
here on my finger
and um uh Matt Pearson with whom I live
remembers this has many of the same
memories you have of Panis so
um a really uh a treat to read about
Panis and
and your relationship with Panis
silversmiths um
for those of you that don't know Panis
read the book if he doesn't mention it
this morning so I will now
give over the screen to Tom Turkington
thanks Jill for that nice introduction
after a long
awkward wait uh but that's Zoom for
you um
just myself I was born in Falmouth in
1949
and spent most of the first 18 years of
my life there
uh I was there for another 15 years as a
young adult I live in New Hampshire
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the book was my entry to this
program but you got to understand the
book
is not there was no research
everything in here um
just I drew it from my memory bank and
um
surprisingly enough people have looked
and said uh hey
there's a lot of details that how do you
remember those things
uh and so accurately and I guess I just
have a mind that that does that sort of
thing
it came about because I found as I was
I actually wrote it four or five years
ago I found as I was getting into my 50s
and 60s that
I sort of developed an interest in my
parents’
history my grandparents what were they
like when their kids
and what was the world like around them
what did they do with their time
and all that and of course they weren't
around to tell me
and it occurred to me that probably my
kids someday would get into their 50s
and 60s
and they would begin to develop the same
interest about me
and I wouldn't be around to tell them so
I put it down a book
and my own kids in
30 or 40 years can refer back and
know a little bit more about where they
came from
uh it is a memoir
so it's not about Falmouth per se
it's about me uh memoirs are like that
but of course because I was in Falmouth
people places events things that were
going on in Falmouth between
in the 50s and 60s are scattered
throughout the book
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this project as Jill was saying sort of
sprang forth from
postcards old postcards and uh
I don't have any postcards here as props
but the way I’m going to approach this
is to just sort of imagine what might be
on a postcard
and then ruminate a little bit about
that thing that could have been on a
postcard
and uh and do some readings from the
books that relate to it
one of the uh one of the most
photographed places in Falmouth
is probably Main Street and uh when I’m
#mainstreet
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back in Falmouth which I often am
uh it's kind of fun to go down Main
Street and
look and of course there's been massive
turnover
as there always always has been but in
some respects hasn't changed too much
Main Street when I was a kid yeah you
could
you could get auto parts there you could
get your photos developed at Ortin’s
photo shop
you could uh yeah you could go to a
movie
there were two movie theaters on main
street uh
okay none of those are there anymore but
pretty much what you have now
is places to eat and places to buy
clothes
and gifts and really 50 years ago
there were plenty of places to eat most
of them were lunch counters at J.J.
Newberry’s
and that at the Rexall Drugs
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and at the Sandbar and you know all up
and down Main Street there were places
to eat but they were
fast food and it wasn't junk food it was
fast because you'd go in you sit down
Ralph Sullivan’d and come over say what do
you want
tell them a ham and cheese sandwich and
two minutes later there it was in front
of you
uh so now we have high-end restaurants
instead
okay that says something about the
economy
um and one of the uh
one of the other things that you used to
do on Main Street that you don't do
anymore is
you go shopping for your food
and there's a little something in my
book about
food shop
one indicator of the growth and
modernization of Falmouth has been the
evolution of the food stores
when I was little and we lived on Mill
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Road the closest thing to a supermarket
in town was the A&P on Main Street
it was right next to Town Hall which was
razed in the 60s to make way for a
parking lot in a nice little park
that's Peg Noonan Park there were other
food stores besides the A&P
S.S. Pierce for example but the A&P was
about it for general food shops
it was a little bit larger though not
nearly as neat and clean as the standard
convenience store today
there were maybe four or five aisles
half the width and one-third the length
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if you were over by the butcher shop the
smell all around was
meat getting old by the checkout lines
they kept the coffee grinders
very large machines considering their
simple function
and that whole end of the store smelled
of ground up eight o'clock coffee which
never got swept up
my lingering impression of a trip to the
A&P with mom in my early years is one of
having to deal with inconvenience
no place to park hard walking on a badly
ruptured sidewalk
difficulty opening the door sticking
wheels on the shopping cart
traffic jams throughout the store piles
of merchandise stacked in the way
long waits in line but the reward was to
watch
hear and smell the coffee grinder at
work
oh this is more I’m talking about the
evolution of Falmouth I’m not just
reminiscing on going to the A&P when I
was a kid
now comes the evolution first National
Stores was the first chain to offer
shopping relief to the beleaguered
Falmouth housewife
they opened up a snazzy new supermarket
at the foot of Shore Street
#nationalstores
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either just before just after we moved
back to town
it had a parking lot automatic doors
wide aisles new carts
and sales and promotions of course it
was an instant success
which was noted by the Stop and Shop
chain which acted quickly and
radically they got away from Main Street
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and onto some vacant eight acreage of
Heights corner where they opened up the
store that was bigger yet
and had a modernistic arched roof and a
huge parking lot and a few other little
stores attached
and reachable by a covered walkway and
they called it Falmouth Plaza
trying not to be outdone but being
outdone nonetheless the A&P
put up a new store on a vacant lot just
off Main Street
it was a whole lot bigger cleaner and
more amenable than their outworn old
place which became a stationary store
but not as much as the new Stop and Shop
or even bigger supermarket that was
later to come to the Jones Road
intersection
and most disastrous of all the fools
built it on Scranton Avenue
there it remained for decades poorly
managed
lightly patronized constantly emblematic
of the decline of the great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company
well if you were to buy a modern day
postcard
you wouldn't have to look long to find
one of Falmouth Harbor
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understand it Deacon's Pond was not open
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it was land locked and if you were
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you get to where the Clam Shack is now
and you just kept right on going
and the next thing you know you were
heading up into Falmouth Heights
uh of course this was pretty much before
automobiles existed
and I’m not sure exactly how it happened
but uh
I would say the town realized that there
were a lot of rich people now
starting to move into town during the
summer and they had
pleasure craft and the Old Stone Dock at
#oldstonedock
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foot of Shore Street was a was pretty
much a failure
and um so it's decided to
open up Deacon's Pond dredge it and make
a harbor out of it
at the time I lived there Scranton
Avenue was
practically a wasteland and I don't know
why it was very close to the center of
town
but Scranton Avenue which paralleled
right along the side of the harbor
uh there was nothing there there was if
you were heading up from Main Street
towards the mouth of the harbor
it was all field on your right there was
a carnival there every summer could have
had
the Barnstable County Fair there there
was that much open space
uh you got to Queen Street still nothing
still just feels
um and then
three quarters of the way down Scranton
Avenue it was bing bing bing bing there
were four or five
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very modest kind of weather beaten homes
um
in a row and then again nothing until
you got to the mouth of the harbor
I’m not sure why Scranton Avenue was uh
such a pariah in town but
hardly anybody lived there um
but there was there was something
special about Scranton Avenue
I’m going to tell you about it
we moved there in
June of ‘58.
this was not the first time the
Turkingtons took up residence on
Scranton Avenue
the uninhabited wasteland between us and
Main Street
had been for one brief shining moment in
the late 40s
most densely populated neighborhood in
whole town whatever federal agency came
into being for the purpose of providing
cheap housing for returning veterans
built a colony of concrete blocked
road buildings dwellings
when Mom and Dad and baby Eric first
moved to town from upstate New York
that's where they lived we did not
coddle our young veterans
life here was rather spare and the
grateful residents moved out as soon as
they could find something better
which in our case was the house on
Fairview Avenue
just down the street my first home
the block dwellings were demolished when
the need for them passed but one
dominant structure remains until the
early 60s
it consisted of one very large room with
a couple of little ones at one end
I’m guessing now but it may have served
as a play and gathering place for the
residents
so here were rows of apartment-style
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dwelling units
with a community recreation building
open space
all around and an unobstructed view of
the harbor
dig it a rock bottom low budget
disposable development for penniless
veterans
served as the model for the vacation
communities for the bourgeoisie that now
infests
practically every harborfront site in
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um Surf Drive was my beach and um
I think was was the first widely used
public beach
in Falmouth the first beach that was
treated as such with
parking lot and bath house and
snack bar and lifeguards and all that
I lived about a mile away and I used to
go there quite regularly
during the summer time um that's where
the Old Stone Dock was
you look at the Old Stone Dock now and
it's it's just a
pile of rocks that have been gradually
settling into the into the sea but at
one time it was
um it was built to be kind of the
original
Falmouth Harbor um
people would unload there and come in in
little boats and unload on the dock and
then
ship the stuff down Shore Street to
center it down
and other stuff would get shipped back
uh
I I don't think it ever worked out very
well just to look at it you see it just
wasn't that big and uh certainly wasn't
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that stable because it had to be rebuilt
a couple of times
but it was my beach and it was very
popular beach in those days
and one of its most popular features
and enjoyable ones was the raft
not there anymore hasn't been there in a
long time
I spent a lot of summer days hanging out
at Surf Drive Beach which was a public
beach a mile from home
the town had a multi-faceted raft about
50 yards offshore that offered all kinds
of opportunities for fun
it had a diving board just a few feet
above the water
a platform about six feet up and another
about 10 feet up
and it had a long slide with a shiny
metal surface that had a couple of burrs
on it that you had to watch out for
or you'd rip your bathing suit on the
way down if not your flesh
floated on two massive pontoons which as
long as they stayed watertight
kept the raft a foot above the water
this allowed daredevil boys to dive off
the raft swim under a pontoon
and come up for air under the raft we
played a lot of tag on that raft
there were all sorts of tricky extremely
hazardous ways to tag someone if you
were hit
one was to jump off the high platform
and tag a kid standing on the raft as
you went by
then swim under the pontoons and get
away
this meant that you'd be jumping from 10
feet up missing the edge of the raft by
inches
then going underwater and not being seen
again for a while
the beach committee provided this raft
for the amusement of their beachgoers
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with never a thought for liability
accidents that's what lifeguards were
for
now I it's hard to photograph
Beebe’s Woods but Beebe’s Woods has uh
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um become if anything ever more
important part of uh center of town
uh there were two mansions up there uh
there is one remaining and it's been uh
grandly and uh oh
beautifully overdone redone
fixed up made into its original state
that that would be Highfield
it was also Tanglewood and these were
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the mansions that were owned by the Beebes
who uh bought
really just about all the land between
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west
north to south pretty much Sippewissett Road
almost down to um
huge parcel of land uh
in my time as as a kid uh
some sections of that all Beebe’s Woods
were kind of
sold off I think uh Greengate became
one of them
uh one development and Marvin
Gardens Marvin Circle became another
uh there's still a huge parcel of land
out there that
as of late 60s was about to be developed
it was very close to being sold to
some people who were going to just build
more green gates
uh and then J. K. Lilly great
uh benefactor of Falmouth
bought the whole place and gave
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most of it to the town the town has
since put in nice wide trails for
walking
and it's become a very popular place for
walkers hikers joggers people with dogs
uh it's a wonderful asset of course
and the crown jewel in Beebe’s Woods is the
Punch Bowl
which is a kettle hole a large pond kind
of way out and
you know back then it was out in the
middle of nowhere I think a lot of
uh most most
growing boys in town knew where to find
it could direct you to it but uh
you know they're just little beaten
paths i was very easy to get lost in
there
and uh but the Punch Bowl was um
was a real attraction and I had an
episode there I had many episodes there
there was one episode in particular that
stuck in my mind all these years later
Mark Denman and I hiked up into Beebe’s
Woods fairly often
not always with a trip to the Punch Bowl
in mind but we usually wound up there at
some point
our main activities were skinny dipping
smoking cigarettes when we could procure
them
catching and releasing bullfrogs
throwing rocks making funny sounds and
listening for the echoes
one fine June afternoon we were swimming
in the middle of the pond when we heard
shouts from the little rocky landing at
the foot of the trail
Denman Turkington
we looked over and saw Donnie Kudo and
Jimmy Carey
two kids a couple of years older than us
standing on the rocks
we've got your clothes and so they did
by the time we got out of the water they
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had a long head start and all of our
duds
shoes included we had that empty feeling
that he falls all of us from time to
time
usually when we least expect it this
time I’m really screwed
walking on clothes through the woods
wasn't the problem we were unlikely to
encounter anybody there
the problem was what happened when the
woods end
getting to mark's house was our only
viable option as he lived pretty close
to the edge of the woods
trouble was once we were out in the open
we would have to cross the railroad
tracks
run down a short unoccupied dirt road
then get to the other side of palmer
avenue
which was route 28 which was the busiest
road in town however we got through
all that we then would have to cut
through a neighbor's yard to get to the
little wooded area surrounding the
Denmans’
and then what hi mom I’m home and I’m
stark naked
so is Tom well we had plenty of time to
think all this through
and what we came up with was we'd skulk
through the backyards of some of the
homes this side of Palmer Ave
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looking for laundry we could steal from
somebody's clothesline to cover
ourselves up with
we couldn't find any which we probably
wouldn't we'd crouch in the bushes
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in broad daylight in a heavily populated
section of town
hoping to remain unseen until there was
a break in the traffic
then we'd streak across the road through
the neighbor's yard to Mark's house
get some clothes on and catch hell it
wasn't much of a plan but it was the
best we could do
then just a while before the end of the
trail we saw something up in the
branches a pair of underpants
and look over there a shirt and a pair
of sneakers in the middle of the trail
what good guys thanks Donnie thanks
Jimmy
sorry about all those awful things we
said about you hiking back
from the Punch Bowl it's truly amazing
how in a distressing situation appears
to be heading for the worst
and for some reason the worst doesn't
come to pass
we not only are grateful for whatever
prevented the worst from happening
but wholly unresentful of whoever
created the distressing situation in the
first place
relief is surely one of life's most
rewarding feelings
Falmouth managed to cluster all its
schools right in the center of the
village
first there was Lawrence Academy then
#lawrenceacademy
that became Lawrence High School
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next to the library right on Main Street
and that got too big well right across
what is now Bates Road from from the
high school
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elementary school now the Margaret A.
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Mullen School right over there was a
Hall School which was for fifth and
sixth graders
and then when it came time to build a
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built a really fine new high school I
think this was 1953.
and to my mind that building
now called the Lawrence School and
Junior High School uh it's the best
school building this town ever had
and I hope it's there forever uh I spent
six years there
I was in the last uh the last class
it was built as a 7 through 12
and of course within not very many years
after it was built
it was overcrowded and
so they built a middle school over on
Morse Pond
um so I was the last in the last class
that started in seventh grade and stayed
there
through twelfth grade
um it's a very functional building very
attractive building
and I probably didn't feel so at the
time but
now that I look back on it I realized
that
most of my teachers there were really
very good
um I had one
at least one real loser of a teacher and
and uh
that fellow is get some play in the in
my book here
um but uh most of them
were really good um Miss Buchanan I
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locked horns with her a lot but she was
a fine teacher
um Jim Kinney
Earl Mills through the athletic
department and phys ed
these are people I have a lot to say
about
and I can't help thinking back on Pat
Moorman
she was my sophomore year English
teacher
she was very much one of a kind craggy of
feature and lean of build she had an
outsized personality
she was the tallest woman nay even the
tallest person in the school
her nickname among the kids was Moose
she was close friends or perhaps shared
a home with
a secretarial teacher Miss Ogden who was
the shortest
together they looked like Mutt and Jeff
like most staff members in the English
department
Miss Moorman had an undisguised love of
the language in its greatest classic
works
her personal predilection was for
grammar and syntax
we spent quite a bit of time diagramming
sentences in the classroom
and if there was within a kid the
slightest potential interest in this
highly analytic activity
as there was in me Miss Moorman could
come to it
she could get very animated trying to
get across to us the subtleties of a
complicated sentence
what really distinguished Miss Moorman;s
class aside from the total immersion
and grammar was her readiness to put the
lesson aside and expound upon subjects
unrelated to our work
prejudice politics human foibles life's
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ironies
she didn't so much engendered discussion
as inform us of her views and passions
she did so with vigor and then it was
back to the lesson
she was a tough grader and not very
understanding of excuses
but after many years at LHS she still
got a kick out of the kids
didn't hide that fact like most of our
teachers
she had her moments of cluelessness
concerning the ways of fifteen-year-olds
I wonder if there are any teachers left
who still instruct a room full of silly
boys
that an abrupt exclamation is properly
termed
an ejaculation not many I bet
together with my parents and a few
others she was on the team that left me
with a great appreciation for proper
artful use of English
low tolerance for those who care not to
use it correctly
when I’m confronted with a
professionally butchered piece of
writing
as happens more and more frequently as I
age
I can't help thinking or saying this
person
just wasn't paying attention in English
class
it's Miss Moorman’s class I think of them
um another thing about Lawrence was
um
why was it Lawrence I mean it was
Falmouth it was
the public high school in Falmouth
Barnstable High School Bourne High School
Sandwich High School every time you go
to
town has a high school supports the high
school
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high school is named after that town
except in Falmouth it was Lawrence and
um
I didn't really mind that but
uh I was on an athletic team
an athletic team that had an
extraordinary amount of success
go to big track meets and uh
a lot of us performed high and placed
very high in championship
events well one third of the people
watching
would think that we're from the city of
Lawrence oh no wonder they're good
they're
a big city they they got a lot of kids
to drop draw from
and about a third of the people thought
we were some hot shot prep school
downtown
ah no wonder they're good they uh they
can recruit from all over
and then the rest of people knew that we
were we were the public high school in
town
well we were we're proud of our town we
were
pleased to be from Falmouth and uh it
kind of irked us
that um most people thought we were
not what we actually were um
but this goes back to uh again correct
me if I’m wrong hey
nobody's out there to correct me so uh
1840s maybe 1850s there was a Mr.
Lawrence
had a lot of money big man in town
and uh offered the town a
substantial piece of money to um
build an academy uh sort of the first
secondary school and Falmouth
and um well thrifty Cape Cod is
only too happy to take him up on his
offer so
the only obligation was they had to name
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it after him
so that was the first Lawrence Academy
which I believe to be
now the building that is the Chamber of
Commerce
off of Main uh
town grew number of high school kids
kids going to
high school grew so they built a new
building but the name came with
that building was bursting at the seams
after a while so they built a new high
school and the name came with it
finally in I think it was 73
uh they built that new high school out
on Gifford Street
and decided to call it Falmouth High
School
any true history of Falmouth
any comprehensive history of Falmouth
especially mid-century families
would not be complete unless it had some
material
on the track teams
at the high school um
a little bit of self-interest here uh
I was involved with uh running sports in
two different ways
one as a runner in high school very
extremely dedicated and pretty
successful one
and then um as a coach I coached uh
cross-country at Falmouth for 13 years
later on
and was successful and also
lucky but
there was from the through the 60s 70s
80s um Falmouth
running sports at the high school were
were
known statewide for excellence
um it was Jim Kalperis
had the track teams in the 60s
John Carroll started up the girls track
and had
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extraordinary success through the 70s I
was coaching cross country in the 80s
but it all started with Kalpe
and I’d like to tell you a little bit
about it
now about Kalpe some new kids
including myself at one time might call
him Mr. Kalperis
and there are a few ass kissers who'd
call him Coach but to everyone else he
was Kalpe
he bore considerable resemblance to
Groucho Marx
from the hustling gait bent slightly at
the waist
to the mischievous dancing eyebrows to
the ever-present cigar
to the offhand commentary from the
corner of the mouth
to the vague but usually accurate sense
you got when he talked to you
that you were being caught you knew not
he was an operator who saw more clearly
than most
that if everybody follows all the rules
to the letter all the time
nothing worthwhile will ever happen
of course he was not all things to all
people there were those who felt he came
up and might
in the teaching of science which was his
primary job description
he was probably an energetic
knowledgeable instructor but he could be
distracted with
any is the time I’d wander off from a
study hall or a lunch break or another
class with a teammate to drop in on Kalpe
seeing us at the door he would assign
someone to monitor the class while we
all went into the adjoining
audio visual storage room to screw
spikes into racing shoes or
discuss the day's workout plot strategy
for the Dartmouth meet
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there was a rare enlivening mix of humor
gravity
and intensity of purpose in dealing with
Kalpe and participating on his teams
he became a coach of runners a year
after the LHS cross country program was
successfully begun under Don Jocelyn
moved on after that inaugural 1960
season
the team was then made up largely of
underprivileged black kids who so often
went through four years of high school
without ever tasting success in
school-related endeavor
the principal Mr. Marshall wanted to see
the program continue after Jocelyn left
and presently recognized Kalpe as a good
man to take it over so he asked him if
he would
he did Kalpe knew nothing about distance
running when he took over the
cross-country team
and nothing about track events when he
subsequently took over the track teams
but he started winning state titles
right away
as a coach he did not take an
authoritarian stance to put it mildly
I don't believe he ever took attendance
why bother
attendance was not required he never
said he had to be there
he established an atmosphere that made
me want to do that
he never made athletes do the work he
made them want to do the work what a
difference
it wasn't possible to rebel against the
requirements of team membership or the
demands of the coach because there
weren't any
he gave people a whole lot of leeway and
encouraged an atmosphere in which every
kid
felt he could be himself and achieve
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respect for
first from the coach and by extension
from his teammates
he was a master at reading an individual
and figuring out what he was in it for
and this applied to the adult world as
well as the track team
in later years when he was dealing with
the broader spectrum than sports
people often came to him asking for
something
his first inclination was to see to it
that they got it
that couldn't be done he tried to
persuade them that they really didn't
want
that failed he convinced them that they
already had it
it didn't often need to go further than
just looking at my watch here and uh huh
I could go on by the way I ought to warn
you
if you have an interest in this book
I’ll tell you for one thing
it's not out there on the bookshelves at
the
at the bookstores which aren't open
anyway uh
I believe it's still available on Amazon
if you want to get a copy that's the
place to go
um most of the second half of the book
I enter high school I enter Lawrence
high school
as a freshman about midway through the
book
and to be honest with you from then on
the narrative is very heavy on the track
the book's about me and
track was very important to me all
through high school I was extremely
dedicated and
it was my main focus so of course the
book is
the second half the book is full of
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track stuff
um I find a lot of my
memories of track some some pathos
some sorrow some joys some
humor so you know the narrative
continues but
a lot of it's about traffic be warned
but I also cover mentioned
I mean Cuban Missile Crisis
uh assassination of JFK uh
you know just the
you know nuclear test bans
um all the cultural and
world world impact
events that were going on that I recall
a lot of them are in here because I’m
not just talking about because these
things
affected me these things gave me
something to think about
and to wonder about so it goes into my
book
there's one here that we can
finish up with it has nothing to do with
postcards
very little to do with Falmouth um I
have a pretty long
uh section here about being a paperboy
delivering the Falmouth Enterprise to my
customers
but I closed it off with there was a
curious little advertisement that
regularly appeared in the quiet corner
of the enterprise
it read as follows are you having a
problem with alcohol
do you want to do something about it
call KIA
ding ding ding ding that was it
I wasn't sure what to make of it and
apparently worldlier minds than mine
weren't even
the New Yorker frequently lifted
published items or quotations that were
considered so
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peculiar or amusing that they merited
reprinting as space fillers at the end
of an article
in that venerable weekly
one day I ran across that familiar item
from the Enterprise
while leafing through the magazine in
search of humor
the notion of admitting to having a
problem with alcohol
and deciding to do something about it
was a laughing matter
to the editors of the New Yorker
it's it's funny we we talk about history
we talk about events of the past and
very often it's just little items like
that that you'd hardly
hardly ever think of that
really highlight major cultural changes
from one generation to another from one
decade to another
and here back in back in 1960
uh the idea of
wanting to do something about drinking
too much it was just
who would do that but there it was
so I’m going to call myself done here I
uh boy I could keep going through this
it's worth writing a book if for no
other reason than that
you'll love every word I can go back and
reread this
every month for the rest of my life and
still enjoy it
I wish I could do that with other books
but I can't I’m gonna
um close with a little bit of um
a little bit of an observation that was
originally uh it was past
passed to me by my brother Eric
um and I think this
might warm the cockles of the heart of
any librarian anywhere
long after the clown has been hacked to
death and our tweets and blogs and
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postings and e-titles have vanished in
obsolescence
we'll still have the books
thank you if you have any questions I
should have mentioned this earlier if
you have any
questions or comments you'd like to make
please I think you're in contact with
Jill
she will be in contact she is in contact
with me
and uh let her know
thanks for joining in thank you so much
tom that was
great and so many great so many really
delightful stories um if anybody does
have a question that they'd like to ask
Tom
right now or a comment you can just open
up your chat
and I will read him the question if you
have something
um I want to also mention that I loved
hearing the bit
again about Clinton Avenue because I
think about Clinton Avenue all the time
and how it just
ends and then picks up in Falmouth
heights and how I would love to have
like we should do something to make them
connect again
you know a bridge a bridge or we should
have little
boats to go across there or something
seems like it must have been such a
different town
when Clinton Ave went right through and
that the people who live downtown
had would have had such great access to
the Falmouth
Heights beaches so except they would
have had to go up Scranton Avenue and
nobody went upstairs
for any reason that too is really
fascinating that Scranton Avenue
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it was you know just not there was a
place that wasn't there
and the the stuff about the grocery
stores is great I mean
it's just so delightful to hear about
what the town was like at that moment in
time
um and we're actually the the fellow
that's going to be talking tomorrow as
part of this series
um Gus Widmayer um has written a book
called the Belvidere
Plain Revisited and he talks
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also about Clinton Ave and how things
again
sort of developed and it will be very
interesting I think to hear that talk
as well it does not look like anybody
has
any questions at this moment in time
but I am uh really delighted
to have had you finally come to the
library if only virtually
I hope next time in your when you're in
found with you stop by the library and
say hello
we reopened the public yesterday so feel
free
to stop by um it was a real pleasure
uh to have you talk about your memories
of Falmouth
and a great addition um to this series
of talks that we're doing
so and thank to all of you that um have
shown up today for this we really
appreciate it um
and thank you to FCTV for making this
all possible
um in terms of making this this
tv part the work the um
it is again our first time doing quite
something quite of this level so
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we really look forward to it a pleasure
tom
to uh hear you talk and I
hope that you all will take a look at
his book and which of course the library
has copies of
as well as um the postcard collections
so thanks so much well thank you thank
you Jill so sorry to have uh
put you on edge at 9 55 this morning
when I wasn't
down but uh I it worked out fine and uh
this is fun for me too that's great it
and it did indeed work out we're we're
delighted
thank you again and um we hope some of
us who
join you to that some of us some of you
here will be able to join tomorrow
for Gus Widmayer’s talk um and then
we have a third uh story third
one coming up um on Thursday which is
Mary L. Martin who is actually
the author and owner of the world's
largest postcard shop that has just come
out
with a new book about collecting
postcards in fact she's written many
many books about collecting postcards
so that will be sort of a different
angle of this week is the postcards
angle
um thank you so much for attending thank
you Tom
checking out thanks Jill
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Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 20, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
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Available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
• Also mentioned:
o Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, by Christopher Setterlund,
available at Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund, available at
Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook, by Earl Mills & Betty Breen, available from
CLAMS under 641.59 MIL
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
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and without further ado I wanted to
welcome Chris we're glad to have you
here
thank you so much I’m so glad to be here
and
yes like Sue said this is geared more
towards
Falmouth so it'll be
a lot of the places that are in my
restaurant's book are
here but in order to make this worth
your while for actually being
part of this Zoom presentation I added
some places that are not in the book
so what I’m going to do is I’m going to
pull my presentation
up so that you can see it
because it's more exciting to see the
actual presentation
and so I wrote this book
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Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod
this was in 2017.
and for those who don't know me I am a
12th generation Cape Codder
and I’ve written a total of six books my
most recent one is in the bottom right
corner that's Iconic Hotels and Motels
of Cape Cod
that one along with Cape Cod Nights
will be
featured next week and that one will
also be
a presentation that is Falmouth centric
so it'll be a lot of fun this one was a
lot of fun to put together too
because I wanted to I had to do more
research and find
places that you will hopefully remember
and if you don't then
I can bring them back to life for you
so in June of 2015 that's when I started
chronicling
the legendary Cape Cod restaurants it
was part of
Arcadia Publishing's History Press label
and the end result was Historic
Restaurants of Cape Cod so the book
itself
is 39 restaurants
all of them are since closed
but there's a 40th chapter that includes
recipes from many of the restaurants
that are
in the book and I was lucky because I’ve
done a lot of work for Cape Cod Life
magazine
and way back when they first started in
the late 70s early 80s they would have
recipes from restaurants in their
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magazine
and they basically told me in exchange
for
mentioning that they're from the Cape
Cod Life magazine I could use any
recipes I wanted so it ended up being a
great
sort of win-win so that's at the last
chapter of the book
the rest so I covered the entirety of
Cape Cod in the book
I didn't want to show favoritism I grew
up in Yarmouth live in Yarmouth so
naturally
I could close my eyes and think of two
dozen restaurants from
near where I live from my lifetime
but what I did was hundreds and hundreds
of hours of research
to make sure that the entirety of the
Cape was represented
the basis of this book was a 2005 Ohio
State University study
that explained that 60 percent of
restaurants don't survive
their first season and eighty percent
go under within five years and I’m sure
a lot of you have seen
restaurants I mean COVID kind of
accelerated some
but before that that you would see
restaurants come in
have a big grand opening and fade away
within a year or two
what I focused on was those restaurants
that have
that had come and gone but they had a
huge impact
they came and made a big impact and
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so this book is filled with a lot of
those
and for those of you that you know
beyond Falmouth I mean you probably have
heard of Thompson’s Clam Bar
Mildred’s Chowder House places like that
that's some examples of ones that are
outside of Falmouth but without further
ado
let's take a scroll down memory lane
places that you will
know and love and remember so
this one I put first because
uh it's very unique it was on the
top of my list as far as Falmouth
centric
restaurants now granted it's in Woods
Hole but it's so
close so The Dome Restaurant
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the reason why I put this front and
center
first as far as places to talk about is
because it's being
worked on currently
so the plan is for the actual dome
itself to be
restored and possible
senior housing to be built around it in
the site of the former
Nautilus Motor Inn in 2016
the area was purchased for 2.9 million
dollars by a group called
Woods Hole Partners and that's who's
working on it right now
so The Dome Restaurant for those not
familiar with it it's down
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right near the Steamship Authority so
I’ve told people if you're driving down
going towards the Steamship Authority
once you can see the water
you're basically passing by the Dome
it is an authentic geodesic dome
much like Epcot Center in Disney and
there's a reason why because they were
built by the same person
a man named R. Buckminster Fuller and he
built this 54-foot diameter
geodesic dome and the restaurant itself
opened in 1954
and it was 170 seats the Dome was the
dining room
the kitchen and the rest of the
facilities were attached to it
and obviously it's a very unique
restaurant you can see in that
image on the right it's a postcard from
the Falmouth Historical Society
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that eating in a geodesic dome is quite
unique and so
people would flock to it but the problem
was
the geodesic dome in the summer
especially
conducts itself like a greenhouse which
made it very hot
and if you're talking the 50s and 60s
air conditioning wasn't
as prevalent I mean it was but
what they had to do and you can see in
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that picture on the right
on the left hand side of the postcard
there's that
white white thing hanging down it's a
tarp
the tarp was put over much of the dome
to shield it from the sun and keep it
from getting too hot
and so unfortunately you know it it got
to be
you wanted to eat at the Dome for the
view and then most of the view was
obstructed by a tarp
because it was too hot
the Dome closed in 2002 officially
it has been sitting there
basically decaying for the last nearly
20 years
there's been plans to at the very least
preserve it for history but now the idea
is to
refurbish the dome and create the senior
housing near it so
luckily this spot will seemingly be
around for a long time
however the Dome is far from the only
spot
in Falmouth that gained iconic
status so do you remember
Elsie’s also known as Elsie’s Lunch
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this restaurant was owned by a couple
Elsie and Henry Bowman
and they're very unique because they
fled
Germany ahead of World War II in the
late 1930s
and they actually settled up in Boston
and in 1955 Elsie and Henry
opened a sandwich shop in Harvard Square
that was also called
Elsie’s and it was very popular
they had sandwiches like fresher's dream
which was essentially you would consider
it a New York deli
sandwich or a Dagwood depending on what
you know it as
with ham turkey and corned beef they
also had the Elsie’s roast beef special
which was roast beef and onions German
mustard Russian dressing
and relish and Elsie worked hard
she worked hard at her restaurant in
Harvard Square
and what ended up happening was in 1965
she had a heart attack
so basically they told her you need to
retire
and what else he did was she retired to
Cape Cod moved to Falmouth
and stayed retired for about a year
before
she opened the second Elsie’s which was
on Palmer Avenue in 1966.
it stayed open through 1986 it was very
popular all the way through
before she eventually really retired in
1986
now the spot is a place called
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which is still there that was Elsie’s
way back in the day
some of these legendary establishments
are still standing and
still open today and that's a neat thing
about
doing this being Falmouth centric was
the original Historic Restaurants
book every place in there was closed
and my publisher they dealt with that
one all right
they made it a point that for the Cape
Cod Nights book the nightlife
I needed to have at least a few places
that were still open in there
and the Iconic Hotels and Motels
they needed at least half of them to
still be open
so luckily a place like the Silver
Lounge restaurant which is still open
that's neat because you can see the
presentation and then go out to
Route 28a and check them out
they've been open since 1938
they've got a unique nautical theme
inside
where there's driftwood adorning some of
the walls in there from local beaches
they're known for seafood steaks
sandwiches
typical American fare the property was
once owned by a man named Manuel White
and it was bought by William Early and
he's the one
that opened it on May 28 1938
and early he was cross
promotion he came from a spot called the
Coonamessett Inn
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and they're still going strong there's
Uncle Bill's Country Store which is a
gift shop
right next to it so that's another
spot Route 28a that's kind of the nice
back roads but not back roads where
Route 28 I know out there is more of a
highway
but some of these places are a part of
recent Cape Cod history
and that talks to on the left the Nimrod
that just recently was torn down
it was on Dillingham Avenue
and it's mostly known for being
hit by a cannonball during the war of
1812
the restaurant itself was named for
the British ship the HMS Nimrod
uh before so this wasn't the original
location of the Nimrod
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located
at a different spot in town and it was
known as the Boxwood Club
but then in the 1950s it was moved to
its spot
at Dillingham Avenue where it flourished
from there
the problem was that as it turned to the
21st century
the building was falling out of code
to the point where I guess if you had
the owners had
taken steps earlier it probably could
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saved but it turned out that
when they went to the health department
and such to see
how much it would cost to bring the
building up to code it was 2 million
dollars
and this is more than 10 years ago
so they ended up closing the restaurant
officially in 2012
and it sat the building decayed people
came in looking to buy
but what ended up happening was they
bought it more for
the property and less for the
restaurant itself now it's an empty lot
unfortunately they tried to save it
to make it you know a part of the
register of historic places but it did
not happen
the Leeside Bar and Grill that much
like the Dome is with an eyesight of the
Steamship Authority
that was Luscombe Avenue right there
near Water Street
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in Woods Hole they were open for
more than 60 years as
kind of a restaurant bar
and it's known for its odd shape because
it's where
two roads meet so it's got almost a
triangular
shape to it the building itself is still
there
in 2013 the Leeside closed
and it was quickly purchased and
reopened as Quick’s Hole
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it's interesting to see these places and
know that you can
go back and you can see a place like the
Leeside even though it's in a different
it's a different name now
other spots that were in the book and
that I researched
for this presentation are part of a
bygone generation
The Bellows is an interesting one it was
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on
Falmouth Heights Road and from 1933 to
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it was a restaurant it was started as
more of a tea room
which I’m not it's kind of
lighter fare lunch and obviously
tea but it was opened by a woman named
Thekla Hedlund and she was from Long
Island
and it was a tea room with lobster and
more
so it became it started as a tea room
but she had a connection
that could get her fresh lobster so she
decided she'd be crazy not to do that
so it became more of a breakfast and
lunch place
and it was very successful the problem
was that
Thekla Hedlund even though she had her
family helping her out it's a lot of
work
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that's only open during the summer
she would be down on the Cape for the
summer
spring summer and go back to Long Island
in the off season
in 1946 she had a massive
stroke and died shortly thereafter
what ended up happening was the family
sold The Bellows itself the restaurant
and a man came in and bought it ran it
for two more years as The Bellows but
when you buy an existing restaurant and
it's yours
you kind of you say you're gonna run it
as the previous owners did but then you
get your own ideas of what
you want to do with that property since
you own it
so what they did was change the name to
The Red Horse
Grill that only lasted for about
two years before it became known as the
Red Horse
Inn and the Red Horse Inn is still
standing
so unfortunately I couldn't get a better
photo with the postcard on the right
but it's the same building and if you
come for next week's presentation the
Red Horse Inn is front and center
so you may hear a little bit of this
similarity
but The Bellows was one of those hidden
gems that when doing my research
for the restaurants book it was
something I had never heard of and it
was a neat
unique story of a tea room that became a
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lunch breakfast lunch place with lobster
and Thekla Hedlund she was a unique
person to
run this spot
so also falling along those lines
of The Bellows was the Hangar Tea Room
and the reason why I put this I could
not find a photo of the Hangar Tea Room
so the Megansett Tea Room in North
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Falmouth it's the same kind of idea
where like I mentioned a tea room is
lighter fare sandwiches
drinks the Hangar Tea Room is an
interesting one and I wrote
a longer story about it for I have a
blog
called the In My Footsteps Podcast Blog
now and I do a lot of Cape Cod history
over there I used to write a lot for
capecod.com I did
Cape Cod Cape Cod history
articles I left there about two years
ago because
I wanted to basically write about things
I found interesting and not
have to run it by an editor so that's
what I ended up doing and the Hangar Tea
Room
is a pretty good story that's on that
blog
so it started off in 1923 as a tea room
called the Gray Gull
and then a woman named Mary Fellows she
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and ran it throughout much of the 1920s
and it had music and dancing this was
during Prohibition
so when you're running a place that has
entertainment during Prohibition you've
got to
make it good because there's no alcohol
to kind of keep people around
in 1930 it became known as the Hangar
Tea Room
and this is where the story gets
interesting
there was a man named William Wagner who
bought it and ran it the problem was
that it be there was a lot of complaints
about
noise cars parked all over the place
and also people drunk stumbling out into
the street
so during Prohibition when all these
things are happening
that kind of gets the antenna going of
the local police
and what ended up happening was on
November 3rd
1933 the police raided the Hangar Tea
Room
and they found alcohol they found
gambling equipment in there
and they essentially shut them down
briefly what happened was
William Wagner not too long after I mean
Prohibition
was overturned not too long after they
were raided so it was right on the cusp
so after Prohibition was overturned
William Wagner
tried to go and get an actual liquor
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and he was turned down he even though it
was so close to the end of Prohibition
the town didn't forget that he had his
speakeasy there
so he even had his wife Dorothy
running it trying to get her like all
right we're not associated with
William Wagner anymore but still his
wife
eventually they gave them a liquor
license but it was too late
they closed down before the end of the
1930s
and William Wagner he did not like
having his
liquor license application turned down
so he decided to run for selectmen in
the town
and unfortunately for him he ran for
selectmen
11 times and he lost 11 times
so he did not have much luck once he was
raided
by the police in 1933 kind of went
downhill from there
some of these spots were a short drive
away
and Quintal’s
was just over the Bourne Bridge today
it's
uh Dunkin’ Donuts in a Speedway I believe
right where the Bourne Rotary is that
leads you into Wareham or up onto Route
25 Quintal’s was open
from the mid-60s through 2005
and I’m actually working on an in-depth
article about the history of the
Quintals and the family Robert and
Gloria who
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started it because I didn't realize how
how far their reach went I thought of
Quintal’s as
Bourne slash Buzzards Bay and this one
restaurant
but it turns out they had four
restaurants at once
so they had this one here they opened
one in Hyannis at the airport rotary
in the early 80s so it was
Red Coach Grill later it was Chili's
and in between it was Quintal's Red
Cabin
and it was brief they only had it there
for maybe three years
and it's interesting because they
expanded and all the expansions
didn't last that long because in
Yarmouth
they had Quintal Seafood was the name
of it
I believe they opened in 1979
and by 1983 they were closed and
replaced by
Oliver’s which is still there
the other one was actually
on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham
and it was called the Crack O Dawn
they actually weren't
weren't too long ago that they closed
down within the last
seven eight years and they were more of
a breakfast place Crack O Dawn with a
little rooster on the sign interesting
thing about Quintal’s was
they in 2005 after the
the parents Robert had passed away and
Gloria was
she was older she was retired they were
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#hyannis
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selling it and they planned on closing
it at the end of the 2005
season but a fire broke out
in June of 2005 and it they
took it as a sign basically that it was
they didn't have the money or the time
to repair
the restaurant to reopen for a few more
months so they just closed it down
and it was interesting they sold it to
Christy Mihos
who he put his Christy’s in there but
then he went out of business
and on the right The Flume
was located in Mashpee it's now
the Naukabout Brewery but it was
owned for 32 years by High Chief Earl
Mills
he was known as Flying Eagle of the
Wampanoag
Tribe and what he did was he
had his own recipes that he grew up with
from his
family his parents and he put that into
everything all of his meals the Flume
it was interesting I interviewed Earl
Mills
for the restaurant's book and it's just
a funny story because he
I had him come and speak at the book
launch event
for it and he basically he was telling a
lot of the same stories that he told me
on the phone
the only problem was on the phone his
stories were
very R-rated with a lot of swears
and as he's telling these stories about
working in a kitchen and
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being a chef I just was cringing like oh
god please don't
swear so much because I was trying to
keep it where people were recording it
but he didn't he was good about that
another interesting thing so there's a
recipe in the book
from the Flume it's his Indian pudding
and I spoke to him I said oh yeah I put
a recipe of yours in the book
from Cape Cod life magazine and he
quickly cut me off and he said oh yeah
that's not the right recipe
and I was like wait what do you mean and
he was he was writing a cookbook of his
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and what he told me was why the hell
would I
give them the recipe for free when I
could put it in my book and make money
off
of it and Earl Mills he's a hoot he
definitely
he was worth the time to interview
and there were icons of the Falmouth
restaurant scene like Danny-Kay's
which is on Route 28 it was opened
from 1959 to 1977
classic Italian restaurant owned by the
Bartolomei
family the grandson
of the owners Jay Bartolomei he owns a
spot called the Villaggio
in Cotuit so if you
went to Danny-Kay’s and you enjoyed their
food
you can go and kind of get a taste of it
at the Villaggio
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Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook,
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#1959 #1977
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I find it interesting that Danny-Kay’s was
an icon of
Falmouth restaurants and yet the place
the spot that replaced it
the Golden Sails Chinese restaurant has
been around for
more than twice as long as Danny-Kay’s
was there
and I don't know I’ve never eaten at the
Golden Sails I don't know how it is but
you know there they've been there for
more than 40 years
and there were also legends nearby the
Tin Man Diner
so it ended up being a part of Falmouth
restaurants but it got its start
far away from there so the diner car
itself so on the right
the original was called the Sterling
Steam Line
Streamliner diner car
the original was known as the Jimmy
Evans Flyer
and it was located in New Bedford and
opened in 1940.
Jimmy Evans was a vaudeville entertainer
and he didn't run it himself he had his
wife run it
but he put his name on it figuring that
Jimmy Evans people would know
him and come to eat there thinking you
know he's got his name on it
it must be good in 1960
the Jimmy Evans Flyer was purchased
and it was no
uh that's it um he just referenced
oops he just referenced
building quality [unintelligible]
[unintelligible] takes about eight to ten
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#sterlingstreamliner
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months
and I didn't exactly know what that
meant
not sure I follow that
so the Tin Man Diner was moved
to the Otis rotary where
stayed open as the oldest rotary diner
in the 1970s
then later on it was known as Mary
Muffins
but then it was leased to a woman named
Barbara Lind she's on the left
left-hand side of the left photo with
her daughter
and it was renamed My Tin Man Diner
it had a lot of military memorabilia
and Wizard of Oz memorabilia located in
there
unfortunately in 2000 it was
subject to arson the jealous boyfriend
of a waitress there
burned the building down and it was sad
because
a lot of the regular customers
would come to the charred remains in the
parking lot and sit there with their and
have coffee
where the building used to be
luckily there was a happy ending because
in 2008
it was resurrected in Falmouth and
that's the one that's on the left
it lasted for another three years
On County Road in North Falmouth before
eventually closing in 2011
but that was one interviewing Barbara
Lind
it spoke to the overall impact that
these
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restaurants had Barbara Lind sent me
these photos of
the Tin Man Diner and she was so
overwhelmed
with happiness and almost like a
validation
that I had included her building her
restaurant in my book
and that's the way I found it with this
book that
I didn't put any spot in there that I
didn't think belonged
as a historic iconic Cape Cod location
and that's what I found that's why when
doing the research for
the Falmouth area I wanted to make sure
it was places that
stuck out that deserve to be mentioned
and remembered
and no matter what though these spots in
there
they deserve to be remembered and
celebrated for the good
more than the good food but the good
memories that they give to people
and that's kind of where I fall on this
that it's bringing back the memories and
how you felt
being there just as much as it is about
the restaurants themselves
and I finished it with a couple of
different shots of Main Street Falmouth
#mainstreet
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one looks like it's from the early 40s
and the others from the
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probably early 60s but that's where we
wrap things up
with my presentation on historic
restaurants of the Falmouth area
and if there are any questions I will do
my best to
answer them I’m going to
stop sharing the screen
so if Sue I don't know if you want to
open it up
oh okay yeah um we had one in the chat
and someone asked what about Lawrence’s
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do you know anything about that one
that is one that I’ve heard of I think
Lawrence’s sandwich shop is that
because that's been on a I don't know
much about it myself
but it was on it was on my list for the
original book the idea is
some places had as I say more meat on
the bone
thankfully in the years since
I did this book there's been more in the
way of
research opportunities online newspaper
archives that have allowed me to
expand that's why a place like Quintal’s
or a place like the Hangar Tea Room that
I wasn't able to get in
the original book I can now research
because of these expanded I mean
Falmouth Library they've got the
newspaper archives they go up to
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1962 I believe so those
are fun to check out yeah we actually
have them we have microfilm too oh hold
on one second yeah we have microfilm of
those
um if you could turn your camera on if
you have a question and
just raise your hand and then we'll know
who's talking
does anyone
okay yeah I don't see any other
questions in the chat but if anyone
wants to ask a question or
mention anything about me these
restaurants just turn your camera on if
you can
or if you don't have a camera you can
unmute yourself too well I
see in the chat about the casino the
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casino
next week that's from my Cape Cod Nights
book
there were some places that
doubled as restaurants and nightclubs
there were some that doubled as
restaurants and hotels
so I had to pick and choose what went
where
now that's not to say that I didn't have
places that were
in multiple books a place like The
Columns that used to exist in West
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was in the restaurant's book and in the
nightlife book because
it doubled as a jazz club so the casino
you will see
um can you tell us just a little bit
more about your research for these books
too like
how do you approach these books when you
write them
so first thing with this restaurant's
book
basically the publisher came to me and
said
you can have any anywhere from five to
forty restaurants
and that was basically the only
restriction I had
so what I did was I asked family
parents grandparents friends about Cape
cod what places do you remember going
that you liked
and I jotted all of them down I think I
ended up with
almost a hundred wow and
then what I did was pick the ones that I
knew were the big time ones
Thompson’s Clam Bar Mildred’s Chowder
House
and the like and then ones that I wasn't
as familiar with
like when I saw the Dome I said oh my
god this place is awesome
because you can still go see it I mean
it's kind of
decayed but hopefully they're fixing it
but you start to pick your definite ones
that go in there
and I had a plan to do 40 restaurants
it was a nice round number with 40,000
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words
was kind of the word count but it ended
up not happening so that's where the
recipes came from
oh yeah that's yeah that's Olde Surrey
#smithsoldesurreyroom
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Room is next week too
you're picking ones that see they fell
kind of in between
where believe me I’ve got photos of both
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room is is going to
be in the Cape Cod Nights
next week and the casino casino
Brothers Four it's interesting when I
did my
research for the Cape Cod Nights book I
didn't realize
that Terrace Gables which is it's next
#brothersfour
#terracegables
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week as well
a huge luxury hotel right on
uh Falmouth Heights right on the
Falmouth Road Race running route
I didn't realize that that became
Brothers Four
that it was basically they just put a
nightclub entertainment complex into
this hotel
and the same with the casino that that
they were
like neighbors and it's so interesting
that it got repurposed as that
but oh believe me that's that's coming
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too
cool yeah that'll be a great
presentation
especially yeah it'll cover a lot
because it's a hotel it's two different
books hotels and nightclubs so
yes and I’ve got a whole brand new
presentation for that as well
oh that's great no we appreciate that
because even your books
to begin with you know cover a lot so
the fact that you went and found even
more on Falmouth that's great
and I enjoyed I took it as kind of a
challenge
to make it where it was worth it for the
people that came to
check it out to make it where it wasn't
just
three or four places from the book that
it fleshed out to a full
presentation and Falmouth was easier
than if you
told me to do it for like Wellfleet
Wellfleet would be a lot harder
Truro I I don't think they were even
represented in the restaurant's book and
I tried
but Truro it was a needle in a haystack
yeah there aren't a lot of restaurants
there that's for sure well I couldn't
even I don't think I could name you
one currently let alone
back 40 50 years ago yeah
yeah maybe one okay does anyone have any
questions or does anyone have any
comments in any of these restaurants if
they had been there
yes did I do justice to because so the
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place
I could tell you the ones that I pulled
from the book that I have
you can tell the ones I have more
knowledge of the Dome
Elsies The Bellows The Flume
Tin Man Diner but places
like the Leeside and the Nimrod
those I weren't as familiar with so I
tried to do my best to
get information that I could share so
that it wasn't
just a photo and me skipping by
yeah I’m not from Falmouth myself so I
don't know any of these but I’m sure
some of these folks probably do
and someone typed that they had some
good memories I wonder if
who if anyone knew about Hangar Tea Room
room and the speakeasy because that was
fascinating
I did an article about it that goes way
more in depth
but I’ve started to become a big fan of
finding
speakeasies and writing about them there
was one I’m from Yarmouth and there's a
famous one called the Casa Madrid that's
down near the beaches
and it basically in 1933 it opened as
dinner and dancing and within six weeks
they had been raided and shut down
because they were speakeasy and they
didn't hide it very well
there were Boston-based politicians that
were supposedly
legend has it there when it got raided
and they jumped out the back window
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yeah that would be interesting well
maybe someone will come to us with some
of these stories at some point today
we can relay them yeah definitely if
anyone has any places they want me to
research and then do a future article on
I also do podcasts and I share a lot of
Cape Cod history there the podcast is
more New England-centric
but I have I did a stand-alone about the
Cape Cod Coliseum and things like that
yeah and I think
on your website is probably your email I
assume that people can contact you if
they have questions yes sir
I mean I have it too but I didn't I
think you have it posted on your website
too
and the website is good it's got so it
has my first
five books my sixth one hasn't been
uploaded yet but obviously you can get
it
pretty much anywhere and it's got
a link to my podcast and a link to I was
on
Chronicle two years ago this week so I
have that
embedded there so you can see it oh wow
that's great okay well
we'll definitely look forward to seeing
you next week and
hopefully you guys will all be back and
if you have anyone else that might be
interested in hearing about that that's
next week too
yeah yeah we do yeah and I’ll I’ll try
to get the link out to people who
attended this just so you'll have it too
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Bartolomei
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Bourne Bridge
Bourne rotary
Boxwood Club
Brothers Four
Buckminster Fuller
Buzzards Bay
cape cod coliseum
Cape Cod Life
Casa Madrid
casino
Chilis
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Christy Mihos
Christy's
Cotuit
County Road
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Cranberry Highway
Danny-Kay's
Dillingham Avenue
Earl Mills
Elsie Bowman
Elsie's
Falmouth Heights Road
Falmouth Historical Society
Falmouth Main Street
Falmouth Road Race
Flume Restaurant
Flying Eagle
geodesic dome
Germany
Golden Sails
Gray Gull
Hangar Tearoom
Henry Bowman
Hyannis
In My Footsteps
jimmy evans
jimmy evans flyer
lawrence's sandwich depot
leeside bar and grill
luscombe avenue
manuel white
mary fellows
mary muffins
mashpee
megansett tearoom
mildred's chowder house
my tin man diner
naukabout brewery
nautilus motor inn
new bedford
nimrod
North Falmouth
oliver's and planck's tavern
palmer avenue
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prohibition
quicks hole tavern
quintal seafood
quintal's
quintal's crack-o-dawn
quintal's red cabin
red coach grill
red horse grill
red horse inn
route 25
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silver lounge
smith's olde surrey room
speakeasy
steamship authority
sterling streamliner
tearoom
terrace gables
the bellows
the columns
the dome
thekla hedlund
thompson's clam bar
tin man diner
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uncle bill's country store
villaggio ristorante
wagner
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wareham
water street
west dennis
william early
woods hole partners
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