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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: July 30, 2021
Oral Historian: Joel Peterson
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: The Dome Restaurant
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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Joel welcome glad to have you here today
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thank you so we're here to talk about
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one of Falmouth's most iconic spots
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the Dome in Woods Hole and throughout
#thedome
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your life you've had an involvement with
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that so take us first through the
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history of how the Dome came to be
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and then we'll talk about how it was a
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community gathering place for so many
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years
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well my father was an architect in
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Falmouth
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fairly controversial one unfortunately
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because his architecture was what they
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called contemporary or modern
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which
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Falmouth didn't think was that great
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and
#egunnarpeterson
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so that went on for a while and then he
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decided that he thought it would be a
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good idea to
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build a hotel
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and then building a hotel maybe we'd
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have a restaurant with it and of course
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it had to be different
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you know and it had to
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there was a lot of controversy when we
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were building it
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I at the time it was 1953
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I was 12 years old
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but I do remember it very well
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the Dome was the most controversial
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most of the people in Woods Hole and
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you’re familiar with the
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ethos if that's the word of Woods Hole
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um we're
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vehemently against it
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in
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all of the stuff that you see now about
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“save the Dome” it's going to go down it's
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was the exact opposite if it goes up
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it's going to ruin life as we know it
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and
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and
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it's very amusing that probably the
#nautilusmotorinn
#1953
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grandchildren of the people that were
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fighting it going up are now fighting it
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going down yeah
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but uh anyway my father
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Bucky Fuller R. Buckminster Fuller was
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the
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inventor if that's the word the father
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of the Dome
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and uh
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my father thought it would be fun to
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have
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that as a restaurant
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so he got in touch with Bucky who who
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was quite a guy in his own right I mean
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he was on a stamp and you know I mean he
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was Bucky was quite a guy
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and
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personally he was like a grandfather to
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me
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as I say I was 12. he and his wife came
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and lived at our house
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for the summer of 1953
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and lived with our family
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while the Dome was being built
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in the Dome um
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is an interesting structure in that it's
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very lightweight and it can span large
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areas like a baseball field for instance
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you know but
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but at that time
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he had only built one commercially he
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built one in Dearborn Michigan for the
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Ford Motor Company
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and when he got through with that job he
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came to Woods Hole
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the Woods Hole Dome is wood
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and all the wood was pre-cut
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at MIT and was brought down on a couple
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of trucks
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the dome structure itself is is uh he
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called it dynamic he used he made up the
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word geodesic which
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describes the construction but
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dynamic being that
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there are multiple panels
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all
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engineered and fit together
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and what enables a large space to be
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to be
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constructed without
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without falling down and without any
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supports
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is that one piece was pushing on the
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other
#geodesicdome
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so the building is always moving and if
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you're in there
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and there's no people or nothing
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you can hear it it's cracking all the
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time
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and it's not just wind it's just it just
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does that
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of course that makes
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the outside rather tough because you've
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got a solid outside in the insides
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moving
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so consequently it leaked a lot
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that was really the hardest part
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and we were working on that all the time
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a guy named Dave Gardner was the
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was the roofer and he tried everything
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in the world you know that he could find
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uh elastomeric you know to keep to seal
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the joints
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it was originally covered in Mylar
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in
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1953
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Mylar is a clear plastic
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it was glued on
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to each panel
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and
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that
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first year we were open we opened in
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1954
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and
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those of you of my age remember that in
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1954 Hurricane Carol
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came through at the end of August
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and while you could walk on
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on the Mylar it was strong enough to
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hold you if you had something sharp that
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was a different story and it got pierced
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and the whole thing got ruined
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so one year after it was up
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it was gone
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the structure was fine but the covering
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was gone so then it was covered with
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what it is covered with now which were
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sheets of fiberglass
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and fiberglass was brand new at that
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time as I recall there was a company in
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New Bedford that made it that made these
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panels
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and
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the panels at that time were pink and
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green you know preppy stuff
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and so the whole dome
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the different uh panels were either pink
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or green and then there was a big
#1954
#hurricane #hurricanecarol
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picture window behind what was the
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sunken bar
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ah let's see so
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that went on for a few years and then
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ultimately we had to start coating the
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outside so the pink and green went away
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just because it was
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not painted but essentially painted with
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this
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elastomeric stuff
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so it moved a lot it leaked a lot it was
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it was an issue
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so that that's a wonderful history that
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only someone who lived it like yourself
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could recount spent Hurricane
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Carol in the cellar of the of the
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kitchen
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wow yeah
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and that was quite a storm
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I was not alive then but I have read
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about it and heard about it I was here
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uh of course for Hurricane Bob which was
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uh that was a good one 30 something
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years later and that was a good one too
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but so after the reconstruction in 1954
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then the Dome began its run as
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one of the premier restaurants in
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Massachusetts certainly on Cape Cod and
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over those years
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it's funny you should mention the
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leaking because I still share stories
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and I run into Cape Cod once in a while and
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we can get to him in a minute but people
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to this day tell stories about having
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large dinner parties and fun and
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food and drink
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and the roof leaking and they would just
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go right through it because that was
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part of the Dome experience part of the
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ambiance but
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we have pictures of people sitting in
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there with umbrellas though
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uh just
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you know to pull our chain little but
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but that's isn't that part of what was
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the experience because it was a local
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place right people understood that they
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expected it so it wasn't as though they
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were put out by that but it was part of
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what made it so special well that's what
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we told them anyway
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well it worked because uh and and that
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became uh you know uh
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obviously a huge part of your life for
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many many years so tell us about the
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evolution of the restaurant and and and
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it continued uh
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uh to be such an important part not just
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of the Woods Hole village but of the
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Falmouth and the Cape Cod community
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well
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I I guess
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it was because I you know my father was
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a local boy he went to
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Lawrence High I went to Lawrence High
#lawrencehighschool
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you know I mean we're we're locals
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the town and back in those days was a
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lot simpler than it is now you literally
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knew everybody now I know you knew a lot
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of people and know a lot of people but
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uh
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you sort of knew everybody so when you
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were
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in the business it wasn't I’m going to
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the Dome it's I’m going to go see Joel
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you know I mean
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you know it became a
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personality thing I think and uh
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heck if I ever took a night off
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you know I’d run into somebody you know
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say like you downtown and say hey I was
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there the other night where the hell
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were you you know
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you know
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you know you got that a lot so
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you know it was a
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it was a
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summer
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tourist place
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but the locals went there
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for sure I mean I grew up uh off of
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Davisville in East Falmouth and
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uh you know the opportunity to to travel
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to Woods Hole in general but you know on
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a very special occasion we would go
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there and that was always a highlight
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for the family and that's those memories
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uh you know last a lifetime and so your
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place has been part of
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uh so many memories for thousands of
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people and that's what I still get you
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know I still run into people at you know
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the hardware store or whatever who'll
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say just that you know God I remember
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coming there on Mother's Day I remember
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there's some you know
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different things of course weddings and
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I just had it out in the hallway here
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your previous
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guest
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was telling me stories about a wedding
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he went to there and
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and talking about Cape Cod and yeah I mean
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so it goes on all the time oh absolutely
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and Cape Cod was a big big big part of it
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so for those watching this Arne of
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course is Arne Grepstad who was
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uh
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general manager was his title or manager
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or but he was part of the heart and soul
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of that place and certainly the
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personality Arne Grepstad was was a uh
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an exchange student
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at at
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Lawrence High
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I don't know if it was Falmouth High
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then no it's still Lawrence High then I
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think and uh
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and
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for some unknown reason they asked me to
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be one of his advisors
#arnegrepstad
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and I wasn't that much older than him
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and he was very well adjusted and didn't
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seem to be having any problems so I
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would take him to Red Sox games and you
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know I mean we just did stuff and
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and became friends so when his year was
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up
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I said
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you know what are you going to do I’m
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going back to know yeah but what are you
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going to do
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and
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and he didn't really know
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so one thing and another I went to the
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Cornell Hotel School and so we got him
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into the Cornell Hotel School
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and then he started working summers for
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me and then when he got through I said
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what are you gonna do and I said well
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why don't you come here and he just came
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and never left and uh
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you know he
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as we like to say he's like a rash you
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know you get
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it of him
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Arne’s the best no question about it
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and uh absolutely he's a
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bit of a character but uh
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I could tell you Arne’s stories for a
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long long time
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but that's what makes places like the
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dome so special because as you just
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experienced people identify
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their life story by people places and
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things and the Dome had all of those it
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was this amazing thing in the middle of
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the village a special place and had
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people like you and Arne that made it
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an experience it wasn't going to Anyplace
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USA to you know for a ham sandwich
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it was going to the Dome
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for that whole experience and uh and so
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people still very much identify with
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that as
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as you know uh Phil Stone is my stepdad
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and uh is one of your contemporaries and
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you know to to this day he tells stories
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about
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the Dome and about Woods Hole
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oh sure Phil and Dick
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yeah oh yeah and and but that's I think
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places like the Dome are woven through
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the fret of the thread of the community
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and make it really the special place
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Quarterdeck today is that kind of a
#quarterdeck
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place you go absolutely you know it's
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all
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people I know for the most part you know
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it's
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it's home you know it's Falmouth like
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Cheers where everybody knows your name
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right exactly
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exactly so so
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if you could pick out just a couple of
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uh memorable stories from the Dome uh
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famous people that dine in there or
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experiences that that happen are there
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any that stand out
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well you're a baseball fan yes of course
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my favorite player
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was Jackie Jensen
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right fielder
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the outfield of Williams Piersall and
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Jensen Pearsall of course lived in
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Hyannis and
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Ted Williams needs no introduction
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Jackie Jensen played right field
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and
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if you're a trivia buff
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which I’m sure you are and you would
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know that Jackie Jensen is the only
#jackiejensen
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person
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who played in both the Rose Bowl and the
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World Series
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because he was football player
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California
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and then a baseball player in the World
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Series unfortunately not with the Red
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Sox but with the Yankees
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and
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anyway he was right fielder
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when I was about 14 years old I was
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washing dishes in the Dome
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and I was too young really to run the
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dishwasher but
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I did anyway
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until the labor people came in
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and said that this kid's too young and
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this is dangerous equipment and all that
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other stuff and told my father that
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they had to let me go
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so they did let me go until he got out
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of the driveway and then
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and then I went back but that year
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58
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was one of Jackie Jensen’s best years
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and I used to write what he did every
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day on on the on the shelf down in the
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uh cellar of the restaurant
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anyway don't know why I did it
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now come ahead
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god 20 25 years
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and this guy walks into the restaurant
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I’m standing there at the desk and I
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look and I said it's Jackie Jensen
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couldn't believe it
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I said yo Jackie Jensen he says yeah
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nobody knows anymore I said no I do
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anyway he had dinner he's taking his
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daughter to the Vineyard
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spending the night at the Nautilus
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and uh came up for dinner
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so I took him down in the cellar and
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showed him what I had done back then he
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absolutely couldn't believe it but you
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know talk about
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meeting your hero sort of you know I
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mean it was it was neat
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so that really uh exemplifies what we're
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talking about and how yeah
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places like the Dome are just special
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and I’m sure you know he remembered that
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for the rest of his days uh after his
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time in the Major Leagues was over and
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he had
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he was one of those that
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the other thing he he was well known for
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was he wouldn't fly
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which
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you know was a problem for a ball player
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so right
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sort of like John Madden right exactly
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exactly Madden got more famous for it
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and had a bus and all that stuff you
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know Willie Nelson you know it's got his
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own bus but uh
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yeah
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so there's one um
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oh we had the president of Finland
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really yeah that was fun
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so tell us about that
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uh the president of Finland his name was
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Urho Kekkonen
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and
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he was
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obviously planning a visit to the states
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and he wanted to go to Oceanographic
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uh
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he was very interested in oceanography
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and I guess there's a lot of
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oceanography in Finland you know I mean
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that kind of stuff
#urhokekkonen
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so that's what got him to Woods Hole but
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they had to put him up for the night so
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this was
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oh my lord he had
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he had more U.S. Secret Service than his
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own he had one
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one little group of people that were
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guarding him
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and then a whole bunch of our people
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that were guarding him you know Secret
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Service guys and they had to come
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through and check out all the employees
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and we all had little pins that we were
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wearing that were okay to get close to
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them and all this sort of stuff that was
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sort of fun
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wow and
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you know we fed him and you know it was
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a good time
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he had a good time Jimmy Carter stayed
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with us really yeah
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yeah he was at the National Academy of
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Sciences
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so
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his
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Secret Service guy came to me and said
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um
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and he wasn't president he was past
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president when he came he wasn't
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president at the time
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and I said he he wanted to take a a jog
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he said he liked to jog a mile or two
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every morning
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which was well known you know you know
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Carter was a runner I said well you're
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in luck
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we're right on the course of the
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Falmouth Road Race
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so he said well show me
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you know where where he where he'd go so
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I
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took the Secret Service guy and
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down Church Street around the lighthouse
#falmouthroadrace
#nobskalight
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of course and you know back up through
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and then you know make the loop
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perfect he thought that was great so
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sure enough at six o'clock the next
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morning
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there are two police cars
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two Secret Service cars
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four Secret Service agents running
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right by him and Jimmy Carter in the
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middle and they're jogging around the
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lighthouse
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at like six in the morning now if Carter
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had run all by himself
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and anyone saw him they'd say oh that
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guy looks like Jimmy Carter you know I
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mean that would have been about it but
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with the lights going and the
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police cars and you know all that uh
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it was uh
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you know what a great story so we can
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walk up everybody we can say President
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Carter ran the Falmouth Road Race right
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that's great yeah and Hugh McCartney was
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down interviewing him
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as a matter of fact so the all of the uh
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dating back over 100 years the Falmouth
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Public Library who is sponsoring this
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series also had an effort that the
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Enterprise newspapers going back more
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than 100 years are now digitally
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preserved and online okay so I’m going
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to go back and uh and try to find that
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story and I’m sure over the years there
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were a tremendous amount of photos and
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stories about the Dome when it was in it
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oh yeah so you can
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well now that it's archived you can
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yeah when I have some time one of these
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days I’ll take a look
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well this has been tremendously
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because you sleep every night right
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the fact that people you know just like
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it rained at Fenway too the other night
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Arne that's right and you know what
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of these uh one of these oral histories
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before we close
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is Arne Finnish
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no Arne’s Norwegian okay yeah
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he wishes he was Finnish
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I will ask him that question
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that's great well thank you for sharing
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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
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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
#thompsonsclambar
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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
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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
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in Falmouth that gained iconic
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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
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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
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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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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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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
bought it
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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
license for the Hangar Tea Room
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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
#redcoachgrill #chilis
#quintalsredcabin
#quintalseafood
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#1983
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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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#christys
#flumerestaurant
#mashpee
#naukaboutbrewery
#earlmills
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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,
by Earl Mills & Betty Breen
#danny-kays
#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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#tinmandiner
#sterlingstreamliner
#jimmyevansflyer
#newbedford
#1940
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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
to escape wow
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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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and event we are recording this so
eventually we will
you know get it up and post on our
social media and again thanks to FCTV
for helping us out with this
and letting everything run smoothly and
thanks everybody for coming and
have a great rest of your night and
hopefully we'll see you next week or at
another presentation
and thank you thank you all so much for
coming and I hope to see you all next
week for another presentation
okay have a great night
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