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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 27, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, and Iconic Hotels and Motels of
Cape Cod by Christopher Setterlund
Also mentioned: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
All books available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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hello everyone I hope that a lot of you
were
here last week and you came back to see
part two
of my pair of events with the Falmouth
library so I wanted to start off so you
can see me but we're gonna dive right
into
the actual PowerPoint presentation
it's gonna be nightlife and hotels
Falmouth in the area around that so
let's go right into it I’m going to
open up my presentation
and we will start from there so
this presentation is going to combine my
fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights
and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod
and so what we're doing
is basically for those of you that
weren't
here last week I am a 12th generation
Cape Codder
through the Doane family that helped to
settle Eastham
and I included this photo here this is
the
monument to my ninth great grandfather
Deacon John Doane
who helped to settle the town of Eastham
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in 1644.
this is in the Cove Burying Ground in
Eastham on Route 6
if anyone's ever gone past there
and like Sue said I am author of
six books all dealing with Cape Cod and
the Islands
the first three were all titled In My
Footsteps I’ve kind of used that
title for a lot of projects
three books um a blog that I have
and a podcast so
after that I jumped into a second
trilogy
that included historic restaurants
historic nightlife
and bars and hotels and motels
so this trilogy essentially
tells you in history where Cape Codders
went to eat
where they went to drink and where they
went to then sleep off the damage they
did to themselves
from those previous two things and that
was actually how I pitched it to my
publisher
when I was pitching book six the hotels
and motels I said this
is a can't miss marketing opportunity
eating drinking sleeping
it's all part of life
so Cape Cod became a vacation
destination
in the years after the book Cape Cod was
released by Henry David Thoreau in 1865.
Thoreau’s connection to Cape Cod he did
four walking tours basically in the
years
leading up to the book's release and he
is actually
semi-responsible for one of the
original Cape Cod hospitality spots
the Highland House in Truro basically
during all four of his
walks on the Cape he stayed
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#coveburyingground
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with his friends the small family
in Truro they had the property that was
surrounding Highland Lighthouse
including the golf course that's there
and some of the cottages that are around
there
during one of his trips walking up there
he and the I think it was James Small
they talked about this farmhouse that he
had there that was basically
empty and they both kind of talked about
how it could make
a good boarding house basically that's
how it started
the Highland House is now a museum but
when it first started it
was a popular hotel and eventually hotel
and restaurant for about a hundred years
so bringing it back around to Falmouth
in the late 19th century that's when
Cape Cod
really started to cement itself as the
summer destination
and a lot of summer resorts popped up
this included the Terrace Gables which
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so the Terrace Gables was originally
known as the Draper Cottage for a man
named Charles Draper
and it was a high-class resort in
1902 it was expanded after it was
renamed the Terrace Gables
the people that owned it they also
bought the nearby
Menauhant Hotel which they actually used
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#charlesdraper
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for overflow from the Terrace Gables it
got so big
that they bought their competitor to use
as overflow for their hotel which was
just fascinating
that was in 1912. at its peak it had 125
rooms but as you'll see as we go along
in this
during the 40s and 50s it was changing
times on Cape Cod
what ended up happening was in 1960
they tried to change with the times and
they created this
restaurant cocktail lounge called the
Club 46
which it didn't really make much of a
difference
the times changing with the highway
the Terrace Gables kind of went the way
of a lot of hotels from that time
and it became the Brothers Four
nightclub which was Cape Cod's largest
entertainment complex you'll see that
again
later but that was in 1971
and now it's condos a lot of these
places
I found that they had one of two ends
they either
burned down or they were turned into
condos a lot
of them in doing the especially the
hotels and motels book
the Hotel Attaquin on the right was on
Route 130 in Mashpee
that was opened by a Wampanoag Native
American named
Solomon Attaquin he opened it in 1840
and it was a smaller bed and breakfast
type of hotel with 17
rooms but it also there were amenities
surrounding it that made it a really fun
place to visit including going
fishing at the nearby Mashpee and Wakeby
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and Solomon Attaquin became a big deal
in Mashpee in addition to his hotel
he was a selectman he was a town
treasurer
he was the first postmaster of Mashpee
when it was incorporated as a town
after he died in 1895 the hotel
continued on
for another 60 years
although they got into trouble in 1928
they were raided
during Prohibition for illegal
gambling and alcohol
they got more fame during the
early days of radio when they had
the Hotel Attaquin orchestra which would
be featured on
Station WOCB they would actually be part
of
some variety shows locally
the end came like I like I said it's
either condos or
a fire and in 1955 Christmas eve
there was a fire at the Hotel Attaquin
that
ended its reign as a hotel it's now
the site of the Mashpee Community
Gardens
on Route 130 so if you go by there
that's basically where it used to stand
and the rise of these resort hotels the
first the originals it continued into
the early part of the 20th century
on the left the Cape Codder not to be
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confused with the Cape Codder that is in
Hyannis
it opened in 1900 originally known as
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the land that it was on overlooking the
ocean
was originally a sheep farm
owned by a man named Richard Swift 180
acres
before it became the Cape Codder after
it was the Sippewissett hotel it was then
the Mayflower Hotel
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before finally becoming the Cape Codder
in 1931.
it was a four-story resort hotel
and by the late 40s it was the largest
hotel under one roof meaning that there
were no cottages there were some
hotels on the Cape that had
a main building but then also cottages
and such that were
seen as part of it an example of that is
The Pines in Cotuit
which was a huge complex with a main
hotel
and the people that owned it would buy
nearby cottages and mansions and made it
all
part of The Pines but the Cape Codder was
the largest under one roof
and at one point their kitchen
could seat 1500 people a night they
could serve
and it was owned later on by the
Peterson family
all the way up until 1988
when it was knocked down to make way for
condos which still stand
on the right the Coonamessett Inn which is
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still going strong now
but it's in a second location so
Coonamessett first opened in 1927
it was named for the pond by which it
stood
and it was the original Coonamessett was
based in the William
Chadwick farmhouse which was built in
1826
it became a really
well-known hotel and restaurant
especially after a woman named Edna
Harris
took it over in 1930
so the Coonamessett was owned by
uh William Chase the man that also owned
Great Island
in Yarmouth the Chase family still owns
most of it
but Edna Harris leased it she had
already become well known by running the
Megansett Tea Room
in North Falmouth and those of you that
saw my
presentation last week I had a picture
of the Megansett Tea Room
because I couldn't find an actual
picture of
the Hangar Tea Room
Edna Harris made this the place to be
and interestingly in 1953
after more than two decades of this
they had politicians there they had
military officials there
had all these the Falmouth Playhouse was
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and Edna Harris was very well known and
well regarded
and interestingly in 1953 she was told
that her lease on the property was not
going to be renewed
and this is where her story she became a
legend in my eyes when I was researching
this
because she had already done the Megansett
Tea Room
and she made the Coonamessett Inn the
place
to be
she actually also leased the Popponeset
Inn
and had her daughter Hilda Coppage run
it
so she had her fingers in a lot of pies
as far as Cape Cod
hospitality but what she did with the
Coonamessett was legendary
so the Coonamessett was going to become
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in the 1950s what she did though
was Edna Harris owned the liquor license
so she bought property on Gifford Street
311 Gifford Street which was
a home originally owned by a man named
Robert Longier
and she bought that house had it
converted and got uh
the license to run it as an inn she took
her liquor license
with her and then because the old
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property
was going to be a Treadway Inn she took
the Coonamessett name
with her and the furniture
so she basically took the Coonamessett
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reopened it
at the spot that it's located at now
and it's just fascinating I’m actually
working on
an article about Edna Harris in just her
life because
it's incredible to think the stuff that
she did in the early part of the 20th
century
but like I said in the early 20th
century
the automobile made travel easier now
that was a blessing and a curse because
people that were coming down to the cape
by a train
or I mean I guess some could come down
by horse and buggy but mostly train
they would stay in one place for many
weeks
long stays at the same place automobiles
made it where
people didn't have to stay in one place
for too long
so the stays became shorter and it put a
lot of pressure on
these hotels and resorts to capture
the imaginations and the attention of
these tourists because that's how they
made their money
and another thing that came up during
this early part of the 20th century was
Prohibition
and with the advent of the automobile it
was possible to drive to
nearby dancing and entertainment
complexes
and both of these were nearby in
Buzzards Bay
and ironically they were on the same
street so you could have gone to both
so the Bournehurst on the Canal
was at 320 Main Street right in the
shadow of the Bourne Bridge
interestingly its whole run
was basically during Prohibition it
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opened in 1920
and it was seen as as a large
entertainment complex because when you
can't serve alcohol you've got to have
some other ways to entertain people
so opening night at the Bournehurst was
July 10th of 1920 and there was more
than
2100 people there for that event
they had basketball games they had
boxing matches
they actually in 1922 they opened a
lunchroom
inside run by a man named Fred Lutz
it was well known for its clam cakes
it was also a spot in the late 20s where
young up-and-coming jazz musicians like
Duke Ellington and Cab
Calloway played at the Bournehurst
the biggest event
I suppose at the Bournehurst was July 26
1930 when Rudy Vallée and his orchestra
came and played there the Bournehurst
inside was packed
outside there were hundreds and hundreds
of people
waiting just to get a glimpse of Rudy
Vallée
State Police had to be called to try to
subdue the crowd which eventually they
did but that was
one of the last hurrahs for the
Bournehurst
October 18th 1933 a fire broke out
with eyewitnesses said it was the
hottest fire they'd ever seen
and unfortunately that it didn't end the
Bournehurst
but then there was another fire 10
months later
and that was really what did it so
in the summer of 1934 the burn
Bournehurst
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right
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then when Prohibition was repealed and
the new Bourne Bridge
was built so it's unbelievable to think
about
if it had only stuck around a few more
years what it could have done and could
have been
on the right the Blue Moon Dancing
Pavilion
was at 230 Main Street in Buzzards Bay
this opened in 1931 it was also a tea
room
it was mainly outside so
they had a blue neon sign
their dancing stage where you can see
all the people out here
had blue lights half-moon shaped stage
it was perfect for summer funny thing
was that they had midnight frolic
dances which would start at midnight
I’m sorry to 12:01 a.m on Mondays once
Prohibition was lifted
because liquor sales were not permitted
on Sundays
so literally the minute that it was
Monday
they opened up and had people out there
dancing and drinking
it was mainly seen as an outdoor dancing
pavilion
or some people also called it a summer
dance garden
it was owned originally by a man named
George Blakeslee
he owned it for the first decade it
changed hands a few times
before finally being bought by a man
named Alex
Byron in 1957
what happened there was that it became
part of the larger Buzzards Bay Summer
Theatre complex which was theater in the
round
essentially the same as what the Cape
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is with a stage in the middle and seats
all around it
so it stayed open I guess
through the mid-1960s before the Blue
Moon itself was closed
the property itself stayed
being used by Alex Byron it became part
of the Byron's Landing restaurant
until 1986. it's now a veterinarian's
office
so the building is still there the
outdoor dance pavilion is not
though
and then after Prohibition nightlife
boomed
and so the casino which someone last
week had brought up
I said you know what better way to read
from the book
the actual story of the casino
so in the 21st century the area known as
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Falmouth Heights
has become a very popular summer
destination
but in 1870 the beachfront neighborhood
was born from what was then known as
Great Hill
it was at that time that George Davis
sold the property
to the Falmouth Land and Wharf Company
which retained its rights
before it ultimately fell into the hands
of its president G.
Edward Smith over the first 50 years of
the Heights’ existence
land values increased more than 600
percent
around the turn of the 20th century a
Falmouth icon would be born
adding serious clout to the village of
the Heights
in 1901 the Casino at Falmouth Heights
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opened on Grand Avenue
nearly opposite the Terrace Gables hotel
the building 80 feet long by 32 feet
wide
with 184 feet of piazza
was run by Charles L. Hopson the building
was enlarged several times
eventually containing the Cottage Club
Falmouth Heights Post Office
a barbershop and general store
the casino was completely destroyed by
fire in
April 1909 with Hopson immediately
getting to work
starting on the rebuild the barber shop
was the first to reopen just over two
months later
the building was enlarged again in 1914
and became known as the Cottage Club
rather than the club simply being a part
of it
in January 1915 Charles Hopson died
and his waterfront property would be
owned by his wife
in 1937 a year after her death
Hopson's son Harry purchased the casino
it was here that the biggest changes
would begin
on July 19 1939 after extensive
remodeling
the Casino Bar at Falmouth Heights was
added to the property with
soon soon-to-be local legend Joe Miron
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the bartender served up the drinks his
customers desired
and then followed that by sketching
their likeness while they drank it
beyond caricatures had skill with
the brush when it came to landscapes and
watercolors
by his third season at the Casino Bar
his works were being showcased at local
art shows and galleries on the cape
he rightfully earned the nickname
Painting Bartender
in an attempt not to focus strictly on
the alcohol output
the kitchen was revamped in 1940 the
establishment was open until
1am and the bar could seat 150
so it was natural to try to incorporate
food to go with the drink
Hopson also tried to maintain the
entertainment complex
feel by adding an E.M. Loew motion picture
theater in 1941.
after trouble with erosion from
hurricanes in 1938 and 1944
Hopson sold the casino bar to Worcester
Massachusetts resident William McCann in
1945.
from there the bar's popularity
skyrocketed
along with that of Captain Joe McCann
focused on creating a positive work
environment
including putting as first priority
feeding the kitchen staff McCann also
supra
supplied room and board to his employees
if it was needed
Joe Miron created a spot in the bar
called Amen Corner
it was named for the those patrons who
drank their
fill and sat in the corner to
philosophize
it was here that hung some of his
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favorite caricature sketches
the notoriety only grew when Miron was
featured in
the October 1943 issue of Click magazine
there he was referred to as Boston’s
bartender artist
the popularity of the Casino Bar led to
the need
for a staff of 27 people per shift
including
four bartenders the fun spot of the
Heights
added horseshoes in 1946 a new sun deck
in 1947
and another name change occurred in 1949
when the establishment became known as
the Casino by the Sea
the seasonal spots popularity continued
to grow
with 1940 1951 being reported
as its most successful year yet
throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s
Joe Miron continued to thrill guests
with his skill
as both a mixologist and his artistic
gifts
summer afternoons routinely saw Captain
Joe
proudly shout down to the casino's
private beach via megaphone
during cocktail hour cocktail spree
Cape Cod fishballs many guests heard it
as cocktails free
and they came running they were
disappointed
things changed again in 1966 when
William Sweeney Jr.
purchased the property and gave it more
of a nightclub feel
making it extremely attractive to
college students and young adults
during the summers of the late 1960s and
70s
the Casino by the Sea experienced
another swell of popularity
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during the golden age of Cape Cod
nightlife
however after spending nearly the
entirety
of the 20th century entertaining folks
at the Heights
time came for last call in 2000
the fading legend was purchased by
developer Frank Messina
the casino property was torn down in
November 2003
to make way for the upscale Casino Wharf
FX for those wondering what it
might have been to have a drink with
Captain Joe Miron pouring
it's possible to replicate it with a
popular drink from the 1940s called the
sidecar
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for those of you that have never read my
book
Cape Cod nights I put drink recipes
at the end of the chapter for each spot
in there
and I pick the decade that I see as when
it was
most popular and so the 1940s I picked
for the Casino
but after Prohibition
and with the rise in popularity of
nightclubs and bars there was a need for
more hotels and resorts
this included the Red Horse Inn which
for those of you who were here last week
you'll remember that the Red Horse Inn
started as The Bellows
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#frankmessina
#2003
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and it was a tea room slash lunch and
dinner spot
owned by a woman named Thekla Hedlund
opened in 1933 on Falmouth Heights Road
after Hedlund died in 1946 it was run
as a restaurant for two more years
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the name was changed to the Red Horse
Grill and then to the Red Horse
Inn and it's been standing ever since
Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with
Edna Harris
it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee
right in the middle of New Seabury
in 1941 it opened as
an actual resort it was originally owned
by
Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought
the property in 1929
interestingly before it became the
luxury resort
it was leased out by a nurse named Norma
Armstrong
and she ran it as um
a campsite where basically
people that were going there they had
the money to rent rooms at these
high-class resorts but they actually
preferred
staying in this trailer park slash
campground
that was affectionately known as tent
city
and it was 4 000 acres
then in 1941 when it became the
Popponesset
Inn then it took off where
it started with 10 rooms then quickly
added 15
more as I said Edna Harris took it over
in 1947
and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in
charge
once New Seabury was built and finished
in 1964
then it became a popular wedding
destination
and it was actually owned by the Chase
family until
1998. it's
known for its spectacular views fine
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and relatively isolated location
especially back in the 40s and 50s when
it first got started
and as I said soon it was the golden age
of Cape Cod nightlife
and there you see the Brothers Four
which was previously the Terrace Gables
so the Brothers Four opened in 1971.
it was three clubs under one roof known
as Cape Cod's largest entertainment
complex
it was so big that it had sister clubs
in Somerville and Nashua New Hampshire
the Brothers Four they were the Robbat
brothers
George Russell Stephen and Allen
Brothers Four is also well known for
being the
finish line of the Falmouth Road Race
where
Falmouth Road Race creator Tommy
Leonard
created it when he ran from the Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole to
the Brothers Four which is why it has
such a unique
mile distance the Falmouth Road Race
because it was a run from
one bar to another
the problem with the Brothers Four was
the zoning
where being this huge nightclub it ran
into a lot of problems with the
locals that lived around there for
noise and drunken disorderly behavior
things like beat the clock happy hour
didn't help
and so basically from the late 1970s
up until it's ending in 1987
it was a constant battle between the
Robbat brothers
and the town of Falmouth to keep the
place going
they even created the Yesterdays
Bar inside there they were trying to
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make it
more upscale but Brothers Four was known
as
a really wild hangout
in 1987 it was torn down and like I said
with the Terrace Gables it is now
condos
but it was also the golden age of
hospitality
I had mentioned the Coonamessett Inn that
moved to
Gifford Street it is still well known
and highly regarded
for its food and its lodging
the Sea Crest is at 350 Quaker Road
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this one has a fascinating story also
where
the Sea Crest Hotel got its start as the
University Players’
summer theater and that was in 1928 it
opened and some
Hollywood heavyweights got their start
at this theater including Jimmy Stewart
and Henry Fonda
it was chained the name was changed to
the Beach Theater
and in 1936 there was a fire
naturally because fire and condos are a
running theme with these
places when it was reopened in 1937
it was named Neptune’s Tryst then it was
the Old Silver Beach Club then it was
the Latin
Quarter which was run by a man named
Lou
Walters
whose daughter Barbara Walters is pretty
well known
1948 it was finally renamed the Sea Crest
after being heavily renovated
and by that point there was 250 guests
could be accommodated with the
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it got more of a shot in the arm with a
famous owner when Red Auerbach of the
Boston Celtics bought
a share in it in 1963
and currently it's 264 rooms
but whether you went out to drink at a
place like Smith's Olde Surrey Room
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which Smith's Olde Surrey Room got its
start as the Falmouth Bowling Alley
which was opened in 1939 by a man named
Lester Crane
in July 1946 the Surrey Room was
opened by Lester crane he saw more
value in an eating and drinking
establishment
over a bowling alley and the lead up to
the debut of the Surrey Room on July 1st
1946
and the Falmouth Enterprise there were
these ads that were just
question marks basically the mystery of
what
what was coming and it ended up being an
unusual nightclub
you'd walk in there and there were
actual surreys which were forms of
carriages
that were located in three corners of
the property
inside there was bright red trim
and yellow window recesses but they
stuck a little bit of
a throwback to how they started by
having
the bowling club lounge
in 1950 the property was sold to a man
named Daniel
Smith and that's where it got the name
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room
and there was another connection where
smith's chef was a man named Daniel
Bartolomei
he would go on to create Danny-Kay’s
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which I mentioned last week in the event
there were two big extensions to the
club they had to make it bigger and
bigger because of how popular it was
and their biggest shot in the arm came
when
they were mentioned in the Duncan Hines
Adventures in Good
Eating magazine in 1961
however now it is affordable apartments
at 704
Main Street
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but you could have gone to drink or
sleep off a great night
and that's the Gray Gables Inn which was
at
217 Presidents Road this was known as
the first
summer White House and it was
a home built for Grover Cleveland
and he lived there
and um until his basically
Grover Cleveland would come and stay at
the summer White House
and Joseph Jefferson who was a famous
actor of the very early motion picture
days of the
late 1890s he actually played Rip van
Winkle
in the 1896 version of the film
so he would come down he would fish
offshore that's why
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse is named for
him and Grey Gables was
the name basically of the railroad
station where he would come in by his
train
it eventually became the name of the
whole village there
but once rumors got to be
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creating a Cape Cod Canal
Cleveland decided he really didn't want
to
be there while all this construction was
going on
so he stopped coming in 1908
and after his death his son sold it in
1920
basically the entire property because
they owned more than just
the actual house the whole property was
subdivided
and by 1926 there were 50 houses there
but they kept the actual Grey Gables
home
intact and it became a summer resort
owned by a man named John Stackpole
they had dining they had a cocktail
lounge it had a real nice
community feel and they even kept some
Grover Cleveland artifacts in there
including his desk that he used to write
at
and when Grover Cleveland’s grandson
came and visited he got a tour and he
was
very happy with how the owners had kept
it
close to what his grandfather would have
wanted
in 1961 a woman named Peggy Alden
took over and she was known for having
children come down for outings there
where they could come and stay
and do the fishing and things like that
to get in touch with nature
unfortunately December 10 1973 there was
a
suspicious fire that burned down the
Gray Gables Inn
and the property actually stayed
overgrown and
for almost 30 years at the turn of the
21st century
a couple came and they bought the
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property
and they actually built an exact replica
of the Gray Gables in but it's a private
home
I have been told that they
expect people basically to come and take
photos of it so they don't
mind if you you know don't go on the
property but if you get to
the edge of their driveway you can take
photos I have not
gone and tried that yet but that's what
I’ve been told that they're very
warm and welcoming to people that are
at least respectful of the property
but all these icons deserve to be a part
of
Falmouth's rich history whether it was
the Casino
or the Cape Codder Hotel
and naturally I end it like I did last
week with
a nice throwback image of Main Street
and Falmouth
and thank you all for coming back
for the second presentation and
are there any questions and I will stop
sharing my screen
okay that was great we do have a couple
questions in the chat
so far you want to take a look
can you see those Chris or want me to
read them
let's see can you hear me
I can okay so there's one about where
were any of the hotels and venues
integrated
if so what years and then also how did
World War I and World War II
impact any of these venues and did Otis
impact any of these venues
well interestingly I’m not sure about
integrated I don't know anything about
that specifically
but I will tell you that world war
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so she got this huge influx of
military officers it kind of grew the
popularity of
the Coonamessett which made it all the
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weird that the Crane family would then
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and then also surprisingly the
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when World War II happened so then the
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not abandoned but they were looking for
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it's like all right why not use it for a
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so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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put your video on
so I have a question um can you tell me
a little bit more about how you've done
some of the research for these
books for these sure
so the nightlife one was actually a lot
of fun because
basically I asked my especially my
parents I said where did you used to go
when you were younger to go out drinking
and partying
and so that's how I got a lot of the
initial ones
then it was a matter of researching
the research is a lot of fun you kind of
find
broad terms nightclub bar and you look
up what places appear a lot
and a lot of them you growing up on Cape
Cod I could pick out a lot especially
from the 80s on
but then the real fun came with
putting out posts on social media and
getting folks that
may have remembered what it was like in
the 50s
and picking out places and you get a lot
of
varying opinions on who who like what
places
places like Brothers Four and Casino those
were easy
I had so many people in there's a
history group on Facebook for Falmouth
and I
I put a blast in there and I said where
did you like to go
to drink and party and Brothers Four
came up
so much it was Brothers Four and
Yesterdays and I didn't realize they
were the same
under the same roof I thought it was a
different place
yeah yeah those are pretty active groups
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definitely so
do you go into all these different
groups all over the Cape
or yes so
after social media I would then reach
out to
historical societies the Bourne
Historical Society was very helpful with
the Blue Moon Dancing Pavilion and the
Bournehurst
and even places that I didn't end up
using for the book like
Quintals they would send me photos
Falmouth I think Falmouth Library sent
me a bunch of
postcards of and it was essentially
just like these places might be ones
you'd be interested in and I would look
at the postcards and then I would start
researching from there and that's where
a place like
Smith's Olde Surrey Room came from I
didn't know it at all
and I saw a postcard of and I said that
looks interesting a big
carriage inside the bar so it was
so much of this was other people helping
me because my knowledge
of restaurants hotels and nightclubs is
very limited you're talking 1980s to now
and mainly Mid-Cape because that's where
I grew up
so I had to rely on a lot of people to
help
me put this together these three books
yeah so what made you decide you wanted
to write a book like this
about restaurants so the restaurants
one was actually pitched to me
so I have a friend of mine Bill DeSousaMauk
see this is what I like is I like when
other people share
what they know because my knowledge is
based on my research and
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very few when it came to the nightclubs
very few people had coherent memories of
them
basically what I would get was oh yeah
it was fun but I don't remember much
because I was drunk so like all right
well
I can say everyone had a good time but
that's about it
but the restaurants book was pitched to
me
by Arcadia Publishing and they actually
wanted
historic restaurants of Martha's
Vineyard and I told them I said I
couldn't even name you
five current restaurants let alone 40
that used to exist
so they came back to me and said we see
you've got a deep connection to Cape Cod
would you like to do that book I said
all right now you're talking
and it kind of went from there because
restaurants
naturally evolved into nightclubs and
bars
and then I pitched the hotels and motels
to go from there yeah
oh someone someone just typed something
in the chat too
Packet Landing in now where is Packet
Landing
in Orleans I don't know
I don't know if anyone who's there if
you went to
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room or I mean the
Coonamessett is still around and the Cape
Codder
see the hotels I think there'd be less
people in the chat that would have
stayed there because you're all
basically from here so why would you go
and stay at the Sea Crest
that's where the the bars and nightclubs
really come into play but even then it's
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like
places like the Bournehurst and the Blue
Moon that's
way back we're talking the 20s and 30s
so
that's kind of difficult yeah
Brothers Four in the Casino I would
think
you get some folks that would remember
that
yeah and by the way I want to recommend
these books because I I have looked at a
lot of these books they're great books
so
I encourage people to buy them or get
them out of the library and I’m not just
saying that because he's here
and the Casino part that you heard I
actually read
from the book I read it word for word
which
because someone last week had brought up
the casino and I had mentioned that I
would be talking about it this week and
I decided
we were talking this is behind the
scenes that
these events people that come to them
like to hear the authors read from their
books so I
picked a chapter that I thought would
fit and the Casino has got a
a great history Captain Joe Miron the
the painting bartender I did an article
about
his actual life so I do a deeper dive
and that I think is on capecod.com I did
a lot of writing for them
for several years and I stopped writing
for them a few years ago because I
I got to the point where i wanted to
write about
things I wanted to write about and so
you'd have to pitch ideas to the editor
and sometimes they wouldn't be on board
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so an article like Edna Harris who
ran the Coonamessett that would be one
where they might not be interested in it
but now I don't have to worry
it's a part of the In My Footsteps
Podcast Blog
that goes along with the podcast
yeah do you have any do you have any
other books about Cape Cod or the
Islands that you're
that you have in the works sir well
so I’m starting work on
a photography book now
the thing with that is I’m waiting for
contracts I guess you would say it's
basically been approved
and so it's going to be
Photographers’ America is the name of the
series that started
and the Arcadia Publishing they came to
me with three different
titles and they said you want to do
these and I said well I can't do all
three
I’ll pick one and so
I picked the photography one and I’m
waiting to get
official confirmation I’ve already
started taking photos it's going to be
beyond just the norm like I’ll have a
lot of places that are well known
but there's going to be some street
scenes I’ve got pictures I took in
Provincetown at the
Lobster Pot of people in line and
things to give people a feel of what the
heart and soul of Cape Cod is all about
beyond just what everyone goes to as a
tourist
so that's one I’ve got another one that
I’m
working on but it's more
tight-lipped I want to say it's
something
big and exciting but I don't have an
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agent I don't have a publisher yet but
I’ll just say it's
true crime and it's working hand in hand
with a documentary film that's coming
out
so that's one where I’m really excited
about but I have to keep it kind of
hush just in case I don't ever like to
share things and then have it fall apart
yeah I know that you happen to take some
gorgeous scenery photos
of the Cape you know that oh thank you I
I post a lot on Instagram I
I believe I just passed my 10 year
anniversary on
Instagram and I have somewhere in the
neighborhood of
4 500 photos on there which I figured
out comes out to
basically 1.3 photos per day for 10
years
so I like Instagram yeah
so that's on the photography oh and
someone just said something the Casino
had a life-size
papier-mâché statue of Captain Joe that
was part of the flagpole
wow oh I would have loved to have seen
that
yeah yeah Captain Joe I’ve seen photos
of him
but he seemed like just a fascinating
guy
so I had to do a whole article about him
yeah if anyone does have any memories of
those places that they can remember yes
that's the big
catches do you actually remember going
to these places
yeah yeah the restaurants probably more
so
which was last week yes it was
interesting
when doing the research for the three
books
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I had a lot of help with the restaurants
a lot of help with the hotels not as
much
with the nightlife because people didn't
remember
but I got a lot of names of places that
was about it no stories though
I think people are also fond of
restaurants because they grow you know
it's part of their childhood or their
summers they remember
going to these things absolutely
it's more family fun rather than
nightlife where it seems like you get in
a lot of trouble
yeah yeah and definitely yeah take
take a look at our postcard collection
on our website too because there are a
lot of
great historical postcards if you
haven't seen them if you go to
falmouthpubliclibrary.org we do have a
digital
page where they have a lot of these
great postcards that Chris has probably
seen
yes I highly recommend it that's I
always joke that
when it comes to obscure Cape Cod
history I always think it's
this might only interest me but I’ll
share
things that I find and that's why things
like the postcard collection I love it
no there's a lot of interest in in Cape
Cod history because I yeah of course I
work in the Reference Department we get
a lot of questions
a lot of those questions
yeah there's random things that I’ll
find interesting I was out for a run on
the
bike path down in Harwich last week and
there's a building
called Depot Storage and it's just a
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storage building
and I’d run by that hundreds of times
this time I went by there
and they had I guess removed shingles
and it revealed this old mural that was
I guess it used to be an
Ocean Spray cranberry warehouse
so now there's a painting of Ocean Spray
cranberries from the 20s
what was that that I did
oh someone said the Falmouth Enterprise
more is an interest is an amazing source
of photos and articles I’m not sure what
you mean by more do you know that
there is a ton of stuff in there though
well the Enterprise
I was just on the website this morning
doing my research for Edna Harris
oh and I I go down the rabbit holes
where I’ll find something else and I’ll
say okay
put a pin in that I’ll go look at that
later
that's the I find that interesting the
old newspaper archives I think are
fascinating
yeah they are and yet we do have the
Enterprise I don't remember the exact
date off the top of my head but we have
the Enterprise microfilm pretty far back
pretty far back yeah it's interesting to
even go
and just you start by researching
something you're interested in and then
you never know where it goes
oh and Kim just Kim just did a link to
the Joe Miron postcard
in our Digital Commonwealth that you
guys can
you can click on now or you can look
later
he's a very interesting character I wish
I could have met him
Kim is our cataloger by the way she
works here as well can do well
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so she knows and she puts together much
of this all of it
so I encourage you guys to check out
Chris’s site chrissetterlund.com
because
you know this there's even more on that
site
oh [unintelligible] oh okay I’m okay
good to know yeah I was like I didn't
think I didn't think that was a mistake
but
more see that's I should know that
but I guess I didn't and by the way we
do have the Enterprise digitized but
only unfortunately up to 1962 so
if you want stuff from 62 to the present
you do have to go to the microfilm
sadly we hope to have it digitized all
the way up at some point so you don't
have to go through the mic oh I would
love that
see I didn't want to bother you about
that cause I was gonna say it only goes
up to like 62.
and by the way yeah we we will search
the microfilm the microfilm
you know for people within reason if
they have a date and a specific thing
if they come to us and say I think it
was 82 maybe it was 83
and that's a little harder but if
someone has a specific request
you know with some kind of pinpoint of
the day we can we're happy to look if
you can't get in here
and Kim said that he painted the mural
at Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole which is pretty cool
that would make sense
I’ve actually never been in the Captain
Kidd so
that might be a destination yeah Chris
lives Chris lives in Yarmouth by the way
so Falmouth isn't his regular
spot but he did a lot of digging to find
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out
you know specific found the things
because his books are about Cape Cod but
he looked
he's you know he did go beyond and find
some Falmouth information that isn't
even in his books for these talks
yes I wanted to make sure that it was
relevant to you who came
to actually check out this event
so that it wasn't just like oh there's
all these places in
Eastham and Provincetown and it's like
you may not have ever heard of them I’d
rather it be at least
relevant to the town you're in yeah that
was great
that was great all right and
just a reminder to everyone that we are
recording this and FCTV is recording it
they're going to edit it for us and
make it look nice and then I’m going to
post it on our social media and
what I try to do is I’ll try to email
you guys all the link to it it'll be a
YouTube it'll be up on YouTube and I’ll
give people the link because I know
sometimes people
you know didn't hear it well or they got
in late or something they want to hear
the whole thing
yeah that I’ll definitely share it all
around too
absolutely yeah it'll go light on our
promotion
yeah it'll go on our Falmouth YouTube
page and our Falmouth Library YouTube
page
and does anyone have any questions
before
we let Chris go
yeah if you think of any shoot me an
email and I can shoot him an email too I
think
he has his email on his website too oh
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yeah definitely I’m always
I get people that contact me about
places to stay I had someone
who listens to my podcast asking me
where he should bring his wife for their
anniversary they're not from here
so I was pitching in places to go I
don't know where he stayed but
I kind of ran the gamut from resorts
like Wequassett
down to little bed and breakfasts oh wow
well the Captain David Kelley you might
remember Sue
um oh I’m trying to think of the name of
the man he's he
would do spinning at Mid-Cape
and he he and his husband they own that
and so I always promote him so that's
where I’m hoping they win
oh wow David Kelley House in Centerville
he had his scones
oh he's I’ll have to ask Kailyn she
knows his name
wow yeah so if anyone needs a place to
stay in Centerville
yes who knows anyone who does okay
well I want to thank everyone for coming
and yeah
we're really glad that you came and we
want to thank Chris for coming too that
was a great presentation
thank you so much to everyone who came
out and took some time out to
listen to me talk about these books that
I took a lot of
pride in creating yeah no it was
wonderful
and have a good night everyone we will
see some of you guys
at the next event and we have a thank
you here well thank you so much
I really appreciate it
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: May 20, 2022
Oral Historian: Valerie Harding
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: Falmouth Heights
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
I am Troy Clarkson it is Friday May 20th
2022 and
this visit is with Valerie Harding
so welcome Valerie today we're going to
talk about some of the history of
Falmouth Heights and just before the
camera came on you and I were
well you were sharing stories
about that rich history so let's let's
actually start
with that there are so many roads within
Falmouth Heights
that are familiar to people
but you know the history behind some of
those names so for instance
when I was first married my wife and I
lived
in a rented apartment on Jericho Path
where there are condos now before that
they were apartments before that they
were tennis courts oh yes just before
what we used to call the “wee bump”
where
that hill went over and you could if you
drove fast enough you could get your car
airborne uh I so I’ve heard well
you'd always ask your parents
especially your father to drive really
fast right so tell us though in that
immediate area I mean Falmouth Heights
has a history as the first planned uh
summer resort community but it's so much
more than that well long before it was
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developed as a summer resort in 1880 by
a man from Worcester
actually a consortium of men from
Worcester
before that in back in the 1700s and the
late 1700s
it was considered a very remote part of
Falmouth
and Jericho Path the name always
interested me because I grew up on
Johnson Road and you know
why was it called Jericho Path well
after doing research to come to find out the
inhabitants of Falmouth from the late
1600s to the 1700s when they had large
dead animals they couldn't bury them off
Main Street
so they would take them up to what they
called Jericho which was the hill on the
Heights and they would car- I guess drag
them up there and leave them there so
that was
it was called Jericho on the Heights
hill and it became Jericho Path
and I since have heard from
actually someone whose father was an
excavator in Falmouth that sometimes
when he would dig foundations he would
find bones of large animals up there
they the kids thought they were dinosaur
bones but they were probably
horse and cow
but the other thing is in that same
vicinity is Lake Leaman Road
when they developed
Worcester Court
and Grand Avenue
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#lakeleaman
#worcestercourt
#grandavenue
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they also
laid out other roads Worcester Court was
where I ended up in high school
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and that was in 1959 and there were
still dirt roads down there
and Worcester Court
intersects with Lake Leaman Road well
where was Lake Leaman they decided to
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change the name of Little Pond to Lake
Leaman
and it remained so for probably about 20
years until the local townspeople
decided to change the name
back to Little Pond which is where you
which is where the tennis courts were
right yes and uh
and so I’ve got lots of connections in
that part of town we moved here to
Falmouth when I was four
but before that my grandparents had a
had a home it was a summer home and
then
they moved here full time on Hudson
Street okay right in that area all right
there was nothing there it was all woods
we kids used to play in there lots of
skinny little dirt roads and in fact
Worcester Court
where Lake Leaman and Worcester Court
intersect
and Worcester Court is now well we
called it Worcester Court Extension
which goes down behind the plaza that
was all dirt roads right down to the
cranberry bog which is the Falmouth Mall
so they were just little dirt roads even
back in the early 60s
so let's talk about that a little bit
then because I uh
as we sit here in May of 2022 that
former cranberry bog Falmouth Mall
property just sold
to a developer I read in the paper for
59 million dollars so tell us share with
us your memories of that tract of land
and how it unfolded okay so if you go
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#hudsonstreet
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down Teaticket Highway
right where the bank is across the
street from CVS
that was Hazelton’s junkyard
and the Hazeltons later moved their
junkyard to Gifford Street which is
where the storage units are
just beyond the Little League field and
all but that was a junkyard and it was
downhill down to the Walmart area was
all junk cars and everything else
as kids we used to ride our bikes
down the dirt road which was - became
Worcester Court
when the bog froze and
we used to put our skates on and run
across the dirt and jump over the ditch
and skate on the bog our parents weren't
too worried because it was a bog and how
far can you fall in a frozen bog
Little Pond we also skated on that used
to freeze over and there were a lot of
bonfires and there weren't many there
weren't any houses down on Miami Ave.
one or two
actually my father bought a lot of
land down there but my mother wouldn't
build a house down there because it was
too deep into the woods
imagine that too deep into the woods
right in Falmouth Heights yeah
now a beautiful
year-round residential area and imagine
being on the water on Miami Ave you
know
right on Little Pond there right near
the beaches and yeah
so um and
from Jericho Path
down to Falmouth Heights Beach
in the winters it was
it was like a ghost town there was no
light no lights on in houses or anything
like that there were no lights on
all the homes were dark
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because they were all summer homes they
were not insulated they were
pretty much just large cottages
in the winter we used to go down and
sled on Heights Hill but
when we would sled on Heights Hill we
would sled down Grand Avenue
because no cars traveled there and
sometimes they plowed it sometimes they
didn't
and then we would sled across the street
right through
the casino
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and out onto the beach
now uh I’ve had the chance to do
several of these interviews over the
last couple of years and
and then through the work that I do with
my column
uh talk a lot about the history of that
area so
my uncle Henry
who was a pediatrician in Brockton had a
summer home right there in fact
on the corner
on the ball field that was that was his home
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he then ironically sold it to the Stone
family and of course
decades later Phil Stone became my
stepdad right so okay yes I remember
Dickie Stone and his brother living
there but the predecessor to the Cape
Cod Baseball League used to play games
at that Heights field do you have any
recollections of that no I grew up in a
family of three girls and we really
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#falmouthheightsballpark
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weren't into those ball games or
anything
what I really have strong recollections
about are the large hotels
they were still the old wooden hotels
with the turrets
and you know on the corner of Worcester
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the Terrace Gables
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the Tower Hotel was still there
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it was really
the type of resort area that families
came to from the city
and on the train and then they would
stay for a week or two
in those hotels
well in the winter when those hotels
were closed up
as kids you'd run across the veranda
and it looked
very ghostly inside with the table still
set up
you know with salt and pepper still on
the table and
it was kind of creepy
because there you also got home before
dark because there was as I say there
was not a light on in any house down
there and
that was from
Jericho Path up and also
we had a little tiny post office for
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Falmouth Heights that was only open in
the summer and where was that
that was
I can't think of the name of the motel
but it is still there I think it's
called the Heights Motel actually
#heightsmotel
and it's just before you hit Grand
Avenue coming up Heights Road right oh
sure yeah yeah and on the other side of
it there was a little donut shop that's
where I had my first job
but that building also you know these
these buildings even these um big summer
homes they didn't have any
sheetrock or anything they just had the
studding
and the wooden walls
and you the wires ran up the wooden
walls the electricity it was
pretty unsafe but they were all built
that way right you know even if you went
to visit someone you knew who was living
I knew a couple of people who lived
right on the right on the height of
Heights Hill
right on the facing the ocean with the
ocean view
and those cottages were
pretty rustic so um
they were built
pretty rustic that way and of course
they um
were from
in the beginning they the men who
were the business group they sold mostly
to families from Worcester
as in Menauhant the man who developed
#menauhant
that
sold mostly to families from Attleboro
really yeah I didn't know that isn't
that interesting yes so
um
and in in Menauhant they had a Menauhant #menauhanthotel
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and they sold the property
you know surrounding the hotel
eventually to people who came and stayed
in the hotel and then decided to build
their summer cottages which those
cottages at the foot of
Central Avenue are kind of similar you
know Victorian looking
but they were roughly
the outside looked nice but inside it
was very rough living but they liked
that back then in the 1880s you were
going to stay in your summer camp right
right and some of those families both in
the Heights
and the Menauhant area are still
there yes have been coming for
generations yes yeah
and of course up on the Heights hill
they had a the small chapel
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and it eventually became an observatory
and right around the circle
that's why there's still Chapel Ave. up
there there was a chapel there and
that little area there which is so
interesting to me because it's
very much like Oak Bluffs
the little cottages yes with the
gingerbread houses that's funny you
should say that let's talk about that
for a second because a lot of people I
know
come here or live here for years and
never
get to that area because you know you go
to the Heights and the beach in the
restaurants there
but the area we're talking about is
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tucked away it is up high yes but you
have to sort of know how to get there to
get there even though it's right there
right exactly and I think it's it was
that style of building because they had
Methodist camp meetings that's how Oak
Bluffs started
and that's how the that area
started up in the Heights and also a
tiny bit of Menauhant started the same way
that's why they built Grace Chapel over
there
so um you know the architecture it's
very interesting to look at it because
it was popular at the time to build your
little summer camp and have everybody
come down to a revival
you know Methodist meeting and
I just find that so interesting you know and
I don't know if you remember but Mr.
Craig who was a teacher when I was in
school he probably retired shortly after
I left high school but his family owned
the Craig House which was a big hotel
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which was up there
was later bought by
two guidance counselors in Falmouth I’m
trying to think uh Mr. Wasseth and um
who you probably remember sure Paul
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I think he was an employee of Mr. Craig’s
and eventually he and his family
bought the Craig Hotel which is gone now
but I sometimes drive up that
little hill there
and around Chapel Ave. and wonder where
they tucked a hotel up there
but by the same token right
not one tiny little block in front of it
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that hotel and then
just down the hill was the Tower
House Hotel
and then you had the Park Beach Hotel
you think about right there on basically
Heights Hill and just down at the foot
of it were so many hotels
in that amazing and then
adjacent
to what was
the Tower House Hotel people today
would recognize is that expansive open
space we call the kite field
yes and that's an interesting story
that um
when the Tower House Hotel was sold
well let me back up
the kite field used to be tennis courts
Mr. Tower of the Tower House he built the
tennis courts there and uh
eventually in the late 60s his family
sold the hotel
and it they were selling it to the
timeshare people
and the timeshare wanted to
uh put a whole lot of buildings there
you know little
share buildings
and a lot of people objected who lived
in the area they objected the homeowners
objected because their view was going to
be displaced
and they won out I think they took them
to court and so the Tower family
left it to the town as open space in
perpetuity
and that's how it became the kite field
and today I think lots of folks
don't even know that that's public
property I think you're right and
available for public enjoyment
and passive
recreation but you know what's funny as
we talk about these things I
have vivid memories of my own
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childhood in that area
and I think
instinctively it's
20 years ago but it it's 50 years ago
and so the ability for us to have these
conversations and preserve that history
so that future generations can
understand and learn
what those landmarks are and what
they meant and how they developed is
really important I think it is too
Worcester Court with the open space that
runs down the length of Worcester Court
was drawn out that way by the by those
developers from Worcester
which to me is so interesting that they
had the foresight to you know lay out
just that little strip of grass but it
runs all the way down what three or four
blocks yes and um you know it kind of
opens up everything in that area
it really does and it and because it's
now public property it always will and
so it would be some green space
in the middle of what's pretty densely
residential property yes and actually
when the Heights was developed
and not down by the water I mean the back
what I call the back end of that area
which was Johnson Road Holland Road
Hudson Street Raymond Street
that was after World War II when so many
soldiers were coming back to Falmouth
and there was no housing
and the soldiers when they came back to
Falmouth they at first lived in the
World War I
soldier housing which was over where the
Windfall Market is now
just beyond the Windfall Market and um
it was pretty decrepit but that's where
they lived you know it was built for
World War I returning veterans
and um so
of course there was a building boom to
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build for all these young soldiers and
their families
and along Heights Road also were the
first houses that were built and because
that really was
not developed yet and um
you know around the Robbins Road area
you know in the corner of Jericho Path
that if you go up a little bit they were
all modest Cape homes that were built
along that area
and we're just beginning to see some of
those homes being turned over into
larger homes
you know um and uh but right after World
War I into the early
60s they were just little Cape homes
which is what they built I remember my
parents bought their house on uh
Johnson Road and paid seven hundred and
fifty dollars I’m sorry seven thousand
five hundred imagine that yeah
ten uh not even ten a hundred times that
today oh it's amazing yeah and then we
moved we built another house on
Worcester Court but
again that was all woods beyond there
Raymond Street Hudson Street and all of
those
so it's so interesting that that area
was considered so far out of town
you know and
Falmouth kind of ended
you know right there at Heights Corner
right you know
it seemed out of town you you'd uh tell
someone where you lived and they'd be
like really
so that uh
we're nearing the end of our time
together but that when you mentioned
the Heights Corner at the beginning and
now towards the end uh
I remember that building on the corner
uh as a Howard Johnson it was when I was
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#howardjohnson
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a kid
I don't and then of course
it was Jack in the Beanstalk
that
was the first Jack in the Beanstalk I
think and it's moved around
to several spots since and been a bank
for many years but do you remember
anything there before Howard Johnson I
don't but across the street where the
Driftwood Plaza is
was nothing but marshland and they
filled it in a little bit that's why
that corner always floods it's very low
marshy area from Morse Pond it flows
over there and there's a culvert
underneath
but that was where Mr. Limberakis had
his first Clam Shack after the war and
he you didn't eat inside he just had a
couple of picnic tables and he was only
open in the summer and you went to a
window
and you ordered there and then of course
Davis Straits was just two farms on
either side of the Davis family
and across the street where Staples is now
was just a farmhouse and
big fields and a couple of times the
circus came to town and put up tents there
yeah it's crazy really that that when I
say Falmouth ended there it did
Falmouth center right then of course we
had Teaticket which was a separate
village
you know and they were their own little
village with a village market and
uh you know
post office they had their post office
their village market and there was a farm
actually there was a farm right where
Burger King is a very large farm and
farmhouse and that farm went way down to
the cranberry bog in the mall where the
mall is today
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#driftwoodplaza
#limberakis [Leo Limberakis]
#clamshack
#davisstraits
#teaticket
#agriculture
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so it was very rural
yes and agricultural as well and so
that's wonderful well thank you for
painting that wonderful
picture for us I uh as I leave here
today and drive down there I’ll
have a wonderful
landscaping I have one other tidbit
to give you because I do like the
little hidden secrets
the Heights hill was used by Dr.
Donaldson
back in the late 1700s for a smallpox
hospital as was
Nobska because both places were so far
out of town
and he was he had studied in England and
he had brought back smallpox vaccine and
he was vaccinating people and they did not
believe in it the local townspeople so
he vaccinated his own children and took
them out there
so that he could prove that it was safe
isn't that fascinating
Dr. Donaldson lived in the house where
Harriet Dugan has her real estate office
that was his farm at the foot of Nye Road
but you think the Heights is so
such a
smart little area now but it was once
considered
so offbeat we had a contagious hospital
out there
wow remote in those days and really part
of the heart of the community today
absolutely
well speaking of that being the heart of
the community I think that's a good way
to conclude thank you for sharing all of
those wonderful stories and those happy
memories that are in your heart and
sharing them with us so that future
generations can paint those same lovely
pictures
Valerie thank you so much
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#hughgeorgedonaldson
#smallpox #vaccination
#nyeroad
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thank you very much for having me here
it's been a delight
[Music]
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Valerie Harding
Troy Clarkson
Falmouth Community Television
Falmouth Public Library
agriculture
baseball
Clam Shack
Craig House
cranberry bog
Davis Straits
Driftwood Plaza
Falmouth Heights
Falmouth Heights ballpark
Falmouth Heights chapel
Falmouth Heights Land and Wharf Company
Falmouth Mall
Grace Chapel
Grand Avenue
Hazeltons
Heights Motel
Howard Johnson
Hudson Street
Hugh George Donaldson
Jack in the Beanstalk
Jericho Path
Lake Leaman
Limberakis
Little Pond
Menauhant
menauhant hotel
Nye Road
Park Beach Hotel
Paul Wasseth
smallpox
teaticket
terrace gables
tower house hotel
vaccination
veterans
Windfall Market
Worcester Court
world war 1
world war 2