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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: March 3, 2020
Oral Historian: Kevin Doyle
Interviewer: Barbara Kanellopoulos
Topic: Old Stone Dock
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
The Book of Falmouth is available from Falmouth Public Library under REF LocHist 974.492
BOO, as well as at other CLAMS locations.
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[Music]
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it's always fun to talk about the Old
#oldstonedock
Gunning_Village_Har_0173
through 0188
Hunt_Village_Bch_0089 through
0095
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Stone Dock
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it's uh it's a relic
00:50
of of what commerce was in Falmouth
00:53
during the 19th century
00:55
and you don't get to see things like
00:57
that along the shoreline much anymore at
00:59
all
01:00
in fact if you were to go down to the
01:02
shore today
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there's a sign that says it's the kiddie
01:06
pool and for all the world nobody has
01:09
ever asked why you would build a kiddie
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pool out of granite blocks
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but nevertheless it's uh it's all been
01:15
silted in
01:17
but in its day and its day was 200 years
01:19
ago
01:21
it was built in 1817
#1817
01:24
following a hurricane of 1815
#1815 #hurricane
01:28
of course they weren't called hurricanes
01:30
then it was the great gale
01:31
of September 1815.
01:36
there are three hurricanes that have
01:38
really ravaged through the
01:40
New England area has lots of hurricanes
01:43
but the first one was in 1635 when
01:46
Boston and the and the Pilgrims and and
01:48
the colonies were just getting started
01:50
the second one
01:52
the same power and magnitude was the
01:54
Storm of 1815
01:56
and then the third one was a hurricane
01:59
of 1938 which
02:01
which people are far more familiar with
02:03
and they see pictures of the destruction
02:05
and so forth
02:06
but meteorologists will tell you that
02:08
those three hurricanes were very similar
02:10
in their track and their speed they came
#gale
#1938
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up the coast with a speed of 100 miles
02:14
an hour they were blowing 100 mile per
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hour winds
02:17
and they just destroyed everything in
02:19
their path
02:20
prior to 1817 then this Old Stone Dock
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there was a a dock that was made out of
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wood
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uh and we think it was built in 1805 and
02:31
it would have been built out of palmetto
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logs
02:34
which is basically a palm tree uh
02:37
obviously no palm trees growing around
02:39
Falmouth so
02:40
once again a surmise is that probably uh
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Captain Swift brought them up in his
02:47
as part of his live oak adventures going
02:50
at getting wood
02:51
down out of the Carolinas and into
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Florida
02:54
and so he probably brought these very
02:56
resilient palmetto logs
02:58
up to up to Falmouth there's not much
03:02
that
03:03
will verify that there was a dock prior
03:06
to this but it seems logical that that
#1805
#swift #elijahswift
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was
03:10
the landing place of some sort it was
03:14
the scene
03:14
of the British invasion or
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attempted invasion in January of 1779
#1779
03:21
during the American Revolution
#americanrevolution
03:23
they were repulsed they never landed
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they did shoot musket balls at us and
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they weren't too happy with us but they
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didn't they weren't able to land
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and the second time was in 1814 during
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the
03:35
towards the end of the War of 1812 where
03:37
once again
03:39
the British came and tried to come
03:41
ashore they were repulsed again by
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by our cannons so it would seem that
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that's
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probably there was probably some kind of
03:48
a landing area in that site prior to the
03:51
Old Stone Dock itself
03:55
the other reason why you'd think that
03:57
that was probably true is because that's
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where
03:59
Falmouth was settled when the uh
04:03
the proprietors as they're called here
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#1814
#warof1812
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they're called different
04:06
different by different names but they're
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the folks who basically
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uh bought the land from the tribes the
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the
04:14
indigenous tribes Wampanoags uh and uh
#wampanoag
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Nauset Indians
#nauset
04:18
which was a sub-tribe of the Wampanoags
04:22
and the proprietors here started in
04:25
Barnstable
04:26
and came down we don't know whether they
04:28
came down by boat or by
04:29
by walking but if you look down in the
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uh
04:33
down at the beach area today you'll see
04:36
what
04:36
what Jim Lloyd of the Historical
04:38
Department [Falmouth Historical Society?] likes
to call
04:40
Falmouth Rock he said Plymouth has their
#plymouth
04:42
Plymouth Rock we have our Falmouth Rock
#plymouthrock
04:44
we have a rock that says these are the
04:47
proprietors they landed here in 18
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uh in 1660 and so forth and
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and founded the town well the
04:56
the tribe had been here first obviously
#barnstable
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they came down and we
04:59
uh we followed a lot of the Indian
05:01
trails to be here
05:03
uh and it makes sense because that area
05:06
of Surf Drive Beach opens onto a
#surfdrivebeach
05:10
Vineyard Sound and then it has Siders
#vineyardsound #siderspond
Gunning_Village_Pnd_0148 and
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Hunt_Village_Pnd_136
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Pond which is freshwater pond after
05:15
named after Consider Hatch one of the
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original proprietors
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is on the one side and on the other side
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is Salt Pond
#considerhatch
#saltpond
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through 0016
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which is salt water and oysters are
05:25
plenty and that sort of thing
05:27
so there they were between fresh water
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and salt water and the Sound so it was a
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perfect
05:31
location for commerce and just
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for survival you had the fish lots of
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alewives the
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herring run is right there which
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is brackish water coming in
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from the sound and going up towards
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Siders Pond
05:46
so it's a perfect area to to
05:50
start the start the town
05:53
a lot of people you know are used to
05:56
seeing towns that have started from the
05:58
center and they move
05:59
outward because that's how the the
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railroads did it
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when when railroads were built and
06:04
they'd go along every 100 miles or
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whatever the distance would be
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did make the town grow right from the
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depot and go
06:12
outward concentric circles for us it was
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different and it was different for
06:16
for almost 100 years the commerce was
06:19
coming off of the off of the Surf Drive
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Beach area
06:23
and the main area to to move was right
06:26
up Mill Road where the current Mill Road
#millroad
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through 0016
Hunt_Village_Sts_075 through
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goes between the salt pond and the uh
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fresh water pond uh and and on
06:36
up so the green was actually founded in
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#falmouthvillagegreen
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through 0078
06:39
1749.
#1749
06:40
so here we are at 1660 and then 1749
06:43
about 80
06:43
90 years later before they got up to the
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green
06:47
so the center of commerce then
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was right there on the on the beach so
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this hurricane comes along and destroys
06:55
everything that was wooden and
06:57
through natural erosion you can imagine
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the other wooden piers probably gave way
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as the ships became larger or the
07:05
elements took took their toll on a
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wooden pier
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so along about 1817 then they say hey
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what we really need to do is build this
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thing to last
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uh and I should probably just say at
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that point
07:22
as I talked about the progression of the
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town it goes up so it took 80 years to
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get to the green and then it started
07:27
heading to the east it started heading
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back down
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07:30
towards uh towards Barnstable down down
07:32
Main Street
#mainstreet
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through 0041
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and after a certain point they realized
07:36
that so far the only road to get to the
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dock
07:39
was down Mill Road so here they are now
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they're up at Locust they're going down
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Main Street
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and they're getting further and further
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away so in 1800
07:50
just a few years before the Stone Dock
07:52
was built but in 1800
07:54
the townsfolk got together and said what
07:56
we really need to do is go
07:58
from this point which was right where
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Barbo’s Furniture is right now
08:02
and go straight down to the pier and
08:04
that's why if you look at Shore Street
#locuststreet
#shorestreet
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through 0083
Hunt_Village_Sts_171 and 172
08:06
it's eight tenths of a mile long
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it's straight as an arrow and it's its
08:10
objective was to get
08:12
people from Main Street to the dock
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uh that's what it was all about so
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uh after this great gale of September
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uh goes blowing through
08:24
the townsfolk got together and uh and
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built this
08:29
granite block now the way that's built
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is they import it and there's some
08:33
question as to exactly what those
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granite blocks are
08:37
I like to think that the Falmouth
08:38
granite
08:40
underneath it all but of course after a
08:41
couple hundred years they're
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they're all black and covered with
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seaweed and so forth so it's really kind
08:48
of hard to distinguish
08:49
the origin of all those granite blocks
08:52
but the point of it was
08:54
they would build a a a
08:57
line which which you see right now
09:00
actually uh
09:01
of of granite blocks and then they built
09:04
the
09:05
the dock the actual docking area right
09:08
over it
09:09
so it's the same palmetto logs it's the
#falmouthgranite
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09:11
same planks it's the same everything
09:13
that you
09:13
used to seeing when you think of a pier
09:16
but this time they put the blocks in
09:18
there
09:19
so that it would be uh it would sort of
09:22
lend some extra support
09:24
to the the pier uh the piers themselves
09:27
and in
09:28
the uh the the structure of the of the
09:31
pier of the wharf so
09:34
that's what it is over time
09:38
all that all that wooden part you know
09:40
washed away again
09:41
but the granite blocks remain so why
09:44
wasn't it maintained
09:46
it wasn't maintained because as time
09:49
went on so that was built in 1815.
09:53
uh the gale was 1815 the the dock was
09:56
built in 1817
09:57
and things were going along fine but it
09:59
was about that time as
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uh the railroad came to town and
10:04
the railroad starts coming down from
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Boston and so forth
10:07
the Old Stone Dock is at least a mile
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away
10:11
from the railroad station and
10:14
it just didn't work you couldn't send
10:16
freight down
10:19
on a train and get it to the pier in any
10:22
efficient manner the train dead
10:25
ended
10:26
in Woods Hole and of course that's where
10:29
the ferry terminal is today that's what
10:30
the Steamship
10:31
Authority is and that's where the
10:33
trains met
10:34
the boats so commerce went there
10:38
it also it's a much deeper uh harbor
10:41
in Woods Hole than it is off of Surf
10:44
Drive Beach
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so the the question then became so what
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happens now
10:51
it was a stone dock it was made for
10:52
commerce there were whalers
10:54
whaling ships that went there his
10:56
primary function was packet ships
10:58
and and by packets those would be ships
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that would sail when you had the cargo
11:02
they didn't necessarily go on a schedule
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you'd bring down your goods to to be
#woodshole
#steamshipauthority
#whaling
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freighted up to Boston or down to New
#newyork
11:09
York and every port in between all
11:12
down down across the Martha's Vineyard
#marthasvineyard
11:14
and over to New Bedford and Fall River
#newbedford #fallriver
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and so forth all those
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uh all those ports between Boston and
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Falmouth
11:22
and uh and New York were the frequent
11:27
markets for our strawberries the eels
11:30
the salt cranberries and so forth wood
11:34
that was the main commerce uh forestry
11:37
and so forth
11:38
incoming timbers uh as well uh
11:42
and since the Swifts were big in that
11:44
type of a trade
11:45
they would bring their goods up and
11:47
bring them to Falmouth
11:49
the Sarah Herrick is a uh is a whale
11:52
ship that was
11:53
registered or said to be to be
11:57
brought into the Falmouth dock so that's
11:59
how we know that there were whaling
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ships there as well
12:03
but after the commerce now ends up in
12:06
Woods Hole
12:09
the dock started to become more
#sarahherrick
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available to people and if it didn't
12:15
have the upkeep that it did
12:16
boats used to be able to sail right
12:18
inside of it uh
12:20
now that won't happen the Book of
#bookoffalmouth
From FPL: REF LocHist 974.492
BOO
12:22
Falmouth mentions a
12:25
a black who had a mail
12:28
route he would uh sail to the Old Stone
12:31
Dock
12:32
with mail for the new town is that
12:35
accurate
12:36
I can bet it is I I I don't know for
12:40
sure but yeah that
12:41
that would be the type of commerce that
12:43
you would find
12:44
coming out of the dock and the heavy
12:47
stuff would end up going down towards
12:48
Woods Hole
12:49
but that type of mail run or milk run
12:52
type of a
12:53
run over to the Vineyard and out to
12:56
Nantucket
#nantucket
12:57
and down to uh Cuttyhunk that would
#cuttyhunk
12:59
have been
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the the daily commerce going from the
13:03
Old Stone Dock
13:06
when things when the the railroad came
13:08
in then and went down there
13:10
they said that well they needed
13:12
someplace else for
13:14
a dock for for a harbor and that's when
13:17
the Inner Harbor was created
#falmouthharbor
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and that's why you'll still see
13:20
references on charts and
13:22
when people talk sometimes they'll talk
13:23
about the Inner Harbor
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well that would be sort of old-time talk
13:28
because most people now talk about the
13:29
harbor and they think of the Flying
#flyingbridge
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through 0383
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Bridge Restaurant and
13:32
the commerce that goes on but it was
13:34
never heavy commerce if you look at it
13:37
you say well this used to be the Old
13:40
Stone Dock used to handle
13:42
handle hogsheads of produce and
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fresh cut vegetables and so forth there
13:47
was never anything like that in
13:49
in Falmouth Harbor all that had gone to
13:51
Woods Hole
13:53
so Falmouth Harbor really became they
13:55
dredged out
13:56
if you take a look and you wonder why
13:58
why in the world Clinton Avenue is
14:01
so abruptly at the Clam Shack and then
14:03
resumes over in front of the Falmouth
14:05
Yacht Club
14:06
that was a road it had been cut off it
14:09
was it was a pond of its own it was
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Deacon's Pond
#clintonavenue
#deaconspond
Gunning_Village_Har_0190
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and when it was dredged out it created
14:14
an inner harbor
14:16
and over the years that had been
14:17
improved and so forth
14:19
but that was in 1908 that the Inner
14:22
Harbor
14:23
opened up and for many years thereafter
14:26
people would sail their sailboats up to
14:29
up to the Old Stone Dock and they'd put
14:30
in there and many of uh
14:32
the Robert C. Hunt postcard collection
#1908
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#robertchunt #postcardcollection
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14:36
has great pictures of tourist day
14:39
sailors
14:40
you know boats that you and I would have
14:42
uh pulled up to the Old Stone Dock
14:44
and it's featured right there you'll see
14:47
some that have a uh some of the pictures
14:49
will have the old time
14:51
uh bath house still in that picture
14:54
and you look at it and you get a much
14:57
better picture
14:58
in looking at those old postcards
15:01
than you would ever get today when you
15:03
look at at the
15:04
Old Stone Dock but those postcards will
15:07
give you some idea of the depth and the
15:09
type of commerce that could pull up
15:11
some of those postcards still have the
15:14
pilings that were lining the the Old
15:17
Stone Dock and if you look real close at
15:19
some of them
15:20
you'll see wooden side buoys there where
15:23
you'd be pulling up
15:25
so nobody wants to pull a ship up beside
15:27
a granite block I mean that's not how
15:29
you
15:29
how you treat a boat but so
#bathhouse
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over time as I say it's become a
15:35
favorite now for
15:37
the uh for the kiddie pool
15:40
if you talk to kids in Falmouth today
15:42
they'll tell you that they learned how
15:43
to
15:44
how to swim in the Old Stone Dock and
15:47
most of them don't even know that it was
15:48
there
15:50
a neighbor of ours Jim Crossen started
#jamescrossen
15:53
the Old Stone Dock Association up in the
#oldstonedockassociation
15:55
1970s
15:56
and really brought a lot of history with
15:58
it and brought a lot of
16:00
attention to this relic it is
16:03
really it's a monument to to Falmouth to
16:06
have that here
16:07
and there's very few towns who can point
16:09
to something on the waterfront and say
16:10
that was there 200 years ago
16:12
so the Old Stone Dock Association has
16:14
really worked to preserve that heritage
16:16
and
16:17
that type of history the other place
16:19
where you'll find a reference
16:21
to it is is on the there's a big
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uh boulder with a
Hunt_Village_Sts_179
16:27
with a plaque on it and with an anchor
16:29
atop it right at the end of Mill Road
16:31
right where Mill Road turns on to Locust
16:34
and if you take a look at that you'll
16:35
see that that was a monument dedicated
16:37
to the seafarers
16:39
uh of in 1908 and it was really
16:44
the end of the Old Stone Dock that was
16:46
their farewell
16:47
uh to what had been such an active
16:49
center of commerce and the seafarers who
16:52
who made it such uh but in 1908
16:55
the the uh the harbor had been
16:59
dredged the Inner Harbor was now taking
17:01
over
17:02
and over time people started bringing
17:04
their boats into the Inner Harbor
17:06
and the Old Stone Dock became the Old
17:09
Stone Dock
17:12
and was there a window
17:15
a windmill and an attempt
17:19
to manufacture was it
17:23
a product glass no well yeah
17:26
a couple of things going on right down
17:28
there on the beach the windmill was up
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17:30
on Mill Road and if you were to drive go
17:32
up Mill Road from the beach uh
17:36
just as the road bends and it bends
17:38
right at the end of the salt pond
17:40
that's where the windmill was located
17:42
that windmill was actually
17:45
made to to grind uh corn
17:49
it wasn't it wasn't part of the glass
17:51
tree but i'll bring that up in a sec
17:54
that was that was that was a grinding
17:56
mill and I know that because Bill Swift
17:59
told me and if anybody knows anything
18:00
about the town of Falmouth it's Bill
18:02
Swift
18:03
and he used to live right down there so
18:05
that's where that's where the windmill
18:06
was
18:07
now there were many windmills along the
18:10
shoreline uh of
18:14
Surf Drive Beach the point of
18:17
them was to to bring in salt water they
18:20
would go out into the
18:21
into the Sound and suck up the water
18:23
bring it up and put into great big vats
18:26
typically about 10 feet by 10 feet and
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#williamswift
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18:28
it put water in it probably about 18
18:30
inches deep
18:32
and it would they would leave it out in
18:34
the sun
18:35
to evaporate and what you'd end up with
18:38
after
18:38
after all that water had been brought up
18:40
and left in these vats for
18:42
for some period of time it would
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the third meeting house is it has a
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you even get up to the green
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heavy granite foundation on the left
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side if you're going
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but what you say is interesting because
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I don't think the
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the same thing whether it be under that
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in front of the boulder we've certainly
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no evidence of it has ever come up so
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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
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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
#nautilusmotorinn #2016
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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
spot
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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and they're still going strong there's
Uncle Bill's Country Store which is a
gift shop
right next to it so that's another
spot Route 28a that's kind of the nice
back roads but not back roads where
Route 28 I know out there is more of a
highway
but some of these places are a part of
recent Cape Cod history
and that talks to on the left the Nimrod
that just recently was torn down
it was on Dillingham Avenue
and it's mostly known for being
hit by a cannonball during the war of
1812
the restaurant itself was named for
the British ship the HMS Nimrod
uh before so this wasn't the original
location of the Nimrod
Dillingham Avenue it was actually
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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in Woods Hole they were open for
more than 60 years as
kind of a restaurant bar
and it's known for its odd shape because
it's where
two roads meet so it's got almost a
triangular
shape to it the building itself is still
there
in 2013 the Leeside closed
and it was quickly purchased and
reopened as Quick’s Hole
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it's interesting to see these places and
know that you can
go back and you can see a place like the
Leeside even though it's in a different
it's a different name now
other spots that were in the book and
that I researched
for this presentation are part of a
bygone generation
The Bellows is an interesting one it was
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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
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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
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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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#quintals
#bournebridge
#bournerotary
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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
#1979
#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
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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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#barbaralind
#mytinmandiner
#2000
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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
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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
#lawrencessandwichdepot
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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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