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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: July 5, 2023
Oral Historian: Miguel Moniz
Interviewer: Phoebe Acheson
Topic: Personal Memories and Portuguese and Cape Verdean Life in Falmouth
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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well thank you so much for the invitation for
me to talk to talk about this community and
about some of these wonderful postcards in
this collection I'm a huge fan of this of this
project
0:54
and and of the of the Falmouth Public Library
really what they've been doing over the over
the
1:00
years to help promote some of these
community histories that we have and um you
know I I'll
1:07
be talking a little bit about some of this
today but um if you want to take a deeper look
at some of these there's a whole series that I
that I did for Falmouth Public Library's Joy of
Learning
1:16
about Portuguese community history I'm going
to try and not repeat anything that I that I said
in any of those and try and come come up with
today with all brand new things that I haven't
talked
1:24
about before in some of these uh with some of
these great postcards that that you have but um
yeah as you say um some of the postcards and
most of the postcards that people
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#joyoflearning
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1:34
um are are talking about are representative of
specific communities are represented
by specific communities in some of the images
and um when I got invited to do this project or
to
1:45
do this interview I um I went through the
whole collection just beginning to end and
tried to
1:51
find some some of those what are those
postcards about about uh the Portuguese and
Cape Verdean
#portugueseamericanhistory
1:57
communities in Falmouth and I found that
there weren't really a whole lot you know
there's a one postcard of Saint Anthony's
Church which is a was a Cape Verdean or is a
Cape Verdean
#saintanthonyschurch
2:07
Portuguese community founded a church um
but but aside from that there really isn't a
whole lot
2:16
um if you look at a one of the postcards of
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Main Street for example um what you don't see Hunt_Teaticket_Sts_362
in this
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postcard it's this one is um if actually if I have
one complaint with the the postcard
2:29
project it's that there aren't really a great dates
on the postcards I don't know if
that's something you're trying to uh yeah they
they mostly aren't dated unless they were
mailed and have a
2:38
postmark on them so we can really only
ballpark it by the styles of cars and that kind of
thing right
2:44
right that well you need to maybe crowdsource
this because I'm sure there's people in town
that can take one look at this and and you
know know exactly where it was and when it
was photographed
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#capeverdeanamericanhistory
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2:52
but this this image you can see in the
background here um an image of what was the
old East Falmouth
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#agriculture
Village School and you know what you don't
see to the sides of this are the Portuguese farms
and the
3:06
Cape Verdean farms that were interspersed
around and about some of these buildings as
you as you go
3:11
down Main Street and some of the other
postcards also of Teaticket they they are kind
of in the
3:16
margins and not really not really quite seen um
and this is interesting most of the Portuguese
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were came here to work as farmers and the
one the one kind of farming photo that you or a
3:28
postcard that we have is the of the
Coonamessett Ranch which was an important
large agricultural
3:34
farm that employed a great number of workers
many of them Portuguese as it turns out as
happened
3:41
in many cases though when the Portuguese and
Cape Verdeans were working on farms for
others
3:46
they decided it'd be much easier and better for
themselves to start their own farms which they
did growing the most famous crop and
Falmouth of this community is of course the
crop of strawberries
3:57
but this was not limited to strawberries
they grew yams they grew blueberries they
grew all kinds of other all kinds of other other
things as well as doing other other kinds of
work in
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#eastfalmouthvillageschool
#teaticket
#coonamessettfarm
#strawberrries
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town as well in Woods Hole but also around
the rest of town they ended up moving into the
eastern
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what was then euphemistically called the
eastern part of town which was this kind of
area of East
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Falmouth and further over into Teaticket
towards the Coonamessett River that was
largely abandoned
4:27
farmland nobody really wanted it nobody
wanted to live there there wasn't really a lot
going on and so these communities moved into
these uh started farmsteads and and some of
these um in some of
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these plots of land that they had bought
built houses um and you know you can see
here again that
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you've got this great image of Coonamessett
Farm not a lot of postcards of some of these
other places
4:49
um this isn't necessarily nefarious intent
it's just that these communities were were
largely
4:55
invisible I think to a lot of the people that
were coming and also why are people buying
postcards you're buying a postcard because you
visited a special unique beautiful place and you
want to
5:04
write home to someone and tell them you
know all about this this fantastic place that
you've seen and um you know East Falmouth
in these areas they didn't have a lot of tourist
attractions in them
5:14
you know so they had it was um an area that
that was largely relegated to the people that
5:23
live there and the farmers that live there
most of them immigrants but some other
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#eastfalmouth
#cranberrybog
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people that also owned other cranberry bogs
for example and which many Portuguese and
Cape Verdeans worked at
5:32
and actually also owned a number of
cranberry bogs as well but you don't really get
to see some of these um in in in in the
postcards um although on this on the sides of
the postcards
5:43
are all of these are all of these communities um
the one postcard that we really have of
5:49
um of a prominent Portuguese institution
community institution is of Saint Anthony's
Roman Catholic
5:55
Church in East Falmouth and um this uh
Catholic Church was built in the 1920s it's
famed everyone
6:07
or most people know the story of the the
"the church that strawberries built" as it's been
called
6:13
um with members of the Portuguese and Cape
Verdean community tithing uh parts of their
their
6:18
strawberry profits to give to the building of
this church what's lesser known are the many
many other
6:25
community buildings that didn't get postcards
most of them much older including for
example
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#holyghostsociety
um the many the the sa- the Holy Ghost halls
that the town had one of these still stands today
it's
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the Saint Anthony's Club on Brick Kiln Road
this was a building that also served as an
important
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community center as well as the the actual hall
itself that got moved next to the church and
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#brickkilnroad
#saintanthonysclub
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um has since I believe been reconstructed but it
was um originally also a Holy Ghost hall and
then
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of course there's a Falmouth's most wellknown Holy Ghost hall which is the um the
Fresh Pond Holy
#freshpondholyghostsociety
7:03
Ghost Society on um on Carriage Shop Road
and this is a building also that um you know
was a very
#carriageshoproad
7:09
prominent community center they had there
were political meetings at these some of these
places
7:14
they had senators coming down the U.S. U.S.
Senators coming down governors coming
down I talked to
7:21
um to give talks and these kinds of things
it's where a lot of the Mass Agricultural
College
7:28
um scientists would come to talk to
the Portuguese community as a result of
people like Bertrand Tomlinson who brought
them in to try and help Falmouth's strawberry
crop yield and
7:37
protect it against various blights that uh
that the that the crop often oftentimes had to
face
7:44
um so Saint Anthony's Church of course a
very important central central cultural
institution
7:50
but again there's all these other other
places that would have would have made great
great postcards if I was visiting Falmouth I
would have loved to have written a postcard at
home
7:58
if I wasn't from Falmouth of course of the of
the Holy Ghost one of the Holy Ghost halls in
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8:03
town it's not too late anyone wants to make
a postcard they're still there so we also have
8:09
um the back of this card is actually something
I'd like to talk about a little bit um you know
on the on the card it says that you know the
Saint Anthony's Roman Catholic Church is
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(back)
8:17
Falmouth and then it says a Portuguese
National Church which contains a famous
painting of Our
#ourladyoffatima
8:23
Lady of Fatima so anyone who's ever been
inside of um of Saint Anthony's Church knows
of this
8:30
this well-known beautiful painting of the
version of Fatima there's a great story behind
this which
8:37
I'd like to tell a little bit of if I can um with uh
while looking at this at this at this postcard of
the church I'm fortunately there's no postcard
actually of the the Nossa Senhora de Fátima
but
8:48
you'll have to stop by the church sometime
to take a look at it if you're if you're
curious um but what's interesting about this is
that it it says right off the bat that this is a
Portuguese
8:57
National Church and this was an interesting
kind of a a political arrangement that
this church had so most churches are arranged
as parishes as when you live in a certain
9:06
geography and you go to that church because
you uh you live in that in that in that parish that
9:11
that geographic parish territorial parish and
in the case of Saint Anthony's church this was
not
9:17
um how people belonged you belong to it if
you were Portuguese so um this is something
that
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#portuguesenationalchurch
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9:23
many of us have known in town for a long
time especially those of us who you know were
baptized
9:28
and had First Communion Confirmation in
Saint Anthony's church as I did and um you
know it's
9:33
a place that um was always known as a
Portuguese church and what's interesting about
this is that
9:41
this and the painting itself was part of a
broader effort on the part of Portugal's Estado
Novo
9:50
dictatorship the fascist dictatorship to
promote cultural diplomacy in the United
States by relying
9:58
on working with immigrant communities in
order to gain political advantage in the places
where
10:03
they were this doesn't mean that the people you
know some people were actively involved in
this consciously involved in this the vast
majority of Portuguese in New England of
course had no
10:14
idea this was going on you know they were just
participating in you know in these power
processes
10:19
that really didn't have anything to do with
their conscious awareness of what they what
they were participating in certainly you know
the case of the of of the parishioners of Saint
Anthony's
10:28
Saint Anthony's church but some of the
operatives that were working on this was a
good friend of
10:35
the parish priest at the time of um in in the 40s
Father Avila no relationship to the current
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#estadonovo
[Jose M. Bettencourt Avila]
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10:43
Father Avila that's Steve Avila that's now the
the parishion- or the um the the priest of
10:48
uh of the church but Father Avila was involved
was good friends with someone named
Abecassis who
10:56
was one of the individuals involved in trying to
create some of these cultural diplomacy efforts
and what they were doing was one of the
things they did was to try and send artists and
11:06
um and and literary people into communities
in the U.S where they could become friends
with some
11:11
high high level people one of the people that
they sent to to do this was a man named
Henrique Medina
11:17
Henrique Medina was the painter of the
Virgin of Fatima painting at Saint Anthony's
church
11:22
now Henrique Medina was a well-known he
was born in 1900 uh 1901 something like that
died in 1988
11:30
but he was a well-known portraitist and a
portrait artist and one of his activities working
on behalf
11:38
of the Portuguese Estado Novo was to try and
get a film made in Hollywood about the Virgin
of Fatima
11:43
so the Virgin of Fatima was this apparition of
the the of the Virgin Mary to these three pastor
11:49
children in a field in Fatima Portugal there's
a huge cathedral and shrine built to this to this
11:57
apparition and um in in any case the painting
was designed um for it was it was painted so
that it
12:06
could appear as a promo for the making of the
film so the painting was made ahead of trying
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#henriquemedina
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12:12
to promote the film or get the film made the
film eventually did get made but not for many
years later but while Henrique Medina was
was in Hollywood he actually was asked to
paint the
12:23
famous painting in The Picture of Dorian
Gray this film that that was that was made I
think
12:30
it came out in the 30s or for 40s I think it
was like 45 or so but this film came out of
Hunt was I
12:37
believe the actor his his painting was the
before picture not the after Picture of Dorian
Gray but
12:43
um because he was a skilled and gifted
portraitist but you can look it up online and see
Henrique
12:48
Medina's Picture of Dorian Gray but in any
case um I was in an alfarrabista in um in
Lisbon and
12:55
an alfarrabista is one of these old ancient used
bookstores where you can find things that go
back you know hundreds of years uh and uh
you know if you're if you're looking carefully
and
13:05
I came across a silkscreened print of the Virgin
of Fatima this painting by Henrique Medina
that's
13:11
had that you know hung in this church that I
went to every Sunday since I was a little kid
and um I
13:17
was astonished that this was there and I
looked at it excited to see uh whenever I'm in
Portugal I like to run into people from
Falmouth or see things from Falmouth so I got
very excited to
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13:25
read “Saint Anthony's Church, Falmouth,
Mass” when I read where it was it was in a
church in California
13:31
um and I was very surprised by this
because the story that I had always heard about
this
13:36
painting was that Father Avila had a
commissioned directly from uh Henrique
Medina as it turns out
13:42
not really quite the case um once the
painting was made it was actually given to a
Portuguese
13:47
church another Portuguese National Church in
California um and uh and then eventually when
13:54
um when Father Avila was looking for this
painting and trying to find one he ended up
getting the
13:59
painting that had already been made and and
was and was brought to him from um you
know from from California so it's a kind of an
interesting story about how this painting got to
this got to this
14:09
church and more interesting even for my own
work and research is how these kinds of of
activities
14:15
promoted the sense of the Portuguese
community here I mean this is a very famous
painting people are very proud of this painting
also in in town and um it also speaks to how
sometimes how
14:26
um the reasons for something creating a
community is not necessarily as important as
the creation
14:32
of the community itself that the creation of the
community has a life of its own beyond
sometimes beyond beyond the the actions of
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others to you know to try and create this these
efforts
14:42
to help the Estado Novo and in the end
maybe maybe didn't didn't quite quite do what
they what they wanted to set out and wanted to
do um but everybody should go to take a look
at that
14:51
go to a Mass sometime at St Anthony's Church
and and you can see the the painting hanging
above the altar it's really a really a masterwork
a beautiful beautiful piece of piece of art
15:01
um another thing I'd like to talk about when
we talk about the Portuguese community is
also is
15:06
um there are a number of mythologies that
get spoken about saying that Portuguese and
Cape
15:12
Verdeans weren't very politically active
um and there's a great um a postcard here of
the
15:20
um the what's now the school
administration building uh that got built in I
believe 1920s
Shown in video:
Gunning_Village_Bldg_0233
15:27
I want to say 1927 um but it was
thereabouts after the old um Teaticket Village
School burned
#teaticketvillageschool
15:35
down uh then was briefly rebuilt if I'm not
mistaken it's where the VFW Hall is now
15:40
um you also have a postcard of the old Village
Teaticket Village School as well
15:46
um but um I I bring this up this postcard up
because when Portuguese and Cape Verdeans
started
15:52
to get politically active it's really
interesting um another very important
community institution that I haven't mentioned
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are some of the other clubs in fact one of the
oldest in Falmouth the
16:01
oldest civic and immigrant civic club is the
Cape Verdean Club of Falmouth this actually
started off
16:06
as a as a political club where they used to
have meetings at Frank Rose's barber shop on
Sandwich
16:12
Road there isn't a postcard of that either and
and then eventually they moved their meetings
16:18
bi-weekly meet or bi-monthly meetings rather
to the school administration building where
they held them from the 30s they also
sponsored candidates' nights sometimes they
would hold them in some of
16:28
the other Portuguese community halls like
Saint Anthony's Club sometimes they would
hold them at the uh the Teaticket building
eventually they built their own club starting in
1941 changed
16:38
the name of the political organization it was all
the same people that were that were the the
board members but they just re-changed
the name to a to a civic club which is a
Falmouth
16:48
Cape Verdean Club another extraordinary
Falmouth institution that still is going quite
strong today
#falmouthcapeverdeanclub
16:54
and has a great a great number of
wonderful activities that's on Sandwich Road
as well so um why did they start getting
involved why the school um you know the
school administration
#falmouthgovernment
17:05
building well it was very difficult
for Portuguese people and Cape Verdean
people to get elected to office townwide people
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#civicclub
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wouldn't vote for them however school
districts were based
17:16
on geography and they were smaller so the
very first successful political campaigns that
were
17:21
waged and won by by Portuguese were first in
the school board and so this is uh this is a great
17:28
postcard to kind of to bring that all home also
it's because it's located really at the kind of
17:35
the crux of of what's a major thoroughfare of
the Portuguese community so you have um you
know Route 28 or Davis Straits turning into
Route 28 and going off towards through
Teaticket
17:44
and then into East Falmouth and you have
Sandwich Road shooting up to Hatchville
17:49
um and um both of these streets were lined
with Portuguese and Cape Verdean farms
strawberry farms
17:55
mostly as you got further in there were
cranberry bogs where many Cape Verdeans
and Azoreans especially were working on
those cranberry bogs as you got further out you
know towards
18:06
Waquoit you also had some Cape Verdean
cranberry bogs and Portuguese-owned
cranberry bogs but
18:12
um you know this this school
administration building is really kind of in the
in the smack in the middle of where the
Portuguese community started to really grow
and it's
18:21
almost a monument to that that community
in some ways I also feel fondly about it
because my mother also worked when she was
a young she was the salutatorian of Falmouth
High School
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#falmouthpublicschools
#hatchville
#waquoit
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18:30
there were I think limited opportunities
for young Portuguese American girls at that
point to go to go to university which she
certainly would have done if she was born in
my generation
18:40
um but she became a secretary in the school
admin building so my mother worked at this
building
18:46
um you know for for many years I don't know
if there's one of of of the um of the uh the
18:52
fire department but if you had one you could
show that now because that's where my my dad
worked for for his whole life he passed away in
2017 but but he was he was a fireman there
from for his life
19:03
and also it was a was a captain um I would
also bring up some of the other political
activities
19:09
that took place with some of these
communities by looking here at um Terrace
Gables um what Terrace Gables and the
Heights has to do with the Portuguese
community is kind of another
19:17
small little story that um that doesn't really get
talked about a lot but um there were two a
19:22
couple of really important civic
organizations in Falmouth that that arose out of
the movement
19:28
to "Americanize the immigrant" which was
this post-1920s Progressivist movement and
the idea
19:33
was that immigrants in America were not
suitable for citizenship this was the the
argument from
19:40
um from from certain quarters that they
immigrants shouldn't be allowed to have
citizenship because
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#terracegables
#falmouthheights
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19:46
they were mentally psychologically
inferior and they weren't civic-minded people
and so
19:52
the movement to "Americanize the immigrant"
was a Progressivist movement that certainly
had its uh its problems most definitely in its
definitions of what it meant to be an American
and what it meant
20:02
to belong to a community but what they
promoted was effectively the education classes
in civics
20:09
teaching people how to participate in
political political processes teaching them
English these kinds of activities and there were
two organizations in town that were deeply
involved in
20:20
this one was an organization called the
Portuguese Fraternity which was a insurance
scheme like these
20:28
beneficent societies that were very common in
the 20s there was no personal insurance
there was no workman's comp right so you
would belong to these insurance schemes that
would help you to
20:38
pay in every week and then you would get get
it if you were sick or heaven forbid you died
you
20:44
would have money for a funeral or you would
have money to pay for your you know
convalescence while
20:49
you got better so one of the more prominent in
not only New England but in the the United
20:55
States was one called the Portuguese Fraternity
they had branches that were over 40 branches
in its heyday 40 or 50 branches in its heyday
and they had an annual retreat every year and
in 1926
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#portuguesefraternity
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21:08
they held their annual retreat with all their new
officers the national officers at Terrace Gables
in Falmouth and there's a wonderful
article written in the Enterprise another great
initiative
21:18
of Falmouth Public Library that everybody
should check out is the Enterprise digitization
archives and um you know this this archive is
uh has some really rich stuff in it and one of
the they have
21:29
a great description of this event and in it the
Enterprise actually translated from Portuguese
21:35
and into English and then printed this in 1926
in the Falmouth Enterprise an article
describing
21:41
the describing this event and the really
beautiful way that people the the author
described Falmouth
21:47
sort of saying it was no doubt that people
from the Azores were so interested in this
beautiful place that was on the ocean and how
could it not help but you know remind them of
home so this was
21:58
uh this was I thought a um there's a couple of
great postcards you have in the collection from
Terrace Gables this of course was a tourist
attraction which is why there's a couple of
great
22:07
postcards about it but it wasn't just tourists
going there obviously this was a place that um
that
22:12
that other people in the community were using
and relying on in this case the Portuguese
Fraternity
22:18
um you know had had these great meetings
there another one that I'd mentioned is the
Portuguese American Civic League that also
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“Portuguese Fraternity Meets in
Falmouth,” Falmouth Enterprise,
6/12/1926
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through 1206
Hunt_Heights_Bldg 229 through
243
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was another organization civic-minded
organization highly
22:26
involved and they did a number of activities at
the Lawrence High School which you have
also some great uh some great images of so
these were sort of some of the you know there
was a spread
22:36
of the you know we sometimes I think think
about uh Portuguese history Cape Verdean
history as if
22:42
um that's something apart from or separate
from Falmouth history but it's not you know
it's um
22:47
this is this this is uh Cape Verdean and
Portuguese history is it is Falmouth history so
um and the
22:53
people that that belong to these communities
were not limited to these you know to their
churches and their social clubs um they were
people that had a reach throughout town that
participated in
23:02
many organizations throughout town um that
were Veterans of Foreign Wars and um you
know that
23:07
uh that also lived in many other places all over
town um Hatchville was kind of at the outskirts
of
23:13
a lot of these Portuguese the Portuguese
farming there were a great number of
Portuguese farms in Hatchville spreading off
towards North Falmouth as well but they
bumped up against some of the
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some of the um the non-Portuguese or the
the WASP I guess um Falmouth resident farms
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um personally I grew up I I did the math once
and I did all the I kind of measured it all out
and
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found out that I was almost equidistant where I
grew up on I grew up on Turner Road from all
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the main Portuguese clubs like the
Portuguese American Association from the
Holy Ghost Feast
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from the Cape Verdean Club from Saint
Anthony's Church so um but I was I was
equidistant but I
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was kind of a little bit removed from
them where I was on Turner Road now by my
family
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um there's a great house actually just my my
the house that my grandparents had their farm
in uh was a home right on the corner of John
Parker Road and Sandwich Road it actually
just got bought
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recently I'm I I it's it's a gonna be a great
tragedy one of the other things that that
happens
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is a lot of these old Portuguese farmsteads
because they're not in wealthier parts of town
or in West Falmouth they don't get
historical recognition the way that some of the
other houses
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do many of the these old Portuguese
farmsteads are older than some of these other
places have
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you know I don't want to say they have
richer histories every family history is
beautiful and important but you know they
have they have histories that are important to
the town's you
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know economic life and and community life as
well and um you know they will get torn down
so
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this old uh you know a beautiful 1800
1800s farmstead um that you know was then
purchased
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by my uh by my family when they came to
America and then used as a as their base for
their farm
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um uh which had land all across along uh
Turner Road uh and then as each of one of
their kids got married they just built a house on
you know on the farmland and there was five
of them and you know
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this is a very typical Falmouth story you
know I know I know tons of family I was
talking to uh to Mary Bishop who's a great
Falmouth resident and she was telling me how
a very similar thing
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happened to her family on Trotting Park Road
and this is a very typical story that that people
tell
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um growing up in a place like that I was
very was not strange for me I think it was
strange anytime I talked to people not from
Falmouth about it or not from you know these
Portuguese
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communities about it um but you know I had
all my cousins and aunts and uncles all in one
street and then eventually my grandparents left
that house and moved across the street
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um you know um and and you know we had
this great life there and it was a very family
oriented and
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very fun um I mean at the time I think I
probably was I felt a little restricted by it of
course um
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you know you couldn't like leave the house
without 20 relatives seeing everything that you
were doing
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um which made some of my you know the
fun activities that I might have done a little a
little more difficult to pull off but um my sister
didn't seem to have any problems
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with it you know she she uh but this is
always the case yeah the younger sibling
always gets away with a lot more than the
older one does um so but anyway uh you know
growing up on on in
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this in this area my family also um you know
we I went to the school district that I belonged
to
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was not the Portuguese the school where all the #northfalmouthschool
Portuguese were most of the
Portuguese residents went which was like
Teaticket School or East Falmouth school I
went to North Falmouth
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and um this was you know it was
interesting because there weren't a lot of there
were a couple but there weren't a lot of
Portuguese kids at North Falmouth School and
um I don't really think
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I ever had a sense of myself as as you know
being different until I went to North Falmouth
School not not necessarily in a bad way I didn't
I wasn't I didn't feel like I was left out of
anything but
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I just I got a real sense of like that I was oh
yeah I'm really from this Portuguese part of
town that's a that's a really different part of
town than this than North Falmouth and West
Falmouth
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um and and anyway it was it was
something that I was made very aware of as a
result of um being kind of on these borders um
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but also you know quite interesting as well
because it I think
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that it allowed me a facility to kind of
move between some of these different worlds
um a lot more fluidly um as a result but
anyway um I spent most of my days as a young
kid on the Old Silver
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Beach in the summers um which was you
know in that part of in that part of town my
father was a real
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avid beachgoer in fact so speaking of postcards
um there's a really famous like it's I think
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one of the most famous postcards in the world
if you are over a certain age it's the famous
"where the boys are" postcard of Fort
Lauderdale Florida and it was a a postcard that
came out right after
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the film and as many people did who saw
that film they immediately went down to
Florida to
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um you know to go um to go go to the beach
and go to Fort Lauderdale and these kinds of
things
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um my father's family actually would go would
go down there before during this time period in
the winters they worked construction and were
um you know were were people that you can't
really dig
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in the ground when it's freezing out so
they would sometimes go they would go to
Florida um you know and uh and and and get
away from the the cold uh but
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um my father is on he's he's the biggest person
on the on this really famous postcard
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um and he sticks out like a sore thumb the poor
thing he was a huge uh he loved going to the
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beach but in the picture he got a little bit of a
sun exposure and so he's
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in in this jacket like zipped up and he was
very embarrassed about this for the for his
entire life being you know zipped up in this
jacket and this really famous postcard that's all
over you know
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I'm sure that uh that if any if anyone had a
relative that went to Florida you know uh in
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Falmouth from you know basically up through
the 90s so they they got they got this postcard
sent to them by someone at some point uh
anyway uh so there's Old Silver Beach my first
job also actually
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that's not true my first job um was working as a #falmouthenterprise
uh a hawker for the Falmouth Enterprise
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um they um Bill Hough um was was then the
editor-in-chief and um they needed someone
#billhough
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to walk around selling the Road Race
supplement on Road Race weekend so he hired
me to I think
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I got like four cents a newspaper and I
just went around to selling because they had
the the edition had the program to the uh with
all the uh the runners in the road race and other
little
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interviews and tidbits and what have you so
yeah so I would just take these things and they
would um you know I sold them all over all
over Road Race weekend and then I sold them
also in town
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um walking down Gifford Street uh in front of
the hospital extension and stopping traffic and
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eventually Mr. Griffin who was my social
studies teacher at Lawrence Junior High
School he uh
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they they stopped me and said I couldn't walk
down in the traffic anymore and eventually
they they had to stop the program because it
was um obviously a horrible you know
horribly dangerous
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hazard but you know those were the days um
uh so anyway um yeah we uh my first real job
though uh
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real proper job was working at the Sea Crest uh #seacresthotel
in Falmouth and the Sea Crest is a really famed
place there's a great postcard here of the Sea
Crest Hotel um with a couple of images and
this
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is this is actually an image of the old one of the
old the older version of the uh of the hotel
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um it's it's a place that that really has a great
fame I mean originally there was a a theater
there
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with uh Jimmy Stewart I think was part of this
and Henry Fonda Margaret Sullivan also and
then after
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that it was uh the site of a a music club called
the Latin Quarter which was run by Lou
Walters who
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was Barbara Walters' father and then
eventually um it was it was bought and
purchased and tried they
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tried to turn it into a kind of a you know
like the Cape Codder or some of these other
places some of these other big resorts creating
a you know creating a seaside resort in
Falmouth and this
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was during this large push you know in the 40s
and 50s when they when when Falmouth really
started
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turning towards a tourist economy and they
really tried to promote Falmouth as a place for
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tourism and eventually it was bought in 1971
and this is who I worked for by Red Auerbach
who was the
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the you know the great coach of the of the
Boston Celtics and a later general manager um
Mr. Battles
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I think I always called him Mr. Battles I think
his name was Ken Battles if I'm not mistake
and then Steve Hill who who was an incredible
uh incredible person who just he was an
entertainer a performer
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and what they really did was they tried to
create almost like um like a Catskills at at the
Sea Crest
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and um you know there are a lot of Jewish
families that would come down for uh for
holiday uh they
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had mahjong tournaments um you know
where the whole place was just filled with um
with
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um Jewish women playing mahjong it was just
a lot of fun and um I literally had every job at
this
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place I worked as a uh predominantly I worked
as a waiter and a um and a um a busboy but I
worked
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you know I also worked in the kitchen I
worked on the line sometimes they'd hired me
that I was in the I was in the pantry I was a
bellboy I did I did so many things at this place
I um you know I
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once waited on Sid Caesar actually uh was was
a guest there sometimes and I waited on him a
couple
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times great tipper by the way um and um but
one thing that they asked me to do um this is
when
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Steve Hill died shortly after I was only there
for a couple years before uh before Steve
passed away
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um but he had he created this place that was
an incredible venue for live music and
entertainment so they would have nightclub
shows all the time with comedians and you
know like uh
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bands like the The Drifters played there
and you know these kind of older bands that
that
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um uh that were very popular at the time
um would come through and play in Falmouth
and
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um they would hire me every every night or on
the weekends to work the spotlight so I would
like you
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know I was a young kid you know 14 15 16
years old I worked there from like 14 to 17 or
18 and
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um you know it just uh was was quite an eyeopening experience for this young you
know Portuguese Catholic boy from a pretty
strict family Catholic uh family uh Portuguese
Catholic
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family to um you know to be put into
this world of uh of of you know entertainment
and
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um you know Steve Hill had some really
crazy parties that we would we sometimes
asked to work
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um and it was a real eye-opening experience
for a you know for a young man to um to see
this kind of
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world and possibilities and also the Sea Crest
had so many people from all over that were
working there as well you've had a lot of
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people coming down over the summers from
outside of Boston and
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New York and other places you had a lot of
people from Bourne working there again like
these kind of different communities of people
all coming together and it was a great
experience to work
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there and and kind of um uh kind of come
together with all these people and it really
changed me as
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a person I think um I I won't say his name but a
um you know there's a a a law enforcement
officer
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let's just say on Cape Cod somewhere who
was uh um who was a a great a great running
mate
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there and was was someone who you know
opened my eyes to a lot of things in the world
that um that
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he's probably arresting for people now but um
in any case uh it was a really dynamic and
fantastic
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place to to hang out um and so and also yeah
I was working there right so yes to work at as
well
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um one of the things that we did um
there's some pictures here the of the of the
ballpark the Heights um uh you have the
Heights ballfield there's three great great
images that you have
#falmouthheightsballpark
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um one that I'm um really shows the
ballpark though as it looks out and I bring this
up because
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you have one of people like in the early 1900s
at the you know watching a ball game at uh
you know at the ballpark and this was the set
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the scene of the uh what was called the Cape
Cod Bar Leagues and
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this was a a really well known I mean it was
it was we got tons of people to come out to our
games
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um and it was a real you know it was kind of
like you were you were drinking while you
were playing of course like most softball is but
with the added extra push that this was actually
the bar and so
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all the all the big bars in Falmouth had fielded
teams and it was a fairly big deal you know the
the Enterprise would list um capsules of of
the games you know next to the Commodores
games they
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kept uh listings of the standings you know
they had photographs when teams won the
championship
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um and you know I would always look we'd
always look in the capsules and read them next
day and see where we were in the standings but
we played all over teams like a number
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of great Falmouth bars that no longer exist you
know like the Yesterdays and the Casino used
to have it used to have a team the the
Towne Tavern actually had a very competitive
team they
#casinobar
were usually a real good team Captain Kidd
had a team the Landfall had a team and then
you know the Sea Crest also had a we had we
had a team as well and yeah we played all over
the place
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um the one story that I would tell about
the about the ballpark here um is um you know
is
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a uh it's it's uh we were playing a game and um
I think it was Brendan McCarthy who who
worked there
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as a waiter as well uh his uh he was from
North Falmouth his his dad was part of the
McCarthy Ice
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Cream McCarthy Brothers Ice Cream which I
think they that doesn't exist anymore but as a
kid I
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used to think it was so cool that my
classmates could just get ice cream whenever
they wanted
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um but anyway he uh he must have it must
have been all that dairy that that helped him
because he he hit a shot uh in a game once at
the ball field that went all the way to what was
was then
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known as the Finish Line Tavern it was
it's now no longer that it's and they rearranged
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the space there's like a bar over there now
I think I think it was the a beer a beer joint
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for a while and that place went out of
business because I don't it wasn't really good
um and then there's a new place there now um
but anyway he hit a shot and at that point the
kitchen was
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on that side facing the ball field and the
ball went rocketing through them it was it was
just a
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rocket shot of a of a home run that he hit and
it went blasting just smashing through the
window and
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unfortunately just spread glass like all over the
kitchen into all of the dishes everybody's food
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right they had to obviously throw everything
out basically shut down for the afternoon and
the chef
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um you know I I mean we've all read
Anthony Bourdain's book and you know
especially in the 80s
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um speaking of all those all those early
vices um you know the chefs were often times
under the
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influence of of certain of certain things
that made them a little agitated and excitable
and the
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chef when his entire you know meal service
was destroyed for the afternoon came running
out of
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the the Finish Line Tavern with his largest
knife and uh came chasing after uh poor
Brendan McCarthy
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on the you know on the field fortunately
cooler heads prevailed and there was there was
no damage
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but when when we went back the next year for
games there was an iron gate over the over the
window of
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the uh you know of the Finish Line Tavern so
you know those are the kind of some of the
postcards
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I wanted to to talk about in and sort of
also doing so I I would just like kind of say
that
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um you know this community of Falmouth like
we're talking about different communities in
Falmouth but really it's one community of
Falmouth it's um you know it's it's people that
have they're
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all sharing their lives together that we're all
participating in all these um you know fun
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activities together um in these different
institutions um and um you know families that
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have gone back for generations independent if
they were Portuguese or Cape Verdean or not
and um and
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all these people living all their lives together in
this in this really wonderful place um I really
love these postcards and um you know it's a
it's it's a great a great treat and pleasure to have
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been able to uh to talk about some of these
uh some of these postcards with you
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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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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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#worcestercourt
#grandavenue
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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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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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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
Court was the Park Beach Hotel of course
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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
Hotel
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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
#paulwasseth
Wasseth right
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
was the was the Terrace Gables
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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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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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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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thank you very much for having me here
it's been a delight
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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
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 20, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
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Available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
• Also mentioned:
o Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, by Christopher Setterlund,
available at Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund, available at
Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook, by Earl Mills & Betty Breen, available from
CLAMS under 641.59 MIL
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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and without further ado I wanted to
welcome Chris we're glad to have you
here
thank you so much I’m so glad to be here
and
yes like Sue said this is geared more
towards
Falmouth so it'll be
a lot of the places that are in my
restaurant's book are
here but in order to make this worth
your while for actually being
part of this Zoom presentation I added
some places that are not in the book
so what I’m going to do is I’m going to
pull my presentation
up so that you can see it
because it's more exciting to see the
actual presentation
and so I wrote this book
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Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod
this was in 2017.
and for those who don't know me I am a
12th generation Cape Codder
and I’ve written a total of six books my
most recent one is in the bottom right
corner that's Iconic Hotels and Motels
of Cape Cod
that one along with Cape Cod Nights
will be
featured next week and that one will
also be
a presentation that is Falmouth centric
so it'll be a lot of fun this one was a
lot of fun to put together too
because I wanted to I had to do more
research and find
places that you will hopefully remember
and if you don't then
I can bring them back to life for you
so in June of 2015 that's when I started
chronicling
the legendary Cape Cod restaurants it
was part of
Arcadia Publishing's History Press label
and the end result was Historic
Restaurants of Cape Cod so the book
itself
is 39 restaurants
all of them are since closed
but there's a 40th chapter that includes
recipes from many of the restaurants
that are
in the book and I was lucky because I’ve
done a lot of work for Cape Cod Life
magazine
and way back when they first started in
the late 70s early 80s they would have
recipes from restaurants in their
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magazine
and they basically told me in exchange
for
mentioning that they're from the Cape
Cod Life magazine I could use any
recipes I wanted so it ended up being a
great
sort of win-win so that's at the last
chapter of the book
the rest so I covered the entirety of
Cape Cod in the book
I didn't want to show favoritism I grew
up in Yarmouth live in Yarmouth so
naturally
I could close my eyes and think of two
dozen restaurants from
near where I live from my lifetime
but what I did was hundreds and hundreds
of hours of research
to make sure that the entirety of the
Cape was represented
the basis of this book was a 2005 Ohio
State University study
that explained that 60 percent of
restaurants don't survive
their first season and eighty percent
go under within five years and I’m sure
a lot of you have seen
restaurants I mean COVID kind of
accelerated some
but before that that you would see
restaurants come in
have a big grand opening and fade away
within a year or two
what I focused on was those restaurants
that have
that had come and gone but they had a
huge impact
they came and made a big impact and
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so this book is filled with a lot of
those
and for those of you that you know
beyond Falmouth I mean you probably have
heard of Thompson’s Clam Bar
Mildred’s Chowder House places like that
that's some examples of ones that are
outside of Falmouth but without further
ado
let's take a scroll down memory lane
places that you will
know and love and remember so
this one I put first because
uh it's very unique it was on the
top of my list as far as Falmouth
centric
restaurants now granted it's in Woods
Hole but it's so
close so The Dome Restaurant
#thompsonsclambar
#mildredschowderhouse
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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
#steamshipauthority
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that eating in a geodesic dome is quite
unique and so
people would flock to it but the problem
was
the geodesic dome in the summer
especially
conducts itself like a greenhouse which
made it very hot
and if you're talking the 50s and 60s
air conditioning wasn't
as prevalent I mean it was but
what they had to do and you can see in
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that picture on the right
on the left hand side of the postcard
there's that
white white thing hanging down it's a
tarp
the tarp was put over much of the dome
to shield it from the sun and keep it
from getting too hot
and so unfortunately you know it it got
to be
you wanted to eat at the Dome for the
view and then most of the view was
obstructed by a tarp
because it was too hot
the Dome closed in 2002 officially
it has been sitting there
basically decaying for the last nearly
20 years
there's been plans to at the very least
preserve it for history but now the idea
is to
refurbish the dome and create the senior
housing near it so
luckily this spot will seemingly be
around for a long time
however the Dome is far from the only
spot
in Falmouth that gained iconic
status so do you remember
Elsie’s also known as Elsie’s Lunch
so this spot was located on Palmer
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and this is also a postcard from the
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this restaurant was owned by a couple
Elsie and Henry Bowman
and they're very unique because they
fled
Germany ahead of World War II in the
late 1930s
and they actually settled up in Boston
and in 1955 Elsie and Henry
opened a sandwich shop in Harvard Square
that was also called
Elsie’s and it was very popular
they had sandwiches like fresher's dream
which was essentially you would consider
it a New York deli
sandwich or a Dagwood depending on what
you know it as
with ham turkey and corned beef they
also had the Elsie’s roast beef special
which was roast beef and onions German
mustard Russian dressing
and relish and Elsie worked hard
she worked hard at her restaurant in
Harvard Square
and what ended up happening was in 1965
she had a heart attack
so basically they told her you need to
retire
and what else he did was she retired to
Cape Cod moved to Falmouth
and stayed retired for about a year
before
she opened the second Elsie’s which was
on Palmer Avenue in 1966.
it stayed open through 1986 it was very
popular all the way through
before she eventually really retired in
1986
now the spot is a place called
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which is still there that was Elsie’s
way back in the day
some of these legendary establishments
are still standing and
still open today and that's a neat thing
about
doing this being Falmouth centric was
the original Historic Restaurants
book every place in there was closed
and my publisher they dealt with that
one all right
they made it a point that for the Cape
Cod Nights book the nightlife
I needed to have at least a few places
that were still open in there
and the Iconic Hotels and Motels
they needed at least half of them to
still be open
so luckily a place like the Silver
Lounge restaurant which is still open
that's neat because you can see the
presentation and then go out to
Route 28a and check them out
they've been open since 1938
they've got a unique nautical theme
inside
where there's driftwood adorning some of
the walls in there from local beaches
they're known for seafood steaks
sandwiches
typical American fare the property was
once owned by a man named Manuel White
and it was bought by William Early and
he's the one
that opened it on May 28 1938
and early he was cross
promotion he came from a spot called the
Coonamessett Inn
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and they're still going strong there's
Uncle Bill's Country Store which is a
gift shop
right next to it so that's another
spot Route 28a that's kind of the nice
back roads but not back roads where
Route 28 I know out there is more of a
highway
but some of these places are a part of
recent Cape Cod history
and that talks to on the left the Nimrod
that just recently was torn down
it was on Dillingham Avenue
and it's mostly known for being
hit by a cannonball during the war of
1812
the restaurant itself was named for
the British ship the HMS Nimrod
uh before so this wasn't the original
location of the Nimrod
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
taken steps earlier it probably could
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saved but it turned out that
when they went to the health department
and such to see
how much it would cost to bring the
building up to code it was 2 million
dollars
and this is more than 10 years ago
so they ended up closing the restaurant
officially in 2012
and it sat the building decayed people
came in looking to buy
but what ended up happening was they
bought it more for
the property and less for the
restaurant itself now it's an empty lot
unfortunately they tried to save it
to make it you know a part of the
register of historic places but it did
not happen
the Leeside Bar and Grill that much
like the Dome is with an eyesight of the
Steamship Authority
that was Luscombe Avenue right there
near Water Street
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in Woods Hole they were open for
more than 60 years as
kind of a restaurant bar
and it's known for its odd shape because
it's where
two roads meet so it's got almost a
triangular
shape to it the building itself is still
there
in 2013 the Leeside closed
and it was quickly purchased and
reopened as Quick’s Hole
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it's interesting to see these places and
know that you can
go back and you can see a place like the
Leeside even though it's in a different
it's a different name now
other spots that were in the book and
that I researched
for this presentation are part of a
bygone generation
The Bellows is an interesting one it was
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Falmouth Heights Road and from 1933 to
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it was a restaurant it was started as
more of a tea room
which I’m not it's kind of
lighter fare lunch and obviously
tea but it was opened by a woman named
Thekla Hedlund and she was from Long
Island
and it was a tea room with lobster and
more
so it became it started as a tea room
but she had a connection
that could get her fresh lobster so she
decided she'd be crazy not to do that
so it became more of a breakfast and
lunch place
and it was very successful the problem
was that
Thekla Hedlund even though she had her
family helping her out it's a lot of
work
to run a successful restaurant even one
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that's only open during the summer
she would be down on the Cape for the
summer
spring summer and go back to Long Island
in the off season
in 1946 she had a massive
stroke and died shortly thereafter
what ended up happening was the family
sold The Bellows itself the restaurant
and a man came in and bought it ran it
for two more years as The Bellows but
when you buy an existing restaurant and
it's yours
you kind of you say you're gonna run it
as the previous owners did but then you
get your own ideas of what
you want to do with that property since
you own it
so what they did was change the name to
The Red Horse
Grill that only lasted for about
two years before it became known as the
Red Horse
Inn and the Red Horse Inn is still
standing
so unfortunately I couldn't get a better
photo with the postcard on the right
but it's the same building and if you
come for next week's presentation the
Red Horse Inn is front and center
so you may hear a little bit of this
similarity
but The Bellows was one of those hidden
gems that when doing my research
for the restaurants book it was
something I had never heard of and it
was a neat
unique story of a tea room that became a
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lunch breakfast lunch place with lobster
and Thekla Hedlund she was a unique
person to
run this spot
so also falling along those lines
of The Bellows was the Hangar Tea Room
and the reason why I put this I could
not find a photo of the Hangar Tea Room
so the Megansett Tea Room in North
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Falmouth it's the same kind of idea
where like I mentioned a tea room is
lighter fare sandwiches
drinks the Hangar Tea Room is an
interesting one and I wrote
a longer story about it for I have a
blog
called the In My Footsteps Podcast Blog
now and I do a lot of Cape Cod history
over there I used to write a lot for
capecod.com I did
Cape Cod Cape Cod history
articles I left there about two years
ago because
I wanted to basically write about things
I found interesting and not
have to run it by an editor so that's
what I ended up doing and the Hangar Tea
Room
is a pretty good story that's on that
blog
so it started off in 1923 as a tea room
called the Gray Gull
and then a woman named Mary Fellows she
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and ran it throughout much of the 1920s
and it had music and dancing this was
during Prohibition
so when you're running a place that has
entertainment during Prohibition you've
got to
make it good because there's no alcohol
to kind of keep people around
in 1930 it became known as the Hangar
Tea Room
and this is where the story gets
interesting
there was a man named William Wagner who
bought it and ran it the problem was
that it be there was a lot of complaints
about
noise cars parked all over the place
and also people drunk stumbling out into
the street
so during Prohibition when all these
things are happening
that kind of gets the antenna going of
the local police
and what ended up happening was on
November 3rd
1933 the police raided the Hangar Tea
Room
and they found alcohol they found
gambling equipment in there
and they essentially shut them down
briefly what happened was
William Wagner not too long after I mean
Prohibition
was overturned not too long after they
were raided so it was right on the cusp
so after Prohibition was overturned
William Wagner
tried to go and get an actual liquor
license for the Hangar Tea Room
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and he was turned down he even though it
was so close to the end of Prohibition
the town didn't forget that he had his
speakeasy there
so he even had his wife Dorothy
running it trying to get her like all
right we're not associated with
William Wagner anymore but still his
wife
eventually they gave them a liquor
license but it was too late
they closed down before the end of the
1930s
and William Wagner he did not like
having his
liquor license application turned down
so he decided to run for selectmen in
the town
and unfortunately for him he ran for
selectmen
11 times and he lost 11 times
so he did not have much luck once he was
raided
by the police in 1933 kind of went
downhill from there
some of these spots were a short drive
away
and Quintal’s
was just over the Bourne Bridge today
it's
uh Dunkin’ Donuts in a Speedway I believe
right where the Bourne Rotary is that
leads you into Wareham or up onto Route
25 Quintal’s was open
from the mid-60s through 2005
and I’m actually working on an in-depth
article about the history of the
Quintals and the family Robert and
Gloria who
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started it because I didn't realize how
how far their reach went I thought of
Quintal’s as
Bourne slash Buzzards Bay and this one
restaurant
but it turns out they had four
restaurants at once
so they had this one here they opened
one in Hyannis at the airport rotary
in the early 80s so it was
Red Coach Grill later it was Chili's
and in between it was Quintal's Red
Cabin
and it was brief they only had it there
for maybe three years
and it's interesting because they
expanded and all the expansions
didn't last that long because in
Yarmouth
they had Quintal Seafood was the name
of it
I believe they opened in 1979
and by 1983 they were closed and
replaced by
Oliver’s which is still there
the other one was actually
on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham
and it was called the Crack O Dawn
they actually weren't
weren't too long ago that they closed
down within the last
seven eight years and they were more of
a breakfast place Crack O Dawn with a
little rooster on the sign interesting
thing about Quintal’s was
they in 2005 after the
the parents Robert had passed away and
Gloria was
she was older she was retired they were
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selling it and they planned on closing
it at the end of the 2005
season but a fire broke out
in June of 2005 and it they
took it as a sign basically that it was
they didn't have the money or the time
to repair
the restaurant to reopen for a few more
months so they just closed it down
and it was interesting they sold it to
Christy Mihos
who he put his Christy’s in there but
then he went out of business
and on the right The Flume
was located in Mashpee it's now
the Naukabout Brewery but it was
owned for 32 years by High Chief Earl
Mills
he was known as Flying Eagle of the
Wampanoag
Tribe and what he did was he
had his own recipes that he grew up with
from his
family his parents and he put that into
everything all of his meals the Flume
it was interesting I interviewed Earl
Mills
for the restaurant's book and it's just
a funny story because he
I had him come and speak at the book
launch event
for it and he basically he was telling a
lot of the same stories that he told me
on the phone
the only problem was on the phone his
stories were
very R-rated with a lot of swears
and as he's telling these stories about
working in a kitchen and
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being a chef I just was cringing like oh
god please don't
swear so much because I was trying to
keep it where people were recording it
but he didn't he was good about that
another interesting thing so there's a
recipe in the book
from the Flume it's his Indian pudding
and I spoke to him I said oh yeah I put
a recipe of yours in the book
from Cape Cod life magazine and he
quickly cut me off and he said oh yeah
that's not the right recipe
and I was like wait what do you mean and
he was he was writing a cookbook of his
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own at the time
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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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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week as well
a huge luxury hotel right on
uh Falmouth Heights right on the
Falmouth Road Race running route
I didn't realize that that became
Brothers Four
that it was basically they just put a
nightclub entertainment complex into
this hotel
and the same with the casino that that
they were
like neighbors and it's so interesting
that it got repurposed as that
but oh believe me that's that's coming
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too
cool yeah that'll be a great
presentation
especially yeah it'll cover a lot
because it's a hotel it's two different
books hotels and nightclubs so
yes and I’ve got a whole brand new
presentation for that as well
oh that's great no we appreciate that
because even your books
to begin with you know cover a lot so
the fact that you went and found even
more on Falmouth that's great
and I enjoyed I took it as kind of a
challenge
to make it where it was worth it for the
people that came to
check it out to make it where it wasn't
just
three or four places from the book that
it fleshed out to a full
presentation and Falmouth was easier
than if you
told me to do it for like Wellfleet
Wellfleet would be a lot harder
Truro I I don't think they were even
represented in the restaurant's book and
I tried
but Truro it was a needle in a haystack
yeah there aren't a lot of restaurants
there that's for sure well I couldn't
even I don't think I could name you
one currently let alone
back 40 50 years ago yeah
yeah maybe one okay does anyone have any
questions or does anyone have any
comments in any of these restaurants if
they had been there
yes did I do justice to because so the
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place
I could tell you the ones that I pulled
from the book that I have
you can tell the ones I have more
knowledge of the Dome
Elsies The Bellows The Flume
Tin Man Diner but places
like the Leeside and the Nimrod
those I weren't as familiar with so I
tried to do my best to
get information that I could share so
that it wasn't
just a photo and me skipping by
yeah I’m not from Falmouth myself so I
don't know any of these but I’m sure
some of these folks probably do
and someone typed that they had some
good memories I wonder if
who if anyone knew about Hangar Tea Room
room and the speakeasy because that was
fascinating
I did an article about it that goes way
more in depth
but I’ve started to become a big fan of
finding
speakeasies and writing about them there
was one I’m from Yarmouth and there's a
famous one called the Casa Madrid that's
down near the beaches
and it basically in 1933 it opened as
dinner and dancing and within six weeks
they had been raided and shut down
because they were speakeasy and they
didn't hide it very well
there were Boston-based politicians that
were supposedly
legend has it there when it got raided
and they jumped out the back window
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yeah that would be interesting well
maybe someone will come to us with some
of these stories at some point today
we can relay them yeah definitely if
anyone has any places they want me to
research and then do a future article on
I also do podcasts and I share a lot of
Cape Cod history there the podcast is
more New England-centric
but I have I did a stand-alone about the
Cape Cod Coliseum and things like that
yeah and I think
on your website is probably your email I
assume that people can contact you if
they have questions yes sir
I mean I have it too but I didn't I
think you have it posted on your website
too
and the website is good it's got so it
has my first
five books my sixth one hasn't been
uploaded yet but obviously you can get
it
pretty much anywhere and it's got
a link to my podcast and a link to I was
on
Chronicle two years ago this week so I
have that
embedded there so you can see it oh wow
that's great okay well
we'll definitely look forward to seeing
you next week and
hopefully you guys will all be back and
if you have anyone else that might be
interested in hearing about that that's
next week too
yeah yeah we do yeah and I’ll I’ll try
to get the link out to people who
attended this just so you'll have it too
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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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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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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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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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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
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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
Coonamessett
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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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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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#1938 #1944
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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
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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
dining
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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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Coonamessett
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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
more
weird that the Crane family would then
decline her
lease in 1953
and then also surprisingly the
breakout of World War Two actually
spurred on the creation of the Popponesset
Inn
because what ended up happening was
Norma Armstrong
the nurse she was running the property
as the
kind of tourist summer camp and then
the military wanted to use it
basically for training the whole
property because it was
down before New Seabury and before all
that it was really isolated
and so they used it the late 1930s
but then really didn't have a need for
them to be out there training
when World War II happened so then the
property was
not abandoned but they were looking for
something to do with it and
it's like all right why not use it for a
hotel
so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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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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