Speaker 1: It's nice time with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy, Boston.
Speaker 2: We're going to stick with the Louis Tian story for
Speaker 2: at least one caller here. Uh, and then we're probably
Speaker 2: gonna switch topic. So let me go to Dave in
Speaker 2: North Carolina. Dave, you think Louis Tiant belongs in the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3: You're damn right, sir.
Speaker 2: I like that. Are you a Bostonian originally or no?
Speaker 3: Abrol mass sir?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, you must have been in the
Speaker 2: military with this, sir stuff. I like that.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, A good friend of mine lives right next
Speaker 4: door to me.
Speaker 3: His name is Grady Little. You remember him as a manager?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ye, absolutely, a real gentleman. Does he literally live
Speaker 2: next door to you?
Speaker 4: Well, not next door, but in the same retirement community
Speaker 4: here in Charlotte.
Speaker 3: Oh, Grady very well, sir.
Speaker 2: Will do me a favor tell him, I said, hello,
Speaker 2: I think he will remember me. I was not a
Speaker 2: sports reporter up there, but that's you know, I thought
Speaker 2: he was not treated well. To be honest with you.
Speaker 4: I know he's doing well. He's seventy five, is a
Speaker 4: year younger than me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he just.
Speaker 4: Gave me over five thousand between eighty and ninety and
Speaker 4: seventy baseball cards.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I haven't found any Louis t Us yet,
Speaker 4: but it takes a while to go through that many cards.
Speaker 2: So were you just listening tonight or you're a regular
Speaker 2: listener here?
Speaker 4: Oh I'm a regular listener, sir. I've been around for
Speaker 4: thirty years. Forty years.
Speaker 2: Wow, boy, we're And when did you move out of
Speaker 2: You said you grew up in Haveril.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I moved down here about a year and
Speaker 4: a half ago in Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Wow. And so all of a sudden you're living in
Speaker 2: the same neighborhood as Grady Little.
Speaker 3: Click him up. He's a good guy. No, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't know him well, but I was working as a
Speaker 2: TV reporter in those days and beyond. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: certainly know the legend of Grady and the criticism of
Speaker 2: him keeping Martinez in and I, you know, I thought
Speaker 2: that was in two thousand and three. I thought that
Speaker 2: was still the right decision. You know, you go with
Speaker 2: your horse, and it didn't quite work out. But he's
Speaker 2: an old baseball guy. He's a baseball lifer. But he's
Speaker 2: in good shape and he's enjoying himself.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, sir, and I'll mention it to him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gotta make it well.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you here's what I'd love you to do
Speaker 2: for me, Okay, if you would be, if you'd be,
Speaker 2: I want Rob will give you my number, okay, And
Speaker 2: I'd love to get Grady on the show some night,
Speaker 2: uh and just talk about a little baseball with him. Uh.
Speaker 2: And he should remember me because I was on TV
Speaker 2: up here for many years when he was not only uh,
Speaker 2: the manager, but a coach. And I'd love to, you know,
Speaker 2: bring him back over the radio waves and and and
Speaker 2: just talk baseball with him on a on a cold
Speaker 2: winter night. There's nothing that that that carries me through
Speaker 2: the winter than an occasional baseball show. So you mentioned
Speaker 2: my name, And if if he's willing to uh to
Speaker 2: spend a little bit of time on the telephone, uh,
Speaker 2: you can give me a call back. If he wants
Speaker 2: to give you allow you to to give me his number.
Speaker 2: We'll call him and we'll set it up. We'll make
Speaker 2: sure that that you're aware of it. Okay.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, I love your show. I've been listening again
Speaker 4: and we have no stoves down here.
Speaker 2: No, I know, but I hope you guys are not
Speaker 2: in the hurricane area that was impacted in October. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you're you're in the eastern part of the state.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Hey, it's wonderful talking with you.
Speaker 2: David, it is as well. Have you called before? Is
Speaker 2: this your first time?
Speaker 3: No, I think i'd called before.
Speaker 2: Will do me a favorite Keep in contact, Say hello
Speaker 2: to Grady for us either way, no hard feelings. If
Speaker 2: he wants to maintain his lower profile, that's okay. We'd
Speaker 2: love to have him join us somenight, just for old
Speaker 2: times sake. I think that a lot of the Red
Speaker 2: Sox fans up. You're you know, a viewer, your age,
Speaker 2: my age, all of us are on the other side
Speaker 2: of fifty. Remember Grady really well, and maybe there's some
Speaker 2: fans that want to want to tell him we miss him.
Speaker 2: And I certainly everybody he ever talked to said he
Speaker 2: was a quintessential gentleman baseball wifer and I'd love to
Speaker 2: chat with him. And if you can, if you can
Speaker 2: hook me up with him, Rob will give you my
Speaker 2: direct number and I'll tell you in those baseball cards
Speaker 2: you probably got some rookie cards there. Go through them carefully,
Speaker 2: enjoy them. They're probably in good shape and you may, uh,
Speaker 2: you may have to take him out for a few
Speaker 2: steak dinners.
Speaker 3: Okay, a lot of Jim Rice cards, that's good.
Speaker 2: Well Rice is still around broadcasting for the Red Sox
Speaker 2: and Hall of Famer as well, so keep those as well.
Speaker 2: Really enjoyed Dave talking to you. I'm so glad that
Speaker 2: you that we hung over here and we uh we
Speaker 2: got you on. This was this was fun. This was fun, Dave,
Speaker 2: and I'll look forward to you to your next call.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Sarah.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave, appreciate it. Uh. I could talk to Dave
Speaker 2: all night, that's for sure. I'd love to know you
Speaker 2: know well, he said he went down there and he
Speaker 2: obviously loves loves his location. Boy for baseball fan, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden he moved into a neighborhood. One of
Speaker 2: your neighbors is grady. Little. That's not bad. That's not bad.
Speaker 2: Little That'll get you through the winter with some baseball stories.
Speaker 2: You have to be a baseball fan to understand why
Speaker 2: I'm saying that. It's as simple as that. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I grew up as a baseball fan in the lean
Speaker 2: years of the Red Sox, and when the season ended,
Speaker 2: there was not much to look forward to. We really
Speaker 2: didn't have the Bruins weren't doing great. The Celtics were good,
Speaker 2: Patriots were they were just kind of getting off the ground,
Speaker 2: and you just waited. You waded through November and December
Speaker 2: and January, and finally February came and there were some
Speaker 2: pictures of Red Sox players in spring training, and you
Speaker 2: knew that the weather was going to warm up. So
Speaker 2: that's why baseball is so important to me, and I
Speaker 2: think many of you can identify. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're going to change topics and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about New England institutions, locations, stores, people, individuals that you miss.
Speaker 2: There's so much to miss in New England. And Rob
Speaker 2: is going to play one little theme song here. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about it when we get back, just to kind
Speaker 2: of prompt your memory. You got to be in New
Speaker 2: England to appreciate this, and maybe even a Bostonian, but
Speaker 2: just just stick with us tonight we'll have a little
Speaker 2: bit of fun. Rob hit whichever one you want, and
Speaker 2: maybe what we'll do is we'll find out the first
Speaker 2: person who can guess what that jingle is uh, and
Speaker 2: maybe we'll give them a night side tote or a
Speaker 2: night side coffee mink. That's what we'll do. Rob you
Speaker 2: pick one you don't even have, well you have to
Speaker 2: tell me what it was, but I'll probably know it.
Speaker 2: Oh it does okay in that case, Oh that's that
Speaker 2: that we don't have one? That is They all these
Speaker 2: commercials probably say yeah, okay, well okay, well then I'll
Speaker 2: what I'll do is the best person this hour who
Speaker 2: comes up with something that really rings true to me.
Speaker 2: It'll be very subjective. We'll give away a couple of
Speaker 2: nightside mugs, coffee mugs and a couple of nightside totes
Speaker 2: or something like that from our friends at College Hype.
Speaker 2: And again, if you want to check out College Hype,
Speaker 2: they have a new website. It's called Mycitygear dot com
Speaker 2: dot com. If you are a Bostonian and you're looking
Speaker 2: for some Christmas presents, here, this is a website you
Speaker 2: go to. Well, I'll give you two. One is nightsidegear
Speaker 2: dot com, which is run by College Hype. You can
Speaker 2: get knightside coffee mugs, tote bags, t shirts, sweatshirts, whatever,
Speaker 2: or go to my Citygear and whatever part of Boston
Speaker 2: you grew up in, there'll be something that you will
Speaker 2: be able to identify with. So if you have some
Speaker 2: an older friend who you want to bring them back
Speaker 2: a memory, my citygear dot com powered by College Hype,
Speaker 2: mycitygear dot com, and we will give away a few
Speaker 2: things this hour, well maybe between this hour and next hour.
Speaker 2: Is that okay? I hope everybody's okay with that. We'll
Speaker 2: be back on Night Side and Joel's going to start
Speaker 2: us off talking about an institution that he misses. There's
Speaker 2: a few, there's more than a few. Play something for us. Rob.
Speaker 2: We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 5: Just wait till you hear what shoppers are saying about Bradley's.
Speaker 2: I like the prices.
Speaker 6: I'm the sales.
Speaker 7: The sale items are very well stocked and the comparative shopper.
Speaker 6: And that's why I come back here.
Speaker 2: When you walk into the store, the merchandise hits you
Speaker 2: right in the eye.
Speaker 6: It's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's a nice place to shop. I really like it.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: So we can't give away everyone would have known those
Speaker 2: are Bradley commercial sounds very different, doesn't it. I mean
Speaker 2: when you look at the commercials, play one more roub
Speaker 2: just to get some people into the mood. Here go ahead,
Speaker 2: start of another cheap day at Building nineteen.
Speaker 1: Are you working towards your BA, MBA, DF, PhD or
Speaker 1: m O.
Speaker 3: U S Are you just paying for it?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 1: Building nineteen wants to speak to you. We believe in education,
Speaker 1: but at our guaranteed lowest prices on school supplies like
Speaker 1: no books, pens, pencils and mind us.
Speaker 8: We can't guarantee a degree, but we.
Speaker 1: Guarantee the lowest prices in New England.
Speaker 6: Thanks for shopping Building nineteen and.
Speaker 2: A you day. See that's really not a lot of
Speaker 2: production value there when you think about it. That's what
Speaker 2: we listen to back in the day. Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's listen to Joel. Who's calling it from Natick? Joe,
Speaker 2: what do you miss about New England institution? Give us
Speaker 2: one that you mut you miss?
Speaker 9: My wife and I Melbot I gave have a little
Speaker 9: sort list. Let me give it to you and now
Speaker 9: set up. Okay, I'll be quiet. Cola Doors came on
Speaker 9: Building nineteens as Bradley Bradley's basement, Christmas Tree shop, ann
Speaker 9: and holped Gordan launched Brigham's aims, Bradley's spags and the
Speaker 9: combat zone.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many of us missed the combat zone.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was thrown in there as a smile. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's you. You covered the waterfront at this point there.
Speaker 2: I think you left nothing else. I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a lot of things obviously that that
Speaker 2: that we miss, but Building nineteen certainly is one of them.
Speaker 2: We've already mentioned that. You know which which which place?
Speaker 2: I miss a lot. I miss Anthony's Peer four.
Speaker 3: All of them.
Speaker 2: Well, the one that I think I was Per four
Speaker 2: is the one down on Northern Avenue that was.
Speaker 3: The main ship.
Speaker 9: There was more. There was more than just one mong
Speaker 9: He had one up in the swampscot too.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they had one down the gate to come
Speaker 2: Aquided down to the Cape General Lover up in swamps.
Speaker 2: Got just remember that those pop overs that uh it was.
Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you Anthony's And you kin't mentioned
Speaker 2: Anthony's without mentioning Jimmy's. Which one Jimmy's Harboside, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: no one called it Harborside. It was always Jimmy's. If
Speaker 2: you're gonna go to Jimmy's, you know what, you would talk,
Speaker 2: you know. But they were two very different restaurants. I
Speaker 2: mean one was uh, they were both they were they
Speaker 2: were spectacular, and I don't know that we have restaurants
Speaker 2: that had that character today. There's a lot of new restaurants,
Speaker 2: but I think it takes a while for a restaurant
Speaker 2: to build character. Uh, you know the Anthony's Peer four.
Speaker 2: I remember the circular driveway you drive up and drop
Speaker 2: off whoever your guests were, and then you'd go park
Speaker 2: your car and you'd come back or whatever. And yeah,
Speaker 2: those were great restaurants. Those were great restaurant.
Speaker 9: And how about Durgon Park.
Speaker 2: You know, Durgon Park was great, but but it was
Speaker 2: down in Fiennel Hall and it's it to me was
Speaker 2: always like kind of a tourist trap, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I mean, I hate to put it like that,
Speaker 2: but uh that was what was Durgon Park one of
Speaker 2: your favorites.
Speaker 3: We went there a.
Speaker 9: Few times, but remember going up the stairs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, no, it was it was I mean,
Speaker 2: the the really old Durgon Park which predated you with me.
Speaker 2: I think was really was really classic. That was that
Speaker 2: was kind of a nod nod to historic Boston. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's it's it's amazing. It always seems the
Speaker 2: good restaurants are the ones that go away, Joel. Great
Speaker 2: to hear your voice. Everyone everything well in Natick, I
Speaker 2: hope yes?
Speaker 9: Everything go help all right.
Speaker 2: We'll say hi to Roberta for us.
Speaker 9: Okay, certainly, well the evening thank you, uh.
Speaker 2: YouTube, Joe, let me ask you. I think what we
Speaker 2: gotta do is I gotta send a busy tope bag
Speaker 2: so you can give that to Roberta as a present.
Speaker 3: But what.
Speaker 2: Okay, but I hope she's not listening. Okay, so you
Speaker 2: can die, you can lie to me, no problem. Stay there,
Speaker 2: get your address and we'll we'll get a tote bag
Speaker 2: for ROBERTI. I know you've got a coffee mug, so
Speaker 2: hopefully that's still that's you're still using that every day?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 9: Oh, definitely with the sweatshirt.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've hit the mothership here, all right, Joel, hang
Speaker 2: on there, okay, don't hang out. I will get you
Speaker 2: the address to get your tote bag. Okay, good night,
Speaker 2: let me go next to Maureen in Brockton. Hi, Maureen,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Hi? Great, and I hope you are too.
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. Give us something some institution that
Speaker 2: you miss?
Speaker 6: Can I just backtrack your previous hour? And I just
Speaker 6: wanted I googled the Detroit Tiger picture was Vern Rule,
Speaker 6: who ended up hitting Jim Rice.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I couldn't pull Rule's name out
Speaker 2: of out of that my hat, but yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: him right handed, kind of tall, lanky, right hander. Probably
Speaker 2: the biggest pitch of his career was when he took
Speaker 2: Rice out of the seventy five World Series.
Speaker 6: There you go, Well it's great to have, you know.
Speaker 6: Google it and pulled it up. So I was talking
Speaker 6: to Marita earlier this afternoon and I told her that
Speaker 6: my favorite place growing up in Brighton, in Brighton Center
Speaker 6: was Brigham's. And I know Joel mentioned Brighams, but I
Speaker 6: remember my father.
Speaker 2: If Joel mentioned everything Joel mentioned, I mean he.
Speaker 6: Said Brigands and I thought, oh shoot, oh well there
Speaker 6: goes my clo I I I can remember the memories
Speaker 6: of my father if we had My father was born
Speaker 6: in Ireland and my mother had family from England. So
Speaker 6: if we ever had relatives, that was the highlight, you know,
Speaker 6: we would, you know, my father would take you know,
Speaker 6: our guests and we would go up to Brigham's up
Speaker 6: in Brighton Center, right on Washington Street. And Marita was
Speaker 6: saying that she's got great memories of Brigham's. I think
Speaker 6: it was in the Social Plaza, but that was my
Speaker 6: That was my spot, was brigham.
Speaker 2: So Brighams was a great institution, was around everywhere, and
Speaker 2: I don't know why it went away because maybe there
Speaker 2: must have been bad management or something like that. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you a story about Brighams. They used to be
Speaker 2: a Brighams downtown, if I'm not mistaken. It was either
Speaker 2: on Tremont Street or Boylston Street. And Dave Powers, who
Speaker 2: was President Kennedy's in this day and age, they called
Speaker 2: him the body man. That person was always with the President.
Speaker 2: He was with President Kennedy from the time he was
Speaker 2: a member of Congress in nineteen forty seven until that
Speaker 2: horrible day in Dallas, Texas in nineteen sixty three, and
Speaker 2: whenever then President and Kennedy would come to Boston whatever
Speaker 2: he was, and he would come fairly frequently as the
Speaker 2: President of the United States. He would always stop. He
Speaker 2: would make sure that he stopped at Brighams. Then they
Speaker 2: got an ice cream comb. So I mean that's you were.
Speaker 2: You were in good company as as a devotee of Brighams.
Speaker 2: More trust me on that.
Speaker 3: So that.
Speaker 2: Always remember you know, Dave Power was talking about about that,
Speaker 2: and Dave had the quintessential Kennedy accident and say, Dan
Speaker 2: Jack love Brighams, a Breghams. We got to get to
Speaker 2: a Bregham ice cream Dave, let's go. They tell that
Speaker 2: story with a great deal of enthusiasm. A great guy.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for taking my call, and I wish
Speaker 6: you and your family and all the Night Side listeners
Speaker 6: merry Christmas. But it's great to talk to you again, Maureen.
Speaker 2: I need to get you a tote bag. Okay, if
Speaker 2: i'd like to send you as a Christmas president a
Speaker 2: tote bag, saw stay on the line. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I also I want you to check out nightside gear
Speaker 2: dot com. Uh maybe there's a president or two for
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Speaker 2: or just go to mycitygear dot com. I think that
Speaker 2: originally you were a Bostonian. If you have friends who
Speaker 2: grew up in any part of the city. Jack Doerty
Speaker 2: has this great company called College Hype and they produce
Speaker 2: nightside gear, but they also do my city gear for
Speaker 2: literally people in every section of Boston. So check it out, okay,
Speaker 2: and we'll get your toke back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I live in Brighton, but I mean
Speaker 6: I grew up Righton, So I mean I'm a Boston girl.
Speaker 6: So did you grow up in the city or no,
Speaker 6: I grew up in Brighton.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's as you can. You can get Brighton gear there.
Speaker 2: That's I should have because you talked about the Brighamps
Speaker 2: in Brighton. Okay, Oak Square, right, Oak Square?
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 6: It was Brighton Center, right in Washington Washington Streets, right
Speaker 6: in Brighton Center.
Speaker 2: Sure. I used to stop. They have a great fruits
Speaker 2: and vegetable place there, Johnny.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2: It's funny I drove by the other day. I haven't
Speaker 2: stopped there in a while because, frankly, you know, WBZ
Speaker 2: is we're no longer on Soldier's Field Road and I'm
Speaker 2: broadcasting remotely. Is that still Well, you wouldn't know if
Speaker 2: you live in Brockton unless you go back and visit
Speaker 2: the old neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Well, there's a group. I know, there's a Facebook group
Speaker 6: for everywhere, and I want part of the originally from Brighton.
Speaker 6: So occasionally I have seen, you know, notifications about Johnny D's.
Speaker 6: I think it's still there in business.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a great guy and they had just
Speaker 2: great quality fruit at much better prices than Supermarcus. If
Speaker 2: you live in that neighborhood and if it's still open,
Speaker 2: that's a great place to be. Maureen hanging there. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get you that tote bag. You're going to
Speaker 2: be proud to carry it whenever you go shop it.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks, absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All Right, we've got to take a quick break. Here's
Speaker 2: the news at the bottom of the hour. We're basically
Speaker 2: trying to make some people happy as we start the
Speaker 2: run up towards the holiday. By the way, just as
Speaker 2: a couple of programming notes. On Tuesday night, New Hereshia
Speaker 2: Governor Kristinunu will join us for the full hour, and
Speaker 2: he's more than willing to take phone calls. We can
Speaker 2: talk politics. It's been kind of a crazy year when
Speaker 2: you think about it, very crazy year, actually, whoever would
Speaker 2: have thought a year ago that or two years ago
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump would be returning to the White House,
Speaker 2: And he is Christinunu was not a supporter, but he's
Speaker 2: a Republican and he supported Donald Trump in the final election.
Speaker 2: And I know that some of the most Trump loyalists
Speaker 2: of the world. Of course, you've got to be with
Speaker 2: Trump or whatever, but Christinouna will always tell you what
Speaker 2: he wants to think. That's Tuesday night, and then next
Speaker 2: Friday night at this time we will be we will
Speaker 2: be doing the twelfth annual Night Side Charity Combine. We
Speaker 2: have lined up all the folks we need, the charities
Speaker 2: we need. And I hope you'll be listening to us
Speaker 2: all next week because I will be here, of course
Speaker 2: for the battles of the week, my last night of
Speaker 2: the year this year, we'll be on December twentieth. We're
Speaker 2: wrapped the year, and then I'll see you on New
Speaker 2: Year's Night. So please stay with us. We've had some
Speaker 2: new and different and interesting callers tonight. Let's keep it
Speaker 2: rolling here on Nightside. Is there an institution that maybe
Speaker 2: has gone by Philean's basement. It was funny Phileen's basement
Speaker 2: went from one hundred and two years, from nineteen oh
Speaker 2: nine to two thousand and eleven, one hundred and two years.
Speaker 2: That's where from a mayor Menino used to buy. He
Speaker 2: used to get all the great deals. He was not
Speaker 2: he was and he literally was the devotee of the basement.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside if you'd like to join
Speaker 2: the conversation six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Another great restaurant that is long gone, and I'm telling
Speaker 2: you it was a great restaurant, Frank Schifrida's Steakhouse. And
Speaker 2: in terms of stores, there was a store in Quincy.
Speaker 2: It was called the Bargain Center. My god, my dad
Speaker 2: used to take us there, I think every week.
Speaker 3: It was. It was a trip.
Speaker 2: It was a trip literally and figuratively. I have on
Speaker 2: the line a huge Louis Tion fan, someone who I
Speaker 2: think all of you very familiar with She is the
Speaker 2: Treasurer and Receiver General the Comwalth of Massachusetts. Treasurer deb Goldberg, treasure.
Speaker 10: How are you, hey, Dan? We were riding home from dinner,
Speaker 10: and for those who don't know, my husband grew up
Speaker 10: with Dan Ray and we were listening to you talking
Speaker 10: about Louis, and I said I should call in, and
Speaker 10: Michael goes, oh, there's Danny Ray on the air. So
Speaker 10: here I am, And oh, you're talking about so many
Speaker 10: of the Red you know, a guy like Louis Tian what.
Speaker 10: I can't believe they skipped over him again. I mean,
Speaker 10: come on, you know my father, my father up in Heaven,
Speaker 10: better known as the Shaman. The Red Sox Nation must
Speaker 10: be very unhappy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, a great guy. Now, Louis spent some
Speaker 2: years working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after his playing days.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're aware of that.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 10: I think it was a few years before I got there.
Speaker 2: No, I know. He worked with one of one of
Speaker 2: your predecessors, Robert Q. Crane, one of the like yourself,
Speaker 2: one of the great treasurers and receiver generals of the
Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Bob used to used to joke
Speaker 2: that when Louis first started with him, he had to
Speaker 2: explain to Louis that working for the Treasury was different.
Speaker 2: When you pitched, you came to you worked every fifth day,
Speaker 2: but with the treasurer you had to work five days
Speaker 2: a week.
Speaker 10: Great line. I have never heard that line.
Speaker 2: How about that? How about that matter? That is a
Speaker 2: true line that that Bob Crane used to invoke all
Speaker 2: the time. You'd say, Louis thought, oh, I go every
Speaker 2: fifth day as a starting pitcher. Oh no, this is a.
Speaker 10: Different I have a question. Did Louis sing with the
Speaker 10: Treasury Notes?
Speaker 2: I don't think Louis was was on that part of
Speaker 2: the team, to be honest with you.
Speaker 10: So for those listening in, Bob Crane had a great voice,
Speaker 10: and several of the other people who work in the
Speaker 10: office also sang very very well, and they had a
Speaker 10: group called the Treasury Notes, and they really did perform
Speaker 10: in different places.
Speaker 2: Well that that that sort of segues into the institutions
Speaker 2: that we are missing as New Englanders. I just mentioned
Speaker 2: zayres Uh and the Hilltop Steakhouse. I'll bet you this
Speaker 2: is I.
Speaker 10: Heard you and I missed the Hilltop and my favorite
Speaker 10: thing there was the lobster casserole.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was fabulous, wasn't it?
Speaker 10: And I loved you and stick the butter in it.
Speaker 2: No no galories, you know, four for Kansas City or
Speaker 2: two for Des Moines or whatever it was. It was,
Speaker 2: it was it had character. We would talk about Anthony's
Speaker 2: and Jimmy's. Which was your favorite Anthony's or Jimmy's.
Speaker 10: Every every one that was a tough one because Anthony
Speaker 10: was a good guy and the Doulases were great people,
Speaker 10: and you know, there was always a competition. So the
Speaker 10: way you sort of divided it up is the popovers
Speaker 10: and Anthony's where you couldn't beat them. And I got
Speaker 10: to tell you, I think that the big stuff that
Speaker 10: Jimmy's maybe a smidch better, and but the popovers and
Speaker 10: Anthony's style and and his demeanor was so welcoming and
Speaker 10: so terrific.
Speaker 2: So what I loved that Anthony's My picture made the wall.
Speaker 2: That's all I cared about. As long as you got
Speaker 2: your picture up on the on Anthony's Wall of fame.
Speaker 2: He was a great guy. I mean Anthony, he was
Speaker 2: his son. Tony is is still a great h Bostonian,
Speaker 2: and but we missed I miss I missed the comic
Speaker 2: Quid down in the Cape. You missed Geral Glovers, you
Speaker 2: miss Anthony's. You know, don't do restaurants like that anymore
Speaker 2: for some reason.
Speaker 10: Very different. It's very different. But you know, as you
Speaker 10: are aware, I get to work with a lot of
Speaker 10: the restaurant owners because the ABCC is under my office,
Speaker 10: and I will you there are some. There are some
Speaker 10: terrific guys, and for the most part, they survived through COVID,
Speaker 10: which was no easy task, and a lot of them
Speaker 10: kept plugging along just to make sure that their staff
Speaker 10: had jobs when we all came out of it. And
Speaker 10: so there there there are a group of them who've
Speaker 10: been around for who for you know, twenty five thirty years,
Speaker 10: who are still in the business and still working hard
Speaker 10: and employing people and adding to our economy.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you one restaurant that I miss in the
Speaker 2: North End is Joe Tucci's restaurant.
Speaker 9: I don't know, Oh well, yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you remember Joe Touchi's IM sure you do.
Speaker 10: But I mean, of course.
Speaker 2: Has great restaurants now, but they're a little more expensive.
Speaker 2: It seems to me. The high end restaurants are a
Speaker 2: little more expensive than Anthony's. You could go and you
Speaker 2: you are Jimmy's, and I don't know, I guess we'll
Speaker 2: never get back to those type restaurants in our lifetimes unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, everything's more expensive today, as we all know.
Speaker 10: And that's why you know, you know that one of
Speaker 10: the things I focus on is how to tell people
Speaker 10: to get economic stability in their lives. And we work
Speaker 10: on a lot of those things through my office, sort
Speaker 10: of behind the scenes and under the radar. But that
Speaker 10: you know, you also know that's why I ran for treasurer.
Speaker 10: It's why I'm actually never left. Didn't see it as
Speaker 10: a stepping stone and very focused on helping people. And
Speaker 10: that's what I tell everyone who comes into our office.
Speaker 10: I talk with all the new employees and they're a
Speaker 10: lot of them is you know how big the office is.
Speaker 10: But I tell them we're here to work for all
Speaker 10: the people out there, and that's that's why I'm doing
Speaker 10: what I'm doing so to help try.
Speaker 2: The one thing I kind of forget is people should
Speaker 2: check out your Abadan property list because you never know
Speaker 2: when your name is going to pop up there and
Speaker 2: you're going to find that you left some money in
Speaker 2: a bank account or somewhere. That's something that you guys run.
Speaker 10: Find mass money, Find mass money. And then there's a
Speaker 10: great speaking of Bob Crane. He's the one who started
Speaker 10: the Mass State lottery. But do you know why he
Speaker 10: did it. He did it because after Prop two and
Speaker 10: a half, he was worried that the local communities wouldn't
Speaker 10: have enough money to take care of people in their neighborhoods,
Speaker 10: and that's why the profits go to the local communities.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm never going to correct you, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you that Prop two and a half didn't
Speaker 2: happen until the early eight if I If I'm correct,
Speaker 2: and I do know that the lottery started seventy in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two with sweep steaks. Kelly, a former member.
Speaker 10: Of the legend who's sitting near you, has a has
Speaker 10: a computer. It can google when Prop two and a
Speaker 10: half passed, because that means that Bob Crane told me
Speaker 10: a story that wasn't true, and Bob would never do that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it right now. I'm going to
Speaker 2: look it up. And it was nineteen it was nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one or eighty two, and because it was Barbara,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember Barbara.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm Anderson.
Speaker 2: Barbara Anderson Fiscal eighty two, nineteen, fiscal nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2: So although the Treasurer probably just was mistaken, he never
Speaker 2: would have misled anyone, No, never, never was an honest,
Speaker 2: honest guy.
Speaker 10: But nineteen eighty it enacted in nineteen eighty was there
Speaker 10: Let me ask you, since of course I was such
Speaker 10: a young thing in the seventies, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Even think you were born by that time.
Speaker 10: By the way, well that from you, thank you for
Speaker 10: the compliment. But I have a question. Was there conversation
Speaker 10: about Prop two and a half in the seventies before
Speaker 10: it actually passed?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, that was the brainchild of Barbara Anderson. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: the lottery predated it by several years. So the Treasurer
Speaker 2: probably said it because of the great success of the lottery,
Speaker 2: and he was so proud of it and the money
Speaker 2: that has gone back to cities and towns, which you know,
Speaker 2: probably to the penny what that is. As his successor,
Speaker 2: it's been billions of dollars back to cities in towns
Speaker 2: over the years.
Speaker 10: That's correct, a little over a billion annually.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're talking more than fifty years now that
Speaker 2: the lottery's been around. Celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, you know,
Speaker 2: probably in the midst of of COVID. But it's been
Speaker 2: it's been great, and you've carried on that tradition as well,
Speaker 2: Madam Treasure. I didn't mean to correct you, but at
Speaker 2: the same time, if if Bob told you something that
Speaker 2: might have been a mistake, I felt compelled because I
Speaker 2: remembered it vividly. I didn't I pulled that out of
Speaker 2: my head.
Speaker 10: Okay, So you know what I'm gonna Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 10: to have to you know that there's one person who
Speaker 10: works in the office.
Speaker 2: Yes I do.
Speaker 10: He's been there, yep, Jimmy A.
Speaker 9: R exactly two years.
Speaker 10: Yepely, I'm going to have to ask him where that
Speaker 10: story came from. And then I will contact you and
Speaker 10: I will let you know where that because he will
Speaker 10: you know, he will know yes, yes, and and I.
Speaker 2: Know him well and he knows me well, and he
Speaker 2: will verify what I told you.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, then, Well I'm I'm ten years as
Speaker 10: your State treasure and I'm learning something dow.
Speaker 9: How do you like that?
Speaker 2: I hope it's going to be for at least another ten.
Speaker 10: Okay, Oh, that's so nice to you. Well, you know
Speaker 10: I love what I do, and you know why I
Speaker 10: do it. It's because I just you know the way
Speaker 10: I was brought up, because you knew my family, and
Speaker 10: you know that I'm doing this because I really want
Speaker 10: to help people. That's what it's our first job.
Speaker 2: My first job was as a stock boy or a
Speaker 2: bundle boy, whatever you want to call it. It stop
Speaker 2: and Shop. Your family's great stop and shop on Truman
Speaker 2: Highway in Hyde Park. So that's where my career started.
Speaker 2: God knows where it's going to end. Adam Treasurer. We
Speaker 2: know where it started.
Speaker 10: Well, we know that was a good old stop and
Speaker 10: shop before we went through the hostel takeover working I
Speaker 10: still be working in the stores today.
Speaker 2: Owned by the reb family, and my first general manager
Speaker 2: was a gentleman by the name Amari Cohen who treated
Speaker 2: me very very well. Back. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 2: you how long ago, but I'm much older than you are.
Speaker 10: As you know, you know you're you're an You're certainly
Speaker 10: have lighter hair than I do.
Speaker 2: That's Okay, it's still there. That's what's most important. Please
Speaker 2: say hi to everybody and we will talk soon.
Speaker 10: Have a wonderful, wonderful holiday season, a healthy, healthy new Year,
Speaker 10: and I look forward to seeing you soon.
Speaker 2: Right back at you. Hope you have a happy Honkah.
Speaker 2: I'll be celebrating Christmas, but I have a a Jewish daughter, Lass,
Speaker 2: who we're learning a lot about. Honker.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm celebrating everything because I I have the Rangers
Speaker 10: and the Troopers into my office for Christmas lunch this week,
Speaker 10: and we'll be doing the menoral lighting next week. And
Speaker 10: it's about everybody's absol believing in everybody and loving everybody absolutely.
Speaker 2: And if you if you celebrate kwansa, happy Kwansa or
Speaker 2: a happy Festivus, whatever you celebrate, I am exactly celebration absolutely.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Okay bye, say to my former that's
Speaker 2: made for me before you go to something. Well, okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: I get out, god bye. Thanks, We'll take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come right back. I get everyone in. I know
Speaker 2: that Tim's been waiting. Glenn and Gail will get you
Speaker 2: all in. I promise coming right back on nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, with apologies to all, let me get to everybody
Speaker 2: quickly as I can. I got Glenn, I got Gail,
Speaker 2: and I got Tim, and I'm getting them all the way.
Speaker 2: Gonna start with Gail Gail next on nights. I appreciate
Speaker 2: your patience.
Speaker 7: Go right ahead, Hey Dan, Hey boy, prop two and
Speaker 7: a half. I remember that one I was start prop
Speaker 7: to two and a half was around nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right in the money. You're right, that's winner
Speaker 2: went into effect. Yeah, you're right in the money.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, hey, you and I have one more thing
Speaker 7: in calm, and we're both chlcoholics. I've been eating chocolate
Speaker 7: in the past few minutes myself.
Speaker 2: I just I just grabbed a little her she already
Speaker 2: keep the energy level going. A little one, not a
Speaker 2: big one, A little one.
Speaker 7: Have you Yeah? Oh no, I hear you. Have you
Speaker 7: been to that Swiss chocolate shop at the Prudential Center
Speaker 7: called Lota Rock.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 7: Oh, if you love chocolate, you got to go there.
Speaker 7: But I got to warn you they're pricey. It is
Speaker 7: probably the best chocolate ever had in my life.
Speaker 2: I've never had any bad chocolate. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I'm I am not. I am not too picky when
Speaker 2: it comes to chocolate. Chocolate is fine. Hershey's chocolate is
Speaker 2: my favorite. And the other thing is for for a
Speaker 2: guy that's that no longer lives in the city. It's
Speaker 2: just so tough now with all the bike lanes to
Speaker 2: find a parking space get downtown.
Speaker 8: I just you know, yeah, you know, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so give me something that you really miss
Speaker 2: Give me.
Speaker 7: Some Woolworst, but wool Worst with the fountain. Remember woolworth
Speaker 7: This is the store, and the used to be one.
Speaker 7: About forty years ago there was a great Woolworths, a
Speaker 7: good size one here in the South Shore. It was
Speaker 7: in Cohassett and right next to it was a stop
Speaker 7: and shop and I bought my very first record. Because
Speaker 7: Woolworths had a music department, like a record department, you
Speaker 7: could buy albums, and I bought my very first record there.
Speaker 7: I think it was like twelve dollars. I was a kid,
Speaker 7: and it might have been fleet with mac rumors. But
Speaker 7: I remember the fountain, so good old Woolworths. I missed
Speaker 7: Woolworths with the fountain, you could go get a soda
Speaker 7: or like a chocolate Sunday you can get a sandwich.
Speaker 7: I mean it was great.
Speaker 2: I remember as a kid going there was a Woolworths
Speaker 2: in Hyde Park. I remember as a kid going to Woolworths,
Speaker 2: taking the bus and going to Woolworts and buying Christmas presents.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we weren't wealthy, but you know when
Speaker 2: you got to that age where you had to on
Speaker 2: your own go out and buy presents for your family,
Speaker 2: and yeah, you know what, I could buy woolworth So
Speaker 2: that's my that's my memory. Hey, I got two more.
Speaker 2: You've waited a long time. As a result you you
Speaker 2: do not have a have a night side tote bag yet?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: I do not?
Speaker 4: You do now?
Speaker 2: And I want to, if you'd be so kind to
Speaker 2: accept when I want to send one to you, okay,
Speaker 2: and I want you to use it. And uh, it's
Speaker 2: a beautiful tote bag, comes from college hype.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think you'll like it. Okay, So give an
Speaker 2: address and a phone number and all of that that
Speaker 2: ROB will need and we'll get that out to here
Speaker 2: before before the my pleasure, my pleasure. I think you'll
Speaker 2: like it. Thanks, Gail. We'll talk soon. Don't hang up.
Speaker 2: Rob's going to talk with you. Okay, We're going to
Speaker 2: go next to Who's next? Glenn and Brighton? Glenn, You're next,
Speaker 2: Don Brighton? What do you miss?
Speaker 3: Glenn?
Speaker 8: Well, there are two things I miss. I missed, uh
Speaker 8: Hayes Bickford and new Comb Farms.
Speaker 2: New Coms doesn't does the new Comb Farms in in Milton?
Speaker 2: I had breakfast there the other day.
Speaker 8: Oh they still got one. Well that must be the
Speaker 8: last one. I guess it is, Yeah, because that was
Speaker 8: a dying, slowly dying chain.
Speaker 2: I never realized there was a chain, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. And Route twenty eight in Milton, they.
Speaker 8: Used to have one, and often they've had them. In
Speaker 8: Quincy they used to have quite a few of them
Speaker 8: because my dad was a traveling salesman, so we used
Speaker 8: to have breakfast there quite you know, depending on I.
Speaker 2: Had breakfast there with with Jack Dougherty of College Hype
Speaker 2: the other day and it was great as always.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not trying to beg but if I went,
Speaker 8: I would prefer a mug that I don't like told begs.
Speaker 3: I think they're kind of growish, have you beg.
Speaker 2: No, okay, you got a mug, Glenn. You didn't have
Speaker 2: to beg. But I was going to give you something away, okay, Uh,
Speaker 2: I want you to share half that coffee every morning. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks man, hang in there, don't hang out, bro,
Speaker 2: I's gonna get the info. Coming up next to Tim
Speaker 2: and for Imingham. Tim, you're next on nightside. Tell me
Speaker 2: what you miss? Yeah, I miss Bailey's ice cream. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good That was a good ice cream. That
Speaker 2: was the big competitor to to Brigham's. You're absolutely right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I also miss I met my wife at Empire
Speaker 2: Lanes in High Park.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I used to bowl as a kid there on rivers
Speaker 2: on High Park Avenue.
Speaker 10: On High Park.
Speaker 3: I remember Ralph Ralph.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember Ralphie, but okay.
Speaker 1: Great guy.
Speaker 7: I grew up in Rosendale, up by a pleasant cafe.
Speaker 3: My wife. Uh, my wife grew up in Reidsville.
Speaker 2: Come on what street? Chesterfield Street Street? Yeah? Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I know Chesterfield Street very well. Used to walk by
Speaker 2: the every day. As a result, you want a coffee mug,
Speaker 2: a nightside coffee mug, or a nightside tote bag.
Speaker 8: Tote bag please.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna send you the tote bag and you
Speaker 2: can give that to your wife as a Christmas present.
Speaker 2: How's that? Okay?
Speaker 10: Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: You have a wonderful hol of it.
Speaker 2: Hey you too as well. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Hang in there.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to change topics, but
Speaker 2: we na have a few more prices to give out.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure we've gone through our list this hour.
Speaker 2: Everybody got a price. Everybody got a price. Never done
Speaker 2: that before. We'll continue with this theme and we're going
Speaker 2: to work into Friday. The thirteenth Superstition theme coming up
Speaker 2: as well.