WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:06.000 It's night Side with Dan Ray WBS Costin's new radio. 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:09.400 The temperature has gone down a degree. It's forty four 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:14.480 degrees now. It started at forty five when we began Nightside. 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.960 They say, we because I'm here with Jack Hart. 5 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:19.839 Hello Jackhart, Oh Hi, hello, oh Hi? 6 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.399 Tell people what we are doing. 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:24.399 What are we doing? 8 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:25.199 Oh? 9 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:29.000 Well, we're talking about downtown what we now call downtown crossing, 10 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.320 the Downtown experience Downtown Boston in the in our in 11 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:39.679 our youths of fifty sixties, seventies, and what it meant 12 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:40.439 to so many. 13 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:46.159 And I know a lot of you have incorporated other 14 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:52.119 areas like the South Shore Plaza. And my producer sitting 15 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:56.840 next to me is from Minnesota, so her memories were 16 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:03.000 of Minnesota stores and established. Sure, I think we want 17 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.200 to keep downtown as our focus point. But if you 18 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.760 want to mention that, you know, the Mammoth martin Brockton 19 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.120 did this or that or something in Stoneham, the Stoneham 20 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.719 Zoo decorated nicely for Christmas, you may incorporate that in 21 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.920 our conversation. Let's go to West Virginia and speak to 22 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.920 Tom Tom Good evening. 23 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:33.120 Good Morgan, how you doing. I'm doing fine, Tom, Hello Tom, 24 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.599 and Hello Jack, Hello Jack. Good to hear you. 25 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:37.200 Hello. 26 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:43.239 I moved to Boston after high school in seventy eight 27 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:49.239 and lived on Bowden Street, and well, my fond memories 28 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:53.319 definitely yeah, yeah, Well I paid my dues in life 29 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.879 my first night living in a rooming house on Bowden Street. 30 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.359 That room was forty dollars a week. Then it consisted 31 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.840 of a twin bed, a hot plate, a sink, one 32 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:08.800 outlet in a cubicle refrigerator, small cubicle refrigerator. At about 33 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.479 two o'clock in the morning, I felt something crawling across 34 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.719 my chest. I pulled a full chain light fixture and 35 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:18.680 there was about two dozen cockroaches that just scattered like 36 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.800 politicians when the lights come on a closing time. 37 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:26.400 But you know, it's funny you say, I've worked across 38 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.560 the street from you at one hundred Cambridge Street. 39 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.000 Yes, where I worked at Cambridge Street. 40 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.759 Seventy five to eighty. I was a state employee. 41 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:39.319 That the installed building. 42 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.479 Okay, yes it was, yes, it was yeah, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, 43 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.919 part of urban renewal when they yeah, yeah, they tore 44 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.199 down the West End back in the early sixties and 45 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.280 promised everybody in those three families. Oh, we're going to 46 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.159 get your new housing, and it never happened. 47 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:01.759 They gave them back twelve apartments in the area two thousands. 48 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:03.960 Too late. 49 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:04.800 Yeah that's right. 50 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.560 Yeah, yeah. 51 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.960 But anyway, getting back to the downtown crossing, you had 52 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.719 a caller earlier that was talking about a shoe place. 53 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:18.639 I believe that was Floorsheim Shoes. I don't know if 54 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:23.520 you mentioned that trying to call in then yeah, absolutely. 55 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.199 McCann, Yeah, Floorsheim. 56 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:27.639 Yeah, there was a Floorsheim sold some. 57 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:33.439 Very Florsheim and thom mc cann each had a downtown location. 58 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.240 Yeah, and you know they used to manufacture those shoes 59 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.039 if you go back to the sixties in Brockton, where 60 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.680 I still own a home, and uh, you know, that 61 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.840 was the shoe capital of the world. And anyway, you know, 62 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.719 the taft Hartley Act is basically what drove all those 63 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.599 jobs from the New England States down to the Southern States. 64 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.240 And then NAFTA drove those jobs from the Southern States 65 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:06.080 down to Mexico. So yeah, some things, yeah, some things 66 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:10.240 never changed. But no, I used to love going into 67 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.439 Filine's basement, Jordan Marsh and that part of Boston, and 68 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.560 I still remember the old wooden escalator. At the it 69 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.319 was either Park Street or the Washington Street station. 70 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.680 Was never Washington. 71 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.600 Street, yeah, it never, it never ever broke down. And 72 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.720 then they put in the up to date stuff. And 73 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.720 I don't care what tea station you go into one thing. 74 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.240 You know, the escalator ain't going to be working, yea. 75 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:44.360 But yeah, I missed that Boston of my youth. It 76 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.480 was affordable then. I mean I was making minimum wage. 77 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.000 I worked at TGI Fridays on the corner of Exeter 78 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.639 and Newbury Street, and that was the Fall of seventy nine. 79 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.800 And the guy who trained me to be a bus 80 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.839 boy was none other than w BZ Fame for Bradley 81 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.720 j Huh. 82 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.879 I'm going to have Bradley Jr. Next week. I forget 83 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.000 which day because I'm filling in for Dan all next 84 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.319 week and I think he is going, oh you are. 85 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:19.120 I think he's gonna be on with me Thursday or Friday, So. 86 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.000 I will make it a point to call in because 87 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.399 he knew me as Tommy Toons back going like nineteen 88 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.680 eighty because I used to roller skate and used to 89 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.160 have those headphones on and literally skate backwards through downtown 90 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.720 Boston traffic that if you were a good roller skater 91 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:40.399 you could you could do stuff like that. And the 92 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.959 moment part was one, go ahead. 93 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.360 I will mention that to him when I have him 94 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.199 on Tarmy toone I will. Yeah. 95 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.839 Absolutely. But now, like I said, Boston was a livaboo 96 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:59.000 city back then, and unfortunately I googled my old apartment 97 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.199 in miss Hill off a Caliumet Street and what used 98 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.240 to go for seven fifty and ninety two for a 99 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.839 three bedroom now goes for thirty seven hundred dollars. It's 100 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:17.160 just disgusting. I agree with Yeah, it is awful. All right, guys, thanks. 101 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.079 For the call, and happy holidays to you. 102 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:19.920 Mary Gris. 103 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.199 Yeah, and a merry Christmas of the both of you, 104 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.600 and a happy New Year as well. But I'll make 105 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.199 an appointment call on Thursday or Friday next week. Bye bye, guys, 106 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:29.959 thank you, good night. 107 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.600 All right, one open line if you want to grab 108 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.879 it six one, seven, four ten thirty or eight eight, 109 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.879 eight nine to nine ten thirty. Jim in Boston, you 110 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.360 were next on Night Side. 111 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.959 I'm a joint this show tonight. I've been listening to 112 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.079 well for people that had shortly identifying and i was 113 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.000 going to identify this one and that one, and people 114 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.560 ahead of the already have done it. But well, I 115 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.759 did say I used to go down there quite a bit. 116 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.639 And uh, I don't know if you remember they had 117 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.399 the record American was down there behind Kennedy's. 118 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:08.199 They had the street. 119 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.759 Yeah, and when I was a kid on a Saturday night, 120 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.399 you could go down there. You hang around the dark, 121 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.879 and the guys would You could work for the guys 122 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.439 and be a runner from when they went around the 123 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:25.399 city and dropped off, uh, the paper at all the locations, 124 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.120 and you always see the guys on the car and 125 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.000 are waiting for that paper because they had played the 126 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.279 number that night. There was a big pile of the 127 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.040 city back then. I don't know, I'm serious, I remember it. 128 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:40.319 That was kind of funny. Did anybody mention Mickey fans 129 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:41.800 down there this morning? Good store? 130 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.279 Oh yeah, yeah I did. 131 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:45.959 I didn't hear that. 132 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.480 Washington and West Street, yeah. 133 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.439 And I think it was a store named Bonds near Kennedy's. 134 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:55.759 I don't know if anybody mentioned that. 135 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:01.639 Yeah, I remember they. 136 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.720 Were yeah, yeah, I remember that. And then I know, 137 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:08.800 if you like watching movies or playing pinball, Washington Street 138 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.439 was the place to go. They had more pinball machines 139 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:15.279 and the movies were like, so we're triple headed, you know, 140 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:20.560 and it's a wonderful experience. And anyway, I just started 141 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.279 keep you a call, and they're enjoying the show tonight, 142 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:25.319 and that's all I gotta say. 143 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.959 Thank you, Jim, thank you for your call. Merry Christmas 144 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.600 to you. Get it right. And look at the time. 145 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:36.200 I'm gonna take my break, Rob, I hope you're paying attention. 146 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:41.159 Every break has been dead on on time. Okay, so 147 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.360 uh you want that open line, it's already been taken. 148 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:51.639 Time and temperature here on night Side nine fifteen forty 149 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:52.399 four degrees. 150 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.600 Now back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World 151 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.840 Night Sex Studios on WBZ News Radio. 152 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.960 Dan is off tonight. I get to say that every 153 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.879 break because there are people who tune in in the 154 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.159 middle of the show. At the end of the show, 155 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.799 they've been with me all night. But I need to 156 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.639 let everybody know that I am filling in for dam 157 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:18.240 My name is Morgan. My buddy Jack Hart is here 158 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:23.759 with me and we're reminiscing about the look of downtown 159 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.039 back in the day, fifties, sixties, seventies. Let's go to 160 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:32.919 Weston and speak to Joan. Joan. Good evening, Good. 161 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:36.960 Evening, gentlemen. I hope you don't mind. Someone who didn't 162 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:42.080 see the Enchanted Village, Well saw it in the nineteen fifties, 163 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.320 but my memories go back before that. 164 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:45.879 Okay. 165 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:52.000 Oh, so I can remember something magical for me at 166 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:57.720 Jordan Marsh back in the nineteen thirties. And I don't 167 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.000 know if you remember, but Nickey Mouse had made his 168 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:06.240 debut in around nineteen thirty and by the middle of 169 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:09.960 that decade or around that time, he was really big, 170 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:17.080 and Minnie was introduced. So then was a thing, an 171 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.720 entertainment or just something available at Jordan Marsh where people 172 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:25.639 could buy a ticket and their child cougar in and 173 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:30.000 have tea with many mouse in a little house. And 174 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.879 my mother took me in, and I was half afraid 175 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:38.080 and half enchanted. And there was this house with a 176 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.879 center door and little windows with shutters and a roof 177 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.960 over it. And Minnie opened the door, and my mother 178 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.360 wasn't allowed in. She could look in through the window. 179 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.000 Then she looked in and saw it was inside, which 180 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.360 was just a table and two chairs. And I sat 181 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.799 down and had tea with many mouse I don't really 182 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:03.279 I think I ate or drank anything. I just looked 183 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.919 at her because she had one of those heads on 184 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.440 that you see at Disney Worlds, you know, and I thought, oh, 185 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.320 poor Minnie, she has a funny. 186 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.120 Head, you know. 187 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.600 I was maybe three and a half, four and a half, 188 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.440 and I can remember that because it was so indelible 189 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:28.200 in my mind, and that was my experience at Jordan's 190 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.159 and then across in the nineteen fifties when I was 191 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.799 out of college. I remember seeing the enchanted village. But 192 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.759 later on, not later on, early on at Felleen. Someone 193 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:45.159 mentioned Fellen's restaurant well in those days, in order probably 194 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.279 to bring people into the store because people didn't have 195 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.960 much money in the nineteen thirties, they had these special 196 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:57.080 parties for children, and the whole restaurant was just two 197 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:01.799 giant long tables, and they were just dozens of children. 198 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.679 And I think they must have had seatings where the 199 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.720 kids were about the same age, because I can remember 200 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.919 being not overwhelmed by the older kids and not underwhelmed 201 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.679 by babies. They all seemed to be around my size 202 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:21.679 or age, and they had the most gorgeous ice sculptures 203 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.919 all the way down the table in beautiful colors, and 204 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.480 then you got these wonderful sandwiches with the crust cut off, 205 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.440 and of course the big thing at the end was 206 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.080 ice cream, because ice cream was still something special, very 207 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:40.600 special in the nineteen thirties. So I thought, you guys 208 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:43.759 would like to know some things that went on before 209 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:44.720 you were even born. 210 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:50.279 Wow, do Mini Mouse wear a red and white poka 211 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:50.879 dot dressed? 212 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:51.240 Yes? 213 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:51.919 She did. 214 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.440 I was going to say she had a red dress 215 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:57.759 with white polka dots on it. And I listened to 216 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:03.679 the main Mickey Mouse program that occasionally came on the radio, 217 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:08.039 because of course that's all you had, and I just thought, oh, 218 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:13.240 I'm right here with the real people. It just was 219 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.080 amazing and scary at the same time. 220 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.320 Now did many speak? 221 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:19.360 Oh? 222 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:24.480 Yes, she spoke very very carefully and nicely, and a 223 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.360 little squeaky because of the head I think, you know, 224 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.159 I'm not sure the mouth was where her mouth was, 225 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.759 but you know, looking back, I didn't know that at 226 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:39.360 the time. I just felt sorry for But it was 227 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.679 really really kind of special and I'll never forget it, and. 228 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.360 I would imagine by it to all our family. 229 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:59.440 M I seek y, yes, I think later. Thank you 230 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:04.720 so much. I remembered most all of those places along 231 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:07.360 Washington Street in the nineteen fifties. 232 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:09.519 Thank you for your call. 233 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.360 Thank you you. 234 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.159 Going downtown was a full dress affair when I was 235 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:17.559 a kid. 236 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.440 It was Jack, are you ready? 237 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:24.120 Am I? 238 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:25.399 Uh? Huh? Are you? 239 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:27.759 I could be? 240 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.440 Are you ready for the next call? 241 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:33.039 Who's that? 242 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:39.399 Florence, Florence, welcome tonight's side? 243 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.320 Name morning, good evening Florence. 244 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:47.559 Jack. 245 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.360 And did you notice how he knew it was He 246 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:51.240 knew it was you. 247 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:52.879 I knew it was you. 248 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.080 Did you expect me to call the two of you? 249 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:02.600 Actually no, because this was an emergency. Normally I promote. 250 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.679 I promoted that Jack, what's going to be on with 251 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:10.919 me next Monday? I remembered that year, and I called 252 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:13.200 them to say, can you come on tonight? I need you? 253 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:18.919 And Jacket, you never ever told me no, never, That's right. 254 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.039 So now there's all kinds of people making, making cookies 255 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.360 and things making getting a snack ready for Monday, and 256 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:25.279 I won't even be there. 257 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.840 I had just turned to on a little while ago, 258 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:34.279 and I thought, wait a minute, Morgan and Jack, what's 259 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:41.559 going on? And so what you were talking about old 260 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:47.000 times and post and I don't have a lot of memories, 261 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.639 but I think I mentioned once on your show, Morgan, 262 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:58.919 that years ago, when I was younger elementary school age, 263 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:04.879 my mom and dad took me into this store called 264 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:10.559 House of Nine if I got a now, and I 265 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:17.080 did some modeling in there, and that I remember. It 266 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:23.200 was upstairs in the building and they had a big window, 267 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.960 like a big just a huge window where you could 268 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:36.879 look out and see the street activity, you know. And 269 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:43.960 that I remember, and I remember Jordan marsh and so 270 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.960 I just thought, well, I'll call in and mention that, well, 271 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:49.320 thank you. 272 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:54.639 House of Nine were located at the corner of Washington 273 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:59.039 Street and Winter Street. 274 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:07.079 It was, yeah, across from either of you have a 275 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:08.079 memory of them. 276 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.799 I remember that, I remember the name. I remember the name. 277 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.920 I don't I don't recall having having gone in there 278 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:18.680 for for any particular reason. 279 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.480 And I remember, but I never I never went in it. 280 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:28.279 It was clothing, you know, they had a dull clothing 281 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:34.480 and children clothing, and yeah, yeah, I don't know. I 282 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:40.319 was modeling dresses and I bet you you were stunning, 283 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:46.079 tell me you, I think I was. And then when 284 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.039 I was five years old. I was in a beauty 285 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:56.279 contest that myself and a little boy we both won. 286 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:05.160 It was yeah, and it's funny. I can't recall him now, 287 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:11.440 but you know, probably back at the time, I probably 288 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:16.680 didn't get a big charge out of it. You know, 289 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.160 when you're a kid. 290 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:22.960 You've got a lot of memorable history. 291 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.559 Wow, you grew up in Boston. 292 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:32.920 No One, Maldon. Oh okay, I was, you know, born 293 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:38.160 in Marlton, grew up in Marldon, and you know, it 294 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:46.799 was nice back then there. I liked it and moved 295 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:51.039 a few times and then this is my last stop 296 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:57.119 that my husband and I found this town just by 297 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:03.079 accident driving through it, and you know, it appealed to us, 298 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.599 and so we ended up, you know, by in a 299 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:12.720 house here, and you know, it's been good. He's gone now, 300 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:20.240 but I'll remain here. You know, I like it. I 301 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:24.359 like it. It's very quiet that appeals to me. 302 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:30.759 I mean nice, I mean, it's so Sincerely, I hope 303 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.240 twenty twenty five is your best year ever, and I 304 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:38.400 hope you have a very I'll say again, very happy. 305 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:43.079 Holiday, and I wish the both of you a nice 306 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.759 Christmas and New y It's okay. 307 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:48.920 Very thank you, good night. 308 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:55.039 Out about good night. Florence's line is open six one, five, four, 309 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:58.559 ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nineteen thirty. 310 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.880 Dial it and cheer some of your memories with Jackhart 311 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.680 and yeah me Morgan White Jr. Time and temperature nine 312 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:09.400 thirty forty four degrees. 313 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.319 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on' WBZ, Boston's 314 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:15.960 news radio. 315 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:20.599 Dan Ray is off to night. I think he has 316 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:25.720 a hint of laryngitis that started to develop last night. 317 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:29.160 And if you listen to him last night, you heard 318 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:34.640 him refer to that. I listened partially to his show 319 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:37.640 last night. I found it interesting that he spoke to 320 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:45.559 a guy who does rodeo for a livingis no, no, 321 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:50.640 no no, because Dan does the show from a remote location. 322 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:55.559 I think his home. As I do listant filling in 323 00:20:55.640 --> 00:21:00.440 for Dan and your home, and you say on clear 324 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:00.680 as the. 325 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:07.039 Bell, Jack, Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And I'm actually on 326 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:12.680 my cell phone and I'm not even talking into a 327 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.559 like a microphone or anything like that. 328 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.720 Let's go to gentlemen. Speak to Fred. Fred good evening, 329 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:21.400 Welcome to night Side. 330 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.079 Thank you very much. It's fun listening to your show tonight. 331 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.559 I got a cute little story. I'm eighty four years old, 332 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.279 and I grew up. I grew up in Winthrop and 333 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:38.759 I'll never forget back. Around nineteen fifty three, my buddy 334 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:43.160 and I it was a Satdy afternoon and we heard 335 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:47.319 on the radio the rodeo was at the Boston Gardens. Well, 336 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.680 we didn't have much money, so each of us went home. 337 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:54.920 We found pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. I think we 338 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.119 had each one dollar one of two dollars for each 339 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.640 of us, plus all all a pocket full of change. 340 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:04.799 So we decided to get on the bus and Winthrop 341 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:09.079 back then, the Blue Line started it at Maverick station. 342 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:11.880 I went to bus, went all the way to Ori 343 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:15.640 to Maverick station. There was no such thing as Orient 344 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.759 Heights Blue Line back then. And then we got on 345 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:21.920 and we went a couple of stops to the Boston 346 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.400 Gardens and we went in there and we asked for 347 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:29.759 the two cheapest tea tickets, and I think it costs 348 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.279 like two dollars. And here I am pulling out a 349 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.920 dollar bill and a dollar in pennies, Nicholson dimes, and 350 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.599 he did the same thing. 351 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:46.039 They took it and they say, have fun so anyway, 352 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.119 we got in what was the big draw for us, 353 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:53.200 gene Aufrey and Champion his horse Champion. 354 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:57.240 That was a big draw for us. And that's when 355 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:01.279 I got shocked by Boston prices. I think an ice 356 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:03.880 cream was like four times the price that I pay 357 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:08.240 in Winthrop at a corner variety store. So needless to say, 358 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:12.200 we didn't buy anything in the Boston Johnsons. We found 359 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:16.759 a variety store towards the North End, and then we 360 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:20.519 just to have something in Boston and then we went home. 361 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:24.799 So we had a good time there. Another good story 362 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.440 is any kid who was a nerd back in the fifties, 363 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.880 you went to Scarlet Square and you went to the 364 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:38.240 radio shack, the very original radio shack, and it was 365 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.599 in the basement of a building. You literally went down 366 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.480 four rickety wooden stairs and there was part of the 367 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:50.200 store was a dirt floor, lots of barrels from World 368 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:53.720 War two radios, and the big thing was they ripped 369 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:57.480 out the crystals. But the guys in the store told 370 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.279 you if you bought the radio, it was a probably 371 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.000 the military paid bundles for it. You paid like five 372 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.440 dollars for it, and they told you what variable capacitor 373 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:10.079 you could put in it and you could listen to 374 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.599 the stations. Another famous thing that the kids did. You 375 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:20.000 got the plastic covered that cigarettes came in like camels 376 00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:25.799 to protect your camels, Paul Malls or your Chesterfields. And 377 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:29.160 you took that and you bought from him a little 378 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:35.279 tuna and a couple of resists and a capacitor, and 379 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.400 you went back to school and he told you how 380 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:41.640 to wire it out, and you hooked one wire to 381 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.400 your radiator at your house and another wire out to 382 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:49.279 a golf club sticking up and you could get w 383 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:53.880 BZ on your radio with a little battery in it. 384 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:57.400 And that was the biggie for the nerds and science 385 00:24:57.559 --> 00:24:58.640 back in the fifties. 386 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:02.279 Well it's a simple now with the devices that you 387 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:03.119 can buy. 388 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:06.240 But oh yeah, much more. But it was really something. 389 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:09.920 They had bells of all time. The original radio check was 390 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:13.839 in Scarlish Square where it all started. Thank you for 391 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:17.960 the memory, Thank you, Thank you Sank you did wonderful program. 392 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:18.720 Thanks a lot. 393 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:25.880 Bye buys line. Whoops, Fred's line is open. And if 394 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.240 you call in six one, seven, two, five, four ten 395 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.200 thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine ten thirty, 396 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:37.920 I guarantee Jack and I will get to you. With 397 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.279 the amount of time we have left. We have roughly 398 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.599 fifteen sixteen minutes of show to go. Right now, Let's 399 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.960 go to Winter and speak to Jerry. Jerry. 400 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.599 Yes, Hi, Morgan, I used to talk to you and 401 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:58.640