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Speaker 2: Were welcome back everybody, the twentieth final hour of this
Speaker 2: week of night Side. This week has gone by pretty quickly,
Speaker 2: and we'll review the week for you in just a moment.
Speaker 2: But what I want to do is open up the
Speaker 2: conversation for this hour and again, you know on the
Speaker 2: twentieth hour on Friday nights, which is the twentieth hour,
Speaker 2: we do four hours a night, five nights a week.
Speaker 2: Count the hours one to twenty and number twenty is
Speaker 2: the one we're in right now. It's the final hour
Speaker 2: of the week and we like to lighten it up
Speaker 2: a little bit now tonight we have sort of eased
Speaker 2: off from some of the tough political issues that we're
Speaker 2: dealing with. I just thought it would be a nice
Speaker 2: change of pace, and so we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: this hour. Is the retail change if any that you miss? Again, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't care how old you are. There asked to
Speaker 2: be a retail chain which has gone out of business.
Speaker 2: Some for example that I think going out of business
Speaker 2: even as we speak. But what do you miss? I
Speaker 2: know that there were a few suggestions, but Marita is
Speaker 2: a big advocate of this topic, She says she misses
Speaker 2: the Christmas tree shops. I never figured out the Christmas
Speaker 2: tree shops. I went in there a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and it was nice they could see this and that
Speaker 2: or whatever. But I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 2: they could have stayed in business in the first place.
Speaker 2: But maybe some of you could explain that. But I
Speaker 2: can remember where I grew up, stores like theyres, which
Speaker 2: probably a lot of you in the audience never remember.
Speaker 2: So is there a retail change you missed? I remember
Speaker 2: there was a It wasn't a retail change. It was
Speaker 2: the chain. It was the I think it was called
Speaker 2: the Quincy Outlet. We would go down there as kids
Speaker 2: with my dad, uh and they would always have, you know,
Speaker 2: little baseball bobblehead dolls or something which were great for
Speaker 2: your room as a kid from Parker's and whatever they were.
Speaker 2: I don't know, fifty cents. They're worth more than that today.
Speaker 2: So we would love to have you joined that conversation
Speaker 2: and tell us which ones you miss and maybe even
Speaker 2: which ones you don't miss, because there's probably some that
Speaker 2: you're happy to wave goodbye to. In terms of the week.
Speaker 2: Here on night side. Let me take you back all
Speaker 2: the way to Monday night. And we started Monday night
Speaker 2: talking with Jim Brett about that Themeria Brett food pantry
Speaker 2: that we all participated in last Saturday. Talked with a
Speaker 2: woman about the Essex County Tales for the Trails I
Speaker 2: think that races this weekend. Talked with doctor Stanley Fish
Speaker 2: about law of the movies and then with Scott Barredell
Speaker 2: about tipping levels and are they getting out of hand?
Speaker 2: Talked about on Monday night for an hour and a
Speaker 2: half about the fight over Franklin Park and I am
Speaker 2: clearly I think on the side of the Franklin Park defenders.
Speaker 2: We had Renee Stacy Welsh, who was a lovely guest.
Speaker 2: I'm not even going to mention the other guest who
Speaker 2: was very difficult for me to deal with, but so
Speaker 2: be it. Then we talked about the deportations of the
Speaker 2: MS thirteen and the trund de Agua people who have
Speaker 2: been shipped. Look, I'm hearing today that maybe someone might
Speaker 2: have been scooped up and have been misidentified. They are
Speaker 2: Let's get him out of there. Okay, it's as simple
Speaker 2: as that. If a mistake is made. But I still
Speaker 2: think that getting these guys, these dangerous criminals, out of
Speaker 2: here is a good idea. On Tuesday night, talked with
Speaker 2: Peter Abraham and The Boston Globe about the Red Sox Roster.
Speaker 2: Talked with Kim Carrigan of Karrigan and Company. For those
Speaker 2: of you that might be interested, particularly in far away places,
Speaker 2: who you've never seen me on TV, I did a
Speaker 2: podcast and an audio and video podcast with Kim Kerrigan.
Speaker 2: Her podcast is called Caragan and Company. It's spelled her
Speaker 2: last name is. She's a former anchor woman here in Boston.
Speaker 2: Very lovely person and I mean really smart. Carrigan c
Speaker 2: A R R I g A. And we did this
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, Kragan and Company and that podcast. If you
Speaker 2: just if you just google Carrigan and Company, you will
Speaker 2: find it, no doubt easy to find. We talked with
Speaker 2: the doctor Patrick Porter about sleep debt and the value
Speaker 2: of naps. Coming back to Kim Kerrigan, please, it's only
Speaker 2: about forty nine minutes. We talked about the Salvati case.
Speaker 2: We also talked about the Karen Reid case. I was
Speaker 2: actually probably more honest with Kim than I have ever
Speaker 2: been about the Karen Reid case. You'll hear what my
Speaker 2: theory on the case is if you decide you want
Speaker 2: to listen to it. And we talked about Ted Klauser
Speaker 2: about how the AI artificial intelligence actually can steal your voids.
Speaker 2: Talked about a potential Republican candidate for governor state Senator
Speaker 2: Peter Durant Central Massachusetts. And then that was the day
Speaker 2: that President Trump and President Putin talked for ninety minutes
Speaker 2: and we had a lot of interesting conversation about that.
Speaker 2: Wednesday night, talked with Ellen Alden about stress Less Studio,
Speaker 2: which is for people recovering from COVID, something you might
Speaker 2: want to find out about. Talk with Shira overday of
Speaker 2: the Washington Post about Alexa being able to hear alexis
Speaker 2: in your home, Alexa, give me this, give me that
Speaker 2: she can hear everything. Talked about processed meats with a
Speaker 2: gentleman named a Niuant O'Connor, and then talked with Marlene
Speaker 2: water Warner about the problems of Massachusetts gambling. On Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: I had a great show an hour on the termination
Speaker 2: of Massachuset State Police detective now former Massachusetts State Police
Speaker 2: detective Michael Procter. Talked with the Israeli Consul General to
Speaker 2: New England, Benny Sharoni about the renewed hostilities in the
Speaker 2: Middle East. And we talked about a great interesting story,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, about this ten year old girl who's
Speaker 2: an American citizen. Her parents are not here legally, but
Speaker 2: she was born here. She's an American citizen. She's dealing
Speaker 2: with brain cancer. She was heading to a hospital in
Speaker 2: Houston where she's been treated, and she and her entire
Speaker 2: family were deported. Bring mister President, bring her back. Let's
Speaker 2: treat her. Talk with Thursday Night doctor Fara Mustafa about
Speaker 2: the FDA recall us some ACME medication that has too
Speaker 2: much Benzie involved. Talk with Nick Burns about not only
Speaker 2: spring cleaning, but also cleaning up your goals. Talk with
Speaker 2: Dustin Dunbar about the alcohol matrix, with Dina Renninger about
Speaker 2: nursing shortages across the country. Last night we talked about
Speaker 2: this Connecticut man. It's a bizarre story, thirty two years
Speaker 2: of age, hell capped it by his stepmother in a
Speaker 2: room with locks in the door for twenty years. Sad story.
Speaker 2: And last Night's spent two hours talking about President Trump's
Speaker 2: efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. Tonight talked with
Speaker 2: Archie Goddess Goddessman about a group called Jew Belong. You'll
Speaker 2: see some of their their big signs out and about
Speaker 2: you if you were in the Cambridge Somerville area. It's
Speaker 2: some very interesting I will looking for the word here
Speaker 2: and I'm just for the moment blanking on it, for
Speaker 2: which I apologize. But uh, these are big billboards, big
Speaker 2: billboards that essentially proclaim in no uncertain terms. They're provocative billboards,
Speaker 2: but it's basically stand against anti Semitism in America. Talk
Speaker 2: with Adam Horowitz about basically sleeping and while you're sleeping,
Speaker 2: your brain is coming up with ideas. Talk with Bob
Speaker 2: Ryan or the Boston Globe about the sale of the Celtics,
Speaker 2: and with the representative Kip Diggs of the Cape about
Speaker 2: a sloop to women veterans. And then at nine o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight we talked about an interesting topic. The United States
Speaker 2: of America is twenty fourth happiest country in the world.
Speaker 2: How can it be unhappy in America compared to the
Speaker 2: rest of the world. I don't know. Maybe you don't
Speaker 2: like things like indoor plumbing and running water. Talk with
Speaker 2: Mark Hurwitz, Last Hour, food writer for NBC Boston, about
Speaker 2: all sorts of restaurants, suggestions, and we get back. We're
Speaker 2: gonna open up the lines six one, seven, five, four, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty sixth seven nine three one about retail change that
Speaker 2: maybe you miss, well maybe retail chains that have gone
Speaker 2: away that you don't miss. We'll take a quick break
Speaker 2: here at Night's I. We're coming right back, and we're
Speaker 2: heading toward midnight. We're heading a Saturday morning and the
Speaker 2: weekend for real, coming back on Night's on.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started here again. We we're
Speaker 2: picking a subject tonight that I don't think we've ever
Speaker 2: done in the twentieth hour before. And what stores, or
Speaker 2: for that matter, restaurants that have gone away, but particularly
Speaker 2: retail chains. It's amazing to think that some of these
Speaker 2: retail chains have just disappeared. They were engines of the
Speaker 2: economy for many years, many years, but then things changed,
Speaker 2: and I think there's a lot of reasons for this.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the calls. Let's go start with
Speaker 2: the call. We always give everyone what we call a
Speaker 2: hall pass on the twentieth hour, which means if you
Speaker 2: called earlier in the earlier in the week we opened
Speaker 2: up the lines, you can we can call a second
Speaker 2: time in the twentieth hour. Christine is going to be
Speaker 2: that first person with a hall pass tonight. Hi Christine?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: It's good?
Speaker 4: How you doing good?
Speaker 2: It's been a long time since we talked. What what group?
Speaker 2: What retail store? Do you miss?
Speaker 3: Christmas tree shops?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: You and you and Marita A k A lightning? What
Speaker 2: was it about the I never, I never, I've been
Speaker 2: to Christmas tree shops, but I never got it. What
Speaker 2: was the What did you buy there that that really
Speaker 2: you can't find anywhere else? What made it so special?
Speaker 3: Everything from furniture to Christmas wrappings to birthday beds, Christmas
Speaker 3: bed wrapping paper, It just ticks paper, everything you could
Speaker 3: think of, Jelly's crackers, bread, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, but let me wait, couldn't Christine, couldn't you get
Speaker 2: all of that stuff like a a CDs or a Walgreens?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was cheaper, It was.
Speaker 2: Cheaper, oh less expensive? Oh okay, okay, that's fine, Okay,
Speaker 2: that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I missed. Yeah, and like Bradley's I
Speaker 3: miss I missed Bradley's.
Speaker 2: Trying to remember what You're in debt him. I think
Speaker 2: they had a big Bradley's indebt him in one of
Speaker 2: the malls, did they not.
Speaker 6: At the mall? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. I remember as a as a young kid,
Speaker 2: being not a young kid, but as a teenager being
Speaker 2: in there one night, and Reggie Smith from the Red
Speaker 2: Sox was in there just shopping.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It was like pretty cool. Reggie Smith was a was
Speaker 2: a great Red Sox player in the nineteen sixties, as
Speaker 2: he ended up playing for the Red Sox and then
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodgers and was a really good not
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, but a really good major League player,
Speaker 2: And it was great to see him in there in
Speaker 2: Bradley's in the dead of mall. Okay, I got you,
Speaker 2: I got you in we that's we'll see if there's
Speaker 2: other people who miss the Christmas tree shops. You you
Speaker 2: and Marina great minds thing alike.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Christye talk to you soon. Thanks, come good night.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll keep going. We just got one line
Speaker 2: at six one, seven, two five, four to ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We also have one line at six one, seven, nine,
Speaker 2: three thirty and Joyce is on that line right now,
Speaker 2: Joyce and holl Hi Joyce, how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 8: How are you great?
Speaker 4: What do you misses?
Speaker 9: At the Baggin Center and Quincy.
Speaker 2: That's what it was called, the Bargain Center, I said,
Speaker 2: the Quincy outlet. Yeah. We we found some really nice
Speaker 2: sports equipment down there. As when when my brother and
Speaker 2: I were young, absolutely.
Speaker 9: Well, we were all young and they've been either they
Speaker 9: were a long time now. I used to get on
Speaker 9: my school clothes there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh it was. It was a great store
Speaker 2: and we were I probably must have gone there fifty
Speaker 2: times at least. That's all particularly play well, we lived
Speaker 2: in Hyde Park or Reville, particularly in the late summer
Speaker 2: is we would end up there a lot that I
Speaker 2: remember very clearly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I lived in book I lived in Brookline, but
Speaker 9: we used to summers and how and now I live
Speaker 9: here all year round.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have another friend of mine who has a place,
Speaker 2: and how I know, it's beautiful there. It's got to
Speaker 2: be a little tough in the winter time.
Speaker 9: Though, right, Yeah, it wasn't too bad this year and
Speaker 9: I've been away for like three years. I was in
Speaker 9: flowered of I'm back here now.
Speaker 2: John, Florida. Were you in Florida full time?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 9: Six months and six months?
Speaker 2: And how okay? We're in Florida. If I could ask.
Speaker 9: Saint Augustine, the oldest city, it's beautiful there.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I've been to Saint Augustine. The late great Gary
Speaker 2: Lapierre had a great place in Saint Augustine. I never
Speaker 2: visited Gary there, but I have been to Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful city, absolutely beautiful. Well, Joyce Son, so
Speaker 2: nice to hear your voice. Thank you very much for calling.
Speaker 2: And the Quinsy Bargain Center. I called it the Quincy Outlet,
Speaker 2: but you're right, it was called the bargain Center. Thanks Quinn,
Speaker 2: thanks so much.
Speaker 9: One one more place was Sears, Roebuck and Kenmore Square.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 9: That was used to get all the bagainsa well.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. That building is still there.
Speaker 9: What is it now? I don't get up into this.
Speaker 2: I think they got a bed and bath in there.
Speaker 2: I think they got a bunch of places in there.
Speaker 2: That whole area is being renovated right around the ballparks, and.
Speaker 9: It's no that Bath and Beyond is gone too. That
Speaker 9: was part of the Christmas tree shop.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that that's gone too.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yep, that's.
Speaker 2: Amazing that It's amazing that they can run these companies
Speaker 2: into the ground. You would think that these companies would
Speaker 2: all make money.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you think so, but all the big salaries that
Speaker 9: they get and so forth, and the rents are so absorbitant.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, if they don't own your own building.
Speaker 2: Thank you much, Joyce, have a great weekend. Okay you too.
Speaker 8: Bye bye now, Joyce.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Lourie and Idaho. Laurie, I
Speaker 2: know you're a New Englander long before you became an Idaho.
Speaker 2: And is that what they call people in Idaho? What
Speaker 2: is there difference?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, it is just don't cut us, don't call
Speaker 4: us Idaho.
Speaker 2: No, no, an idahoan right, yes, exactly. Okay.
Speaker 9: Uh Now I.
Speaker 4: Miss sears too, and she she had none of mine.
Speaker 4: I miss Sears and it it got ruined. I mean
Speaker 4: it was back in the day. It was you could
Speaker 4: get anything there, and we get our sheets there and
Speaker 4: our school clothes there and all other stuff and appliances,
Speaker 4: and it was great. Until they let Kmart buy them out,
Speaker 4: and then they killed the brand and then Kmart tailed.
Speaker 2: So came on came out. Was such a horrible brand, Yes,
Speaker 2: I it was. I just thought to myself, how can
Speaker 2: you take a company and run it into the ground.
Speaker 2: Were these people like just doing it intentionally or were
Speaker 2: they just.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, they wanted to kill the brand? Oh
Speaker 4: and they say, though, so there's some there like the
Speaker 4: Ace hardware stores still have. Excuse me, the Craftsman's brand.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they got that out of some
Speaker 4: deal when Kmart failed, but it was horrifying. And I
Speaker 4: mean Sears was kind of losing the business because of
Speaker 4: the Walmarts and also their stuff, and for some reason
Speaker 4: they fell into the ill will of the Kmart takeover
Speaker 4: and it killed them. They killed the Seers brand and
Speaker 4: then they were such an idiot store that they didn't
Speaker 4: survive either.
Speaker 2: So oh, how many k Mart stores must have died
Speaker 2: across the country. That was a big national store, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't care if they deserved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, I get that, but I don't like it.
Speaker 4: They killed Sears, but yeah, no, no, it was a
Speaker 4: national brand. It was everywhere.
Speaker 2: I remember that if I'm not mistaken a lot of
Speaker 2: people back in the day, because a lot of people
Speaker 2: we used to get phone books back in the day.
Speaker 2: But wasn't the Sears catalog a big deal?
Speaker 5: Too huge?
Speaker 8: Oh huge?
Speaker 4: We loved Sears, Sears and Roebuck, you know, and then
Speaker 4: it was you could get anything there and it was
Speaker 4: decent quality. It was not over price. It's not your
Speaker 4: high high end, but it was a really good quality stuff.
Speaker 4: And they started falling hard times, as they said, because
Speaker 4: you know, the things like Walmart and stuff moved in.
Speaker 4: And then I don't know, they fell victim to kym
Speaker 4: Art's offer. And I don't even know who kem Art's
Speaker 4: current country company is, but yeah, they killed the brand
Speaker 4: and then they killed themselves.
Speaker 2: You're much younger than I am. But Ted Williams, the
Speaker 2: great Red Sox baseball player Hall of Famer, was a
Speaker 2: spokesman for Sears and anyone who remembers, oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they used to have and Ted Williams he liked baseball,
Speaker 2: but he loved fishing. That was his sport. He was
Speaker 2: not a golfer. He would he would fish all winter
Speaker 2: down in the Florida Keys. It was Islamodoro. I can
Speaker 2: never pronounce that name, but it's way down to the
Speaker 2: keys and do exhibitions at the the Massachusetts Armory on
Speaker 2: Commonwealth Avenue. And he would be fair. I mean, this
Speaker 2: was Ted Williams, bigger than life as representing seers with
Speaker 2: their latest fishing equipment. And I had a friend of
Speaker 2: mine who played against Williams and he was close to Williams.
Speaker 2: And Williams was kind of a cranky guy in many respects.
Speaker 5: But if he.
Speaker 2: Met this young outfielder for the Kansas for then the
Speaker 2: Kansas City as a guy's name was Bob Martin, not
Speaker 2: Billy Martin, but Bob Martin. And he was a big fisherman.
Speaker 2: And they're standing behind the batting cage talking fishing, and
Speaker 2: it was like for Ted Williams to meet another person
Speaker 2: who is who knew nearly as much about fishing as him.
Speaker 2: The next day, Kansas City is on the road somewhere
Speaker 2: like in Baltimore, and Williams had just some incredible fishing
Speaker 2: gear and fishing town and fishing line and and waiters
Speaker 2: said to this guy, this guy was probably making five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars playing for the kids the city as in
Speaker 2: the late nineteen fifties and Ted Williams probably sent him
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars worth of fishing gear. How he got
Speaker 2: it back in the plane. Yeah, but that was Ted Williams.
Speaker 2: He loved fishing.
Speaker 4: That was his and it was quality stuff. It was
Speaker 4: I mean, my dad could My dad could get his
Speaker 4: shot tools there where you get our sheets and you know,
Speaker 4: child woman's there. I think we actually went to like,
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes first day school clothing there sometimes all
Speaker 4: the time. But it was everything, and it was a
Speaker 4: decent quality for an out a ton of money, and
Speaker 4: it was my mother thought it was better than better
Speaker 4: than pennies and you know, and it was still kind
Speaker 4: of there, kind of there, and then Camart bought it.
Speaker 2: But now let me ask you onet to think about serious.
Speaker 2: You probably know more about serious than I do. And
Speaker 2: plus you live closer to Chicago. Is this Chicago next
Speaker 2: door to what I thought Chicago's like next door to Idaho?
Speaker 2: Isn't it kind of Wednesday bet in Montana or in Idaho?
Speaker 5: Maybe not?
Speaker 2: Don't they have a building in Chicago? They got a
Speaker 2: big tall building called the Seers Building. I assume that
Speaker 2: something relation to Sears, right, Well, yeah.
Speaker 4: It was the way back when they had money. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know, it could be possible that
Speaker 4: there's someone with a Seers name, but but yeah, we did.
Speaker 2: You cross the border into Montana. Check out the Seers
Speaker 2: building in Chicago for me? Would you?
Speaker 4: I know what the Seers Building is. That's all nowhere
Speaker 4: near here. And I don't know if it was the
Speaker 4: same family or not, but I think we're growing up
Speaker 4: in New Hampshire. It was Sears was the thing to
Speaker 4: go to get anything you needed with Deacon quality.
Speaker 2: And I go to a Red Sox game and then
Speaker 2: stop at Sears. You're all set. That takes here of
Speaker 2: the back to school, the summers stop at Fenway Park
Speaker 2: and the back to school shopping. Hey, Laurie, thank you.
Speaker 2: Watch Hey one more thing I got to ask, okay, uh,
Speaker 2: I think you sent me a note that you watched
Speaker 2: the interview I did with Kragan on Karragan and Company
Speaker 2: on I did Tuesday. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, I loved it.
Speaker 4: It was fascinating. It was fun. It was it was
Speaker 4: and I learned stuff. I mean, there's stuff, I mean,
Speaker 4: especially about your your Salvati case, which obviously we're aware
Speaker 4: of and we've didn't you know, aware parts of it.
Speaker 4: But so there were interesting things that came out there.
Speaker 4: And I, you know, I'm just going to put it
Speaker 4: out there. I heard what you thought, your your plant,
Speaker 4: your your thoughts of what might happened, what might have
Speaker 4: happened that night when you know her car suddenly went
Speaker 4: into reverse for twenty five feet. I think you're dead on.
Speaker 4: But you know what, I have something to add on
Speaker 4: to that tale sometime when we have time to.
Speaker 8: Talk about it.
Speaker 4: So I agree with you on that part. But I
Speaker 4: think maybe she didn't knock him down and wipe him out.
Speaker 4: I think he got up, went into the house and
Speaker 4: was all sicked off to this psycho and she said
Speaker 4: that he took her glass out of the car, and
Speaker 4: I suspect she probably threw it at him.
Speaker 2: But anyway, oh okay, ought for another call for another
Speaker 2: for another car. Oh that's not true. But you would
Speaker 2: recommend to any Nightside listeners to go to Carrigan and
Speaker 2: Company this weekend and check out that podcast.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you know, if if they can do it,
Speaker 4: do the video, do the YouTube, because that is what's
Speaker 4: really the fun part of it is watching watching everything
Speaker 4: sounds great.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 4: And the psychiatrist is telling them the tone her down.
Speaker 2: She was kind of a character a little bit. I
Speaker 2: thought she was kind of an imperfect Hollywood psychiatrist, if
Speaker 2: you had to pick one.
Speaker 10: And so when I saw that my video on the
Speaker 10: YouTube screen, it had the psychiatrists cut off at the eye,
Speaker 10: and I thought, oh, God, don't tell me this is
Speaker 10: a psychic.
Speaker 4: This is ridiculous. But then I found it was actually
Speaker 4: a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2: She was in a pink room, but it really wasn't
Speaker 2: a room because I looked at it carefully. I think
Speaker 2: it was a green screen that she was in front of,
Speaker 2: and they put her in a pink room.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: If you know what I'm saying, you can project. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: that's I think it was a green screen, pink room. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was bizarre. She was interesting, but she had
Speaker 4: a few she had a few comments that I kind
Speaker 4: of like, what thumbs up. But yeah, he was very good.
Speaker 4: People who are interested, the podcast is probably great if
Speaker 4: you're really if you see the whole thing, look for
Speaker 4: the YouTube video.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks thanks for the endorsement. Thank you, Laurie.
Speaker 2: You got it all right. Thanks all. We got to
Speaker 2: take a break. I'm four minutes into the newscast here,
Speaker 2: I got open lines. What Hane store from your youth?
Speaker 2: Do you miss? It could be an ice cream store,
Speaker 2: it can be uh, it could be a small chain,
Speaker 2: it can be a big chain. We've hit Christmas tree shops,
Speaker 2: the Quinsy Bargain Center, Sears, and Kmart was Laurie's. I
Speaker 2: want to hear from you the only line that we
Speaker 2: have opened. We have two six, one, seven, nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: What do you miss or what do you don't miss?
Speaker 2: Coming back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1: This, you're on the Night Side with Dan Ray on
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Speaker 2: Back we go, let's keep rolling. You're gonna get everybody here,
Speaker 2: get Gary and Woover and Gary next to on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 6: I can't necessarily say stores, but I will give you
Speaker 6: a couple and a second by a couple of situations
Speaker 6: from stores that even you will agree with me. How
Speaker 6: about Dairy Queen.
Speaker 2: Well, Dairy Queen's still around, isn't it?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It is, but not like it used to be.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, it does doesn't penetrate the market. Absolutely. What
Speaker 2: else you got?
Speaker 6: How about the Blue Light special of Kmart or any
Speaker 6: type of store.
Speaker 2: Well, someone Lourie mentioned Kmart, so you're the second person
Speaker 2: I mentioned Kmart. But yeah, you're right. I mean Kmart
Speaker 2: was such a huge store nationally and it was it
Speaker 2: was like they couldn't have have messed it up any
Speaker 2: better if they tried. Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's like, how can you screw that up? But they did.
Speaker 2: They did a great job at it.
Speaker 6: Well, in particular the blue light special because even though
Speaker 6: I was still a kid, when they shout it out,
Speaker 6: the anasa of the store and the blue light special
Speaker 6: whatever was on sale at that moment, and you saw
Speaker 6: the blue light at fifteen feet high in the store,
Speaker 6: everybody went running.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think I have ever was in
Speaker 2: a Kmart. I've been in k Maarts, but never when
Speaker 2: they had the blue light special, so they would run
Speaker 2: to where the blue light was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct. And last one is this, I know
Speaker 6: you're gonna agree with me. Not necessarily stores, but you know,
Speaker 6: just a quick pizza joints, steak and cheese sub joints,
Speaker 6: just that. How about Dan Ray just walking in getting
Speaker 6: a quick sandwich and you just see one or two
Speaker 6: of all machines in the place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been at places like that. Then they're not around.
Speaker 2: I was never a pinball guy or a pinball whiz.
Speaker 2: But hey, you know, to each to each his own,
Speaker 2: I will say, no, Yeah, well I think that they
Speaker 2: probably took up space, and they weren't. Most people are
Speaker 2: going into a pizza place or whatever to grab the
Speaker 2: pizza and get it and get back in the car.
Speaker 2: We're a rush rush society here, Gary, you know how
Speaker 2: that goes. Hey, look you have a great weekend.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks sir.
Speaker 2: Thanks Gary, Let's keep rolling here. Hey, Glenn, my man, Glenn, Glenn,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 5: I love this topic. This is a Glenn topic, if
Speaker 5: ever there was one.
Speaker 2: All right, what do you got?
Speaker 5: Well? I got three the old United Lafayette Switchcraft Electronics.
Speaker 5: They were Radio Shack competitor, and they went out of
Speaker 5: business in seventy seven. Okay, and of course radio Shack,
Speaker 5: as you know. I'm in my hobby's old school audio
Speaker 5: file and I have a Jack Adapter collection I told
Speaker 5: you about one time. Although I love about what.
Speaker 2: Happened what happened to radio shock? I mean, it seems
Speaker 2: to me that at a store like that. They were
Speaker 2: everywhere they go.
Speaker 5: When they joined Sprint, that's when they got in trouble.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: You know, how about these people who go to the
Speaker 2: big business schools. They come out of business schools Harvard
Speaker 2: Slide down, mit A, Wharton down in Pennsylvania, Kellogg at
Speaker 2: Michigan and wherever Kellogg is all and they had their
Speaker 2: NBA and they become the head of these companies and
Speaker 2: they drive them into the ground.
Speaker 5: I mean it, I know. I've gone to my next
Speaker 5: My other one is leech Mare. Now I used to
Speaker 5: love the one and get them because that's a that
Speaker 5: was a humongous, bogus big store. Yeah, no, it was,
Speaker 5: and it was founded in nineteen seventeen by a Russian
Speaker 5: Jewish immigrant named Abraham Cohen. You can you don't have
Speaker 5: to take my word for it.
Speaker 2: You can look will take your word for it. Dear,
Speaker 2: You're you're good at that stuff, his history stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's rolling in. You know who destroyed leech Mare,
Speaker 5: Montgomery Ward. They bought it in eighty five and they
Speaker 5: basically they ranted into the to the ground.
Speaker 2: And I think Montgomery Ward has gone too.
Speaker 5: They are Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Were those companies when they brought them in. You know,
Speaker 2: these these forty five year old wonder kins from you know,
Speaker 2: some Chicago business school or some other business school. I
Speaker 2: got a great idea, let's well the same way. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm wide, I'm looking at grocery stores right now. You
Speaker 2: know what, I think that we're going to lose some
Speaker 2: of the grocery stores in Massachusetts. I think it's on
Speaker 2: its on its last legs. They've been bought by Albertson
Speaker 2: and they have now they're getting rid of all the cashiers.
Speaker 2: We've talked about this before. They're putting it on the automatic.
Speaker 2: That's a death sign in my opinion. It's just look,
Speaker 2: they just they run these stores into the ground. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as let me tell you. Here's a little tip.
Speaker 2: I now am looking very carefully at cell by dates
Speaker 2: meaning and I know you're blind, so you may not
Speaker 2: appreciate this. But I went to buy the other day
Speaker 2: some brownies at a grocery store and I looked and
Speaker 2: the brownies they weren't on sale. Okay, they were charging
Speaker 2: like five ninety nine for six brownies, which I think
Speaker 2: is quite a bit. And they had been packaged. This
Speaker 2: was like yesterday, which would have been the twentieth. They'd
Speaker 2: been packaged on the seventeenth, so that meant that they
Speaker 2: were three days old and you were paying full price,
Speaker 2: and all of them were they had turned the sell
Speaker 2: by dates. You got to watch sell by dates. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that.
Speaker 5: I know people tell me you know about that. I mean,
Speaker 5: I have to have someone. That's why if I have
Speaker 5: someone go with me, ye.
Speaker 2: Check just check them out. Check them out. Glenn, I'm
Speaker 2: up on my break. I gotta let you run. Hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll see you on the twenty seventh at the World
Speaker 2: Will that's great.
Speaker 5: I have to promise as well as a threat.
Speaker 2: I'll take it either way. Thanks, Glenn. Have a great night. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: good night. Here here we go. We got a quick
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
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Speaker 2: All right, here we go. We got Linda back. Linda,
Speaker 2: you're next on nights. I gotta be quick for me.
Speaker 11: Linda got real quick Manchester for the ninety nine restaurant
Speaker 11: back in the sixties. Okay, that got my own inswer.
Speaker 6: All right, good.
Speaker 11: What about Zazi Theirs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, JEMs, what what were you calling Zai? Were you
Speaker 2: calling it Zaie? I never heard it call that way.
Speaker 11: It's Thers, right, funny, Zami Theres.
Speaker 2: You're just kind of like Target Tarj. I get it,
Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah. I think I think is not
Speaker 2: associated or owned by Stopping Shop for some reason. Did
Speaker 2: they have an affiliation of Stopping Shop?
Speaker 5: No, don't no.
Speaker 11: What was the supermarket you were talking about that you
Speaker 11: thought was going out?
Speaker 2: I think Shaw's is in trouble.
Speaker 11: Oh Josh, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Get in the one that I shot at I think
Speaker 2: is in trouble. It's whatever that's just my own opinion.
Speaker 2: Great people there. They have great people there, but they
Speaker 2: don't appreciate the great people and they just keep putting
Speaker 2: in more automatic checkout commerce, which and.
Speaker 11: I am a Christmas tree shopper and went there for social.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thanks Linda, have a great weekend.
Speaker 11: Let me get in, no.
Speaker 2: Problem, no problem, Thank you much. Bye back, let me
Speaker 2: go next John and Boston, John next on nights.
Speaker 12: I go ahead, Yeah, Hi, Dan, good evening. I hope
Speaker 12: I don't want to go too long, but I hope
Speaker 12: you'll do a story on what the news is been
Speaker 12: speaking about all night long, the men that have been
Speaker 12: busted and the madam was given four years. But anyway, okay,
Speaker 12: that's another story for a London ye four years. If
Speaker 12: he bob somebody over the head, they probably were to
Speaker 12: just put on probation. But anyway, Sears is not out
Speaker 12: of business.
Speaker 8: Seas is still around. We have one Braintree, Massachusetts and
Speaker 8: a tourist. You want to go see a store, soout
Speaker 8: your mall. You don't need a car to get there.
Speaker 8: You could ride the m met redline all the way
Speaker 8: to Braintree, jumping a Braintree taxi. By the way, how
Speaker 8: do you torture a yuppie You make them shop in
Speaker 8: a retail store. I walt you torture a yuppie you
Speaker 8: make them ride a taxi cab. And k MAT's not gone.
Speaker 8: There's a kmart still in Miami, but it's a shadow
Speaker 8: or itce was. I just looked up the last big
Speaker 8: box kmart closed in New York this past fall. But
Speaker 8: there were k bots in the Virgin Islands. In Guam,
Speaker 8: Google sales interesting.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I'm never going down there to
Speaker 2: shop Gamar because it wasn't that good when it was around.
Speaker 8: Well, we do have Sears. I went there recently and
Speaker 8: there was a shadow of what they once were. Maybe
Speaker 8: you can get the manager of that store on or
Speaker 8: the CEO. But the CEO they had before, mister Lampert.
Speaker 8: He ruined that store. He sold off Craftsman. So you
Speaker 8: don't see much sure as far as craft that was.
Speaker 2: Someone said that the Craftsman now is available at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 8: I did, he told it and then die Hide what
Speaker 8: was a brand and that was Sears. He went to
Speaker 8: see us to get a die HARDE battery. Yeah he
Speaker 8: sold her that. Oh you see that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like taking It's like taking great. It's
Speaker 2: like taking a great franchise, a baseball team and trading
Speaker 2: one player here and another player there, and next thing
Speaker 2: you know, you don't have the team anymore. John, great calling.
Speaker 2: I listened to you more stores.
Speaker 8: I hope you'll do this one again any more to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, those are good ones.
Speaker 8: And old Bio and a MC I miss and you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah those are those are car brands. So we'll get
Speaker 2: to those some other night.
Speaker 8: Thanks John, General Motors, the Shadow or what it once was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, thank you John, John. I'm just saying thank
Speaker 2: you politely because I gotta go. I got some of
Speaker 2: the folks. They got to give them a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes too. Thanks. Good night, Matt, you were next to nice.
Speaker 2: I go ahead, Mark. What do you miss, ah Dan?
Speaker 13: Three places I miss? Definitely Abe toys, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Those toys, yeah, absolutely, child.
Speaker 4: Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that would be one of my top ones back
Speaker 13: as a kid.
Speaker 4: Excuse me.
Speaker 13: Number two I had off the top of my head
Speaker 13: right before. But Bugaboo Creek, I don't know if it's
Speaker 13: still around the food place.
Speaker 8: Yep, I remember that you kissed the moose.
Speaker 13: Okay, and the last one I would say, oh, it
Speaker 13: was the one that was right there. I don't want
Speaker 13: to take up any time.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll let you go and then well the
Speaker 2: next time we do this, you'll have it at the
Speaker 2: tip of your tongue. All right, Thanks Matty, we talked
Speaker 2: early next week. We'll set that up, okay with Adam.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, appreciate it. Next up, Danielle. Danielle
Speaker 2: and Worcester gonna get you in and one more, go ahead, Danielle.
Speaker 14: That was two calls before. I think he had it
Speaker 14: real quick. But I missed cal Door. Cal Door was
Speaker 14: like Today's Target, and if you were a call door shopper,
Speaker 14: you did not do Kmart, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14: And that's like, yeah, there.
Speaker 2: Was a loyalty. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 14: Sure, I kind of like Today's Target versus Walmart. You know,
Speaker 14: cal Door would be Target and Camart as Walmart.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I get it.
Speaker 14: And then I missed Do you remember in Newport Creamery?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, And in.
Speaker 14: The Westgate Mall. I came of in the middle of
Speaker 14: the mall and you could sit on a little stool
Speaker 14: and get a massive Sunday like right there.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, speaking in terms of that, there was.
Speaker 2: It was one that I liked. Do you remember Pewter.
Speaker 14: Pot No, No.
Speaker 2: There were a bunch of those around and you could
Speaker 2: go in there and they had like brownie Sundays and cocoa.
Speaker 2: I mean it was great, you know for those of
Speaker 2: us who were chocolate lovers. Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I used to love new Port cream. We'd go
Speaker 14: Christmas Shop and the should always we could always stop
Speaker 14: and get ice cream sometimes.
Speaker 8: You know if you talk about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to talk about Brighams, you know, was
Speaker 2: another one. And Bailey's. Remember Bailey's Bailey ice Cream, high
Speaker 2: high quality, high quality. Yeah, that present in Boston. Dave
Speaker 2: Powe was always used to tell me that he had
Speaker 2: to stop at Brigham's and get himself an ice cream home.
Speaker 2: Of course it was. It was a simpler time when
Speaker 2: you see the President of the United States and a
Speaker 2: couple of a's walking down Boyleston.
Speaker 14: Its Orange Julia is still in existence.
Speaker 2: That was another that was that was kind of a
Speaker 2: New York place, I think, and it might have popped
Speaker 2: up here, but I think that may still be in
Speaker 2: New York. I don't know. Danielle, I got to get
Speaker 2: one more in under the wire here great great names,
Speaker 2: great names. A lot of people they're clicking tonight. They'll
Speaker 2: be dreaming about these tonight. Thanks. Thanks Danielle. I'll talk
Speaker 2: to you soon. It was seeing the twenty seventh. Thanks,
Speaker 2: looking forward.
Speaker 9: Okay, good night, all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, how much time we got here? Rob, we enter two,
Speaker 2: we're over to Okay, perfect, I think get it, Rick
Speaker 2: and Bill Rica, Rick, you're gonna wrap it for us, go.
Speaker 9: Right ahead, you got it.
Speaker 7: Zerr Zer was good, and I think they sold the aims.
Speaker 7: So the reason I liked Zer and Ames is I
Speaker 7: bought a lot of cassette tapes from my Dodge when
Speaker 7: I was driving around in the eighties, and yeah, that's
Speaker 7: the way I needed my music.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: Another one with service merchandise. I bought a stereo system,
Speaker 7: a cheap one there. Actually I might have bought it
Speaker 7: from leech Mare, but I initially bought something. But I
Speaker 7: used to like service merchandise.
Speaker 9: And uh.
Speaker 7: There was an other place down the street from the
Speaker 7: Tumulas and Bill Rick on seven hundred Plaza on Route three,
Speaker 7: a Boston road to where I shop and did as
Speaker 7: a kid, and it was called Stewart or Stuart's s
Speaker 7: T U A R T S and uh. And you know,
Speaker 7: I don't know if there was more than one. But
Speaker 7: but that's not the point. I liked it because I
Speaker 7: saw drums one day up top and I was like,
Speaker 7: they were nicely, I say, what cheap splinter with drums?
Speaker 5: But I bought them.
Speaker 7: I still got them till this day. Added onto this
Speaker 7: old drum set that I got this cheap drum set.
Speaker 7: I had an enormous drum set when I had it
Speaker 7: on a black tom and and I had it on
Speaker 7: a it was a light blue mounted tom and I
Speaker 7: was able to extend my drum set out for cheap
Speaker 7: and uh, it was pretty cool. I don't know if
Speaker 7: my brothers appreciated my pounding.
Speaker 2: That's okay, Hey, Rick, I appreciate all that information. But
Speaker 2: I'm flat out of time, so I gotta let you know.
Speaker 2: The week has closed. Thank you very much. Thanks Rick,
Speaker 2: you too. All right. I want to thank everyone, want
Speaker 2: to wish everyone a great weekend, particularly Rob back in
Speaker 2: the control room and Lightning absolutely aka Marita or aka Lightning.
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