WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:06.160 With Dan Ray. I'm going Boston's. 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:11.199 I really love doing a four hour show because I 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.119 get a chance to rotate through three or four different guests. 4 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:18.879 I've already had two tonight, and now this is my third. 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.760 A woman I've interviewed on a couple of occasions in 6 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.719 the past. She's the one who wrote that book on 7 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:29.719 candlepin bowling, a mainstay in New England. She and I 8 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.799 were supposed to have a bowl off challenge. It never 9 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:38.679 got off the ground, but trust me, you're lucky. You 10 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:43.079 are lucky, Susan. I am holding back. I would have 11 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:44.359 wiped the lanes with you. 12 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.399 Okay, I'm ready. 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.520 I want to hear your knees knocking from fear. The 14 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.520 voice you hear in the background is Susan Brigman, and 15 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.439 she's written a number of books, is working on a third, 16 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.200 which we're going to touch upon this hour. But the 17 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.959 reason that I have for now is to talk about 18 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.480 Route one. So tell people the titles of both of 19 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:12.599 your books and put a little spotlight on Root one. 20 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:17.280 Sure, Hi, I'm Morgan, happy to be here tonight. I've 21 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.480 actually written three books. My first book was called New 22 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:24.959 England Neon, and then the second was New England Candlepin Bowling. 23 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:28.000 And the third, which we're going to talk about tonight, 24 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:32.319 is called a Long Route one Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 25 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.200 Okay, And there's a fourth one you want to four. 26 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.439 The fourth one is in the works, and it's called 27 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.760 New England Sweets, and it's about candy and cookies and 28 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.439 cake and whoopee pies and ice cream and just all 29 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:54.200 all the confections from all six New England states. 30 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.719 Well, the Wallely Coppar better be mentioned in this somewhere. 31 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:01.079 I've been researching the Wallycope bar, and in fact, I 32 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:02.760 think I'm going to be able to talk to someone 33 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.920 from the FB Washburn company pretty soon. 34 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.719 Good because that bar, now I'm basing it on my memory, 35 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.120 that bar was better than the carparable Mounds bar. You 36 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.159 think of a chocolate and coconut combination bar, wallyco put 37 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:22.479 Mounds to shame. 38 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:27.680 Well, there are quite a few chocolate and coconut candies 39 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:29.400 in New England. It's really interesting. 40 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.919 You have the Palty Bar from England. 41 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.599 Mm hmm, and the Needum Candy in Maine, which is 42 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:40.280 actually potatoes and coconut covered in chocolate, which is better 43 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.719 than it sounds it's actually quite good. You don't taste 44 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:48.080 you don't taste the potato, okay. And yeah, and Peter Paul, 45 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:49.759 you know, was in Connecticut. 46 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.319 Well, let's talk about Root one. We'll get back to 47 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.520 Candy in a minute. But there are so many places 48 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:02.000 on Root one that aren't there anymore. And Prime in 49 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.120 my memory, the hilltop, you don't even see the cows anymore. 50 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.960 Oh, I know, the cows have been scattered, right, you 51 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.800 see the cactus sort of, Yeah, the cactus has been changed. 52 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.120 They took away the neon. They replaced it with led, 53 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.080 just like they did with the Hancock weather lights. I hears, yeah, 54 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:28.800 I just heard that. And you know, they replaced Frank 55 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:33.800 Jeffrida's name with the name of the developer. And it 56 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.599 doesn't say Steakhous anymore. It has the name of names 57 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.800 of the tenants and the development there. So it's there, 58 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.719 but it's it's different, you. 59 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.120 Know, it's not the world in which we grew up. 60 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.000 It's not it's not. 61 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:51.479 It's true. It's true. 62 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.719 Thank you for books like yours to at least keep 63 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.479 the memory alive, so to speak. 64 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:58.719 Well, that's what I like to do. I think it's 65 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:02.120 really important because these things, these things matter to people, 66 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:07.599 These things bring back memories for people, and everything is 67 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:11.919 getting homogenized, you know. So we also have the orange 68 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:13.599 Dinosaur on Root one. 69 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.120 I was about to bring that up. 70 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.279 Yeah, And he sort of has a similar situation to 71 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.279 the Hilltop, right, I mean, he was part of a 72 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:24.199 miniature golf course. There were multiple there was a big 73 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:29.240 green dinosaur there, there were other animals there, and they 74 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.160 saved the dinosaur, the orange dinosaur. But he's all by himself, 75 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:33.439 you know. 76 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:38.399 I remember before he got the Tonight Show and he 77 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.199 was on the circuit that was a routine. His jokes 78 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:47.560 were based around the orange dinosaur, and some of the 79 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:51.360 joke I can't do because it was r rated and 80 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.040 I'd try not to do that material. But that's a 81 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.839 part of our psyche. Yeah, Arch Dinosaur turning off to 82 00:04:58.959 --> 00:04:59.439 ninety nine. 83 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.759 Absolutely, it's a landmark. 84 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.399 So what inspired you to write a book about Route one? 85 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:11.079 Well, I have my own memories of Root one. A 86 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.360 lot of them are centered around the Hilltop and Old 87 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.240 Orchard Beach was, which isn't quite on Root one, but 88 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.600 close enough, and it kind of fit with the vibe 89 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:27.279 of my other books with candlepin bowling with New England Neon. 90 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:33.000 These are all things that are you know, a little nostalgic. 91 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.920 They are some of their unique to New England candlepin bowling, 92 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.959 and you know these Root one landmarks and these old 93 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.160 Neon signs, and they do they evoke memories and they're disappearing. 94 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.959 So it just felt like the right thing to do. 95 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.439 And then I went all the way up to Maine. 96 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.199 I went all the way up to the Canadian border. 97 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.360 So I went to Fort Kent, which is where Root 98 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:01.839 One begins in Maine, and covered the road from all 99 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.639 through Maine and New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 100 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.319 See you soon at the Kowloon, I know. 101 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.079 And what's going to happen to the Kowloon? 102 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.879 You know the fact that people just won't leave our landmarks, 103 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.759 are loving landmarks alone, makes you want to just grab 104 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:25.040 a pitch fork and a sign to go out there 105 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.279 and say stop enough development, leave what is left alone, 106 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:31.199 you know. 107 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.560 And what's interesting is in the book I quote Bernice Abbott, 108 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.959 who was a great photographer, and she traveled the entire 109 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.480 length of Route one in nineteen fifty four, so seventy 110 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.160 is years ago, and all the way down to Florida 111 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:48.879 all the way up to Maine, and she took like 112 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.600 twenty four hundred photographs and she said the same thing 113 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.360 seventy years ago. She said, these things are disappearing, and 114 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.879 she wanted to document them before they disappeared. And that 115 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.120 was seventy years ago. It's still happening today. 116 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.759 No more. Christmas Tree Shop. 117 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.759 And Christmas Tree Shop replaced the Ship restaurant. 118 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:16.079 Yes, and my buddy Phil Castanetti has had three different 119 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.600 locations on each side of Root One for his Sports 120 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.600 World shop right there. And at least Phil is trying 121 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:31.480 to cling to a Root one address. He could have 122 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:37.079 just packed up and just slunk away and rebuilt somewhere else. 123 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.680 Yeah, and that's what happened to some of these other businesses. 124 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.199 Right Carl's Sausage House that was on Root one and 125 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.720 now it's off Root one. It's still around, but it's 126 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.800 not on Root one anymore. Yeah. 127 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:55.199 Pole Carries had a Root one location. M Pole Carries 128 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:01.519 from North Station, and I don't think they'll location exists anymore, 129 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:02.120 or Route one. 130 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.639 I think I've driven by it. I just don't know 131 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.720 if it's open, right. Yeah. 132 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:15.560 And I used to entertain at Stars on Route one 133 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:22.160 once a month. I hear you. What's your Dodgy's name? 134 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.480 Kodak like the camera? 135 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.199 Hi, Kodak, Kodak. 136 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.639 Sit oh yeah, sit dream on. No, let me try 137 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:37.480 this Kodak speak there you go, Yeah, Kodak. Protect me 138 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.679 from my downstairs neighbor who just opened the door. Yeah, 139 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:42.320 tell you what. 140 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.240 Let me take my break. Invite phone traffic anyone out 141 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:49.159 there who wants to call and talk about a missed 142 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.559 Route one location. Some of the ones we've already mentioned, 143 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.360 there are many that we haven't mentioned. Six one, seven, two, five, four, 144 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:01.120 ten thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine, nine, ten thirty If 145 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.039 indeed you want to call in and share a memory 146 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.120 about something on Route one north of Boston all the 147 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:08.480 way up. 148 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.559 To Maine, all the way up to Maine, so your 149 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.799 phone traffic is requested here on Nightside. 150 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.200 Susan Bregman is my guest, and she and I shall 151 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.519 return after a few messages here on Nightside, heard only 152 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:28.639 on WBZ Time and temperature ten fifteen and when I'm 153 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:30.559 sixty four degrees. 154 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.240 Now back to Dan Ray live from the window World 155 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.440 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 156 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.919 Susan Bregman is my guest, and Susan, you have filled 157 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.799 my phone lines. I haven't had full lines all night. 158 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.440 I've had phone traffic, but I've not had full lines 159 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.240 all night long until you, young lady. 160 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.279 Well, people love root one they do. 161 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.279 And let's go to Stoneham first and speak to Teresa. Yeah, Teresa. 162 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.440 Well, Hi, thank you Morgan high Susan, thanks for having me, 163 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.440 thank you for calling Hi, thank you. Do you remember 164 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.039 the restaurant Augustine's. 165 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:10.840 On Route one? 166 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:12.039 Yes? 167 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.080 I do, yes, yes, I love that restaurant. 168 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:16.159 It was so good. 169 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.720 With the salad bar and they had the dessert bar. 170 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:25.360 And Susan, are you old enough to remember Augustine's. 171 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.639 I don't know that I was living here then? When 172 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:29.519 when was it open? 173 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.960 I remember eating in the sixties. 174 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.440 Okay, and that was a little before I moved here. 175 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.600 But okay, so a little bit of time. 176 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.840 Nineties yeah, maybe the high eighties, early nineties. I'm sixty, 177 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:48.080 so I don't know. I wasn't I remember where Jimmy 178 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:53.080 Steerhouse is right now? You know Jimmy Steerhouse. 179 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.320 Okay, one town, Morgan. 180 00:10:58.039 --> 00:10:58.799 Was that Sagas? 181 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:00.799 I think it was saugust Saga? 182 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:02.720 Yeah, okay, okay. 183 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.840 Okay, oh right, Thank you. 184 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:06.879 I just wanted to bring that good memory up. 185 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.440 Thanks, thank you for sharing. Thank you one open line 186 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.320 six five four ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine, 187 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.240 nineteen thirty. And now let's go to Austin and speak 188 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:20.639 with Mark. Mark. 189 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:27.639 Oh, good evening, Morgan, longtime no talk. Do you remember 190 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.360 when I was working in the Mass Department of Revenue 191 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:38.799 as audit division librarian and mail carrier during the period 192 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.720 nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and two, one of 193 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:46.200 my bosses was generous enough to take us all out 194 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:53.399 to the Cowloon restaurant I think was called on One. 195 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.759 I don't know whether it's still in existence. Oh it is, 196 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:00.000 that's resure. 197 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.919 It is teetering. 198 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.799 Let me say it that way there for now. The 199 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:13.559 the the current the current owners have shared plans for 200 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:19.480 redeveloping the property and maybe they say they'll keep us. 201 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 I think smaller version of the restaurant is what they're saying. 202 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:24.720 But I don't know how. 203 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.600 They have a huge spread and somebody has talked them 204 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.799 into considering and I use that word carefully, uh, blocking 205 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.759 off some of their space for a condo. 206 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:44.159 I am I not surprised. Uh. There was a nice 207 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:56.159 miniature golf course at Anantasket Beach that unfortunately a condover 208 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.679 bought it all up. It's still is the bowl, but 209 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:07.879 it's not an operation anymore. It pays paradise put up 210 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:21.000 a parking lot. Joni Mitchell also cover version by counting crows. 211 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.200 I'm a little hardened to this, having an m b 212 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:31.639 A and all that. But I guess the other thing 213 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:37.799 is that these days I'm strictly an MBTA and occasional 214 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:45.159 taxicab person. I'm not sure how I get there. I 215 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:49.519 guess there must be a bus going out a Haymarket 216 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:50.279 or something. 217 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.799 Yeah, probably to you know, pebody that part of the 218 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:59.759 world from Haymarket. Yeah, and I'm sure there's a way 219 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:00.679 to do it if. 220 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:08.600 You Yeah, it's hard. Where the narrative uterrailop would be. 221 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:12.000 If anyone out there knows how to get from Boston 222 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:19.519 proper up root one using a public transportation bus or 223 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.240 tram or what have you, give us a call and 224 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.320 cheer that knowledge, because. 225 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:31.720 Actually has a travel information line which is usually reliable. 226 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:37.159 Right, So yeah, I think it's just complicated. I think 227 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.000 it's doable, and it's probably takes a long time. 228 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:47.559 Yeah, anyway, I'm supposed to eat more at home to 229 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:50.159 save money. 230 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.080 Well, if you decide that, you're telling me you will 231 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:01.000 lead you up root. One, there is still to get 232 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:01.720 a bite to eat. 233 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.279 Plenty of place, yeah. 234 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:12.399 And for one, I don't think there is a Calories 235 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:21.399 at Revere Beach anymore. That's my favorite summer place to 236 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:22.840 hang out and show out. 237 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.000 You and the seagulls fighting for space. 238 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:35.559 Actually it's a good joke, but in practice, you know 239 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:41.360 that the seagulls is uh, it's it's it's it's a 240 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.200 very popular destiny. 241 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:49.519 Right, if you've got the guts, excuse me, intestinal fortitude 242 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:55.159 to sit on the benches across from Kelly's, trust me. 243 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:00.279 The seagulls a scavengers and they know that if you 244 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:04.679 sit down with a bag this food there and add 245 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:09.159 that process to the seagulls and the tourists who sit 246 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:14.480 down there. Me, I drive there, order my food, and 247 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.039 then I sit in my car. 248 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:26.720 I mean, there are plenty of good, relatively inexpensive places 249 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.080 in and near Revere Beach. 250 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:32.840 I agree. 251 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:40.679 And you can sit under the warning and there's actually 252 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.639 a new hotel where you can get a very nice 253 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:55.039 fruit cup for nine including tip for you know, strawberries, 254 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.799 and blueberries and whipped cream and Mark. 255 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.519 And on that note, I want to try to get 256 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:04.240 one more on before I have to do news. So 257 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:05.160 thank you for the call. 258 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:07.680 Okay, thanks, thank you. 259 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.160 So some breakman is here. I have Marcut's on the 260 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.759 line that's now available six one, seven, two, five, four, 261 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:20.359 ten thirty and Diane and Maldon you were next here 262 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:22.319 on nights Side. 263 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:28.480 Diane there said in the beginning, I caught your show 264 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:32.200 a little bit late, but I remember when I was young, 265 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.359 there was a farm stand on Root one sells I 266 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:39.400 don't remember if it was Top Seals or or Danvers, 267 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.480 and they used to sell pumpkins, like around Halloween time, 268 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.279 and there was like a little shack that you could 269 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.240 go in to pay for it, and they also had 270 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.480 like the honeycomb and the jar and jars of mint 271 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:58.519 jelly and apple butter and stuff. And really missed that places. 272 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.640 Yeah, it might have been before my time on Route one. 273 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.920 It sounds like a nice thought. 274 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:08.400 It was. 275 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:09.960 It really was great. 276 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.079 And then of course Russo's Candy and ice cream that 277 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.640 was lying Route one and lynn Fell's way, and they 278 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.400 sold out to Krispy Kreme and moved to further down 279 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:28.960 Lyndfell's Parkway and now they're they retired and oh yeah. 280 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:35.359 The Boston area with four or five locations and they 281 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:36.240 were all gone. 282 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:36.559 M hm. 283 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:37.160 Yeah. 284 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.720 Well, you know, they thought that they could compete with 285 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:43.559 Dunkin Donuts, and because dunkin Donuts was like right next door, 286 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:45.319 had built a place right next. 287 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:45.920 Door to Russo's. 288 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:50.680 And I was like, well that takes some intestinal fortitude, yes, 289 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.799 because you're not going to Their coffee was lousy compared 290 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:58.400 to Dunkin Donuts, and maybe their donuts were good, but 291 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.160 they were only good when they were hot. 292 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:02.000 So very true. 293 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.200 It's like, yeah, there there was. 294 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.000 No way that they were going to survive and dunkin 295 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:07.880 Donuts land. 296 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.480 I'm going to tell you a real quick story, and 297 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.319 this goes back twenty five years for me. A friend 298 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.079 of mine took me to a Krispy Kreme in Vegas 299 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:23.119 and I fell in love with their cream filled Krispy 300 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:28.519 Kreme donuts and I had never had warm donuts before. 301 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:33.079 Duncan didn't do that. When I got home, I had 302 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:38.160 her FedEx me a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. And when 303 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:41.440 they first opened up around here, I said, oh boy, 304 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:46.519 I'm happy, but it just didn't have the same feel 305 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:49.920 and taste. And I guess most people agreed with me 306 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.640 because they weren't able to maintain business. 307 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.599 Yeah. Yeah, I remember the one in Compley Place, right, 308 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:58.920 I mean you could kind of watch the donuts on 309 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:03.519 the conveyor belt. Yeah, I have that memory. Yeah, I 310 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:04.000 think that. 311 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.759 One in Medford before before Kelly's. Yeah, okay, but I 312 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.759 have one question. I don't know if you remember when 313 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:15.960 I was little, I could have sworn that hilltop at 314 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:20.559 one point had live cows in front, not the plastic ones, 315 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:25.759 but live cows for like a promotion or something. 316 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:28.119 They may have done it once for a promotion, but 317 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:29.480 they always were. 318 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.200 They were char plastic plastic. 319 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:33.079 Yeah. 320 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:35.880 Yeah, all right, Diana, I gotta take a news hit. 321 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.759 Thanks, great night, Thank. 322 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.400 You, and Lyndon Weymouth wait to the news and we 323 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.000 will get to YouTube. Here on night Side for a time. 324 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.599 Ten thirty temperature sixty four degrees. 325 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.839 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's 326 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:57.440 news radio. 327 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.920 Welcome back from the news, everybody. Susan brad Minutes my guest, 328 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:05.119 and I'm going to take a phone call. Then shift 329 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:10.960 gears lightly. Susan to talk about candies, which is a 330 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.119 new book you're working on. 331 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:14.480 So well, sweets but yes. 332 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:16.039 Sweets Linda and Weymouth. 333 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:18.400 Hello, Hi Linda. 334 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.359 Hi. Uh, I'm down here on the south Shore. And 335 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:30.480 I remember he'll no, no, I wrote it down Uh 336 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:32.079 the tell House. 337 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.440 Yes, somebody mentioned toll House earlier. 338 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:42.680 Yeah it was Whitman. Yes, yeah, yeah, I miss it. 339 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.640 I go down there, Pilly freak up and on, and 340 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.480 I miss it. I look for it and I see 341 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:49.799 what's there, and I you know, I look for it. 342 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:52.839 I don't know why. But and also Samplers down. 343 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.319 There, okay, okay? 344 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:57.200 Which what is? 345 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:57.759 What is that? 346 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:01.079 Staplers a debrig store? 347 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:02.279 Oh okay? 348 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:03.480 And what community? 349 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.319 I think it's same, same Whitman area. 350 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.400 Okay, but we're talking, okay. And I know Whitmen well 351 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:13.319 because I used to entertain down. 352 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:20.000 There restaurant up in New Hampshire and moved to New Hampshire. 353 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:22.200 The original I think is that still there? 354 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.920 Well? The original ninety nine was on Portland Street, just 355 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:27.240 off the Government Center. 356 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.279 Oh okay, that's the. 357 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.279 Original ninety nine restaurant. 358 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.839 I thought the original one was in Charlestown. No, that 359 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:35.759 wasn't the original. 360 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.039 No, the one on Portland Street because that's how they 361 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.400 got its address ninety nine. I think Portland ninety nine 362 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:49.000 Portland and I used to entertain at mcgwigan's Pub in Whitman. 363 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.880 But we're kind of talking about Route one. 364 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:58.559 I thought you were talking about items that have disappeared. 365 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.039 Well, Dad, we're talking about items that have disappeared, but 366 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:07.960 disappeared from being located on Route one. But all's fair 367 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:10.359 and love and discussions, okay. 368 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:14.839 And I I heard the advertisement about the trying to 369 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:19.079 keep the AM radios in the TV yes in the car, 370 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:20.400 and I hope people are doing that. 371 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:24.039 I hope so too, because I'm a huge you can 372 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:27.160 tell I'm working on AM right now as we speak, 373 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:31.279 and I'm a huge proponent of being able to get 374 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:35.160 into vehicle, any car, turning on the radio and being 375 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:37.839 able to go up and down the dial getting AM 376 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:38.880 radio stations. 377 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:42.559 I'm out off the air. Can I leave my number 378 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:45.119 and SILD somebody get back to me about whether the 379 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:47.799 ninety nine up in New Hampshire is still there? 380 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:53.319 Tell you what. Anybody who wants to call in and 381 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:58.039 help Linda answer that question, call in if you know 382 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:01.519 if the ninety nine restaurant still has a location in 383 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:04.200 New Hampshire. We'll do it that way, so you keep listening. 384 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.359 Linda, I do enjoy your evening. 385 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:07.519 Thank you very much. 386 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.160 Let go, thank you, bye bye. 387 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.200 Okay, there goes Linda. And before we take our next call, 388 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:17.960 let's talk about sweets. What inspired you to write a 389 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.000 book about cookies and candies and whatnot? 390 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:24.000 Well, you know, I was spending a lot of time 391 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:33.160 in Maine for the Route one book and Right of Maine, okay, 392 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:35.920 and I was thinking, oh, maybe I'll write a book 393 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:43.160 about five seemed too specific. New England, Sweet and the 394 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:44.680 all right, all. 395 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:47.559 Right, hold on, Susan, you're breaking up. I don't know 396 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.440 if it's are you on a landline or a cell phone. 397 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:53.000 I'm on a landline. 398 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:55.839 Okay, so that shouldn't be happening. 399 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.640 Well better now, now, a little bit, a little bit, 400 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.839 I can find a different to suit. Okay, Okay, how 401 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:10.000