Speaker 1: On WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, Happy holidays, and indeed I do.
Speaker 3: Nicole. Nicole is still there.
Speaker 4: Of course, I'm here when I leave.
Speaker 2: And you know what you talked about one of my
Speaker 2: old alma materas the Curly School.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: I went to the Mary Amelda Curly School in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty six and sixty seven. Very nice seventh grade and
Speaker 2: eighth grade.
Speaker 4: So you must have loved that news today.
Speaker 2: I did love that news. I'm happy they got an
Speaker 2: award and they've had standards ever since I went there,
Speaker 2: in prior to me going there because Mary Curly was
Speaker 2: James Michael Curly's daughter.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I see the connection.
Speaker 2: That's the familiar voice you referred to. That's Jack Hart.
Speaker 4: Oh, hi, Jack Hart, how are you my friend?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Hello, Nicole Davis, how are.
Speaker 4: You so fun? It's no time reunion here on Night
Speaker 4: Side tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is an Morgan.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 6: I'm circumventing you to say hell little.
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 2: And one of these days the three of us are
Speaker 2: going to do lunch my treat.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 4: I liked the idea before it was your treat that.
Speaker 4: I really like the idea.
Speaker 6: Now, fantastic.
Speaker 2: You have a good evening there in News Central.
Speaker 4: Thank you, my friend, have a wonderful show.
Speaker 3: And you too. Take care.
Speaker 2: Jack, why don't you tell people what we are going
Speaker 2: to do tonight here on night Side.
Speaker 6: We're going to play cards, No no, no.
Speaker 3: Hees we are.
Speaker 6: We're going to talk about the the the the downtown.
Speaker 6: Well what we call downtown crossing now, what we used
Speaker 6: to call downtown going downtown.
Speaker 3: We didn't care about the names. Yeah, we said.
Speaker 6: The name crossing came along afterwards. That's when they when
Speaker 6: when they stopped allowing traffic. Oddly enough, when they stopped
Speaker 6: allowing traffic on those roads, that's when they started calling
Speaker 6: it downtown crossing. But and the whole Christmas season in
Speaker 6: that whole air at Boston Common Area, Tremont Street, Washington Street,
Speaker 6: Winter Street, and all the various side streets, Bromfield Street
Speaker 6: and Temple Place, all those places and Christmas time in
Speaker 6: the olden days.
Speaker 2: And I want to take people back. Jack gave a
Speaker 2: broadbrush set of memories just now I want to make
Speaker 2: it a tad more specific. Oh, I want people listening
Speaker 2: to call in tell us when mom and or dad
Speaker 2: and or Grandma. Whomever took you by the hand held
Speaker 2: on to you. You might have already been in the fourth,
Speaker 2: fifth and sixth grade and you felt handholding was not necessary,
Speaker 2: but they did it anyway, and you went to the store.
Speaker 3: At the store.
Speaker 6: I would my mother used to say, stand a little
Speaker 6: closer to the edge there and look look.
Speaker 3: Down the tunnel. She did not lean over very far.
Speaker 6: No, no, I should say, no, she might.
Speaker 3: Have said it that way.
Speaker 2: But I want people to give me a typical Saturday,
Speaker 2: maybe one or two saturdays before Christmas, where your mom
Speaker 2: went to Conrad Chandler. Remember the store with the pneumatic
Speaker 2: tubes all up and down the walls and ceilings.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly, or for those who.
Speaker 6: Don't know, that's the sound of the tubes, the pneumatic tubes.
Speaker 2: Being or or to Gilchrist or to naturally Jordan's and
Speaker 2: or Filene's.
Speaker 3: Jon's. And you were.
Speaker 2: Told if you behaved you would get treated to a
Speaker 2: hot dog and a soda or a tonic at W. T.
Speaker 2: Grant's or Chris or Nice Nurse, or better than that,
Speaker 2: you would get a nice cream treat at Bailey's. And
Speaker 2: you did the best you could to make sure you
Speaker 2: behaved because you looked forward to that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the yeah, or or you know, people don't remember
Speaker 6: the the the almond macaroons at Gilchrist's.
Speaker 3: Here here, I remember those. Ye don't remember them.
Speaker 2: Of all the downtown stores, gil Christ had a mezzanine
Speaker 2: that was quite active, you know, first flo or second floor,
Speaker 2: third floor, and every the other department store. But gil
Speaker 2: Christ had a first floor a mezzanine. You had to
Speaker 2: walk up just three or four stairs and then take
Speaker 2: an elevator up the floor two, three or four.
Speaker 6: Philein's had a mezzanine.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 6: Piles had a.
Speaker 3: Havanine, that's right.
Speaker 6: They Yeah, I believe it was Michael Kazan's hair salon.
Speaker 3: Was up there.
Speaker 6: I believe my mother went several times at least to
Speaker 6: Michael Kazan's hair salon, and it was on the mezzanine.
Speaker 6: It was it was, you know, you have to sit
Speaker 6: and behave and smell the rich mccaulla, the perm the
Speaker 6: perm juice there, which melt somewhat like a cat box. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and ladies would be sitting under the dryer for for
Speaker 6: what seemed to be an interminable amount of time.
Speaker 2: Well, these are the types of memories that we want.
Speaker 6: And you know, people people may also remember the restaurant
Speaker 6: and Phileines up the top floor of the eighth floor
Speaker 6: of Philins.
Speaker 2: It was a wonderful restaurant up there that I recall.
Speaker 2: I do recall that, and I'm going to tell a
Speaker 2: personal story. Then we'll take our break and throw up
Speaker 2: the phone numbers and let the landslide of calls begin.
Speaker 3: It was a commercial.
Speaker 2: There was a commercial and I was in I think
Speaker 2: the fifth grade for all the kids who owned Line
Speaker 2: L trains, of which I was one, and there was
Speaker 2: now they used to have the circus car or a
Speaker 2: giraffe's head would be poking out the roof and duck
Speaker 2: down when a a pole appeared crosswise over the track.
Speaker 2: Really and that that was like, wow, it does something
Speaker 2: other than the train just going around and around. Then
Speaker 2: they came up with the helicopter, and you could wind
Speaker 2: the helicopter up, put it on a flat car, and
Speaker 2: as it got to where you wanted it to be,
Speaker 2: you could activate that helicopter manually and it would take flight.
Speaker 2: And then to me, that was just the coolest thing.
Speaker 2: So my grandmother surprised me by taking me down to
Speaker 2: Eric Fuchs's daggoning across the ground.
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, yeah, bought me that.
Speaker 2: She said it's for Christmas. You can't open it to Lynn. Great,
Speaker 2: I can wait a week and a half, two weeks,
Speaker 2: whatever it was. Anyway, let me take our break. This
Speaker 2: is night Side. Dan is off for the whole night.
Speaker 2: We cross our fingers and hopes he'll be back tomorrow
Speaker 2: and I'll be in all next week, but that's something
Speaker 2: for later. On time and temperature here on Nightside eight
Speaker 2: fifteen forty five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off tonight. I am here. I am Morgan
Speaker 2: White Junior and a bit of personal news. My show
Speaker 2: on Saturdays goes from ten pm to midnight, but beginning
Speaker 2: in the new year, I go from nine pm to midnight.
Speaker 2: I get all back, get my three hours back.
Speaker 3: Yay.
Speaker 2: Until for the note, Let's go to Hanson and speak
Speaker 2: with Jim. Jim Good evening, Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 7: Hey, Hey, how are you guys doing pretty good?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I have an interesting story about downtown. Back then, it
Speaker 7: was around town, Like you said, my mother and my
Speaker 7: grandmother wanted to take me downtown. Okay, yeah, it was
Speaker 7: nineteen was the year after Kennedy was killed. Because I
Speaker 7: remember we had the year before. It was real tough.
Speaker 7: That year. My grandmother and mother took me out. We
Speaker 7: went downtown and my grandmother says, I need to take
Speaker 7: you to Fileen's, and then we were going through Filine
Speaker 7: she says, I want you to know I was a
Speaker 7: model and I used to walk through the store and
Speaker 7: show off all these clothings. How do you like idea
Speaker 7: of your grandmother becoming a model. This is back in
Speaker 7: the twenties. She was a model and she worked on
Speaker 7: a cruise shift. She sang on cruise ships. At the
Speaker 7: same time, she was Bundy O'Brien. She was Bundy O'Brien
Speaker 7: from Milton I do. And then on top of it,
Speaker 7: then they took me to Jordan Marsh to go see
Speaker 7: the uh Enchanted Village. And this past weekend I took
Speaker 7: my grands I took my grandson to the Enchanted Village
Speaker 7: and Jordan's for him to see it. I have to
Speaker 7: keep the tradition going.
Speaker 3: He was his.
Speaker 2: Reaction identical to your reaction when you start in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty four.
Speaker 7: He was very surprised, and uh, I don't think it
Speaker 7: was as good as mine, though, I was more shocked.
Speaker 7: He was my grandson's only three and a half. I
Speaker 7: was I was at the time.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 6: Well, back in those days, you know, a mechanic you know, mechanical,
Speaker 6: mechanical village.
Speaker 3: You know, not only was.
Speaker 2: The move was a new thing, new fangled thing then
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you know, we couldn't believe it was it
Speaker 6: was all mechanical. It was all you know, friction. But
Speaker 6: you know, we couldn't believe, you know, we couldn't believe
Speaker 6: stuff like that. Now you know, now everything, you know,
Speaker 6: anything can move in a thousand different ways and videos
Speaker 6: and so forth. So it's not as I don't imagine
Speaker 6: that that kids today as you know, oh my god,
Speaker 6: look at this. It's it's like almost like look at
Speaker 6: this primitive thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well three and a half year old, that's video
Speaker 7: games now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Jim, thank you for the dog.
Speaker 6: Happy Let me share no problem to Mary Christmas.
Speaker 2: And that's what we want everybody to do. I want
Speaker 2: you to share six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
Speaker 2: thirty eight eight, eight nine to nine, ten thirty and
Speaker 2: Nancy my producer sitting next to me here from where
Speaker 2: I broadcast Nancy Jackson's Hi Nancy Wave tied back. She
Speaker 2: grew up in Minnesota. Her her memories are department stores
Speaker 2: and places in the greater downtown Minnesota area, Minneapolis St.
Speaker 2: Paul and what was the big departments. Dayton's was the
Speaker 2: big department store. And she's not sure if there was
Speaker 2: a Hamples like indicated on the Marytyler Moore show.
Speaker 3: Oh, there might have been a Himples.
Speaker 6: Might have been a Himples.
Speaker 3: That's where worked exactly.
Speaker 2: Let's take another call and people, we want you to
Speaker 2: call in with your memories. We are doing this just
Speaker 2: as kind of an early Christmas Christmas present. You'll bring
Speaker 2: up names like City mart or Rogers Jewelers, or the
Speaker 2: Brass Lantern restaurant, maybe building. Oh yes, so let's let's
Speaker 2: hear some more of these memories. Linda and Weymouth, you're
Speaker 2: next door nightside. Hi.
Speaker 8: Yes, I remember the the railroad tracks, the enchanted village,
Speaker 8: and I remember going down also to Edinville Railroad and
Speaker 8: going on there on the surface spectacle program.
Speaker 3: Was that not Canton Harbor?
Speaker 8: I think it was Carver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Plymouth.
Speaker 8: You gotta put the accent on that car, excuse me,
Speaker 8: and walking down there, and people all admiring the railroad
Speaker 8: tracks down there in the downtown crossing. But I get
Speaker 8: a question to a little off top building nineteen there
Speaker 8: was a gentleman there, who was I think he was?
Speaker 8: He was downstairs. I think he might have been in
Speaker 8: the fabric department. And also there was an outlet out
Speaker 8: department down there. I'm trying to remember his name ever
Speaker 8: since Dan had it on the show.
Speaker 3: I told.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was something nineteen. No, No, it was a
Speaker 8: bogging center. It was in Colymbian. It was in Quincy Square.
Speaker 6: The man's name was Elliott Elliott.
Speaker 8: Yes, Elliott, Yes, Elliott, I remember Elliott.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We used to get My family used to go there.
Speaker 6: It was a big, giant, affable man. Yes, and he
Speaker 6: always gave the kids candy and so forth.
Speaker 8: Okay, we're giving me a few more memories.
Speaker 3: I thought you're doing downtown Boston.
Speaker 2: You were talking about Quinsy Quincy Center. Yeah, well you
Speaker 2: got to live around that in the beginning.
Speaker 8: My Pard and I'm special, Okay, we're all Okay. Sometimes
Speaker 8: I get the I'm over eighteen, I'm over seventy two
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 2: You're in my neighborhood. I'm just a year younger than you.
Speaker 8: Okay, ill cout out. I'll always shoulder appreciation you're away
Speaker 8: for doing the show. Okay, thanks so much for the pillain. Elliott, Elliott, Yes, Elliot.
Speaker 3: There you go. How did you mention the downtown.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was talking about Guindsey, But I know who
Speaker 6: she was talking about. The You know, my my high
Speaker 6: school girlfriend, whose name I won't mention here, but she
Speaker 6: always claimed that her grandfather was one of the original
Speaker 6: carpenters on the Enchanted Village.
Speaker 3: And did you believe her?
Speaker 6: No reason to not. I suppose you know.
Speaker 2: What, are you keeping your name secret? It's almost like
Speaker 2: she's in witness protection.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I mean yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: I don't know. You know that that's that's a very
Speaker 6: long time ago. Okay, So you know, but you know,
Speaker 6: people we talk about the Enchanted Village. People to forget
Speaker 6: about the other windows. Filings had their own windows, and
Speaker 6: outside of filings they had they had the the awning
Speaker 6: over the winter street side that had like the maj
Speaker 6: Ei coming along and so forth. People, you know, people
Speaker 6: always just talk about the Enchanted village like it was
Speaker 6: the only thing that that happened at Christmas then. But
Speaker 6: many of the stores had the animatronics and the windows
Speaker 6: and things in those days, and other grand displays in
Speaker 6: their windows. Most of the stores did, and the the
Speaker 6: the Enchanted Village was great, but other stores also had
Speaker 6: some stuff too.
Speaker 2: And if you walked further down Washington Street, maybe a
Speaker 2: block before the combat zone, it was House of Horrowitz,
Speaker 2: the electronics store.
Speaker 6: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: See, I'll make your memory work in the way I
Speaker 2: wanted to work.
Speaker 3: And the House of Horrowitz.
Speaker 2: You wanted to buy a portable radio. A lot of
Speaker 2: they are nowadays portable radios.
Speaker 3: But yeah, transistor radios, every.
Speaker 2: Electronic do Hickey device, what have you?
Speaker 3: They sold House of Horowitz. I forgot about them.
Speaker 2: And a bit further up on Washington Street, intersection of
Speaker 2: West and Washington was Mickey Finn. What's the Mickey Finn's
Speaker 2: in Any sporting equipment you needed, that's where you got it.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, that's right, Mickey Finn's.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also in that on one of those corners down there,
Speaker 6: there was also a w T Grant I think, wasn't there?
Speaker 3: Yeh, I mentioned w T. Grants.
Speaker 2: They were across the street from filings?
Speaker 6: Were they were they across the street from Philins? Or
Speaker 6: were they they further down Washington Street, down near West
Speaker 6: Street or Temple Place?
Speaker 2: Always in the other direction, it was in between, if
Speaker 2: you could say, in between in Beach, in between Winter
Speaker 2: and Bromfield, that place where was located.
Speaker 3: All right, okay, that's right, that's when.
Speaker 2: All right, let me take my break. I want to
Speaker 2: be on time. I'm filling in for Dan Ray. And
Speaker 2: there were rules.
Speaker 3: I have to obey them. Dan is always on time always.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break. Time and temperature eight.
Speaker 3: Thirty forty five degrees.
Speaker 1: It's night side with Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. My name Morgan White Junior. Been a
Speaker 2: part of the Besy landscape since nineteen ninety six. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness. I'm doing radio in Boston since nineteen eighty. Yepeow,
Speaker 2: and I'm here with my buddy, mister Jack Hart. There's
Speaker 2: an his name. If you're gonna send him a Christmas card.
Speaker 3: That is at the end.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, there you are you ready to go
Speaker 2: to Rhode Island.
Speaker 6: Jack, Sure, let's go to Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: I like Rhode Island.
Speaker 6: I was curious about this. I was serious about the
Speaker 6: story you were talking about. They had the pneumatic tubes.
Speaker 6: What were they doing with those? Were they sending the
Speaker 6: money from the cash registers up to the office or
Speaker 6: there's something else.
Speaker 9: Yes, they didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't.
Speaker 6: They didn't have cash registers. The money they put the
Speaker 6: money or the charge. It was a charge slip because
Speaker 6: it wasn't credit, because you had to pay it. It
Speaker 6: was a charge slip to put the charge slip by
Speaker 6: the cash in the order for him and the in
Speaker 6: the pneumatic tube and go. And then there'd be a
Speaker 6: bunch of people upstairs, you know, working at desks and
Speaker 6: and with elastics around their arms and things, opening them
Speaker 6: and making the change and then sending amay you know
Speaker 6: or another. They always got back to the right place.
Speaker 2: And that was in the fifties and sixties and probably
Speaker 2: the forties because they existed almost at the corner of
Speaker 2: Winter and Tree Art.
Speaker 6: Yes, and which so the other side didn't have a
Speaker 6: p noumatic qussion. Were they using runners or something?
Speaker 2: As I remember, they had cash registers at Violin's and
Speaker 2: at Jordan's and most of the other major downtown establishments.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: By the nineteen fifties, nomadic tubes were kind of you know, archaic,
Speaker 6: but you know it's even Lord and Taylor's down at
Speaker 6: saulsho Aplaza had had pneumatic tubes until you know, towards
Speaker 6: the end of their existence. And and I know that like,
Speaker 6: for instance, my one of the branches of the bank
Speaker 6: that I use in in Danvers, if you pull up
Speaker 6: to the outside teller and use the pneumatic tube to yeah,
Speaker 6: you put your your checks and things and it goes in.
Speaker 3: And I use this periodically.
Speaker 2: I use the citizens in Denim right behind the golf
Speaker 2: gas station and they to use the pneumatic tube.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I appreciate the historic information very much as
Speaker 6: very entertaining show.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 6: But uh, drive through yeah, drive through downtown crossing. I
Speaker 6: like the Christmas tree that Macy's puts up on the
Speaker 6: overhang there. Uh, it's a lowly healy area. I can't.
Speaker 6: I can't walk Washington Street. I don't work too well.
Speaker 6: But it's a it's a lively area to drive through. Sure,
Speaker 6: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you can't drive down Washington
Speaker 6: Street too. I can drive an hour yea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were coming up Franklin Street and there's
Speaker 2: that light where Bromfield begins. I think you can take
Speaker 2: that right onto Washington because from there Washington allows traffic
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 6: I didn't think you could even get up to Washington
Speaker 6: Street from Franklin any longer. I thought that had ended
Speaker 6: at Holly Street.
Speaker 2: No, you know what, You're not supposed to. But I
Speaker 2: did a show there all last summer at the Stone
Speaker 2: steps out there, oh kay, And there was constant traffic.
Speaker 2: I was there every Thursday for like ten weeks, and
Speaker 2: there was constant traffic coming up Franklin. And to the
Speaker 2: right is oh CV, yes and Old Navy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why you could, but you could.
Speaker 7: Thank you for calling gentlemen.
Speaker 3: You Jack, I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Ask you if you remember your sweet mother taking you
Speaker 2: to Kennedy's. Now, there were two Kennedy's in the downtown area.
Speaker 2: One was for butter and eggs and one was for
Speaker 2: men's and boys suits.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 6: The one for men and boys suits was at the
Speaker 6: top of the wooden steps coming out of Washington Street station.
Speaker 2: Yes, so did you get a suit at Kennedy's. So
Speaker 2: get fit for a suit at Kennedy's.
Speaker 6: Oh I know that I had been into Kennedy as
Speaker 6: many as the time, you know, and if I wasn't
Speaker 6: fitted for a suit there, then then you know, I
Speaker 6: know I got some pants and little tie or something.
Speaker 6: In their time or two, we used to get to
Speaker 6: like suits and things in the basement, Rightlean's basement.
Speaker 3: Oh so they were cheaper.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know they had the automatic markdowns.
Speaker 2: Kennedy down twenty five always always bragging that their prices
Speaker 2: are the lowest in Boston yet and still you could
Speaker 2: still save fifteen twenty thirty bucks by going to filings.
Speaker 6: After we going to Filing's basement, not filings upstairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, filings base in catching one of their sales.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 6: And if you will well, because as I recall the
Speaker 6: way they worked, they they had the automatic markdowns. It
Speaker 6: went down, there was mark it was discounted twenty five
Speaker 6: percent if it went from upstairs to the basement, and
Speaker 6: if it was there a week, it went down another
Speaker 6: twenty five percent. Another week was there had another twenty
Speaker 6: five percent, and then if it's still there it went
Speaker 6: to charity.
Speaker 2: There's not much markdown left after you've marked down seventy
Speaker 2: five percent of the original cost.
Speaker 6: That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, Now, people, if you I had envisioned full
Speaker 2: lines in this subject, right now, the lines are wide open.
Speaker 2: So Jack and I can talk about this. We have
Speaker 2: good concept of memory lane. But we want you to
Speaker 2: join us. Six one, seven, five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight,
Speaker 2: nine to nineteen thirty. Come on, we're going to be done.
Speaker 3: Is that something that people don't remember? Now? Some people.
Speaker 6: There's something that that people oftentimes struggle to remember. Is
Speaker 6: the petting zoo that used to be on Boston Common
Speaker 6: in the in the Christmas season.
Speaker 3: Oh I do I remember that, sure.
Speaker 6: But you know, and they I remember I came in
Speaker 6: towards the tail end of it. You know, I'm a
Speaker 6: little younger than you, and but but I came into
Speaker 6: the tail and my sisters, my sisters would remember that.
Speaker 6: And you're closer in age to my sisters and very
Speaker 6: but you know, they they were it more than I do.
Speaker 6: But I remember, you know, I remember the essence of it.
Speaker 6: I remember having seen it. I know that I had
Speaker 6: seen it. I don't recall, you know, the sort of
Speaker 6: substance of it.
Speaker 2: All right, And I remember the lights on the common.
Speaker 2: They are much more prevalent now than they were then,
Speaker 2: but it was still nice to look and see the
Speaker 2: blue lights, the green lights, the red and white lights
Speaker 2: all over the common trees.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was a little more subdued, but yes it was.
Speaker 3: It was nice.
Speaker 6: It was a little bit more state. It was you know,
Speaker 6: old sort of Boston sort.
Speaker 3: Of you know, old Yen.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the one star above the dome of the
Speaker 2: State House.
Speaker 3: That's right, the single star.
Speaker 6: And you know what about the above the pine cone.
Speaker 2: Yes, I said, open lines and puff. We've got full line.
Speaker 3: So fantastic.
Speaker 2: Let's go to ron and Stonehamn.
Speaker 10: How you doing the.
Speaker 2: Welcome to night Side?
Speaker 10: I can't tell you eno seventy two years old, and
Speaker 10: I remember my favorite restaurant in the whole world, Mallyas
Speaker 10: on Bronfield Street. Oh yeah, I don't even know if
Speaker 10: they're still there. Are they still there?
Speaker 2: Last time I was on Bromfield Street, which was about
Speaker 2: a year ago.
Speaker 3: Yes they were, Yeah, I believe they are.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we used to go there. I was in a fan,
Speaker 10: one of those young kids. We got a fand and
Speaker 10: we used to do the Battle of Fans and all this.
Speaker 10: So we used to go there all the time. And
Speaker 10: I used to get my shoes down. What was the
Speaker 10: shoe store down the street from the from Jewet's.
Speaker 3: Jack You remember Edwin Case?
Speaker 10: No, no, it was a famous brand. I used to
Speaker 10: get all my shoes there something. Yeah, Tom MCN's, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's the one I remember.
Speaker 10: Kennedy's and my my aunts used to my mother and
Speaker 10: everybody used to go in space, but never shopped upstairs,
Speaker 10: always downstairs.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I just.
Speaker 10: That's furthest You just brought up some nice memories. I
Speaker 10: just thought of them all the host the minute he
Speaker 10: said Bromfield Street. Yeah, they used to be a guy there. Yeah,
Speaker 10: he used to be there, the guy that made a
Speaker 10: d and he was something else, you know.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad, glad we could bring back fond memories
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 10: You did, Molly. That's Steel Time Restaurant.
Speaker 3: All right, Ron, thank you for your call.
Speaker 10: All right, guys, bye bye.
Speaker 6: Now you know what one restaurant that that I was remembered
Speaker 6: was Colestone's Colestones Cafeteria.
Speaker 3: I remember that as well. Now, yeah, and walk through
Speaker 3: keep it. Juice is flowing.
Speaker 2: There's one open line and if they who wants to
Speaker 2: take it? You do that. We're taking a break. We
Speaker 2: always take a break at the fifteen minutes quarter past
Speaker 2: quarter ofv in the bottom of the hour. Here on
Speaker 2: night side, time and temperature now remember Dan Ray's off tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm here on Morgan time. In temperature here on night
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the window World,
Speaker 1: Nice Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off to day. Hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: My name Morton White, Junior been about a BZ roughly
Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety six. Actually it's mentioned the two before that.
Speaker 2: My buddy Jack Hart is here and we are reminiscing
Speaker 2: going down Memory Lane. The wind Downtown crossing was just
Speaker 2: called Downtown Boston. What stores did Junior family give your
Speaker 2: heart and money to? Where did you eat? There were
Speaker 2: many eateries in the greater Downtown area, and we've mentioned
Speaker 2: stores from House of Horwartz to Eric Fuchs's.
Speaker 6: Correct people forget about Miles Drive number miles on Winter Street.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 6: I was sort of a petruly smell going on in it.
Speaker 2: And my bank was the Provident Bank, which was on
Speaker 2: Temple Place, because they were the first bank in Boston
Speaker 2: to have a coin counter, and I had a lunch
Speaker 2: box full of coins that I'd been saving for years.
Speaker 2: And I guess I was in the third grade when
Speaker 2: my grandmother took me down to the Provident Bank. And
Speaker 2: I remember this figure to the day, at least the
Speaker 2: main figure. I had sixty three dollars in change in
Speaker 2: change and wow, third grade kid in the early sixties,
Speaker 2: that was a lot of.
Speaker 6: Money, sure, And that was like two weeks pay for
Speaker 6: some families.
Speaker 2: And I opened a bank account and I had that
Speaker 2: bank account going until Provident changed their name and I
Speaker 2: forget what they became in the late seventies.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's go back to the phones and speak
Speaker 2: to Ed in Weymouth. Ed, good evening, Welcome tonight's side.
Speaker 11: Hi guys, thank you for sacking my call. I wanted
Speaker 11: to say, real quickly, Jack, I appreciate you getting me
Speaker 11: to it.
Speaker 5: From work on the weekend.
Speaker 11: So I love listening to your traffic commentary. I wanted
Speaker 11: to talk about the soul shore of Plaza real quickly.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: They used to be outdoors and they used to have
Speaker 11: rein here Christmas time.
Speaker 5: It was awesome when I was a kid, I don't know.
Speaker 11: If anybody remembers that. And uh, the top of Top
Speaker 11: with Jordan Marsh used to have Christmas lights and you
Speaker 11: could see them from miles. They had these huge candle
Speaker 11: libraries up there, and they you know, they took them
Speaker 11: down in the eighties. But what a memory I have,
Speaker 11: you know, throwing in Santa Claus on the third floor,
Speaker 11: I think, and uh, it's it's it's a shame that
Speaker 11: all that stuff was gone.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, those of the day Plaza being an outdoor
Speaker 6: place and at Easter time the bunny rabbit would walk
Speaker 6: around and give out ears.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, No.
Speaker 11: I don't I don't remember that, but I definitely remember
Speaker 11: Santa Claus and the reindeer outside in the Senate Senate cord.
Speaker 6: That's all the little stores out in the center, out
Speaker 6: in the outside, aren't there.
Speaker 11: Absolutely yeah?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Okay, guys, thank.
Speaker 3: You, we thought, Oh my god, thank you.
Speaker 7: For making me.
Speaker 2: I have a good YouTube. And you know, Jack, there's
Speaker 2: a major name that you and I have yet to mention,
Speaker 2: which one of Ramon's where you bought where you.
Speaker 6: Bought the hat, bought the hat, that's right, says are
Speaker 6: very good.
Speaker 3: Uncle E. P. H.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Jeff in Swarmpscott. Jeff, thank you for calling.
Speaker 2: Welcome to night Side, Jeff.
Speaker 5: Well, Jeff, how you doing.
Speaker 10: You mentioned stalls.
Speaker 5: I remember when when I was little, I used to
Speaker 5: call it magic doors because they had like those automatic doors.
Speaker 5: I've never saw it before. When I was five years old.
Speaker 6: That was well, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Joan, they're.
Speaker 5: Only hot dogs of French fries. We'd go to Joannimo's
Speaker 5: hot Dogs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, fifteen hot dogs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I got my bombits for suit at Kennedy
Speaker 5: who was in the husky shop there you go.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, a husky shop. That's raight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think they'd call that that anymore, but back then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, I think that would be that would
Speaker 6: be offensive to somebody for call them husky the Essex Deli.
Speaker 3: Ramon, yep, I remember that. I remember the with and
Speaker 3: somebody somebody's painting a mural.
Speaker 2: There are so many places that are blank until we
Speaker 2: have a call like you fill in.
Speaker 3: With the all. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember we used to go there, you know, and
Speaker 5: then we'd go to the movie theaters on Washington Street.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 5: Movies used to be continuous. We see my sister sat
Speaker 5: through and my poor mother who Ala Deville one dalmation.
Speaker 5: I think we saw five straight times. We just stayed
Speaker 5: in the theater.
Speaker 3: Sure, the ther Flower is Center.
Speaker 2: Those are and there were one or two that were
Speaker 2: adult in concept the state.
Speaker 5: My mother had a phobia. She wouldn't go up and escalate.
Speaker 5: So when I was the baby of the family, so
Speaker 5: I'd always go with or my sisters were called. Yes,
Speaker 5: we'd have to find an elevator, and they always had
Speaker 5: a man in the elevator, sitting in a little seat
Speaker 5: and he controlled the elevator.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He had elevator operators back in the fifties and they
Speaker 2: pased them mount in the sixties.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I remember them. I remember them operating that,
Speaker 6: you know, the the clutch on the that they would
Speaker 6: use shimpum shump, that sort of right.
Speaker 5: Sim we had a little sat on a little seat, Yeah,
Speaker 5: like a whole seat.
Speaker 2: I remember those elevators. I operated one when I worked
Speaker 2: for Houghton Mifflin. They were on one ten and one
Speaker 2: twenty Tremont Street and there was an elevator in the
Speaker 2: back that as a mail clerk I used going from
Speaker 2: the sixth floor to the third and fourth floor.
Speaker 6: It was that right around around Temple Place one twenty.
Speaker 2: Uh, a little further up again. Uh you know where
Speaker 2: the back entrance to the Orpheum Theater is.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, yes, yes, Hamilton Place.
Speaker 2: Hamilton Place and Bromfield Street. It was in between those
Speaker 2: two locations.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, all right, okay, great show, guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, take care of Jeff, bye bye,
Speaker 2: and we'll take one more call. Maybe we can squeeze
Speaker 2: them before the news. But I tell people during the news,
Speaker 2: somebody always gets impatient. They've gotten through Roberts screened and
Speaker 2: put the name up, but then they get anxious and
Speaker 2: they hang up. So if you want to call during
Speaker 2: the news six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
Speaker 2: eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty and we
Speaker 2: have got Brian in Hyde Park.
Speaker 3: Hello Brian, Hello Brian.
Speaker 12: He is gentle and great show, great show. I'm sixty
Speaker 12: three years old. I was born and raised in the
Speaker 12: city and uh, my week's uh well, most of my
Speaker 12: week in the summertimeer even the winter, were consisted of
Speaker 12: going into the city with my aunts, my grandaunts, and
Speaker 12: we took the number nine bus from selfie got off
Speaker 12: and he started in the combat zone. And the best
Speaker 12: pizza in the world, I don't know if you guys remember,
Speaker 12: was Dino's Pizza.
Speaker 3: It was right up me.
Speaker 9: And that was my first look of that day. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 9: it's the act of the Vader.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 9: So many places that we would go to day and the.
Speaker 12: H Yeah, Dino's Pizza.
Speaker 9: My god, I thought it was it was.
Speaker 2: I think I have a slice or to him my
Speaker 2: day back there.
Speaker 9: But I was just I didn't know what the whole
Speaker 9: place was. It was crazy to me.
Speaker 12: I was only, you know, nine years old. I didn't
Speaker 12: know where I was.
Speaker 3: I was just getting pizza.
Speaker 9: And I know that the day ended with Bailey's.
Speaker 12: Ice cream and you know we all lookit the Swan boats.
Speaker 3: More about that.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about Bailey's next hour. And yeah, I hate,
Speaker 2: I hate to do to you, but I gotta leave
Speaker 2: so news.
Speaker 9: Can come out. So I can, man, I can. But
Speaker 9: I loved it. Thank you, guys, thank.
Speaker 2: You, Thanks in Happy holidays to you. Let's take our
Speaker 2: news hit when we come back. More of the same
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