Favorite restaurants that are no longer there (Boston, Worcester: cinema, school)

[Peter Creedon]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber4

The Bickford's in Hanover was where everyone went from my hometown for pancakes after First Communion. It's now a Bank of America. The one at the Braintree rotary is closed as well.

Darn.

[lrfox]

I miss Bickford's. The one closest to me (Raynham/ Taunton- route 44) is now IHOP. The girlfriend and I went to the one on Route 1 on the North Shore last spring at about 12:30am. It was FULL of prom kids. Reminded me of the old days. I went to Bickford's after homecoming.

[Dunderhead]

I want to thank EVERYONE for the walk down memory lane! I lived in Boston from 74-81, and these posts were a joy! Bob the Chef, Aku Aku, Bailey's Ken's, Dini's, Harvard Do-Nut, TT-The Bear, macaroons @ Gilchrist’s, 33 Dunstan Street, Rainbow Room, Wursthaus, Anthony’s Pier 4, Jimmy’s Harborside, Our House, DeliHaus (Comm Ave.), Belgian Fudge, Steve’s ice cream in Somerville, Slagle’s, Grendel’s Den, Daisy Buchanan’s,

Does anyone know the name of the bar on Commonwealth (Eastbound) just before the Mass Pike overhead?

What happened to Etna Bakery in the North End? Best cannoli!

[maggiekate]

Arties Fireside in Dedham, the red Coach Grill in Braintee, and Thomas Clam Bar in harwich

[goyguy]

Originally Posted by Dunderhead

TT-The Bear, Anthony’s Pier 4, Jimmy’s Harborside, Our House, Grendel’s Den, Daisy Buchanan’s,

These places are still in existence!
As for a bar on Comm. Ave headed east just before the overpass...drawing a blank on that one. The place along there that's late and lamented, though, is the Dugout. It was once in an apartment-house basement in the first block west of Warren Towers. And farther up, on the same side of the street but before the Pike, once stood Kangaroos. That was one of my preferred places to hang after night classes at BU - until it burned and never reopened.

[Dunderhead]

Originally Posted by goyguy

These places are still in existence!
As for a bar on Comm. Ave headed east just before the overpass...drawing a blank on that one. The place along there that's late and lamented, though, is the Dugout. It was once in an apartment-house basement in the first block west of Warren Towers. And farther up, on the same side of the street but before the Pike, once stood Kangaroos. That was one of my preferred places to hang after night classes at BU - until it burned and never reopened.

Thanks! I'm a BU alum, so I remember the Dugout. Many of the US hockey team members (Mike Eruzione, et al) used to hang there. They had Oh, Canada on the jukebox.

Mal's Deli was near the Dugout, but that's gone, too, I think. Mal looked like Kramer on Seinfeld.

[Dunderhead]

Oh, as far as TT the Bear's is concerned, it was a restaurant and bar when I was in Boston. Mid 70s to early 80s.

[maggiekate]

Question? any Boston person recall on Rte 1 the place that had telephones? on each table?
as in 1970?It was in saugus! and really nice then!

[CityGirl52]

Maggiekate,

The name of the place on Rte 1 was the "Flamingo Lounge" and you're right, they had telephones on each table for "dial a dance" roundevous! I was never inside the place, but I remember driving by it all the time when we'd be on Rte 1. I remember as a kid being fascinated by that place, of course by the time I could get IN to that type of a place it disappeared! Although I think a few of my friends might have been in there because they were just as curious as me about it! What a walk down memory lane wondering about THAT place! It changed to SO many different places, I think it was called the Blue Star after that? If that's the same place and location, although I think it might be! I have NO idea what's there now, I never look over that way when I'm on Rte 1.

Remember Augustine's along Rte 1? There was a little old lady there with blue hair who played an organ on the stage or was I dreaming it! I distinctly remember her, I don't know why! That place was priceless, too bad they had to go & tear it down, they had great food there, remember?

What about Vallee's steakhouse, NOT the Hilltop that every one and their mother went to, but remember there was a Vallee's along Rte 1 too? The Town Line House? I remember there pecan rolls, I don't know why I'm thinking of those things, they just popped up in my head! They were good, nothing spectacular, you can make them at home, but when you had one there? I don't know, there was just something about them....that place is now Spinelli's....(whatever!!), it's doing quite well it seems!

There used to be this pizza place down along the Lynn marsh road from the Revere rotary, I forget the name of that road, but the pizza place when I was really young? My parents used to take us there after being on the beach all day in Nahant, it was called 'Peter's Pizza' and NO one and I mean NO one was ever there! By that I mean, you hardly ever saw a car in the parking lot, EVER! My sisters & brothers and I think that's why my parents liked it, we could always go there and sit at one of their tables. Well I just found out on one of the blogs online that it was a bookie joint, no wonder! People would stop on the way to and from Boston to place bets there! Isn't that funny! The guy that managed the place obviously was the bookie or the middle man, he was able to see a long way in both directions so if the cops came they had time to get rid of the betting slips! I could NOT stop laughing at that one. I wondered why my mother, (yes my mother NOT my father!) liked it there so much, she was most likely placing a few bets while we were there. Too funny....

[Dunderhead]

Does anyone remember Miguel's in Marblehead (I think that was the name.)?

Is it true that he moved to Vermont and started the salsa company Green Mtn. Gringo (made in N.C., boo, hiss)?