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latest...
but that is it......BUT this one... well, we are all emailing back and
forth today and crying..... we are homesick!!... and you did it.. lol...You
bet I will be checking back again daily... and if you don't update
daily, then I will check back weekly.
Got to go, just remember two more...to forward your site to..my
cousin and niece..they are in Florida. So you are making the
rounds. And Ray...... thank you... for a lovely day of home.
Love your site...a misplaced Middletown, Rhode Islander... in
Idaho...."
Cis Gors (Visit
her Blog at: www.wordtosser.blogspot.com)
A Must Visit!
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"Thank you for the remembrances of
the 60's...though I'm not that old, I do remember some of these as a
young child. Not for nothin, but you left out three very important parts
of childhood in Rhode Island in the 60's...
1. Luke's downtown (usually called "Poison Luke's). A dollar for a
chopsuey/chow mein sandwich!! Ordered as, "Ok, I need two
chopsueychowmeinmixsangwiches..." And for mom and dad, the Luau
Hut. RI's only tiki restaurant.
2. Vallee's Steak House, Airport Road. You got dressed up to go eat
there. Big leather booths.
3. Brodsky's toy store, right next to Bob's Big Boy in Garden City
(where Chelo's and Panera bread is now.) The logo of Brodsky's had a big
B in the shape of a baby's butt!
Ahh, good times..."
Edward McGinley ed.mcginley@gmail.com
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"What a great site. I
received word of this site from my wife (NH) who got it from my sister (FLA)
who got it from her son (Tenn). I have been living in NH for the past 16
years, having lived in RI for previous 37. I still visit RI many times a
year but was still brought down memory lane by your website.
I lived in Providence for the first 20 something years of my life. Went
to St Michaels for 8 years and on to La Salle for High School. Cole's
Ice Cream Parlor. Bessies right next door. The Jewish Deli ?? on Broad
St right next to the Jewish Temple with the Havah (sic?) candies and big
barrels of pickles and PICKLED GREEN TOMATOES!! Thorpes Drugstore with
Coffee Cabinets and Oreo Cookies. Riding bikes to Roger Williams Park.
Jumbo the elephant, and the monkeys and crocs, and the smell. The
museum, bird house, Japanese gardens. Free concerts at the Temple to
Music in the early 70's. Hookying the freight trains that used to run by
the elephant house on down to Allens Av. RI Reds games at the
Auditorium. One of the previous entries on your site mentioned Ten Years
After and Humble Pie. I was at that concert. RI Aud. Someone threw a
bottle or something at one of the members of Ten Years After and Alvin
Lee started singing "I'm going home, to see my baby, I'm going home
and I ain't ever coming back to this two bit town." and walked off
the stage. What a letdown... Also saw Steppenwolf, Santana, Jethro Tull,
Black Sabbath, and Chicago at the Auditorium. The day after the Chicago
concert they played a free concert at the Roger Williams Projects. I was
there and remembering being one of the only white people, save the band,
in attendance. I did grow up in that neighborhood.
Well, I just wanted to let you know how your site effected me. Even
though I still go back to RI probably 8 times a year, I have not really
reminisced. I still drink coffee milk btw but it is not Eclipse."
Thanks,
Bill Maguire
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"Congratulations on a "most
excellent" website. Since someone emailed the address to me, I've
emailed it to many others. I cannot begin to tell you about the flood of
memories it brought on! Thanks so much!"
Wig Sherman
Cranston HSE '64 wig@mac.com
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