Videodes, Episode 1: Disappearing Americana along Route 1 in Saugus and Lynnfield. By Scott LaPierre
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@phildavies90824 жыл бұрын
I'm from England, My first car ride in The USA in 1963 was down Route 1 from Logan Airport to Route 128 at night. I was 8 years old and knew right then and there that I was going to love America.
@joeybarrows37975 жыл бұрын
Now the ships gone too☹️
@nickybarrasso40104 жыл бұрын
Lived in Saugus 1984 to 2003...just in those 19 years...we lost Red Coach Grill, Hilltop, Valles Steakhouse, Full of Bull, Augustine's, Russo's candy house, the Ship, Town Line House, Rt.1 Golf...the old Rt.1 is just a memory...Sad
@lovemyfurrkids34623 жыл бұрын
When did Red Coach Grill Close?
@nickybarrasso40103 жыл бұрын
@@lovemyfurrkids3462 late 70's...the property now has Kelly's Roast Beef after a couple of business were in that spot
@valeriethornblade94663 жыл бұрын
Jolly Jorges
@golfmanmatt2 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about Full of Bull being gone. Southbound where McDonalds is now
@nickybarrasso40102 жыл бұрын
@@golfmanmatt Full of Bull had great fried seafood & better RB than Kelly's.
@Jellofreeze2 жыл бұрын
'Weylu's' at the top of the cliff deserves an honorable mention. It was very much part of the Rt 1 experience.
@richardrivers14095 жыл бұрын
Well said.I was born in chelsea ,and places along rt1 as well as revere beach is where I spent a lot of my free time. Most of the places are gone ,but as I grow older and have less future to look ahead I can drift back more often and remember the great times I had
@Jericholic9142 жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@jonathansabinvarietyfilms5 ай бұрын
Very nicely made Scott, THAT'S filmmaking 🙌
@garyhogan95974 жыл бұрын
Grew up in Lynn. My father worked during my youth at The Arcade Bizarre and The GEM store ( one of the first ever "Club Membership " discount stores as a second job to his full time job at Stop & Shop. WE went to the Kiddie Ranch small amusement Park along Route 1 a lot also. SO yes Route 1 certainly has many fond memories . Oh what about Adventure Car Hop ? I moved to Texas in 1976 and every time I do get back I drive Route 1 and yes saddened that most of all my childhood memories are now gone.
@TheAnnabelle713 жыл бұрын
Thanks for remembering the Adventure Car Hop, Gary. This was on the northbound side of Route 1 at the Saugus Rotary. It's been gone a long time..
@petersalem24335 жыл бұрын
My dad would take my mom and me for Sunday dinner,which could be anywhere from the old Vallee´s steakhouse to The Ship in Lynnfield to Augustines(which I just dont remember was located in Lynnfield or Saugus)> Not to mention the Hilltop Steak House. All gone...........
@davidg91674 жыл бұрын
Augustine's was in Saugus. Current location of Jimmy's Steak House
@howardkoor27964 жыл бұрын
Well said. Thank u
@maroon92739 ай бұрын
Route 1 use to be a thriving, mystique and fun place. Now, it is boring and its mystique is dying slowly with condos popping up.
@Bstn021523 жыл бұрын
Great memories will always miss my Hilltop lobster pie & the best salad❤️
@wagzzzz3 жыл бұрын
Omg, I always got the lobster pie. Never had steak there,lol
@howardkoor27964 жыл бұрын
Memories Several times a year my whole family, grandparents and all, climbed into two cars and made the drive up Route 1 to the Hilltop Steakhouse. The world whizzed by us from the back seat of my grandfather’s big, black Chrysler Imperial. Large garish road signs of all colors and shapes sprung up from the ground reaching toward the sky. Someday, anthropologists will have a field day discussing this terrain, but for a 12-year-old in the late '60s, it all blended into one colorful mosaic of place. I don’t remember my family eating anyplace else but Hilltop, except perhaps Valle’s Steak House if Hilltop looked too crowded. Hilltop was famous for what was planted on its lengthy strip of green grass; dozens of life-sized plastic cows and a 68 foot neon cactus sign that was straight out of Las Vegas…. No matter how fast one’s car barreled down the highway, you couldn’t miss that sign, and I bet that many a child had pet names for the plastic cows. Arriving at the event called Hilltop, we all piled out of our cars, received our hand written number from the hostess, and waited with hundreds of other suburbanite families in a long covered porch a stone’s throw from the highway. To relieve our boredom, my brother and I chased each other amongst the crowd and the adults talked adult stuff. It seemed like forever before our number came up, but it eventually did. We then were lead to and seated in a cavernous western-motif-of-a-room named “Kansas City.” As we settled into our high back, vinyl-upholstered booth, a spunky middle-aged waitress would quickly approach our table to take our orders. Dad, the alpha-male, made small-talk with the waitress-of-the-day. I always felt so proud that he (and vicariously, we) made that connection, however momentary it was. All around us, loud chatter echoed through the vast wood-paneled room. We witnessed dozens of waitresses scurrying about, gracefully balancing large silver trays covered with a dozen steak-plated meals. Hilltop was suburban theater at its best. We weren't just chewing on a good steak. We were feeding together in this cavern-of-a-room with 500 other grazers.
@howardkoor27964 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the same music that played in Midnight Cowboy
@CaptainLumpyDog7 жыл бұрын
Rte 1, we hardly knew ye.
@maroon92732 жыл бұрын
It is different and not as mystique and independent as back in the days.
@skeletoncable2 жыл бұрын
Yeah man, this is it. Some might have called it kitsch, but in reality, it was a kind of eccentric individuality that was exciting -- A far cry from the cookie-cutter stores from today. Look at the sense of loss as the landmarks recede -- the cactus, the Ship, the 'thar she blows!' of Yoken's, Diamond Head. What will replace the emptying big box stores that sears the mind that way? Surely not the seasonal Hallowe'en Town.
@maroon92732 жыл бұрын
Everything is changing into condos and mainstream businesses instead of local/independent business.