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Sheryl A Kozens-Long Joseph Medeiros was the developer of Beagle Lane.... The son of Jesse Medeiros who's farm land it was originally... Joe and his brother in law Gilbert Costa, and a close Family friend Francis Barrett were beagle breeders and field trial handlers as well as hunters, the original plan was to build the street around the Family concept and have the ability to have kennels and dogs to run and train beagles... So it became a reality... It became beagle lane.., later the three of them became part of the founding fathers of the "beagle club" in east falmouth... The story .., Jesse Medeiros was my great grandfather .., Joe was my uncle ... Gilbert was my grandfather.. We have been there since 1785.., but I'm just ignorant! ************************************************************************************* Matthew Harlow Before the operators worked out of the building across from the Fire Station they worked out of the Building that houses Eight Cousins Bookstore. Across from the Elizabeth Theater- now Maxwells...my mother worked the switchboard there pre-1950... 7 hours ago via mobile · Like · 2 ****************************************************************************************************************** Sheryl A Kozens-Long The red cinderblock building now is Teaticket Market... When my grandfather retired from NOAH he worked there for fun... For George Marks and his wife Bernice. They were great town people... It was more like the local hangout than a store! Chit chatting local politics etc! Yup... Remember it well! 8 hours ago via mobile · Like · 2 Sheryl A Kozens-Long I think Bryan Anderson did a great job though!! 8 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1 Bob Gillis Bought many a six pack there...... 7 hours ago · Like · 1 Jan Heckler Souweine And, before it was the liquor store, his wife, Bernice, had a shoe store there. The house was the where George Marks grew up. Bernice was a mentor of mine for many years. 6 hours ago · Like ********************************************************************************************* Otis M Porter Anne, there was also a seasonal post office in a small building where the present Falmouth Heights Motor Lodge is now . There was Leo a mall donut shop to the side of the P.O. about an hour ago via mobile · Like · 1 Ruth Gardner Penna I loved that donut shop...on sundays the line would be out the door and I could smell the donuts at my house. YUM! *********************************************************************************** on Dugan-Henriksen My family called this "Buck's" because our down street neighbor Bill Buck ran it at one time. I remember the McTiernan's running it later on. At Halloween they gave out full size Hershey bars if we went to their house..which of course we always did. I guess the last ones to own this before it burned were Rick Lemoine and his partner Brian (can't recall his last name). I also recall that Mrs. Kenyon kept camps out back that she rented in the summer, and there was also a big barn on the property. about a minute ago via mo **************************************************************************************************** Matthew Harlow Bennie switched to Getty later... Benny Bevelander... Great guy... Dropped my sister's bug convertible off the lift once here though... But made it good... One of my dad's good friends. Always had some Blackberry Brandy to take a nip of when it was cold and snowy...I also remember the Coke machine dispensed cans of beer if you knew which slot to press. Now one of Hadem (sp?) owned stations. Corner of Dillingham & Davis Straights... 2 minutes ago via mobile · Like · 1 Jo**************************************************************************************************************** Does anybody remember a bar and a few other business across from Joes Driving range. When the buildings were torn down there was a car dealership there until the present driftwood plaza which had papa Pete's and now dunkin donuts. It was in the 50s the bar was there and as a young kid I remember it to be a scary place. I think Cabrals gas station was next to it. Like · · Follow Post · Share · about an hour ago near Falmouth Dickie Stone likes this. Dickie Stone Manny it was the Beer barrel!! about an hour ago · Like Manny Dias That sound familiar. Do know of any other business in that plaza. about an hour ago via mobile · Like Dickie Stone nope, after that was the village café and Charlie Roderick took the license from the beer barrel and opened Zacks! about an hour ago · Like Manny Dias Thanks about an hour ago via mobile · Like Dickie Stone I mean down the street from the beer barrel next to teaticket hardware was the village café about an hour ago · Like Matthew Harlow Yeah...Barbosa's Beer Barrel about an hour ago via mobile · Like Manny Dias I remember the village cafe until it change to the Cafe Amaro then blew up. I have a picture I have to find which was taken from the Bakery of the fire ball in the sky when it blew up *************************************************************************************************************** about an hour ago · Like Jan Freeman Very well...Nancy (Burrough's) Barry grandfather owned it...My Aunt (Marion Zylinski') used to take lunch to her husband (Uncle Ski)...who worked there...we walked thru what used to be a cranberry bog...and as a small child I would go with her... about an hour ago · Like Charlie Chaz Tavares if i remember right that hole mall is build on what used to be the cranberry bog & i beleave hazelton"s auto salvage was in the same area. about an hour ago · Like Jan Freeman You know where the Bank is...That used to be my Father's Homestead...and below that was the salvage area...probably contaminated the cranberry bogs back then... about an hour ago · Like Jan Freeman I used to go ice skating on the bogs... about an hour ago · Like Charlie Chaz Tavares jan i knew just where it was i think that is where i first meant all three guys & i must say you can not ask for better people. about an hour ago · Like Debby Rabesa Going up Spring Bars Rd towards Maravista, just before the concrete products there was kind of a sand pit on the right. In the 60's we used to party down in there. Oh geez! Lol 44 minutes ago via mobile · Like **************************************************************** Otis M Porter Yes, it was where the Bank of America is now. Where Friendlys is now was Peters Package Store. Friendlys had been in the Plaza area itself. Peters Package had been on Main St in a now gone building about where Celebrations is currently. 2 hours ago via mobile · Like Judy Lubrano I loved there burgers!! about an hour ago via mobile · Like Otis M Porter Now the puddle has moved up to Nye Rd and Main St! 33 minutes ago via mobile · Like ************************************************************************** It was HV Lawrence Feeds maybe when that photo was taken. The Eldridges bought it in 1969 or so. Fern and Jeff are still selling antiques up in New Hampshire. 8 hours ago · Like · 2 Abigail Quinn My aunt and uncle owned it when it burned. I grew up as a kid running around in there everyday, reading books in the hay bales, and helping out in the pet shop everyday, and my mom also worked there. I was a little kid. My dad was on the fire dept and when we heard the calls go out for it that night....my parents looked so scared, it was the worst feeling ever. When i went down there to see it burn when he went to the call, i was all of like....8 years old. The boston news had this long shot of me sobbing on the train tracks in my puffy white coat all covered in ash. My name is disguised on FB b/c my husband is military, but my family has never been the same since. It was a terrible day for all of us....and for many years forward. We all cared so deeply for that place. 7 hours ago via mobile · Like · 2 Matthew Harlow Yes...Lawrence's owned this...and the feed& grain general store on Main St. Beside the village school.. ****************************************************************** Otis M Porter The A&P was where Ghelfi's is on Main St. Later it moved to a new location and building where the Windfall Mkt is today. The Economy Store (a precursor to the Stop & Shop) was about where the stores to the left of Puritan Clothing is now, which is an entirely new building. Hollis Lovell's Ten Acres store was where the Fence Rail, later the Rosie Cheeks were. I can't remember what's there now. 33 minutes ago via mobile · Like Otis M Porter Burroughs Corp had some kind of secret work that went on the the old First National grocery store building. When I started at the police department in 1964, the guard would have to call in every 2 hours to report that everything was okay. Nobody could get in there. I don't remember if Sears went in aft or encore Burroughs Corp. ********************************************************************** Otis M Porter Ten Acres was the grocery store owned by Hollis Lovell featuring SS Pierce foods next to the current Christian Science reading room on Main St. That reading room was Ermine Lovell's real estate office for years before it went to Peachtree Circle on Sippewissett Rd. about an hour ago via mobile · Like Otis M Porter The Stop and Shop was the Economy which was a former name of S&S in the 30's and 40's. It was about where the old Newberry's was which is the Puritan Clothing block about an hour ago via mobile · Like Otis M Porter The Karalekas's had their grocery store where Dick Stone's is. Tsiknas's grocery was two doors west from the Indian restaurant on Main St about an hour ago via mobile · Like ********************************************************************************* I worked at Falmouth Gardens part time for over 8 years. Best fruit and produce in town. I got spoiled with the quality of fruit. All you can buy are rocks now. "Old John" would pick out your fruit for you. No one touched it. No bruises, ready to eat. They hanad fruit , produce, canned goods, beer and wine. They purchased E.E.C. Swift Co and added meats and liquor. Later closed up and built the block of stores where the Radio Shack. They ran the package store which was in the middle of the block. about a minute ago · Like **********************************************************************************************

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On August 4, the DeCicco family of Bourne announced that the land they own located on the Cape side of the Bourne Bridge will again be known as Bourne Village Heights, the highest parcel of land in Bourne Village. In 1963 the Family purchased the 152 acres and adjoining motel “the Panorama Motor Lodge and a horse barn later to become the “Way Station” night club. The DeCicco family had held the properties under the company umbrella “Bourne Village Heights Inc. Longtime Upper Cape residents may recall Panorama Fair Grounds for the Circuses, Carnivals, Horse shows, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and many other community events including Dirt Bike, ATV events and Paintball held on the half-mile horse race track and wooded land adjacent to the Bourne Water Tower, the DeCicco have never charged any group who wanted to use their land to do something good for our town.

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Photo 1 of 2 | View Enlarged Photo see picture in aa falmouth Jane and Edward DeGagne Pair met at the opening night of the Falmouth USO, where one dance led to a lifetime together. Cape Cod Times/Merrily Lunsford September 23, 2007 BOURNE — Ask Jane DeGagne when she first met her husband and round brown eyes begin to sparkle behind thick lenses. A dreamy smile appears on her face. At age 90, the spark is still there for Jane and her husband, Edward. Related Stories WWII stories lost, but not forgotten "We met at the Falmouth USO just before he shipped overseas," she said. Born in Wareham and raised in Bourne, Jane DeGagne was one of dozens of young Cape women who volunteered at the USOs scattered about the Cape, built at the start of World War II as places homesick young GIs could go for some innocent companionship and entertainment. "We had dances some nights. We played cards other nights. And there was a soda fountain where you could get a cup of coffee and maybe a little food," she recalled. Falmouth and Bourne began building their USOs at about the same time, but Falmouth finished first, a building where the Gus Canty building now stands. So Jane and her friends decided to go there for a dance one evening. "Life was different then," she said. "There was still a lot of innocence." When they arrived, there were few people there. A live band played at one end of the hall. No sooner had the girls shed their coats than a soldier came up and asked Jane to dance. "Would I ever," Jane recalled, laughing. "This tall, handsome GI. My knight in shining armor." Edward DeGagne was a tall, slender young man raised in Westford, a small town near Ayer. He took one look at Jane — who was taller than most of her friends — and decided she was the perfect dance partner. They danced. They danced some more. Another girl "tagged in to take my place," said Jane, frowning even now at the memory some 64 years later. "I let her have that dance, then I tagged back in. She came up a little while later and tapped my shoulder but we ignored her and danced over to another corner of the floor and danced the rest of the night together." The two were smitten, but Jane does not call it was "love at first sight." "Ed came to visit me not long afterwards. He and a friend walked from Camp Edwards to Bourne where I lived with my parents. It was a frigid night. There was snow. But they walked all that way." Before leaving, he promised to call her. But that call never came. A few days later, as she was working in the Buzzards Bay bank, across from the railroad station, "I heard one of the troop trains pulling out. I knew Ed was on it. Can't tell you how, but I just knew," she said. Over the next few years Jane continued to work in the bank and volunteer at the USO where she met "a lot of interesting young men from all over the country. I probably would not have met so many interesting people except for that." "During the war years, there weren't any men around except for those young soldiers, old men and young boys. All the fellows we knew went off to war," she said. "And once the fellows from the base shipped out, you just never saw any young men around." She and Ed exchanged mail intermittently over the next four years. "I didn't have any expectations," she said. "I hadn't met anyone like him, that's true. But marriage wasn't on my mind then, least not that I was aware of. Ed went out with women over there. I know that. But as he later told me, he was determined to come back and marry an American girl, one particular American girl." Ed served as a surgical assistant and was posted first in Iceland and then later in England for the duration of the war. But not long after the war ended, Ed called. "He wanted to see me, but he wouldn't come down until he had a new suit. He ordered a new suit and I had to wait until it arrived for him to visit," Jane said. "Finally that new suit arrived and so did Ed." They married a few months later. "I met a lot of nice young men during the war. But none of them were like Ed." she said. "I think with Ed and me, well our spirits just melded that first time and it's been the same ever since.

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But the Filene brothers were also known for their adeptness at opening branch stores, including one in Falmouth in 1920, Providence in 1922 and Hyannis in 1923. “The store on Queen's Buyway went year-round at Christmas 1940. They had to winterize (the circa 1925 Cape Cod building). With soldiers coming to Camp Edwards (the East Coast's largest World War II mobilization base), there were such limited shopping availabilities,” Lisicky says. Post-war, the Falmouth Filene's closed in 1947 and business transferred to the Hyannis store, which had opened year-round in 1943 and remained open until Filene's moved to Cape Cod Mall when it o

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pics aaa new photos x Mike Crew mike.crew@gmail.com Oct 13 (3 days ago) to me oods Hole's architectural marvel Text Size: A | A | A Print this Article Email this ArticleShareThis Buy This Photo Photo 1 of 6 | View Enlarged Photo Max Burger sits in the circular living room of the Airplane House, a Woods Hole landmark on Juniper Point overlooking Vineyard Sound that he has owned since 1978. The Prairie School-style house was built almost 100 years ago and is considered one of the greatest works of architects William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Cape Cod Times By PAUL NEEDHAM paul.e.needham@gmail.com August 16, 2009 WOODS HOLE — A few minutes before the Steamship Authority ferry arrives at its dock here, those passengers who choose to stand on its starboard side for the voyage from Martha's Vineyard are rewarded with a one-two punch of sorts. Just after they see Nobska Lighthouse, one of Cape Cod's most storied attractions, they see one of the area's most revered buildings: the Airplane House. As airplanes go, the house looks more like something that the Wright brothers would have flown than a jumbo jet. It is a low but wide wooden structure that sits, almost ready to take off, on the end of Juniper Point. It is as much a part of Woods Hole Passage as the ferries. And that's because, while the house is built of wood and has a shingled roof, it has almost nothing else in common with other homes on the Cape. Designed by architects William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie in 1911 or 1912, the house is an important example of Prairie School architecture and is widely considered among Purcell and Elmslie's best work. Had the original owners had their way, though, the house would have been nothing more than a prefabricated cabin. When Charles Crane, a philanthropist who would go on to be ambassador to China, first met with Purcell to discuss the project, he asked for a $600 "portable house" to be built in Woods Hole for his daughter and son-in-law. As they talked about the project, though, it became clear that the family would require more space than such a house could provide. And so, according to an account he published several decades later, Purcell returned to his office, where Elmslie told him, "Leave that to me. I know just what they want." Indeed he did. The architects presented Crane with three proposals — everyone agreed that the third plan was the best and few changes were ordered. The construction was finished in just six months, at a cost of $30,000. The house stayed in the family until 1948. Its current owner, Max Burger, purchased the property in 1978. At that time, Burger said in an interview, the house was "in absolute shambles." During the '60s, Burger said, "all the drugs were here." Cigarettes were put out on the semi-circular living room's oak floors. "Not one window which was closed could be opened," he said, "and not one window which was opened could be closed." So Burger, who once taught at Princeton University and is now a professor of biochemistry at the University of Basel in Switzerland, set off to restore the house. Over the years, he's had a new roof installed and storm windows built. He consulted with a Harvard professor to determine the house's shingles are Southern cyprus. Periodically, he has new shingles put on the house that match the original ones. Burger spent years designing a new sectional sofa for the living room, made of some 2,540 pieces of oak and built to look like it could have been designed by Purcell and Elmslie or even the great Prairie School architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. "It's been great fun," Burger said as he recounted the hours he spent working with artists to restore the home's signature stained glass windows. Burger said his one "crime" against the house was a bathroom he added on the second floor. Still, not much has changed in the seven-bedroom home. The Steinway piano on the first floor is thought to be the same one that was there when the construction finished nearly a century ago. It's still tough to tell which door is the front door, since there are four entrances that are each somewhat hidden. And, most important, the house still has incomparable views from Nobska Light to Woods Hole, punctuated by the ferry traffic that passes the house all day. The home is occasionally available for rent, at a charge of $15,000 per week. But, for the most part, the house is Burger's. And he plans to keep it that way, with a trust set up so it will stay in the family after his death. 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