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|  Can you name the location? The Paramount Theater.....Main Street, North Adams. Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 What was the Year? 1936 What was the Season? Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 Can you name the location? Main St.----North Adams, Ma. Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 Can you name the location? Main St.----North Adams, Ma. Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 What was the Season? winter Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 Can you name the location? Paramount Theatre/ Main St NA Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 What was the Year? 1940 What was the Season? Comments... Posted: 02/20/2002 Comments... North Adams holds many great memories for many people. When I visit I get very sad at what it become. There isn't much to come back to. Main Street looks like aghost town. Posted: 08/08/2002 Comments... I too, was one of the lucky ones to have grown up in North Adams. The 40's and 50's in North Adams were wonderful!...Now I live less than 20 miles away, but I never stop because of the sadness I feel because they tore the heart right out of the City. The beautiful buildings are gone, Center Street and Main Street are forever changed. My childhood memories are all that I have and I ask myself why did that ever happen? Posted: 01/27/2003 Comments... I was a teenager in the 50's also. I remember Rices Drug Store and Ames where everybody stopped afterschool. You could always find people (mainly boys) hanging out on Rice's corner. Saturday night was usually Movie night and maybe you were lucky enough to have a date to go with. No drugs and child molesters were heard of; at least not like they are now. We really were not afraid to go out walking at night in our local neighborhoods. When I tell my children about the 50's they think I am talking about a strange land, not North Adams, This picture really does bring back good memories. Posted: 01/27/2003 Comments... Sure was the good ol days.I grew up in the late 40s and all the 50s also. Remember the Richmond Theater? And the old Richmond Hotel.I took tap dancing and ballet lesons there. Posted: 01/28/2003 Comments... I grew up in this great city too, I graduated from Drury in 61.....I remember Ed's Diner and playing the pin ball machine....Rice's Drug Store...Joe's Hot Dog .....loved to go down street and just walk around...get a soda....see the sights....I've been gone for a long time....but I'll never forget my childhood in North Adams....it was awesome!!!! Posted: 01/31/2003 Comments... Paramount Theater. As a youngster I went to the Saturday afternoon cartoons. AS a teenager I went to the regular movies (if my parents could afford to give me the money for the ticket and popcorn). I remember driving down Main Street checking who was out and then stopping at Anes where the Spectacle Shop is now. That was a local hangout as well as Candyland at the other end of Main Street. Their Chocolate cokes and hot fudge sundaes were delicious. I agree that the 50's were a wonderful time to be a teenager. As a young adult I went shopping on Thursday night. Main Street and Eagle Street were lined with nice stores and we certainly spent our money in them. Recently I visited Greenfield and was in awe of the main street. It was just like North Adams used to be, all stores. Wilson's department store is still thriving. We can't shop unless we go to the Mall and the only decent stores are Pennys and Filenes. Too bad we can't bring back the fifties mentality. Posted: 08/12/2003 What was the Year? 1940 What was the Season? Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 08/12/2003 What was the Year? 1937 Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 08/12/2003 Can you name the location? Main St. North Adams Comments... Posted: 08/13/2003 Comments... How about 10 cents a ticket AND loads of free gifts located on the stage. If your ticket was called you could win various games and even bicycles. Those were the days. Posted: 08/14/2003 What was the Year? 1948 What was the Season? Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 02/28/2005 Comments... I can remember mothers leaving their little kids in strollers and carriages out side Newberrys while they shopped. Sometimes 6 or 8 of them at a time. No one worried about them, and no one would even think about taking one. That was in the 40 s and 50 s I also took dancing lessons at the old Richmond Hotel. Posted: 07/25/2008 Comments... LOVE THESE OLD PHOTO'S OF NORTH ADAMS! Posted: 05/01/2010 Comments... Who remembers the Center in the old Richmond Hotel. Who played pinball in the old smoke shop and Jacks hotdog stand till they got thrown out for winning too many games. Who remembers the old YMCA and Mr.George St. Piere (SP) Sorry. Taught me to swim! We had Candy Land and Rices, Pops and The Spudick shop along with Nevilles. We had Molly's bakery and Delego's dinners even though it moved at least 3 times . We had a train station and buses that took us everywhere we needed to go. There were jobs to be had by those who wished to work.. it's sad what has happened to NA. The loss of neighborhood schools and intramural sports, safe places for kids to play and get to know each other but they say this is progress. Would someone PLEASE tell me whats so good about it now! Posted: 01/30/2011 Comments... In response to the last comment "Would someone PLEASE tell me whats [sic] so good about it (NA) now!" let me add the following: there are many wonderful restaurants such as Taylor's, Freightyard Pub, The Hub, Boston Seafoods, the Richmond Grille (in the Holiday Inn), Gramercy, RUB, Lickety-Split, Petrino's, Brew-Ha-Ha, Elf Parlor, the Sushi House, not to mention many pizza parlors, all downtown. The internationally-renowned MASS MoCA museum draws 100,000 visitors annually. If you're interested in our great past (rightly so) we have the impressive North Adams Museum of History and Science and the Visitors Museum (on the Hoosac Tunnel) both in Western Gateway Heritage State Park. Shoppers come from miles away to Persnickety Toys and Shima's (both for children)and to Tala's Quilts; local artistic creations are for sale on Main Street, Holden Street and at the renovated Eclipse Mill on Union Street. We are home to the SteepleCats of the NECBL and have excellent recreational facilities at Windsor Lake, Alcombright Field, Joe Wolfe/DiSanti/Noel Field and the Peter Foote Vietnam Veterans Rink. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. By the way Jack's Hot Dogs and many wonderful people, long-time residents and enthusiastic newcomers, can still be found in North Adams. Posted: 03/19/2011 Comments... Im not that old only been in this area for about 4 years now and this place, RUINED alot of it history with urban renewal. I look at the plaza and thinks its a waste. I love the past and wish I could have seen NA in its heydey. Im a child of the 80s, most this gone before my time, but still I have always felt that I was born in the wrong era. Posted: 09/06/2011 Comments... And you can thank the Bianco adminstration for the so called urban renewal. We lost some great buildings to the pile of eye sores we have now. Posted: 09/09/2011 What was the Season? winter Can you name any of the people? Can you name the location? Comments... Posted: 02/21/2012 |
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