Marshfield, MA. Concord Stage Coach built in
1855
South Shore Hospital, Summer Street, Marshfield
Hills circa 1920
Marshfield Fair circa 1930's
Downtown Marshfield, 1940
I hope to obtain more information from family members
to add to this " Walk Through the Past ".
I want to thank Bob Cheeseman for allowing me to use his research
and memories
of Marshfield, Massachusetts.
These are some of his, Bob Cheeseman, memories of a place
he calls home " Marshfield ".
Home was seeing Ollie Pratt, Bud Nagle and Mr. Rhodes, pushing the shopping cart down the back ramp at the first national store.
Stores and Business:
Hubbard’s Cupboard (Glen Hubbard, Al Khoury)
Stedman’s Stores
Jim’s pizza shop
Buds and Toabe’s Hardware Stores
Reed's Ark
Butners and Feinbergs Clothing Store
Jordan’s Pharmacy
Duca’s 5 and 10 store
Checker Board
Inn at Main and Ferry Street
Donut Shop next to Tot’s and Teens
Greens Ice Cream store at South River and Main Streets
Green Harbor General Store
The Fix It Shop next to the A&W Root Beer Stand
Frisbie’s Plumbing and Heating Company and the school buses that he had.
Slims Repair Shop
Marshfield Company Store 1910
This is a picture of what later was called Reed's Ark
Auctioneers in town were Dick Holliday, and Tory Little, auctioneering the land in Kent Park.
The Whitebrick Family ran the Airport, and the grass runway.
Burt Taylor landing his sea plane in the south river behind Thompson’s insurance (now 1 St. Stop Coffee Shop)
Garages:
Patch Chevrolet
Sinnots Oldsmobile
Andersons in the Hills
The Seaview garage on Summer Street
Gratto’s station in the center
Sonny Oxner's station
Ben Carty had a station in the center and the new one on Ocean Street
Phillips 66 Gas station on Ocean and Webster Street and Link Davis Gas Station by the park
Trading Post (now the Gulf Station on route 139)
Connor’s junkyard on Plain Street
Schools:
South River was the only Grade school in town, the schoolroom at the Alamo, the room above the old library (now Hancock paint store) and the one above the old town hall (now the Superintendent of Schools Office), It took for ever to get home from school. There was only a couple of routes back then, North and South.
John Flavell’s Barn and the School Buses...School Bus Drivers- Jack Schutt, Bob Hayes, Slim Garside, Dick Frisbee.
Fire Department:
Mort Leonard’s fire car, Frank Simmons, Louie Cipullo, Cliff Hunt, Beanie Colamore, Slim Garside, Ted Reeves, Harold Powell, Ennie Bourne, Egar Simmons, Mike Hevey, Al Handy. The Old Fire station had to be move out back to build the 1957 Fire Station.
(there are actually three Fire Stations all in one building now)
Telephone Service:
The old Telephone Company on Main Street, there was party lines then and numbers like 894-J, Temple 4-8945, 834-9489, 837-3709.
Police Department:
Chief Frank Sinnott
Charlie Sinnott
William Sullivan
Carl Held
Slim Garside
Danny Dunn
Dick Brightman
Lindy Cubbeck
Buddy Rien
Bob Frugoli
John McGowan
Bob Kelly
Charlie Chaplin
John Roderick
John Murphy
Don Ryan
Jack Wood
The station was on Dyke Road and The Police and Fire Dispatcher was Percy Robinson.
Barbershops:
Wiley’s on Webster Street
Tom’s on Ocean Street
Restaurants:
The Webster Room
Ranch House
Duplex’s
Sands
Beacon
A&W Root Beer
Standys
Moonbeam
Studleys
Farms:
Marteriner’s Chicken Farm (now Pine Area’s)
Tony Carchia’s Farm
Peregrine White’s Farm
Ma & Pa Hayes Farm
Dwyer’s Farm
Cows on Union Street, Ferry Street
Fish Farm on Spring Street
The State Pheasant Farm and the pond out back
Peregrine White Farm Stand
Lumber Yards:
Taylor’s
Deman Baker’s
Foster’s
Copeland’s
Grossman’s
Televisions:
We had none. We listened to a radio and in latter years we finally got a television and I remember watching the Friday night fights with my Father.
Refrigerators:
We dug a hole in the ground and had a metal box were we would keep the food, the ground was damp and cool and we use to put something heavy on top of it to keep the animals out. Then we got an icebox.
Water:
We had our own wells up to 1960 when we got town water. I remember having to prime the pump to get the water started, we also had rain barrels to catch the rain water for watering the garden and etc.
Heat:
We had a fire place, and kerosene kitchen stoves I remember going out side to a big barrel with the bottle from the kitchen stove filling it and bring it back and putting on the back of the stove.
Sewage:
We had none, we had out-houses in the middle of a cold winter you had to go outside to use the out house never knowing what kind of animal you would run into. You'd hear people joking about their deeds to their property about this, but the truth of the matter is that was the state and town by-laws that the out houses had to be suitably screened.
Dumps:
We use to burn the trash in a big barrel in the back yard (paper) all other thing were brought to the end of the street or in later time brought to the dump.
Plain Street by the Memorial Park
Pine Street
Brant Rock
Clay Pit Road
Beaches:
Burkes
Humarock
Rexhamand the South River swimming place
Churches:
Saint Christine’s at Main Street and Forest Street and Main Street and Pine Street
St.Ann’s by the Sea
Saint Theresa’s on Elm Street
Our Lady of the Assumption on Assumption Road
Roller Skating Rink, Plain Street, Marshfield circa
1950's
Roller Skating Rink:
Learning how to drive a car on the Daniel Webster house property with Vin Cohee. I started working at the old rink on Webster Street cleaning up after hours and I also was at the new rink on Plain Street when it opened in 1960.
Brant Rock:
The Brant Rock tower
The town pier
Brant Rock’s movie house, bowling alley.
Humarock:
Square dances at Humarock Parking Lot
Clarks Store and Claim Haven.
Fieldston:
Rexicana Dance Hall
Miniature gulf course.
Marshfield Fair
Fair:
The Fair on the Training Green
Marshfield Fair
Drive-In:
Marshfield
Kingston
Kent Park:
Kent Park Clubhouse had beans and frank suppers.
Sitting at the rock in the road waiting for my father to come home from work.
Picking up my Grandfather at the train station in Greenbush.
My Mother making bread and letting it rise on the stove.
Watching the Town putting in the town water, and paving the streets!
My Grandfather teaching local fishermen how to mend they’re fishing nets.
Swimming in the South River at the end of Kent Park.
Draft board:
Was above the old post office at Ocean and Moraine streets, (Ruth Hunt, Mr. Carpenter).
Expressway (Route 3):
Built in 1963. Before this the main routes were route 53 and route 3A
Powder Point Bridge, Duxbury, MA
Fishing:
Fishing from the Powder Point Bridge for flounder
" Thanks to Bob Cheeseman for allowing me
to use his information "
He has lived and worked in Marshfield for 45 years. He knew Dad (
Jack ) pretty well and he has ( 2 ) brothers that worked with
Dad ( Jack ) while he was on the Marshfield Police Dept.
Town History "IN OUR PARENTS TIME"
By: Robert F Cheeseman
June 23, 1999
Revised: December 31, 2000
By: Robert F Cheeseman
June 23, 1999
Revised: December 31, 2000
For more detailed information, go to - - - " Marshfield History "In Our Parents
Time "
I want to thank Michael J. McDavitt of
Brantrockgreenharbor.com for allowing me to share his extensive
research and photographs / postcards of Brant Rock's past with
all of you. His hard work has allowed me to experience an era
that most of us have little knowledge of. I hope the following slide show will
be something that will help all of us relive the past of a
place where we spent our summer months.
I would like to thank all the other Photographers and
Researchers that have helped make this family website page
something very special to all of The Brant Rock Family
Clan.
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