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
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