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What was the Year?
1953

Can you name the location?
Bank St.

Comments...
Main St. is in the background

Posted: 04/22/2002

What was the Year?
1949

What was the Season?
spring

Can you name any of the people?
actually I'm not sure of the year or time of year

Can you name the location?
Bank Street. I loved that street. As a child , it seemed to be so mysterious. Mrs. Cottrell was an English lady and sold the most wonderful goodies..one was like a muffin with raisins. Does anyone remember them? what were they called? As a child I used to love watching presses as the Transcript was being printed. What a wonderful time to grow up in North Adams, the 40's and 50's.

Posted: 04/22/2002

Can you name the location?
Bank St.

Comments...
I can remember looking down and seeing the Transcript being printed also. Awesome!! Those were the good ole days in North Adams. I'm very proud to have been raised there!!

Posted: 06/08/2002

Can you name the location?
bank st . for sure

Comments...
I remember a place up stairs where the teens could go and dance,and also a deli,I use to run errands for Mae Sturrock to buy her "Head Cheese".yuk!!!as a toddler I lived on bank st.also

Posted: 12/02/2002

What was the Year?
1963

What was the Season?
summer

Comments...
My Dad, Russ Lanoue, worked on Bank Street for about 10 years before 1965, when he died. He was a public accountant. My grandfather worked in the Transcript as a typesetter. We kids spent many hours on Bank St.

Posted: 01/15/2003

Can you name the location?
Bank St.

Comments...
Yes, watching the Transcript being printed was always fun,we did this almost every day after school. The Electric Co was next door, and we liked to stop in and get the Reddy electric pins. A little red lightening bolt with a light bulb for his head.

Posted: 04/10/2003

Can you name any of the people?
Bill Vareschi Jim Trozzi Barber Shop

Posted: 04/10/2003

Can you name the location?
Bank Street

Comments...
My husbands Grandmother lived in the appartments on the right. Also the Moose hall was there and also Lilly's Music store. Bought lots of records there. I also use to enjoy that street. Lots of history there.

Posted: 04/11/2003

What was the Year?
1949

Can you name the location?
Bank Street

Comments...
Lilly's Music House was located on Bank Street during the 1940s (it was there during WWII). There were enclosed "listening booths" that people used to play records before they puchased them. I wonder if there are any pictures in the archives of those booths! Approximately 1953-55 the store was moved to larger quarters on Main Street. Gazzaniga's Paint and Wallpaper was on the corner of Bank and Summer, if memory serves me correctly. The Transcsript and the Electric Company were on the west side of the Bank St, Lilly's was on the east side. There was a luncheonette on the eastern side. Does anyone know its name?

Posted: 09/23/2003

Comments...
Russ Lanoue's company was Mail Me Monday. He and his brother Ronnie ran it.It was an accounting firm,I think and I,too, remember watching the Transcript being printed when I walked over to the Lanoue store after school sometimes.

Posted: 03/03/2006

Can you name the location?
bank st

Comments...
dinner was pats lunch

Posted: 03/03/2006

Comments...
As a child 5 or 6 years old about 1950 - I lived in the 2nd floor apartment overlooking the electric company - my bedroom faced it and I would fall asleep at night watchng Mr.Killowat the electric sign blink on and off

Posted: 03/03/2006

Can you name the location?
bank st

Posted: 12/30/2008

Comments...
FOR MANY OF US,BORN IN THE 30'S AND 40'S THOSE WERE THE WONDER YEARS.... BANK STREET WAS AN EXCITING STREET, FULL OF WONDERFUL PLACES AND THINGS TO SEE. THAT IS ONE OF THE STREETS THAT WILL REMAIN IN MY HEART FOREVER. EAGLE STREET IS SECOND. WHAT A TIME TO GROW UP IN NORTH ADAMS!

Posted: 05/20/2011
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