(Copyright (c) 2011 Cynthia Shenette) I love reading all of the Follow Friday posts by my fellow geneabloggers, but I will admit haven't written a Follow Friday post of my own in well over a year. I've come across a number of blogs lately that are interesting, fun, or specific to Massachusetts that I'd like to share. Please check them out!
Shopping Days in Retro Boston is a fun blog. I spent 11 years working at the Jordan Marsh in Worcester where I started out as Christmas help in 1977. I've also done my share of shopping in good old Boston so it's been a fun walk down memory lane. Be sure to check out the photos and advertisements in the post, Christmas in Boston 1956.
Speaking of good old Boston, the blog And This Is Good Old Boston always has something interesting to share. Recent posts include topics such as the old Boston baseball team the Boston Braves, the infamous Coconut Grove fire, and the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Great visuals--photos, Sanborn map images, and more--accompany almost every post.
Fruitcake is the Cake of the Gods? Huh? Check out the Kitchen Retro blog, and decide for yourself. I bet you can guess how I'm coming down on the fruitcake issue. Also, if you are a parent or grandparent of young children you might want to learn why Seven Up soda is good for babies. Read Seven Months? Seven Up! (Whoever came up with this idea should be made to sit in a hermetically sealed room with 20 six-year-olds on a sugary birthday cake and fruit punch high.) I shudder at the thought...
For those of you with Worcester, MA connections, check out the Denholms Blog for another walk down memory lane. Denholms was THE place to shop for decades in Worcester. It was also THE place to go to see Santa and the Easter Bunny. For my "bunny shot" at Denholms see here. I use to make my mother nuts by running around in the revolving door at Denholms. I even got stuck in it once. If you are so inclined, you can see a picture of the revolving door here (second photo down). Let me add that while I might look cute in the bunny photo I was absolutely evil once I hit that door.
Now I know why washing dishes was such a threat back in the old days for folks who couldn't pay their restaurant check after a meal out. Read Washing Up at Restaurant-ing Through History. It's interesting and informative, as is the rest of the blog.
That's about it for this addition of Follow Friday, though I do have one more thing to add on a serious note. If you know a firefighter or are related to a firefighter, say thank you to him or her for doing what they do. Yesterday Worcester lost yet another firefighter who was killed in the line of duty. You can read about it here. Forget about what they say about sports figures and movie stars being heroes. Firefighters are REAL heroes.
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