Hampton Beach back in the day. Matt
Trolley Ride to Hampton Beach.
-
wsherrick
- Member
- Posts: 3744
- Joined: Wed. Jun. 18, 2008 6:04 am
- Location: High In The Poconos
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Glenwood Base Heater, Crawford Base Heater
- Baseburners & Antiques: Crawford Base Heater, Glenwood, Stanley Argand
- Coal Size/Type: Chestnut, Stove Size
I love looking at pictures, especially the street scenes from the Turn Of The Century. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
-
rberq
- Member
- Posts: 6451
- Joined: Mon. Apr. 16, 2007 9:34 pm
- Location: Central Maine
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1300 with hopper
- Coal Size/Type: Blaschak Anthracite Nut
- Other Heating: Oil hot water radiators (fuel oil); propane
Thanks for sharing the video. My wife's aunt and uncle and cousin summered just a hundred yards off the north beach since about the 1940s. Shortly after I met my wife she spent the summer with them and worked in one of the restaurants near the main beach. Of course I had to visit every weekend, so I have lots of memories but only 45 years ago, not turn of the century. I would stay until the last minute then drive home up the Maine Turnpike at 1 and 2 AM, sleep a few hours, then get to my summer job. I don't know how many times I dozed off driving and woke up just before the car swerved off the highway, it's a wonder I survived. The cousin still lives there year round, and we took a drive a few weeks ago around the beach and up 1-A to Portsmouth. What with the concrete sea walls and the gravel berms it is much harder now to see the ocean from the road. But I did see a few mansions I would be willing to live in.