Kowloon and the leaning tower of pizza are a little lonelier today

By adamg on Mon, 08/28/2017 - 4:58pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports they tore down the Ship in Lynnfield today.

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I am growing nostalgic for an entire era of Rt 1 restaurants I would never in a million years have eaten at nor which are even near where I live or grew up. Yet dammit, I want to be able to drive up Rt 1 and see the cactus and the ship and the giant temple looking Chinese place, etc... And the old Diplomat sign.

I do appreciate the dinosaur now has an even more prominent location and that the cactus remains but will they be there in 10 years? I doubt it.

Side question - is the Fontaine's sign sitting in storage somewhere?

I think so

By adamg
Mon, 08/28/2017 - 8:01pm

A guy named Dave Waller from Malden bought the sign and put it in a Lynn warehouse back when the restaurant closed (he's gotten more notice of late for buying the Graves Light lighthouse).

Valle's

By anon
Mon, 08/28/2017 - 9:05pm

Everybody remembers the Hilltop with it's cactus and cows, but fewer remember the adjacent Valle's steakhouse, a sort of mid-century looking building that I thought added to that certain Route 1 style. I think it was considered somewhat secondary to the Hilltop and usually caught the overflow.

Valle's, Braintree

By Suldog
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 7:37am

Interestingly, the Valle's in Braintree - somewhat of a minor landmark as people drove south on Rte. 3 - was taken over by Hilltop for their second restaurant (which also went the way of the dodo.)

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Valle's

By Scratchie
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 8:57am

I remember Valle's, and the Santoro's sub shop (one of the few places on that stretch of Rt. 1 where I actually ate) that was on the other side of Pier 1 (i.e. just before Hilltop as you drove south). Then there was another place on the northbound side called "Santoro's Sub-Villa". I always wondered what the story was with those two places.

Karl's Sausage Kitchen. Godfried's (ate there). Caruso Diplomat. The original, small Weylu's (ate there too). Augustine's (occasionally ate there for special occasions). Most of those weren't giant icons like the Ship or the cactus but they certainly contributed to the strip's overall character.

A little further north (Peabody?), there was Yoken's with the giant whale sign and Deerskin Trading Post.

Yoken's was in Portsmouth NH,

By Patricia-can't ...
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 9:15am

Yoken's was in Portsmouth NH, I believe.
I have fond memories of all those restaurants you mentioned. We got to pick birthday dinner places to eat for our special day and I always picked Augustine's to my fathers dismay. Valle's was a favorite of my parents and Red Coach Grill.

I doubt the orange dinosaur will be there long. If they are trying to sell upscale living quarters, a dinosaur isn't actually fitting in.

There was also a Yoken's in

By Scratchie
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 11:46am

There was also a Yoken's in Peabody/Danvers, near the Deerskin.

Don't forget Lum's

By anon
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 1:36pm

Hot dogs steamed in beer.

Valle's in Newton

By Saddlebrook7
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 1:49pm

Used to be on Rt 9 at Florence St. I felt quite grown up when my folks decided that my deportment and table manners were good enough to be taken to dinner there (or Tony's Italian Villa across the street).

Come on in!

By Gary C
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 8:16am

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And the

By cw in boston
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 8:20am

Duende Lounge.

Here's the plan

By Parkwayne
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 8:42am

I say we all attend any public approval meeting related to the new restaurant that wants to open where the Spring St Cafe used to be and demand in no uncertain terms that any approval to open a new restaurant at that intersection must include restoration of the Fontaine's sign.

Route 1

By Ishmael Jones
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 9:50am

About 20 years or so ago, Alan Richman wrote a column about the restaurants on Route 1 for GQ magazine. Wish I had saved it.

Ate at the Ship once on a Sunday night, the seafood was fine, but there was no one in the place. Always chanted "We're going to the ship," like Gronk, as we drove by.

The one and only Adventure Car Hop

By Turalura Lipschitz
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 9:23am

My go-to place was Adventure, shilled by Arnie Woo-Woo Ginsburg:

Adventure car hop
Is the place to go,
For food that's always right;

Adventure's food is always just so,
You'll relish every bite

Out on Route One in Saugus,
Come dressed just as you are;
Adventure's food is always so great,
And you never get out of your car

So sad. Is the dinosaur

By hollydollydoo
Tue, 08/29/2017 - 9:47am

So sad. Is the dinosaur going to be displayed someplace?

We used to go to Rye/Wallis Sands Beach for the day when we were kids. We would go to 9:00 Mass first; we would have our bathing suits on under our Sunday clothes (we thought that was so cool!).

We would be at the beach all day. My mom would pack sandwiches and dry clothes to change into after we rode the breakers.

We would stop at Prince Spaghetti for supper, and my dad and brother would go to the batting cage right next to the dinosaur.

It's all coming back to me now....

Kowloon and the leaning tower of pizza are a little lonelier today

Comments

Ship Wrecked

Life is weird

I think so

Valle's

Valle's, Braintree

Valle's

Yoken's was in Portsmouth NH,

There was also a Yoken's in

Don't forget Lum's

Valle's in Newton

Come on in!

And the

Here's the plan

Route 1

The one and only Adventure Car Hop

So sad. Is the dinosaur

Yes, and in roughly the same location

Hallelujah! Thanks for the

Dinosaur

The Ship

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