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Originally Posted by camp guy
Speaking of old routes, does anyone remember going south on Rt 125 through Plaistow and Haverhill (MA) to get to the Boston area ? My fondest memory of that route is stopping at Was-Maco Ice Cream Creamery in Plaistow, right on the Plaistow/Haverhill line. Their 'small' was everyone else's 'jumbo', and it went up from there. Just a pleasant memory.
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I have family from there. It's really quite striking how the landscape in the corridor has been transformed in the past generation. My father used to camp out at the present site of Kohls/DeMoulas.
(The ponds you see in that area are what's left from the claypits that they dug when the Westville section of Plaistow - the part centred on basically where Dunkin Doughnuts and the old Westville Market were - was a brickmaking center).
I remember seeing movies at the old drive-in and grabbing a grinder at the old Danos A-frame acrosst the street.
I learned how to swear by listening to my grandmother give hell to the owner of Skip's gas (by Larry's Clambar). He used to insist on pumping the gas. She suspected him of shorting her. Her special nickname for ole Skip was Skimp.
Thanks for the memory!