Monday, Sep 14: Stores That Are Gone But Not Forgotten

WBSM presents The Barry Richards Show. Streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508-996-0500. Text us using app chat on the WBSM app. Now, The Barry Richards Show. Alrighty, welcome back into the program. Our number two on a fternoon. 508-996-0500 is our phone number. And so anyway, Congressman Brandon Gill posted on social media today, I introduced legislation to end a ridiculous loophole that allows taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits to be spent at restaurants, including fast-food chains. Supposed to be all know more. Healy's friend, cocaine dealer out in Springfield there that was running her office, was using SNAP benefits at Disney World in a restaurant. I'm not sure Congressman Gill, who's from Texas, is aware of that. But he said, I introduced legislation to end a ridiculous loophole that allows taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits to be spent at restaurants, including fast-food chains. In just two years, more than 524 million dollars in SNAP benefits were spent at participating restaurants. In some states, SNAP dollars can even be used at chains like Popeye's, Burger King, and McDonald's here in Massachusetts. SNAP was created to help struggling Americans put nutritious food on the table, not stick taxpayers with the bill for restaurants. At a time when President Trump is working to make America healthy again and get junk food out of SNAP, allowing taxpayer dollars to subsidize restaurant meals makes no sense. That's why I introduced the Ending Restaurant Purchases with SNAP Act of 2026. My bill closes the restaurant loophole and refocuses SNAP on helping struggling Americans afford nutritious groceries, while protecting meal assistance provided through public and nonprofit organizations for elderly and disabled Americans who cannot prepare meals themselves. Taxpayer-funded food assistance should not, or should promote nutrition, not subsidize restaurants. It is time to end this loophole. I mean, hello, where do I sign up for this? I mean, to me stuff like this is common sense. And I think it's intellectual laziness on the part of a government and, you know, public officials. I just, I love this. Yeah, don't you just love, don't you just love spam? Spam scams. As I was talking to you, I just got a voicemail message. And normally I wouldn't be checking my voicemail messages, but I've got somebody who's having a medical condition at the moment and so I'm watching for an update on that. And so I went right to it and it says, here's the transcript of the voicemail. This call is for the payment of $1,099 for the recent order of the Pixel 11 Pro on your account. If you do not authorize this, please press 1 to speak to our customer support representative. The whole point is to get you all outraged and, you know, upset and nervous. I didn't order this! Oh my God, dude! So you call them back and then they got you. That's a phishing scam. And so you ever get something like that, you know, just dismiss it immediately. Report it as spam. You can do it right there. Report it as spam. Just get rid of it. Don't, don't respond to it. If you know you did not order or don't even know what a Pixel 11 Pro is on my account, on your account, just don't even, you know, it's somebody just trying to get you to respond. If they get you to respond, then they can get into all your stuff. So just don't do it. Just go report spam, report spam and delete. There you go. You're good. Alright, 508-996-0500 is our number. You are next on WBSN. Good afternoon. Hi Barry. Hi. How are you? Good, how are you? Good. I was in my car and I wanted to respond to you right away, but I didn't have power. You're talking about the old mills. Yes. Yes. So I'm going to ask you this. All right. And if you get it on the first try without cheating, I will donate $25 to whatever cause you want. Okay. All right. I'm a little bit older than you, but I remember singing this song. Remember Christmas shopping at blah, blah, blah this year. Christmas shopping at blah, blah, blah this year. No, not blah, blah, blah, but I didn't tell you. Right. That would be the name, right? I'm supposed to guess the name. That's the part I'm to come up with, right? Yes, for sure. Remember our Christmas shopping at, I'll give you one word, Robert. That's it. Oh, Robert. Um, geez. All right. Robert Hall. Robert Hall. Yes. Absolutely positive. Wow. That was a guess, but I remember when Robert Hall suits and stuff were right here in New Bedford. Yeah. Oh yeah. Wow. Boy, I don't know where I pulled that from. If you hadn't said Robert, I wouldn't have definitely wouldn't have gotten it. Oh, I get it. But yeah, no true story. And it's like, okay. Yeah. Good place. A lot of good Anderson little. Oh yeah. So many places. Anderson little was near the bridge. If I remember, wasn't it? Yes, it was. Okay. Yeah. And Robert Hall was downtown. It was going to move to Dartmouth. Okay. Yep. Yep. Everything moved to Dartmouth at one point, right? Yeah. True story. Yeah. But yeah, I remember singing that song because my mother and father were taking me to do shopping. Oh wow. I always remember, you know, you know, the one I always remember is Jack and Harry's. Remember Jack and Harry? Because we used to get the Christmas catalog every year and it will come in and we'd sit there and like circle the stuff we wanted, you know, hope Santa would notice. Yeah. Yeah. And it was another one too on one of those kind of stories on a Sawyer street. I want to say maybe no. So he was the bank. First national bank was on Sawyer street. I remember that's when my nanny used to get her Christmas club money. She'd go down and get her Christmas club money. But there were stores like that too. A lot, there were a lot of regional stores, local stores, and then there were regional stores and the national chains took over and, uh, and now there's nothing. So yeah, there's that. But excellent. It's true. It's like whenever I, I kind of post online a little bit, I'm doing my Christmas shopping app. Can anybody answer it? And hardly anybody does, maybe one or two. If you hadn't said Robert, I would not have gotten it. I would also, I, I confess that. Um, so yeah. Wow. We used to have so many good stories. You know, I used to, I used to love those old department stores that were in the mills, you know, the ones that were in the mills and you go into the, you could smell the oil still in the floor and the creaky floorboards and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, true story. My father worked at Berkshire Hathaway for like 35 years. Okay. And I remember going in there when they were in production, you know, it's like, Holy crap. How can these people absorb the sound? Because it was loud, very infectious and everything and oil on the floor and smell in the air and this and that. But, um, they survived until, uh, what's his name? Shut him down. The, Berkshire Hathaway. Yeah. Um, what's his name? Um, yeah. Um, God, the name Steve Forbes has gone through my brain, but it wasn't Steve Forbes. It was, um, no, but true story. It's like, yeah, like he really had to do that. But anyway, I'm resentful for him and I won't even go that way. But anyway, it was like, Orleans was wonderful. I remember there was a fire at Orleans. Do you remember that? At the one on a Dean street? Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember the fire there now. Oh, there was a big ass fire. Uh, excuse me, but a big fire there. I remember there's a warehouse to the, I guess it would have been just to the South, maybe the Southwest of there. And that was a massive fire. And I remember, uh, watching that, that place burn. I don't remember when it all. And so, because all of the building is still there, it's a storage place now. Yeah. It's a storage place. Well, I know there was something, but there was a big, big fire right next. I mean, the building, you could throw a rock from Orleans and hit it. Um, yeah. So you, that might be what you're thinking, but they shared a parking lot. And I remember we walked, yeah, we walked when I was living on Brook street. We, we were just kids. And we walked over there with my father and my uncle. And we stood up against the fence and we watched that thing burn. I mean, that had to be a general on fire. It was a massive, massive fire. I would bet. I lived, um, on Cogs all three, uh, near, uh, Christian it out. All right. And that, that was like, yeah, it was a spectacle. Yeah. You, you were down near Charlie Wong's. Yes, I was. I love Charlie Wong's me too. God, you had to, you, you had the Woolworth's over there and you had a magazine world was over there. There was so many good stories that used to be around back in the day. And Charlie Wong's was my favorite. Yeah. Yep. Oh, I love Charlie Wong's. Yeah. Hey, good memory. You keep the 25 bucks for yourself. And, uh, you know, cause you, you're a good charity too. And I appreciate you calling my friend. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. 5 0 8 9 9 6 0 500 is the phone number. And let's go here. You're next on WBSM. Thanks for waiting. Speaking about islands. When I was a teenager, uh, in the sixties, um, a group of girls that I knew at the high school said, let's go and get a job. They're doing inventory at Arlen. Oh wow. So we all got in her car and we went there and we were assigned different areas and you had to count and check off what was on the shelves and everything. And the girl that drove us was so embarrassed. She came up to me and she goes, Oh, I'm so embarrassed. The manager asked her what department was she working at doing the inventory? And she said, lingerie. And, and he looked at her cause she, when I was so embarrassed, he looked at me. So she, she got the answer probably from him. He probably corrected her. Well, when she came to tell me the story and she says, I said, lingerie, I'm so embarrassed. I was thinking that's what I would have said to lingerie. I'm in the lingerie department. You weren't familiar with that word. I miss Woolworth's the five and 10. Yes. They had everything you needed. They had my grandmother lived on beetle street. Okay. Just off of the Avenue. Just, uh, you know, just East of the Avenue. Uh, just the right at the, at the head of the street was the center theater. And my grandmother lived literally steps down from there and all of those stores, you know, we would go over to the, uh, she called it the five and dime. And, uh, we will go over there. We'd go over to a Pepin's clothing and she'd buy me back to school clothing. And, um, you know, there was so many, so many cool things here, magazine world, all those stores. That was such a nice, uh, a retail district at one point. Well, I lived in the South end. Okay. The South water street was so crowded in the fifties and sixties. My mother used to take me in a car, a baby carriage. And the lady in the, the bakery would say, bring that baby over here. And she would tell my mother, go shopping. I'll watch the baby. Wow. And now there's like nothing there, right? There's no, no retail at all down there. Nothing now. And it was so crowded. My mother said, sometimes you had to walk on the street because people were coming and going all the time. I was in brownies and we, we, um, Christmas Carol's on at that area in the winter time. It was very, very nice. And slowly the riots and everything, the stores burned down and they never regrouped. And of course, uh, uh, urban renewal and they put 18 down through that way. I can remember as a kid, um, at well square, you know, pretty much the same thing. Uh, you know, my family is all originally from the well square area, but when it was there, it's not there anymore. Now it's at the middle of route 18, but, you know, you'd walk down wall street and the police station would be there and you'd, you know, hook a left and you'd be on a cushion at Avenue and Ashley Boulevard. Cause they went right through back in the day before, uh, route 18. And it was the same thing. It was, it was all stores and theaters and, uh, you know, the police station and, uh, bar rooms and, uh, all kinds of stuff. I mean, it was just like total communities of our city just were ripped away and destroyed across the street from where I lived. I lived on South first. Okay. They, they gave letters to the people across the street. You know, you're going to have to move because we're going to be knocking down these buildings for urban renewal. Well, they promised them that when they built something, they can come back. They never came back. Wherever they went, they stayed. Yeah. But they promised those people they would come back. And you know, when you do stuff like that, urban renewal, I mean, they ripped up, um, I'm, I'm old enough to remember before one 95 came through new Bedford also. So I certainly remember before I remember before all of the highways before one 41 95 and a route 18 and all of the neighborhoods over there, schools and houses and everything, they just disappeared. And I mean, that was people's history, people's, you know, their lives and it's all their neighborhoods that they grew up in and it's all just gone now. Yes. It's chaotic because you don't have that chumminess and you say, and you don't know your neighbor. Of course you don't know your neighbor. They come and go all the time. Yeah. Yeah. And everybody stays to themselves. It's not like the old days. Thank you, my friend. Good call. I appreciate it. 5 0 8 9 9 6 0 500 is the number. Thanks for hanging on. You're next in WBSM. Hello. Hello. Hello. I can see you there. Are you still there? I will try this when you're next on WBSM. Thanks for hanging on. Okay. I'm on now. You're on. Yes, ma'am. I remember Jones Cutlick. That was our Wall Street. Do you remember that? I remember the name. I remember the name. My mother used to mention that, but I don't remember exactly where it was. Was that below? Uh, that must've been below Purchase Street, right? Oh yeah. Okay. Where the car bar and it was down below. Uh, I worked at 15 years old there cause my sister worked there. They sold clothes that was something wrong with them, but you could get it cheaper. And I think it was during the war because I, I was young then. I remember she bought, she had, it was a Jewish couple that holding back and she, uh, during the war, you couldn't get elastic, you know? And she had some woman's underwear that came in. I was only 15. I remember I was so dumb and she had me go in the back of the room one day on a Saturday morning. And she says to me, I want you to put elastic in the back of all this underwear so we can sell it. You know what she would do? Uh, because you had to tie the underwear in those days, there was no elastic. She had me cut out the ties and I used to sew. I knew how to sew. So I would make a sliver and put the elastic just in the back of the underwear. And then she would take them all out on the front and sell them for double what it was. Oh my God. And you know, I gotta tell you another funny thing. There's a bar room right across the street, the golden pallet. I think it was. I remember that name too. My parents talked about that place and there was an upstairs with a roller skate drink. Do you know, my parents never let me out. They were very strict, but anyhow, on my lunch hour one day I used to hear about that Don roller skating rink all the time. So I said, I'm going to go see what it is. Well, I think it was only a quarter and there was a shoe skate. It was a clip on to your shoes. I had never rolled skated in my life. Oh, did I fall down? I remember that so well. And, and on the world square down around that area, there was a diner. Do you remember that was a small restaurant right in the middle, across like from Jones Curry at an angle. And cause well, I'm trying to mill was in the back, right? Well, I'm trying to mill was in the back of us. And this diner was in a front, like right near the, all the stores because I, I, there was a boy that I went to school with and his father hold that. And one day he invited me if I'd have lunch. I was so afraid to go in there. I wasn't like today. I didn't lie. I was quiet, but I went and he, I remember he gave me a meatloaf supper. I did it right. And it was so good. I had gone to school. Did you marry him? Did you marry him? No, no, no. The man I married was he will want to, but I was only 11 years old when the wall was going on. And my husband was nine years older than me. My husband enlisted when Pearl Harbor, and I got to brag about him. Yeah. He enlisted. He never came home. They, they sent him right to Hawaii and he trained at Igham field. And from there he stood in the Pacific the whole four years. He has four battle stats to show that he was in four invasions. Almost all his unit got cleaned out. And you know, that thing they call today that the service men and all the men that I went into service to come home with, I think my husband had that because he had malaria and he went to Rhode Island when we got married because he served eight years in the service and he went to Rhode Island and they said, Oh, we don't think it's really malaria. It's Tiki or something like that. Some foreign name they said, but I'm the one that used to suffer at night with him. He's shivering, shivering, shivering. And he must have what's going on now that post something that they say that even my son told me that he says, you know, I think dad must've had that mom. Yeah. Because he'd get very nervous and shake and shake. Yeah. Good stories. And I love hearing about well square. Cause again, my family all grew up in that area. And, um, I, I was very young when they started to tear it all down, but I do have memories of going there. And I remember my father, if I got in trouble with my father, he'd take me over to see officer Brown at the wall square police station. And that would straighten me out. So, Hey, listen, I got to hold you right there. I gotta get a break in stick with me. 508-996-0500 is the number. We're going to come back for your calls right after this. Stay tuned. Hi, it's Sherry from LifeSource water. Are you sick of the constant upkeep of your old fashion water softener? A LifeSource whole home water filtration system solves your water softener woes. And now LifeSource is offering new customers a double dip in savings. You get free basic installation plus an extra $250 off that's up to 1,250 in savings. Call 1-800-WATER-99 to claim your double deal or visit lifesourcewater.com offer in September 30 warranty limitations apply. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM call 508-996-0500. All righty. Welcome back out of the program. Tom Tiffany, who is a candidate for governor of Wisconsin has been in a plane crash in Wisconsin. His plane apparently crashed into a lake. He has been rescued and apparently is, um, uh, he's alive anyway. I'm not quite sure, uh, what kind of shape he's in, but, uh, that's just developing on TV right now. We'll keep you posted if we hear any more, by the way, you know, mentioning, uh, Orleans going back to like Orleans and, um, you know, those early, early stores, Orleans went national Orleans. When you think about it, it was actually a precursor for, um, Walmart. I mean, you may not have had a Walmart if there wasn't in Orleans department store and they started it right here in New Bedford. And then it went national, but there are a lot of other, uh, big stores and a big store chains. Uh, some that I had forgotten Ames, remember Ames. It was there. I remember there department store was out at the Dartmouth mall. Bradley's, uh, was in Boston. It was five lanes basement. Some of these weren't necessarily department stores, but there was stores. Oh, we can go and get a lot of different things. Uh, salt marshes downtown was one of my all time favorites enterprise, uh, downtown. I love the enterprise. It was kind of like a five and dime, uh, kind of place, but 508-996-0500 is our number. Thank you for hanging on your next on WBSM. Hello. Hi. Hi. My first job was that cold discount. Your first job. So your first job was where cold discount, cold discount down in the South, the South end of new Bedford. Yeah. I remember having to put buckets on the floor when it rains. Oh no, that was an old mill. Yeah. Yeah. But it was a fun place. And then I went to work at center jewelers on nine, nine, nine South water street. Okay. What, what jeweler was that again? Center center. Oh, center jeweler. Okay. On, on water. Is that toward the downtown area or was that in the South end? No, it's South water street. Where's all the other great stores they had there. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah. I remember my mother loved the Cove discount store. You know, it didn't matter that it wasn't glamorous. She loved to go there. So when my mother wanted, my mother loved to shop, she loved to go to all those stores and we'd always go with her. So, um, you know, I'd get popcorn. So I'd be happy. They had the best curtains here. They had the best curtains. Yeah. I mean, those are the things that my mother would shop for. She'd go looking for stuff. My mother sewed. She was, she was, uh, uh, she, she learned sewing at, at the old Volk at the old vocational school. So she was a sewer and she would make a lot of clothes for herself and other people. So she'd go down there and buy stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. And there was one store downtown. I don't know if it was grand enterprise. They had a 4 cent counter. You could buy a bunch of stuff for 4 cents. Oh wow. They used to have, they used to have comic books, nice comic books, but the cover would be like cut in half, but the comic book was there for 4 cents each. That was the enterprise. Cause that's why we, I had my, my aunt, my aunt Vino, who lived to be over a hundred years old. She used to collect the old movie magazines. Remember the old movie star magazines. And she would go, we'd take us down there on the bus and she would buy her movie magazines there. And she'd get them. Yeah. With the cover, the top part of the cover ripped off. I don't know why they did that. I don't know. The content of the book was there, so I didn't care. Yeah. I mean, no, I didn't care either, but yeah, she'd get us magazines and stuff too. Um, I think they probably did that so that, uh, I don't know why they did that. I'm not even going to guess, but, um, yeah, that, I mean, that was a fun place to go. There were so many fun stores back in the old days. Yeah. And the five and 10 downtown, you could pop a balloon for a banana slip. Yeah. And I hit it one time for a penny. I thought I hit the jackpot. Kresge's right. Kresge's at the counter at Kresge's. Uh, my, my dad used to give me money to go downtown. Right. I was, I don't know, maybe 13 years old or whatever. He'd let me take the bus downtown back in those days. You could do that. We take me and my, my cousin would take the bus down from way up in the North then take it into, uh, into downtown. And that would be boom right there. We'd go for lunch at Kresge's and get a banana split and pop the balloon and maybe go over to the Olympia theater and see a movie or whatever. I know, I know. Boy, we were living large. You know, the thing is we didn't know how good we had it back then. You're right. You're right. Yep. We had so many good things. Absolutely. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it. Thanks for the memories. 508-996-0500. You're up next on WBSM. Good afternoon. Hi, Barry. Hey, uh, you wouldn't, you wouldn't remember the trolley cars. I don't think no. Charlie cars were gone before I, uh, my memory. Yeah. But I do remember the, the buses though, going into the car barn. I remember that was still the, uh, the car barn. Yeah. We used to take the trolley cars from, cause I lived up on the Tarkin Hill area, take the trolley cars down to the most well square. Okay. Rialto theater. How would you go by the, uh, by the Avenue? Would it go on the Avenue? Uh, if I remember right, it went down the Avenue. Okay. North front street. Yep. Yep. And come up the Avenue somewhere around there. Yeah. And the Rialto theater, the Rialto theater was right next to the library and police station. Okay. Well square. Yep. Then there was the green parrot across the street there and the bowling alley, uh, skating alley, skating place was upstairs across the street from the skating alley was the, uh, used to call it the home plate. That was, it was a gay bar in those days back in those days. Huh? Yeah. Wow. See these, these are all names that I've heard because I was too young to be going to bars in those days. But my parents, those would come up in conversations between my parents and my aunts and uncles and all that. So I know all of these names, um, you know, especially the green parrot, they must've hung out in there and, um, you know, they, they went there. Um, but yeah, all of those, all of the stores and the skating rink and all of that stuff, I've heard about a million times, but I can remember walking, you know, when the streets went, when COG, when, um, north front and, uh, the Avenue and the Boulevard all connected and went, went right into well square. I can remember walking there with my mother and my aunt. Yeah. They, those days they had a lot of bar rooms around there. Yeah. All those places, uh, draft beer was 15 cents a glass. Wow. Yeah. And you got a pickled egg, right? I, I maybe, maybe you didn't get one. I didn't get, I remember at the old Mickey woods club. Um, oh yeah. Mickey woods club. Yeah. You go there and you get a 50 cent draft at that point. And, uh, and you play some, some, some bumper pool and, uh, you know, the, the guys who get the pickled eggs, I was never much into pickled eggs and all of that stuff. I think that's a church now or a storage anyway. I think it was a church and now it's, then it was storage. The, you know, the north end was quite a place. I mean, the Avenue back there, I still remember it, you know, it was nice. You know, you could, you could, uh, those days you could get in your car from lunch corner, lunch corner, they call it right. And drive all the way on the Avenue, all the way down to water street down the South end on the Avenue, you know, it's all Avenue and there was stores and restaurants all along the way. Yeah. Oh, by the way, the lady was talking about, I think it was her husband had a illness in the war. Yep. Yeah. My aunt and my uncle had it too. The, any guys that's any old veterans that served in the Pacific, it must've been the mosquitoes, you know, it was malaria. Yeah. He used to have, he used to have bouts with it's cold sweats and a fever. And I remember him, he had to be in a dark room. The sunlight bothered him. Uh, he, he lay there in the bed, you know, and he was a world war II vet as well. Yeah. He was in the Pacific. Yeah. Wow. And the, um, the islands, I guess, I guess it was the mosquito bites, you know, the nosebleeds in a jungle, you know? Right. Yeah. A lot about jungle born diseases. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of those guys came back with malaria. So you're living where you live now is, is what Mars Bargainland used to be, right? Mars was right in that building. Yes. Yeah. Will this place. Yeah. Right. And it was, I remember there was in, in the parking lot for Mars Bargainland, there was a, um, I think it's still there too. Uh, a place for like old wrecked cars and stuff, like a junkyard for cars. Is that still in the lot there? Uh, or you got Cohen's, uh, uh, junkyard, old junk cars and stuff, some metal, all kinds of metal stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember, remember that for some reason from a way back in the day, but you know, back in those days too, you know, my mother and father would be able to, we, they'd go to a Mars Bargainland and they say, you guys sit in the car, don't talk to anybody. And we'd sit there, we'd have the windows open and you could, you know, you could do that with kids back in those days, back in the early, nobody bothered you. And they'd come out and, you know, bring us something and whatever today you can't today, you got to nail the door shut. If you're going to leave your kids there, somebody will break the window anyway and take them out. And, you know, so I don't know, but good stuff, my friend. I appreciate it. Thank you. 5 0 8 9 9 6 0 500. Gotta get a break in. It's a quickie. We're coming right back on the other side and don't go anywhere. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM call 5 0 8 9 9 6 0 500. And welcome back 11 48, uh, 1 48. I'm sorry. On a Monday afternoon, 5 0 8 9 9 6 0 500. Thanks for hanging on your next and WBSM. Hi Barry. Hi. Hi. So I wanted to talk about cold discount. Okay. Talk about cold, cold without talking about their manager, Steven Davis. He was always in the front walking around. He was the nicest, funniest guy. He married a friend of my mother's. So when I was about 16 and I could go all by myself driving around, I would go down to the cove. And if he saw me in line, he'd pick a big production and tell the cashier in front of everybody. And sometimes from the office on the intercom, give that girl an aisle five, the senior citizen discount. But he was a really nice guy. I'm sure anybody had to work there who loved him because he was so nice. He's dead now. He was such a good guy. You saw him all the time. If you went in there, you saw him cause he was always there, but he was a great guy and you don't get that anymore. And people don't even ask you, you know, people barely even talk to you. Exactly. You're right. You know, it's a, it's how many years has it been now since Cove disappeared? It's been a long time, right? Yeah, it has been. It has been a long time. In fact, I think that if I remember correctly, there were some new buildings on the lot where that was that I'm trying to remember in my mind exactly where it was. Cause I was a North end kid. So when we went down there, that was a big treat. You know, we'll go into the South end, but we might go by the beaches. Um, but yeah, Cove was like where in the stop and shop parking lot. Uh, no, we have, um, Burger King is now, I think, I think that's where it was. Okay. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's where it was. I remember you went down the Hill and, uh, into the lot and, um, and it had kind of a slope ceiling or kind of a slope. It went sideways kind of. Yeah. And, uh, it was there for a while and then they tore it all down, but it was sad to see it go. Cause you know, you get to, you get to know people, you have places like that where you walk in and people know you, you don't, you never get that anymore. No, that's for sure. If you go to the piece that I wrote on WBSM.com, I've actually got a link to Cove discount. It has a history of the store and, um, yeah. And there's a link to a whole bunch of the other stores like Orleans and all of that. You can click on it and it gives the history of them and, and, uh, all of that. So, uh, interesting memories for a lot of folks, you know, folks in, unless you're, I don't know, probably 60 or 50 or better. You don't even remember what the city was like with all of these stores and everything back in those days. No, no. I mean, you wouldn't even know you don't even see it anymore. And then, uh, Oh, another thing on a different subject that I wanted to talk about my granddaughter on Friday was talking about nine 11. I thought that was so great that they were teaching. You're breaking. You just broke up all over that, um, about nine 11 in teaching. Okay. I'm sorry. Can you hear me better now? Yeah. Much better. Go ahead. Okay. I'm sorry. Um, yeah. Yeah. She came home from school on Friday and said that they learned about, uh, you know, September 11th and I was so happy. I sent her teacher. Oh, you know, I know what saying, you know, I'm, I'm really happy that you're teaching this to children. She's eight, but they need to know, you know, it needs to be remembered. Absolutely. No, it absolutely does. And, and, you know, some States don't even require it to be taught. And I think that's a shame, uh, here in Massachusetts, it's not a requirement, but it's strongly suggested that they teach it as part of the curriculum. Yeah. And I guess, you know, some schools are, so I was very happy to hear that because I really didn't think they were going to, I thought they just glossed over it, but no, you know, she said one of the girls in her class, her grandfather was on one of the planes. So, you know, you never know who you're talking to, you know, when you're teaching that from years on, you'll, you know, you might have somebody in your class that was connected to it. Absolutely. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it. Good call. Um, yeah, I, I think it should be mandatory. I think it should be taught in all of the schools. I think, you know, American history should be taught, um, in general, uh, in all schools and, uh, it's not, uh, not the way it should be anyway. Hey, listen, if you struggle to hear this summary, you don't want to put off getting your hearing checked. You know, the holidays are coming. You want to go to Duncan hearing healthcare before Thanksgiving and Christmas and the family all starts getting together. You want to be able to make sure that you hear the conversations and participate. You know, I'm somebody who has hearing loss. I have significant hearing loss. I wear two hearing aids. If you know me, if you see me in person, you understand that you'll learn right away because you'll ask me something. I'll be like, what'd you say? Um, but anyway, um, people who do not take care of the hearing loss or get hearing aids or whatever, um, is required. Uh, you miss a lot and you spend your days trying to shy away from conversations because you're afraid you're not going to be able to hear. And you're going to embarrass yourself. Don't do that anymore. That's no way to live. You want to see a good audiologist and I cannot recommend anybody better than Duncan hearing healthcare, my personal audiologist for the last 16 years. And Dr. Nancy Duncan and her staff, they're just wonderful people. They have, um, um, you know, locations throughout the area, fall river, Dartmouth, uh, the Cape as well. And, um, so the holidays are coming. You want to get your hearing tested. You want to find out what you need to help you to hear better and how to cope with hearing loss. And this doesn't just affect old people anymore. Young people with earbuds and, and, um, you know, headphones and everything else as showing signs of hearing loss at younger ages. So, uh, it's a good idea to get your hearing checked. You get the rest of your body checked, get your ears checked out to Duncan hearing.com 5 0 8 9 1 0 2 2 2 1 is the number. And please tell him Barry sent you a quick break. We'll come right back after this. Stay tuned. Alrighty. Welcome back into the program. It is now a one 59 on a Monday afternoon. We're going to head into the newsroom. So, uh, stick around for the news, uh, ABC news followed by WBSM news and the, um, WPRI TV forecast. And so there's another piece. In fact, this is in the local news today, but there's another piece that I've got up on WBSM.com and on our Facebook page, excuse me, about a new voluntary program here in new Bedford, um, asking folks to participate in saving food scraps, recycling food scraps, and, um, it'd be picked up. You would get a bin and some, uh, liner bags and the group that is, um, under contract with the city to, uh, do all of this. Uh, it's a group called, uh, black earth compost would charge you to come and get your food scraps. Uh, the part of the, the reason for this is the landfill is filling up and it's filling up quickly. We've got about three years life expectancy left on Crapo Hill, uh, the regional refuse management district rubric is the security and AI operations company built for what happens after an attack hits. 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