thank you for sharing this video - i was there - lived rright behind the hecht house on Lorne st. went to the wall on the holidays. every once in a while i get brave and go to simco's still the best hot dogs
Oh, it brought back so many memories! Walking to Mattapan Square, to the G & G, Franklin Field on the holidays and of course, Simco's. Thank you Kenneth7000. Loved it!!!! It is a shame how it's all changed, but time marches on!!!
It's so hard to watch a video like this and not be prejudice when you look at these neighborhoods today...
My dads neighborhood was completely destroyed in brooklyn...I just don't know what to say about the situation and the black culture. I feel for em, I really do.
You cannot say income is the main problem...my father grew up in an italian ghetto that had LESS money than the majority of black neighborhoods today and it was paradise compared to what they became.
yea you can't because you ignorant niggers turned a nice neighborhood into shit you fuckin retard...boston would be all around nice city if you and your colored folk wouldn't be so fuckin stupid all the time...think your some kind of gangster? then go live in LA in compton you'll fit right in...pussy
We don't need racist comments from TMartin. Easy to be a tough guy when you're hidden on the internet. If you're Jewish, all the worse. Given all we've been through as a people, we have no right to be predjudiced. Just remember when anyone says something hateful, you can just as well insert Jew into the comment cause that's what's coming next.
Kenneth you are more than welcome to my little story. I've been carrying that around with me all my life. Grateful to have a proper place to put it, and it's my way of saying "thanks" to you for posting your movie. So much more I could say. A Star of David in mosaic, a menorah cast in a concrete.Signs of what came before were always around. Just know that those of YOU who departed before WE arrived are not the only ones who love Mattapan and Dorchester and somehow yearn the way it used to be.
At age 4,in October of '69, I arrived direct from Jamaica at 16 Greendale Rd, a triple decker owned by a lovely old Jewish couple. My mother was a nurse, as were her roommates in the apartment. On one occasion she was late coming home and could not open the door for me when I came home from kindergarten at the Audubon School. I stood in the 2nd floor hallway crying at the door because I thought something terrible had happened to her and that she was not coming back.
Part2 My anxiety was fueled by the fact that we had been separated for over a year while she worked here in America to bring us over. The door to the first floor apartment opened and gray hair, spectacles and a white apron peered up at me and called to me in a thick German accent: "Come on bebbi dun't cchry. Dun't cchry bebbi. Loook I got zum nice chiggen zoop fah you.You like chiggen zoop? Come on bebbi, come on. Dun't chry"
I went- because I was a child and because my mother had proudly introduced me to this couple as nice people -and they were.I'd had chicken before,and soup before,but never chicken soup. And in my 41 years since I have never eaten anything close to what was put before me that day.A bowl of this thick, steaming,yellowish liquid that sent tiny golden globules of fat swirling and colliding across its surface with every movement of my spoon.Chunks of vegetables- some recognizable(carrots!)others not.
Part 4 Two spoons of the peppery broth and my nose began to run. No problem. One good sniff and I put the mucous right back where it belonged, and finished my soup. Not much later my mother arrived and was ushered in to find me sitting patiently and contentedly in an old overstuffed chair. I never again felt the need to cry at her absence and I have always carried with me the memory of the kindness delivered to me that day in a bowl of chicken soup.
I saved this footage cause i am so amazed at what went on in my neighborhood b4 my time!It is so amazing to know that a whole other culture and lifestyle was once there in MATTAPAN , DORCHESTER! almost mind boggling!
I grew up there in the late 80's and 90's until....wow
so what is the ORIENTAL THEATRE NOW? because SIMCO'S is still there....
The Oriental is now Capitol Electric. The main theater space is used for storage. The ceiling is intact as is the projection room. Thanks for posting.
I just watched the video again and all I can say is I'm proud to be from Dorchester in a time when life was simple and walking the streets in the neighborhoods and going to all the stores on Blue Hill Ave. was so much fun. People were out day and night and the thought of getting shot or robbed did not even enter our minds! Mattapan Sq.was also a great place to shop and to see a movie at the very unique
grew up on Callender St. in Dorchester between the years 1950 to 1966. I loved our 2 family house that we owned, I loved the friends I made, the schools and the neighborhoods were very safe and well taken care of and so much fun to grow up in. I have
childhood videos and hundreds of pictures of the wonderful memories I treasure from my Dorchester neighborhood. Thanks for preserving
I just saw your comment. I have childhood videos of my family in our backyard and some of Callender St. the street I grew up on. I wish I had more video of the whole street and some of Blue Hill Ave. Franklin Field, Oriental Theater. Of course we did not have the technology we have today to make videos. I took 8mm and turned it into VHS. I cherish that tape and watching it puts me back in a better time in my life. Those were the Best years.
pure ignorance at its best, atleast you know how to spell, now you should learn how to properly adress people you dumb nigger, go get a job you guerrilla.
That's just what i'd expect from a faggot ass honkie once again say some stupid ass gay shit online but I still don't see you talking all dat shit in the physical form and I do have a job and i'm pretty sure I make more money than your gay broke ass and learn how to spell gorilla before you try and come at some body stupid ass pussy
up to 1966 when we HAD to move. These people that wrote in using extremely bad language and putting down one of the safest most beautiful neighborhoods to grow up in ought to be ashamed of themselves. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. I should know how wonderful it was I lived there. There were No Shootings ever! That's because not one black person lived in Dorchester.
wow its funny how caucasians inhabited dorcheter roxbury and mattapan now its full uf the african american race. i wonder why and how that heppneed. i am african american myself.
know seee this? I dont know why everybody who comes from those neighborhoods is so proud of their poverty (hoods) all these rundown places were once places where people wanted to be, now its just rundown buildings.
Great start-if you want to see how the neighborhood devolved I recommend reading The
Death of an American Jewish Community/a Tragedy of Good Intentions by Rabbi Hillel Levine; a very readible analysis of the Roxbury-Dorchester-Mattapan demise. I loved the images, especially of the G & G and the Hecht-House which later morphed into the YMHA-Hecht House; the "Y" on Seaver St. having closed. Regards to the Imperials, Aardvarks, etc.
I just loved this video. Please add some more of the same. What a great neighborhood it was. Loved hearing about the "wall" and the Talbot Bowladrome.Thanks for the memories
Great job Barry! I grew up on Roxton St., off of Glenway St. and as you know, remember you hanging out with my brother Mike. Would love to see more of this especially the stores around Harvard St.
that was great!I,ve been in Dorchester for over 20 years and had always heard how Dorchester and Mattapan were so different than how it is today!I live on Lyndhurst st in Dorchester and would luv to hear from anyone who grew up on Lyndhurst st or the surrounding area any memories,pix,s ect? I live in the old white colum house up near the Washington st end( see video Today in Boston)thanks again Ric
That was great! I've been in dorchester now for over 20 years and had always heard about how dorchester and mattapan were different than it is today.I live on lyndhurst st in dorchester and would luv to hear from any one who grew up here on lyndhurst st or the area, any memories,pix's ect? I live in the old white colum house(see attach video) at the end toward's washington, thanks Ric
Was that man with the bow tie walking into the the G & G Julius Ansel?
lovettboston 1 month ago
thank you for sharing this video - i was there - lived rright behind the hecht house on Lorne st. went to the wall on the holidays. every once in a while i get brave and go to simco's still the best hot dogs
beaksandnoses 4 months ago
OMG I love this. I am 57 now. I had 2 older brothers who sat on the wall. The Oriental G and G Etc.
Where is more
deborahsalant 5 months ago
The full documentary is complete and available at the website or at Maxie's Deli.
barrygoverman 1 year ago
Oh, it brought back so many memories! Walking to Mattapan Square, to the G & G, Franklin Field on the holidays and of course, Simco's. Thank you Kenneth7000. Loved it!!!! It is a shame how it's all changed, but time marches on!!!
dmanleysr 1 year ago
It's so hard to watch a video like this and not be prejudice when you look at these neighborhoods today...
My dads neighborhood was completely destroyed in brooklyn...I just don't know what to say about the situation and the black culture. I feel for em, I really do.
You cannot say income is the main problem...my father grew up in an italian ghetto that had LESS money than the majority of black neighborhoods today and it was paradise compared to what they became.
sean9820 2 years ago
im clownin, it aint that serious ya dumb fucks
iRepBOSTON021 2 years ago
how can someone be a white ass nigger
holydiver978 2 years ago
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fuck yall white ass niggas, nigga come to talbot ave now nigga i catch bodies... get a banana shoved up ya asshole nigga
iRepBOSTON021 2 years ago
"come to talbot ave now nigga"
yea you can't because you ignorant niggers turned a nice neighborhood into shit you fuckin retard...boston would be all around nice city if you and your colored folk wouldn't be so fuckin stupid all the time...think your some kind of gangster? then go live in LA in compton you'll fit right in...pussy
TMartin617 2 years ago
We don't need racist comments from TMartin. Easy to be a tough guy when you're hidden on the internet. If you're Jewish, all the worse. Given all we've been through as a people, we have no right to be predjudiced. Just remember when anyone says something hateful, you can just as well insert Jew into the comment cause that's what's coming next.
You're a coward!
bradshaw409 1 year ago
Kenneth you are more than welcome to my little story. I've been carrying that around with me all my life. Grateful to have a proper place to put it, and it's my way of saying "thanks" to you for posting your movie. So much more I could say. A Star of David in mosaic, a menorah cast in a concrete.Signs of what came before were always around. Just know that those of YOU who departed before WE arrived are not the only ones who love Mattapan and Dorchester and somehow yearn the way it used to be.
picdadee 3 years ago
Part 1
At age 4,in October of '69, I arrived direct from Jamaica at 16 Greendale Rd, a triple decker owned by a lovely old Jewish couple. My mother was a nurse, as were her roommates in the apartment. On one occasion she was late coming home and could not open the door for me when I came home from kindergarten at the Audubon School. I stood in the 2nd floor hallway crying at the door because I thought something terrible had happened to her and that she was not coming back.
picdadee 3 years ago
Part2 My anxiety was fueled by the fact that we had been separated for over a year while she worked here in America to bring us over. The door to the first floor apartment opened and gray hair, spectacles and a white apron peered up at me and called to me in a thick German accent: "Come on bebbi dun't cchry. Dun't cchry bebbi. Loook I got zum nice chiggen zoop fah you.You like chiggen zoop? Come on bebbi, come on. Dun't chry"
picdadee 3 years ago
I went- because I was a child and because my mother had proudly introduced me to this couple as nice people -and they were.I'd had chicken before,and soup before,but never chicken soup. And in my 41 years since I have never eaten anything close to what was put before me that day.A bowl of this thick, steaming,yellowish liquid that sent tiny golden globules of fat swirling and colliding across its surface with every movement of my spoon.Chunks of vegetables- some recognizable(carrots!)others not.
picdadee 3 years ago
Part 4 Two spoons of the peppery broth and my nose began to run. No problem. One good sniff and I put the mucous right back where it belonged, and finished my soup. Not much later my mother arrived and was ushered in to find me sitting patiently and contentedly in an old overstuffed chair. I never again felt the need to cry at her absence and I have always carried with me the memory of the kindness delivered to me that day in a bowl of chicken soup.
picdadee 3 years ago
I am the producer of the movie. I just want you to know that this is a beautiful little story.
kenneth70000 3 years ago
I saved this footage cause i am so amazed at what went on in my neighborhood b4 my time!It is so amazing to know that a whole other culture and lifestyle was once there in MATTAPAN , DORCHESTER! almost mind boggling!
I grew up there in the late 80's and 90's until....wow
so what is the ORIENTAL THEATRE NOW? because SIMCO'S is still there....
deziremenow143 3 years ago
The Oriental is now Capitol Electric. The main theater space is used for storage. The ceiling is intact as is the projection room. Thanks for posting.
kenneth70000 3 years ago
thankyou! im still in awe,,, lol
deziremenow143 3 years ago
I just watched the video again and all I can say is I'm proud to be from Dorchester in a time when life was simple and walking the streets in the neighborhoods and going to all the stores on Blue Hill Ave. was so much fun. People were out day and night and the thought of getting shot or robbed did not even enter our minds! Mattapan Sq.was also a great place to shop and to see a movie at the very unique
Oriental Theater.
paige70 3 years ago
Thank you Mr. Goverman for making this film. I
grew up on Callender St. in Dorchester between the years 1950 to 1966. I loved our 2 family house that we owned, I loved the friends I made, the schools and the neighborhoods were very safe and well taken care of and so much fun to grow up in. I have
childhood videos and hundreds of pictures of the wonderful memories I treasure from my Dorchester neighborhood. Thanks for preserving
the best years of my life!
paige70 3 years ago
thanks for the post. we would be interested in video that you have of the neighborhood. could you describe the video? thanks.
kenneth70000 3 years ago
paige70 3 years ago
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fuck u dumbass bitch ass faggot come down to fucking boston and say that shit and not on the internet
binsizill 3 years ago
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didn't expect nothing less from a monkey.
pure ignorance at its best, atleast you know how to spell, now you should learn how to properly adress people you dumb nigger, go get a job you guerrilla.
xxkillaxx781 3 years ago
That's just what i'd expect from a faggot ass honkie once again say some stupid ass gay shit online but I still don't see you talking all dat shit in the physical form and I do have a job and i'm pretty sure I make more money than your gay broke ass and learn how to spell gorilla before you try and come at some body stupid ass pussy
binsizill 3 years ago
very nice, great history. just dont go there today...
tonytwister18 3 years ago
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well its nice to know it was atleast ONCE nice before the niggers ruined it.... but thats nothin new, they pretty much ruin everything.
xxkillaxx781 3 years ago
I agree with you!! I grew up near Blue Hill
Ave. not far from Franklin Field in the 1950's
up to 1966 when we HAD to move. These people that wrote in using extremely bad language and putting down one of the safest most beautiful neighborhoods to grow up in ought to be ashamed of themselves. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. I should know how wonderful it was I lived there. There were No Shootings ever! That's because not one black person lived in Dorchester.
Blunt? but true
paige70 3 years ago
wow its funny how caucasians inhabited dorcheter roxbury and mattapan now its full uf the african american race. i wonder why and how that heppneed. i am african american myself.
truwoman01 3 years ago
know seee this? I dont know why everybody who comes from those neighborhoods is so proud of their poverty (hoods) all these rundown places were once places where people wanted to be, now its just rundown buildings.
MSRLGS 3 years ago
Nice to see this piece on my father's old neighborhood. I know it made him happy to see it, and thank you for making it.
brmanski 3 years ago
Great start-if you want to see how the neighborhood devolved I recommend reading The
Death of an American Jewish Community/a Tragedy of Good Intentions by Rabbi Hillel Levine; a very readible analysis of the Roxbury-Dorchester-Mattapan demise. I loved the images, especially of the G & G and the Hecht-House which later morphed into the YMHA-Hecht House; the "Y" on Seaver St. having closed. Regards to the Imperials, Aardvarks, etc.
Ira "Rick" Kwatcher
ikwatcher 4 years ago
I just loved this video. Please add some more of the same. What a great neighborhood it was. Loved hearing about the "wall" and the Talbot Bowladrome.Thanks for the memories
CINNABERRY9 4 years ago
Cynthia Albert Bramberg
Wish I could identify some of the people in the video. It was just great. Was there ever a better street to live on than Nightingale Street??
CINNABERRY9 4 years ago
Loretta (Averbuck) Chandler
This is just fabulous. We were so lucky to have grown up in a neighborhood that was so warm and inviting. Thank you for the memories.
monticor631 4 years ago
Great job Barry! I grew up on Roxton St., off of Glenway St. and as you know, remember you hanging out with my brother Mike. Would love to see more of this especially the stores around Harvard St.
Thanks!
-Burt Lewis
EastonMassVideos 4 years ago
Wow
What a trip back in time.
Barbara (Elfman) Sundook
Boca Raton ,Florida, formaly American Legion Hwy.
ladyb426 4 years ago
Unbelievable -- sure brought back a lot of great memory's i grew up dorchester and mattapan, miss the avenue the way it was.
Lorne St -- Deering Rd --
ellen schloss
birdsrus35 4 years ago
that was great!I,ve been in Dorchester for over 20 years and had always heard how Dorchester and Mattapan were so different than how it is today!I live on Lyndhurst st in Dorchester and would luv to hear from anyone who grew up on Lyndhurst st or the surrounding area any memories,pix,s ect? I live in the old white colum house up near the Washington st end( see video Today in Boston)thanks again Ric
boston02124 4 years ago
That was great! I've been in dorchester now for over 20 years and had always heard about how dorchester and mattapan were different than it is today.I live on lyndhurst st in dorchester and would luv to hear from any one who grew up here on lyndhurst st or the area, any memories,pix's ect? I live in the old white colum house(see attach video) at the end toward's washington, thanks Ric
boston02124 4 years ago
My Aunt sent this back to me in W. Roxbury, from FLA- It has come full corcle ! MArk
markrgoldberg 4 years ago
GreatJob Barry - from a fellow Men's clubber
markrgoldberg 4 years ago
Wow - that is just terrific! Two of my family members are in one of the photographs. Beautiful documentary.
marcopolo2001 4 years ago
awesome!!!! Great work...
dkublin 4 years ago