I was born at Elliot and grew up in Litchfield. We were about 3-4 miles from Grenier field as the crow flies. I remember jets taking off and the house shaking. I remember the abandoned rollercoaster at Pine Island Park. We used to shop at Alexanders. Going over the Granite St bridge was scary on my motorcycle! Bradlees on Elm moved to South Willow and the Elm St location became an Allen Bradley factory. Saw many movies at Bedford Grove. My friend's father owned Caesar's pizza, I remember going there sometimes after hockey.
I was born in Manchester at Sacred Heart Hospital. My family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida right after I graduated second grade. Thank you for this video. I don’t remember any of these places but I loved seeing them.
I've been a DQ customer for sixty years and I never considered there was actually a Dairy Queen. Count me in as a fanatic for the Double Dipped Cone. One layer of cherry, cooled and then dipped in chocolate. OMGosh!
Very cool to see what this city once was as well as depressing and sad in a sense . I'm 46 and was raised on Cartier street on the West side near St . Mary's church . My parents built a home in Goffstown when I was 10 and we moved in 1986 . But my grandparents " the Augers " owned the tenant building and we lived on the 2nd floor , my grandparents were on the first . Most of the tenant buildings during this time period still had the owners living on the first floor of the buildings as well as most of the properties were still kept up . The neighborhood was clean , quiet and had a great French Canadian , Irish and German community . Many of the small corner stores were still active such as Saindons market which was always fun to go into and was always busy with people conversing and such . I recently moved back to Manchester after a 35 year hiatus due to needing a place to live really quick after living in Florida for 6 months and not liking it . Needless to say I'm old enough to remember the absolute tail end of what this great city once was . The city has become the complete opposite of what it once was . Slumlords and investment companies have bought up all the old tenant buildings , they do not maintain them at all and let anybody move in . The city is littered with trash , almost weekly shootings and stabbings , homeless drug addicts roaming around everywhere , homeless camp sites in any and every patch of woods , crime , drugs , loud music and very annoying exhausts from every honda civic that drives bye , scumbags everywhere . All the corner stores are owned by Pakis who most of the time ignore you when you say hello . It's turned into the slums of Massachusetts and will only get worse . It's very Sad that the community let this happen .. as there's no reversing it .
Yep, even though I grew up in Manchester later, in the 80s and 90s, I feel the same way. I moved away in 2006, but still visit family several times a year, and the inner city started to become a real dump around 2004, and only got worse from there for the reasons you state: absentee landlords who don't care who they rent to. I noticed Manchester really took a nosedive in 2013 when the heroin epidemic was in full swing, and it simply never receded. I still am proud to be from Manchester and think the City has a lot to offer, but if City Hall doesn't get tough on crime, vagrancy, and absentee landlords, then the City will permanently become North Lawrence.
@@bjkarana Considering our mayor is notorious for taking money from the fire dept and putting it towards more Narcan for the junkies, you know what direction we're heading in. Too bad I couldn't see manchester in it's glory days.
@@ArdillaLoco Well, drugs and crime may have been a lot less widespread 20+ years ago, but Manchester was stagnant and boring when I was a kid. At least downtown came back when the SNHU (Verizon) arena was built, and the schools were better funded once Mayor Weiczorek was ousted (although, to his credit, he was instrumental in re-developing Manchester Airport). I hear you on the Narcan bit; my younger brother worked nights at the Elliot for a few years and he'd see the same people coming in for OD's within hours of being discharged and it was their entitlement above everything else that really irked him the most. But I digress.
I liked your video, but I had a suggestion. I think you could enhance some of these pictures like Pine Island Park by having a few of the old timers giving us a verbal description of what Pine Island was like during its grandeur days. Soon all those people who lived during that time will be gone and we need to hear what some of those special places were like! You could also include what it was like to work in a mill with a lot of immigrants who spoke different languages!
I grew up in Manchester in the 50's. I liked the pictures of the buses on Elm St. because I used to ride them a lot. My parents bought tokens for them. It was very convenient for kids to be able to go downtown on their own. For example, I took swimming lessons at Rock Rimmon pool, so I took the Pinard bus downtown and the Rimmon bus (I think) to the pool.
What downtown? There is no downtown here lmao. This place is not a city. It’s a medium sized town. I’m from Providence RI, now THAT is a city with a downtown.
0:05 Alan Bleviss on the voice-over. He was a Canadian actor who moved to New York City in the mid 70s and became an all-time great commercial VO talent.
The China Dragon burned down in 1988 so I don't know why that photo of the fire is noted to be in the 70s.
I live in. Virginia now but I miss manchester❤
I was born at Elliot and grew up in Litchfield. We were about 3-4 miles from Grenier field as the crow flies. I remember jets taking off and the house shaking. I remember the abandoned rollercoaster at Pine Island Park. We used to shop at Alexanders. Going over the Granite St bridge was scary on my motorcycle! Bradlees on Elm moved to South Willow and the Elm St location became an Allen Bradley factory. Saw many movies at Bedford Grove. My friend's father owned Caesar's pizza, I remember going there sometimes after hockey.
I was born in Manchester at Sacred Heart Hospital. My family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida right after I graduated second grade. Thank you for this video. I don’t remember any of these places but I loved seeing them.
Does WKBR still exist?
That blue 1980 Toyota pickup was mine!👍❤️
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I love these classic gas station jingles and the cars are amazing.
this advert from 1940s
Gggggg❤😂🎉😢😮 🎄😁😍😘🤩🤔🎁🤩😍😎😋
Do you know if the observatory is still standing today
The music is horrible
the prices. 28.9 gasoline. oh boy
oh geeze the children could of been us kids. oh my gosh. Good ol Manchester. we were on Uncle Gus too. WKBR we called all the time requesting songs.
I do not remember the crash plane. But much I do remember, reminds me walks with my mother. Oh my gosh.
It's 2023!
A real classic of childhood
The queen looks like a Cuphead boss
This is way before Cuphead was a thing..
X1959 1:02
From 1961 0:30
1958 0:09
Im your favorite clown from tulsey town
I always feel a slight sadness when I watch this.
I've been a DQ customer for sixty years and I never considered there was actually a Dairy Queen. Count me in as a fanatic for the Double Dipped Cone. One layer of cherry, cooled and then dipped in chocolate. OMGosh!
They need to bring her back!
I use to love going to Zayre on the weekends. Tiffany Deaton, Atlanta, Georgia
🥺 childhood 🥺
What the heck that queen just kidnapped 3kids
It looks like the 50s 40s or 30s!
Probably the 50s. The first DQ opened in 1940.
Wait. Where is the great neon sign BUTCHER BOY MEAT can't be beat!?
What a terrific video! All 190 title cards from the Three Stooges series, and all the theme songs. Thanks YOU TUBE for this creative upload.
Very cool to see what this city once was as well as depressing and sad in a sense . I'm 46 and was raised on Cartier street on the West side near St . Mary's church . My parents built a home in Goffstown when I was 10 and we moved in 1986 . But my grandparents " the Augers " owned the tenant building and we lived on the 2nd floor , my grandparents were on the first . Most of the tenant buildings during this time period still had the owners living on the first floor of the buildings as well as most of the properties were still kept up . The neighborhood was clean , quiet and had a great French Canadian , Irish and German community . Many of the small corner stores were still active such as Saindons market which was always fun to go into and was always busy with people conversing and such . I recently moved back to Manchester after a 35 year hiatus due to needing a place to live really quick after living in Florida for 6 months and not liking it . Needless to say I'm old enough to remember the absolute tail end of what this great city once was . The city has become the complete opposite of what it once was . Slumlords and investment companies have bought up all the old tenant buildings , they do not maintain them at all and let anybody move in . The city is littered with trash , almost weekly shootings and stabbings , homeless drug addicts roaming around everywhere , homeless camp sites in any and every patch of woods , crime , drugs , loud music and very annoying exhausts from every honda civic that drives bye , scumbags everywhere . All the corner stores are owned by Pakis who most of the time ignore you when you say hello . It's turned into the slums of Massachusetts and will only get worse . It's very Sad that the community let this happen .. as there's no reversing it .
Yep, even though I grew up in Manchester later, in the 80s and 90s, I feel the same way. I moved away in 2006, but still visit family several times a year, and the inner city started to become a real dump around 2004, and only got worse from there for the reasons you state: absentee landlords who don't care who they rent to. I noticed Manchester really took a nosedive in 2013 when the heroin epidemic was in full swing, and it simply never receded. I still am proud to be from Manchester and think the City has a lot to offer, but if City Hall doesn't get tough on crime, vagrancy, and absentee landlords, then the City will permanently become North Lawrence.
@@bjkarana Considering our mayor is notorious for taking money from the fire dept and putting it towards more Narcan for the junkies, you know what direction we're heading in. Too bad I couldn't see manchester in it's glory days.
@@ArdillaLoco Well, drugs and crime may have been a lot less widespread 20+ years ago, but Manchester was stagnant and boring when I was a kid. At least downtown came back when the SNHU (Verizon) arena was built, and the schools were better funded once Mayor Weiczorek was ousted (although, to his credit, he was instrumental in re-developing Manchester Airport). I hear you on the Narcan bit; my younger brother worked nights at the Elliot for a few years and he'd see the same people coming in for OD's within hours of being discharged and it was their entitlement above everything else that really irked him the most. But I digress.
I liked your video, but I had a suggestion. I think you could enhance some of these pictures like Pine Island Park by having a few of the old timers giving us a verbal description of what Pine Island was like during its grandeur days. Soon all those people who lived during that time will be gone and we need to hear what some of those special places were like! You could also include what it was like to work in a mill with a lot of immigrants who spoke different languages!
I grew up in Manchester in the 50's. I liked the pictures of the buses on Elm St. because I used to ride them a lot. My parents bought tokens for them. It was very convenient for kids to be able to go downtown on their own. For example, I took swimming lessons at Rock Rimmon pool, so I took the Pinard bus downtown and the Rimmon bus (I think) to the pool.
What downtown? There is no downtown here lmao. This place is not a city. It’s a medium sized town. I’m from Providence RI, now THAT is a city with a downtown.
Nice.. Sung a la Shirley Bassey performing 'Goldfinger'....
Too few pictures of Market Basket/Demoulas if you ask me. And no smoke/vape, or mattress stores back in the day? 🤣🤣
LOVE Kathy Keegan! Thanks for posting!
0:05 Alan Bleviss on the voice-over. He was a Canadian actor who moved to New York City in the mid 70s and became an all-time great commercial VO talent.
Brought back some lovely memories! Thank you for your efforts!
She knows she can get charge for kidnapping, right?
HO
Let's now replace the fairy with the pedophile in Family Guy and it'll be even creepier.
Creepy
Seen my 1971 Plymouth Duster in the parking lot!
Anyone here from Televoid?
Hello everyone welcome to 2021 this is very old it kinda rhymes-
My favorite was" Puffin Peacan " flavor. I don't know if it still exists?
It’s true. I WANT TO GO THERE SO BAD 😩 edit: spelling mistake
This is not scary, this is just a fantasy. If you have a bad parents this is much better.
Maybe late 70's early 80's, not 60's.
Almost like the commercial in the movie "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"