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1990s when things started closing

Wow decade s of this crazy town I've lived here from 1977... Most places I know.. Excellent job on this video ..probably town of saugus checking if anyone added on to there home or biz.... Was a nice place growing up. Now not so good.. There's 5 police 2 fire trucks for a million citizens..wtf.. Now it's a city.. Not a town .

Heart blaring cruising by Kowloons 😂

I have a vague memory that my parents used to go to the Hilltop restaurant. I heard they had the most DELICIOUS steak. 🤤😋 I was just a baby at the time, so this was around 1995.

Visone Corvette... Drove up from the Cape, and bought my first Vette there back in the day... What a ripoff that place was...

The Ship was the worst.

I remember this stretch of Route 1. I lived in Lynn May '87 to September '89. Kowloon's, the Hilltop Steak House (they had the _best steaks_ 🤤😋), Kmart, Filene's Basement, and Service Merchandise where I bought a big briefcase!

In 1972 I would get out of High School and ride on my 10 Speed Bike to the McDonalds across from Hockey Town, in that traffic, and ride home at night 9 - 10 P.M. AND, LIVED TO TELL THE TALE!!

Thank you for sharing

Wow! Thank you! We were from the New Bedford area but we always went that way on New Hampshire/ Maine family trips. Dad would always stop at HillTop on the ride home!

Great nostalgic video. Anyone remember Howard Johnson Restaurant across the rotary from the miniature golf with the dinosaur, Valleys restaurant and Putnam Pantry (make your own sunday) and the Arnold Palmer mini golf way up Rt 1.

Love seeing this, I miss Hilltop! and 3:36 Caldor sign!! I miss that store and Bradlees...omg 4:19 Service Merchandise!!

Back when 93.7 was rock nroll! Wcgy

This was six days before I graduated from Burlington High School, and I knew that road well then, and would get to know it even better in the coming months, as I was starting at Salem State that September, it was my main route into Boston. The New England Shopping Center (with the exception of the Sears building, which was incorporated into the new mall) was being demolished to build the Square One Mall in this video. It's a wonder that place is even still around..

wow, at the 3:45 mark, you past the "Red Coach Grill" that had been on route 1.......I'm not sure what it was called in 92, maybe J.C. Hillery's? At least the one in Wayland MA was called that.

Longgggg sigh , 36 feels really old

Can't believe Santoro's closed recently, don't know why they didn't sell to someone to keep it going. Tastiest cheese steaks I ever ate.

Wow what memories. Thanks for posting!!

Wow. The nostalgia I have. I miss it.

I appreciate you had the forethought to record this. So many awesome restaurants are gone. I was trying to remember the name Augustine's. We went there all the time. My grandma worked at Filene's. I can't believe how much has changed in such a short time.

Seeing Hilltop makes me cry & angry at the same time. The new owners took one of the busiest restaurants IN THE WORLD & screwed it up. I would kill for another salad & those awesome rolls at Hilltop. As a kid, I loved that we had to wait an hour or more for a table. My parents would get us Shirley Temples at the bar & we'd look out at the cows & the traffic. Of course as a kid I wished we had gone to the McDonald's across the street but I smartened up as I got older.

1:19. Hilltop Steakhouse.... that's a cool shot... iconic....

Thank you for sharing this video! 😊

OMG, Thanks for posting these classics from the WBCN production team. They were the best in the business. I still sing their version of songs.

2:48 epic 80s/90s New England with Judas Priest blasting in the background while driving up on the Xmas Tree Shop lol amazing vid! Only way it could be more retro New England would be if you were driving and IROC Z!

All the stores that have closed

Saugus had their school hard by and down wind of the mother stroad when lead was in the gasoline. which kinda explains the public policy initiatives of the "Branch Manoogian" cult

Weylus and hilltop steakhouse ftw man I remember going there when I was a kid

Moved from area in 1976 several trips back only to see obvious changes . Ghee drove tens of thousands of miles on Route 1 from Boston to Maine although this is mostly Saugus to Lynfield . I lived in Lynn

I like the radio station soundtrack...how about all the neon...was that the cow at hilltop steakhouse?

I used to go to The Palace With my fake id back in 86

I remember the Hill Top Steakhouse. Me and my buddies from work liked to go there for the best steaks at the lowest prices. The Filet minion was so big you had to get a doggie bag.

Was hoping to see Full of Bull here but it’s a little farther down! Awesome video

If you go there now you were totally feel lost the steakhouse they removed the cows 🐄 and the cactus. Most landmarks that gave you that nostalgic feeling it’s gone and it just looks like some modern metropolis and now everything cost 20 times more and we’ve been pushed out of the area I’m gonna New Englander and thanks to gentrification I’ve been pushed south this is not the America I once knew .

Mr Spin thank you for the great video and the memories. I’m from the area , now in the south in the sun. But my ❤ exploded when these memories rushed in . The palace, rascals. Officer club ❤. Please post more of this in the area 🙏🏻 bless you brother 🙏🏻

Wow

Getting turned on remembering trysts with women, married or not, in those cheap motels back then.

This is a war zone now, it's all illegal aliens now

Been to the Hilltop Steakhouse a dozen of times and worked in Kowloon restaurant in the early 80s

I grew up in Somerville but we hung out on Route 1 with some Saugus girls we were friends with. We'd go over their house and watch 90210, go to RollerWorld, and go through the Taco Bell drive through. Good memories!

hi there! thanks so much for posting this video. can I please get in touch with you about using some of this footage for a documentary? please let me know the best way to contact you.

Great great!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍

All the places I worked!❤❤❤❤

Anybody remember what the white boarded up house used to be right next to the U-Haul and Oyes?

Thanks for posting!!! I can remember as early as 1992 driving up and down Route 1.

This video means a lot to me. I live in New Hampshire now. I was 2 in 1992. And even though I was born in 1990 Revere Beach is the beach I grew up on. And will forever be in my heart.

wow

16:47 orange dinosaur and golf course. Thanks for posting I just drove by in 2023 and wondered what happened to the ship and Hilltop Steak house

I remember Buster’s. It was a nice gimmick, but it only lasted a short time. The waitresses used to say “I’ll be fetchin’ your grub.”

What makes people film videos like this? It’s almost like people know this type of video will be necessary in the future. I can’t watch the video now because then I’ll be up for hours thinking. I miss the old route one. I miss the hilltop. I miss the big ship at the Christmas tree shop. I feel like the Kowloon is the last standing landmark besides the orange dinosaur. i cant believe they knocked down that beautiful weylu building. Everything is changing so much from the 90s.