"Governor Pampers" ??? Dana Hersey Fall Off The Polo Pony Wagon?

[Casablanca]

The brothers who founded Friendly [ the 's was added later by a different owner] hated each other. So, why do you think they would treat their employees well. Did you get a lot of business in '64 from "Archies"? HoJo's was still around on the Expressway. It had better ice cream but in the closest hang-out for us after school was Fasano's Diner on Washington Street.

Just to rattle TSB's mind a bit, but all in fun....

remember any of this.....
FIVE PLEASE
TEN PLEASE
we sell Friendly Cola, is that OK?
red scoops, green scoops, black scoops
setups
GRILLE PLEASE

Jubilee rolls......

the list goes on... and you thought you forgot your teen years. You of the white ice cream suit days or the blue checkered shirt/blue polyester pants era?

I'm afraid that young ladies had all the glamour 'wait on customer' jobs. I was employed as what I would call a "Dish, Glass, and Flatwear Cleanliness Technician." I don't recall them actually giving me anything special to wear, just whatever I wore in. This was back around 1964. I think the waitresses and counter people did wear distinguishing shirts, though.

It was a new store (Quincy Ave, in Quincy) and I was part of the original crew. I do remember that at the end of every evening shift, the manager told us to make ourselves whatever we wanted. We all made ice cream sundaes the size of bowling balls. When we got our first paychecks, we found out that they had charged us for the ice cream, although at a lower, 'Friendly' price. Sonuvabitch!!

One Washington's B'Day weekend, my father had told me we were going to go to a cottage we were building in NH, and he needed me to help with the wiring. I told my manager at Friendly's, and he told me I had to work that weekend. I went to NH. and when I returned discovered that I was a former employee.

My wife thinks it's funny to tell people that I was fired from a place named Friendly's.

Regards,
TSB

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[Infidel]

Why the "pampers" comment?

I dunno, maybe he was referring to the Governor as a baby. Or a sissy. Or a limp-wrist. Who knows?

 

[oomboppamaumau]

Casa's "outrage" (selective) reminds me of an old Joe Jackson song, "Sunday papers":

"Brothers heading that way now I guess
He just read something made his face turn blue"

Hope Casa's Rumpelstilsken "mad dance" doesn't awake the downstairs neighbours!

Dana Hersey: V.O. Pro. Deal with it, Casa. His loooong C.V. speaks for itself.

OBMM

 

[NHRonin]

Casa's "outrage" is the desperate act of a drama queen screaming for attention. He can't get his own talk show to provide the attention he believes he so richly deserves so he uses the only outlet he has, these boards, to kick, scream and cry until we all pay attention.

 

[TSBench]

The brothers who founded Friendly [ the 's was added later by a different owner] hated each other.

Okay by me. I was a teenager who didn't plan on a career at Friendly's, so I didn't care if the Blake brothers were axe murderers, just so long as the checks cleared. I wasn't looking for Friendly's to adopt me, just supply me with cash so I wouldn't have to bum gas money from my old man. Life's pretty simple like that when you're a kid.

So, why do you think they would treat their employees well.

They didn't treat me poorly. I had an agreement with Friendly's....I agreed to wash dishes and lug ice cream containers from the freezer to the counter. In return, they agreed to pay me for doing it. Either of us could terminate this arrangement at any time, at our own convenience, for any reason. Although it would have been nice, free ice cream was never part of the deal, just something I assumed. That I assumed wrong didn't make them a bad employer, just a little more frugal one than I would have liked. But they paid me for every minute I was on the clock, right down to the last nickle, and that was what we had agreed.

Regards,
TSB

 

[jacobr]

tsb,
that part of quincy is my old stomping ground, dont remember a friendly's on Quinccy Av.
HELP! I am very puzzled....where on quincy av?

 

[Casablanca]

Almost across the street from Arch Bishop Williams High School on Franklin Street not Quincy Avenue I think.
The only other Friendly is in Wollaston on Hancock Street.

tsb,
that part of quincy is my old stomping ground, dont remember a friendly's on Quinccy Av.
HELP! I am very puzzled....where on quincy av?

 

[Casablanca]

"Dana Hersey: V.O. Pro." Very appropriate but think it was more likely Bud or Thunderbird....

Casa's "outrage" (selective) reminds me of an old Joe Jackson song, "Sunday papers":

"Brothers heading that way now I guess
He just read something made his face turn blue"

Hope Casa's Rumpelstilsken "mad dance" doesn't awake the downstairs neighbours!

Dana Hersey: V.O. Pro. Deal with it, Casa. His loooong C.V. speaks for itself.

OBMM

 

[oomboppamaumau]

(tongue planted frimly in cheek) Geez, Casa - I would think a seasoned broadcast pro like yourself would recognise "V.O." as Voice Over"!

If Hersey is hammered all the time (as you've inferred), he must be even better at his profession than most of use give him credit for!

Ever think of Live365, Casa? All sorts of rimshot-formats on there - I bet you'd find your groove there.

Rock on, ese'

OBMM

 

[TSBench]

tsb,
that part of quincy is my old stomping ground, dont remember a friendly's on Quinccy Av.
HELP! I am very puzzled....where on quincy av?

It was in a shopping mall (Presidents Plaza) on Quincy Ave that backed up onto Faxon Park. Bradlees was once the anchor store there. I believe the site is now home to a large Asian marketplace.

Regards,
TSB

 

[Casablanca]

It is. Where was Friendly in relation to Bradlees? Not much there now. Strawberries is out and I think Radio Shack is gone to. Some police supply and beauty supply stores there now. Also a Dunkin Donut kiosk.
Times have changed.
Do you remember the name of the fast- food [ maybe a drive-in] restaurant that was on Quincy Avenue just before Eddie's Diner and the Lincoln-Mercury dealership [now a Walgreens]?
Even WJDA "The broadcasting medium for the South Shore" is gone.
James D. Asher, Sr. [JDA] must be turning in his grave to see what his son did to his radio station. Si, senor....
Then again, I only listened to JDA as kid for the no school reports. "No school, all schools all day..." Prettiest phrase in the English language to a 10 year old...

tsb,
that part of quincy is my old stomping ground, dont remember a friendly's on Quinccy Av.
HELP! I am very puzzled....where on quincy av?

It was in a shopping mall (Presidents Plaza) on Quincy Ave that backed up onto Faxon Park. Bradlees was once the anchor store there. I believe the site is now home to a large Asian marketplace.

Regards,
TSB

 

[TSBench]

It is.

Was. This was in the 60s.

Where was Friendly in relation to Bradlees?

At the end of the L strip, next to Radio Shack and a record store, and probably some others.

Do you remember the name of the fast- food [ maybe a drive-in] restaurant that was on Quincy Avenue just before Eddie's Diner and the Lincoln-Mercury dealership [now a Walgreens]?

It was the A&W Root Beer stand.

Even WJDA "The broadcasting medium for the South Shore" is gone.

WJDA went on the air the day I was born. In fact, I was the first birth ever announced on a long running feature called "The Stork Club" where they announced births at Quincy City and South Shore Hospitals. I think they never changed the original theme music for the decades it was on.

James D. Asher, Sr. [JDA] must be turning in his grave to see what his son did to his radio station.

IIRC, James D. got his ticket punched by lung cancer in the late fifties, and his kid is the one who actually lead the station during its, if you can call it this, glory days. I knew Junior pretty well, and he'd be the first to admit he knew nothing about the radio business. His job seemed to be to go to the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club meetings pressing the flesh and trying to drum up business. He was smart enough to let people who really knew what local radio was all about, like Roy Lind and Win Bettinsen, actually run the station, and they did a pretty good job at it, billing over a million a year by the 1970s, running high school football, city hall interviews, police blotter stuff, The Breakfast Show, 'Party Line' call in, and all the little things community stations did back then. And, like everyone else, we all dialed it in whenver the first flake of snow fell from the sky waiting for the no-school announcements.

In its heyday, it seemed you couldn't go into a municipal office or business in Quincy, Braintree, or Weymouth that didn't have it on. It really had a presence.

But the towns grew more sophisticated, and less insular, and near the end it seemed like its entire audience lived at 1000 Southern Artery Senior Citizens Complex. I'm not sure Asher Jr could have saved it, regardless of what he did.

Time marched on, the old timers packed it in, and Asher cashed out while he could. Too bad, because even though I didn't listen to it much, it was nice to know it was there.

Regards,
TSB