There used to be a display inside the mall that talks about the family and the farm that used to occupy the land the mall was built on. It may still be there, it's like a little display booth and it can be moved around. It used to be near the entrance to Best Buy. It had several photos.
I'll have to check that out . I also think the old farm that can be seen from 293 on the right before the fork to 93 south was part of this . I can recall the cows that could be seen from the highway 20+ years ago.
When you spoke about Roy’s, it made me remember a diner on Valley street. I have looked for old pics of that shopping plaza from the 60s, 70s 80s but can’t find any. There was a Woolworth’s but the diner I’m talking about was not in that building but one closer to Valley. There was some sort of rail depot a block or 2 east of there too.
About the J A Hebert furniture store; when you panned the camera to the right, there is a Concentra med clinic. That is 1279 S Willow now. The weird thing is, I had an appt there three days ago. And when you put up the newspaper ad it says 1279, and I thought ‘that sounds familiar’. Sure enough, same address. Oh, also, great video. I love this kinda stuff!
My mother’s family lived across the street from the mall of NH and on Goff Falls Road. They were immigrants from Sicily moving to Manchester about 1907. My great grandfather was a farmer on Goff Falls Road and South Willow Street. He had a store and sold gas on the corner of South Willow street and Goff Falls Road.
O'Donnel's was in Bedford where MarketBasket is today. Al Fisher owned Mr. Tux. Stan's Paint Store was on Amherst St. just down from Chestnut. Born and brought up in the Queen City. I will post on your other productions to fill in the gaps. Great stuff!
@@manchesterexplorer8519 It was owned by Frankie O'Donnel, standout basketball player for St. A's Class of 1958 and accomplished coach at Bishop Bradley High School/
I used to go to the manchester drive in as a kid and the entrance was right where the current entrance for burlington/ michaels is now. The screen was in the northwest corner of the parking lot. I believe it closed in 1970 or 1971. I was told that it was possible to sneak in through the woods between the south end of the drive in and Nutts pond. As for wendys there was a big old house there that got torn down about 1972 i think.
hey man love your vids keep up the dope content, its really cool to learn little bits of history about manchester and nh in general, i feel like its a severely under appreciated state with a lot of cool history most people are completely unwise to, too bad south willow isnt still vast farmland tho crazy how urbanized its been in just 50 years
What funny is that I'm 46 and I honestly don't really remember South Willow street from the 1980's for some reason . It's weird how the brain only remembers so much .
I remember South Willow Street when it was only a two lane road. There use to be a small chapel adjacent to this cemetery on South Willow St. If you want pictures of Manchester and its surrounding are, look at the Manchester Historical Society's website. There are lots of pictures of the South Willow St. area. Your description of where the Manchester Drive in Theater was is false. The location of where that theater was is where Burlington, Michael's and the Dollar Tree is, not where you said it was.
The location of the drive in Theatre clearly states that it was basically where precourt park now stands right next to Nuts Pond , so I don't think I was drastically wrong about that one as I have aerial photos of it as the entrance would of been right around where Wendy's currently sits so I should of been filming about 100 feet to the left but close enough facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10206296473885691&set=gm.1802846273294720
@@manchesterexplorer8519 - Hmmm, were you around when the Manchester Drive in was operating? Well, I was. I remember going there to see movies often with my family. The entrance to the drive-in was from South Willow St. The corner where the huge movie screen is located is where Wendy's is now. Nutts Pond is west of the theater where the park is also. The picture that you have showing in your video was taken by my best buddy's father, Peter Caikauskis Sr. you will find that picture and many others on teh Manchester Historical Society's website and/or at their location is the old Manchester Mill yard. Having been around at that time, I know what I'm talking about.
I'm not here to argue about the exact location of a drive in movie theatre because I was off by 100 feet as YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE IN THE AERIAL PHOTO !! I frequent this area at least 5 times a week as I walk my dogs or bike Nutts Pond Trail area as I'm well aware of the layout as the movie screen is literally where Wendys is now located as you are nit-picking @@georl1
@@manchesterexplorer8519 - I'm not intending to insult you, honestly. But if you're going to describe historical facts, then yeah, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred feet does make a difference. Having been there many times in my youth, I think it is important for those who have never been there to know exactly where it was located. It would be like describing the old Pine Island Amusement Park being located where the Goffsfalls School is which is actually right up the road from where the actual Pine Island Park use to be. It would be inaccurate, for someone who is interested in Manchester's history. Sorry if you took my correction the wrong way. No insult intended.
I get it believe me as I wasn't old enough to remember the Theatre, but I just looked at Google Earth to compare the two images as the screen was basically located at Wendy's and yes the parking lot would of been where you described . I also use the Historical Society for many of my pictures but for whatever reason not much exists about South Willow Street as far as really old pictures unless I missed something , Thanks for the insight and I apologize for being rude @@georl1
I'm 62 and I remember when I was a kid the roller coaster is still there old wooden one pretty impressive looking really it was where the I think it's the Blue Cross and anthem office building is that's where the roller coaster used to be little to the right
I remember eating breakfast at the a restaurant that is now the Mexican restaurant on maple and south willow I remember we always had to park across the street also across the south willow street from the restaurant where Jiffy Lube is located used to be an eye doctor which I heard was there for a long time before it sold to Jiffy Lube. Pretty cool to know the history
My great grandfather Salvatore Coco’s store and gas station on South Willow Street in Manchester, NH. The store was being run by great aunt and uncle Freddie and Louise Coco at the time this picture was taken. Aunt Louise is the woman in the photo. Sorry, that I can’t upload the photo for some reason. Any suggestions for doing so would be helpful!
Also at the image of the stardust (video) if you were to continue down about less than a half a mile there used to be a donkey farm there when I was a kid on the left.
Wow I was born in Derry then bounced around to new York then Maine then we moved to hooksett in the late 1970s so I grew up in hooksett and Manchester never knew there was a cemetery was there thank you for sharing this i remember docs white house down the hill also a liittle gas station cant remember the name many years ago
I'm not old enough to have experienced but yes it was an amusement park , would be great if it was still around . I may do a video on it but nothing really remains .
I talked to someone at the Manchester town hall they told me there had been a couple of fires in the past and many land records, history and photos had been destroyed in these fires. Did you find any Douglas buried in this cemetery?
He was part of P.T. Barnum's group and was known as Commodore Nutt. He worked with Tom Thumb. He has no headstone in the cemetery, but it is believed he is buried between his mother and father.
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Thank you for what you do. Great work. We appreciate what you do, through your lens history is not forgotten.
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Rewatched it enjoy this video bringing back memories
There used to be a display inside the mall that talks about the family and the farm that used to occupy the land the mall was built on. It may still be there, it's like a little display booth and it can be moved around. It used to be near the entrance to Best Buy. It had several photos.
I'll have to check that out . I also think the old farm that can be seen from 293 on the right before the fork to 93 south was part of this . I can recall the cows that could be seen from the highway 20+ years ago.
When you spoke about Roy’s, it made me remember a diner on Valley street. I have looked for old pics of that shopping plaza from the 60s, 70s 80s but can’t find any. There was a Woolworth’s but the diner I’m talking about was not in that building but one closer to Valley. There was some sort of rail depot a block or 2 east of there too.
About the J A Hebert furniture store; when you panned the camera to the right, there is a Concentra med clinic. That is 1279 S Willow now. The weird thing is, I had an appt there three days ago. And when you put up the newspaper ad it says 1279, and I thought ‘that sounds familiar’. Sure enough, same address.
Oh, also, great video. I love this kinda stuff!
My mother’s family lived across the street from the mall of NH and on Goff Falls Road. They were immigrants from Sicily moving to Manchester about 1907. My great grandfather was a farmer on Goff Falls Road and South Willow Street. He had a store and sold gas on the corner of South Willow street and Goff Falls Road.
O'Donnel's was in Bedford where MarketBasket is today. Al Fisher owned Mr. Tux. Stan's Paint Store was on Amherst St. just down from Chestnut. Born and brought up in the Queen City. I will post on your other productions to fill in the gaps. Great stuff!
And the name is Ganley, NOT Ganely.
Thank you and yes I recall O'Donnel's as I've been there many times
@@manchesterexplorer8519 It was owned by Frankie O'Donnel, standout basketball player for St. A's Class of 1958 and accomplished coach at Bishop Bradley High School/
I used to go to the manchester drive in as a kid and the entrance was right where the current entrance for burlington/ michaels is now. The screen was in the northwest corner of the parking lot. I believe it closed in 1970 or 1971. I was told that it was possible to sneak in through the woods between the south end of the drive in and Nutts pond. As for wendys there was a big old house there that got torn down about 1972 i think.
hey man love your vids keep up the dope content, its really cool to learn little bits of history about manchester and nh in general, i feel like its a severely under appreciated state with a lot of cool history most people are completely unwise to, too bad south willow isnt still vast farmland tho crazy how urbanized its been in just 50 years
What funny is that I'm 46 and I honestly don't really remember South Willow street from the 1980's for some reason . It's weird how the brain only remembers so much .
I remember South Willow Street when it was only a two lane road. There use to be a small chapel adjacent to this cemetery on South Willow St. If you want pictures of Manchester and its surrounding are, look at the Manchester Historical Society's website. There are lots of pictures of the South Willow St. area. Your description of where the Manchester Drive in Theater was is false. The location of where that theater was is where Burlington, Michael's and the Dollar Tree is, not where you said it was.
The location of the drive in Theatre clearly states that it was basically where precourt park now stands right next to Nuts Pond , so I don't think I was drastically wrong about that one as I have aerial photos of it as the entrance would of been right around where Wendy's currently sits so I should of been filming about 100 feet to the left but close enough facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10206296473885691&set=gm.1802846273294720
@@manchesterexplorer8519 - Hmmm, were you around when the Manchester Drive in was operating? Well, I was. I remember going there to see movies often with my family. The entrance to the drive-in was from South Willow St. The corner where the huge movie screen is located is where Wendy's is now. Nutts Pond is west of the theater where the park is also. The picture that you have showing in your video was taken by my best buddy's father, Peter Caikauskis Sr. you will find that picture and many others on teh Manchester Historical Society's website and/or at their location is the old Manchester Mill yard. Having been around at that time, I know what I'm talking about.
I'm not here to argue about the exact location of a drive in movie theatre because I was off by 100 feet as YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE IN THE AERIAL PHOTO !! I frequent this area at least 5 times a week as I walk my dogs or bike Nutts Pond Trail area as I'm well aware of the layout as the movie screen is literally where Wendys is now located as you are nit-picking @@georl1
@@manchesterexplorer8519 - I'm not intending to insult you, honestly. But if you're going to describe historical facts, then yeah, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred feet does make a difference. Having been there many times in my youth, I think it is important for those who have never been there to know exactly where it was located. It would be like describing the old Pine Island Amusement Park being located where the Goffsfalls School is which is actually right up the road from where the actual Pine Island Park use to be. It would be inaccurate, for someone who is interested in Manchester's history. Sorry if you took my correction the wrong way. No insult intended.
I get it believe me as I wasn't old enough to remember the Theatre, but I just looked at Google Earth to compare the two images as the screen was basically located at Wendy's and yes the parking lot would of been where you described .
I also use the Historical Society for many of my pictures but for whatever reason not much exists about South Willow Street as far as really old pictures unless I missed something , Thanks for the insight and I apologize for being rude @@georl1
I'm 62 and I remember when I was a kid the roller coaster is still there old wooden one pretty impressive looking really it was where the I think it's the Blue Cross and anthem office building is that's where the roller coaster used to be little to the right
I remember eating breakfast at the a restaurant that is now the Mexican restaurant on maple and south willow I remember we always had to park across the street also across the south willow street from the restaurant where Jiffy Lube is located used to be an eye doctor which I heard was there for a long time before it sold to Jiffy Lube. Pretty cool to know the history
That’s where my mom met my dad at pine island he was stationed at the air base
The car wash i think was called Rifkys car wash in the late 80's.
Yes up to at least to the late 1990's as I used to wash my car here quite often
My friends family on Hughes road the last name Liylis used to own that blue house across from Lowe's and they owned all that fram land a Greek family
My great grandfather Salvatore Coco’s store and gas station on South Willow Street in Manchester, NH. The store was being run by great aunt and uncle Freddie and Louise Coco at the time this picture was taken. Aunt Louise is the woman in the photo.
Sorry, that I can’t upload the photo for some reason. Any suggestions for doing so would be helpful!
For some reason I can’t add a photo, but I’ll keep trying until I get it.
@betsymailloux7475 if you could send it to danlavoie76@gmail.com , I'd love to see it as well as share it
@@manchesterexplorer8519 I just sent you and email.
I sent you some email messages and the photo in one of them.
Also at the image of the stardust (video) if you were to continue down about less than a half a mile there used to be a donkey farm there when I was a kid on the left.
Wow I was born in Derry then bounced around to new York then Maine then we moved to hooksett in the late 1970s so I grew up in hooksett and Manchester never knew there was a cemetery was there thank you for sharing this i remember docs white house down the hill also a liittle gas station cant remember the name many years ago
Never noticed it either , even driving by it at least 50 times . You tend to notice things when you're walking or cycling.
My old stomping grounds in the late 50’s. Lived off of Seames drive. Went to Memorial high early 60’s.
hi my mom always tells me about pine island park
I'm not old enough to have experienced but yes it was an amusement park , would be great if it was still around . I may do a video on it but nothing really remains .
I talked to someone at the Manchester town hall they told me there had been a couple of fires in the past and many land records, history and photos had been destroyed in these fires. Did you find any Douglas buried in this cemetery?
Apparently he was in the circus
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He was part of P.T. Barnum's group and was known as Commodore Nutt. He worked with Tom Thumb. He has no headstone in the cemetery, but it is believed he is buried between his mother and father.