The Liberty Theatre opened in February 1923 in Dorchester, MA. It was operated by New England Theatres and showed primarily Yiddish films. In July 1923, Eddie Boas, an executive with the Goldwyn Film Corporation (MGM), resigned from the company to become the theater manager. By 1941, the 898-seat theater was in poor shape and was […]
The Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, also known as PAWS, is a gem of a non-profit animal welfare organization with various locations, but one in Northeast Philadelphia is situated just a mere few blocks away from historic Route 1. Since its development in 2006, the city of Philadelphia has seen a notable decrease in its homeless […]
Rockingham Speedway originally known as North Carolina Motor Speedway, was started in 1965 by landowner Bill Land and Harold Brasington who was involved in the building of NASCAR’s first superspeedway, Darlington Raceway. At the time Land and Brasington sold shares of the speedway for $1.00 per share! The speedway was a one-mile oval with flat […]
One of the many historic cemeteries on Route 1 is the beautiful King’s Highway Cemetery in Milford, Ct. Purchased in 1927 to add to the original Milford Cemetery property, which dated back to the early 1600s, this new 20 acres was purchased by Mrs. Bazena T. Downes Merriman. According to the Milford Cemetery Association, The […]
When the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931, at 4,760 feet long, it was the longest bridge span globally. The GW bridge would keep this illustrious title until 1937 when San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was completed and surpassed it by 700 feet. The GW Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge, with eight lanes on […]
Quincy Quarries Reservation is a park that used to be the site of the Granite Railway Quarry. It’s famous for being the site selected in 1825 by Solomon Willard for the source of stone used to build the Bunker Hill Monument. Willard, known as “Father of the Granite Industry,” developed construction techniques that made granite […]
The State Theatre in Stoughton, Massachusetts, opened on December 8, 1927. It was built on the site of Atwood’s Market, a local shopping center that was destroyed by a fire earlier that year. The Interstate Theatre Corporation purchased the lot and hired the Boston architecture firm of Funk and Wilcox, who also designed the Strand […]
The Strand Theatre in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, originally opened on November 11, 1918, the same day that the news of the Armistice, ending World War I, reached Boston. It was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm of Funk & Wilcox, the same firm that designed the nearby Franklin Park Theatre and the […]
The American Shakespeare Theatre opened on July 12, 1955, in Stratford, CT. Construction began in 1954 and cost $1 million or $9.3 million when adjusted for inflation. It was commissioned by the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy (ASFTA), formed by Lawrence Langner, a co-founder of The Theatre Guild. Langner started the ASFTA to create American […]
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