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New Bedford
1950 Mobile Gas Station - Louie Baron |
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ML Baron says - "Only the "old-timers' will remember when Weld Square was in one piece.
In this photo: The Mobil Gas Station on Acushnet Ave. 1950 - was where the Cape Cod 195E exit ramp is on RT 18 heading North.
Louie Baron in these photos -(ML Baron's dad)
He was a gas attendant at the station that was franchised by his brother Stanley Baron who also owned Scotty's in the North End.
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My father recalls Olivier's Plumbing across the street, Jones's Cut-Rate, McDermott's Fish Market, The Rialto Theater, and the Police Dept. Weld Square annex north of the gas station.
FYI-Above the gas pump, you can see a women peering through an open window....it was a Monday when the photo was taken because she would look out every Monday for the mailman with her Social Security check. 
Also nearby, the infamous Green Parrot Lounge had a notorious real live green parrot as a mascot with language so fowl - that children were warned by their parents to steer clear of the place."
Thanks to ML Baron. for the 2 pics and the text. Click the pictures below for an enlargement. |
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| Click for enlargement - Louie Baron 1950 - Gas station near Weld Square on Acushnet Ave. |
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