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  • I spent a lot of time here as a child in the 80s when Gamache Costumes occupied the top floor of the building. I’m sad to see that so many of the art deco details I loved about the building as a child are gone, but am happy to see the building is still in use.
    Nicole on McDevitt Building
  • My mother was related to the Dreyfus’s. She came from France and worked at the hotel where she met my father who was a merchant marine and would stay at the when he was home. My mothers maiden name was Helene Philibert.
    Antoinette Chace on Hotel Dreyfus
  • Was just reading through the anecdotes and saw an old friend’s name… Al Albino… Im’ wondering if he is still in RI… He loved Rocky Point. Would like to get in touch if he is still around…
    Greg Russo on Rocky Point Park
  • My father was probably the first salesperson in New York to work for the Grossman Brothers. He started work for them in 1939, when I was born, and retired in 1970, when my daughter was born. I remember Eddie Grossman, the eldest of the brothers, and Max Grossman who both worke...
    Harriet Teper on Lebanon Mill Company
  • I worked at Brooks Fashions, a woman’s clothing store! It was my first job back in 1986. It was right next to Music And… I have so many fond memories of the Lincoln Mall. If I wasn‘t working there, I was hanging out with my friends there shopping, going to the movies, playing ...
    Julie Otis on Lincoln Mall
  • My old man has pictures of me and him at this park in ‘93 sometime when we went back to visit family in Coventry. The only memories i have of this place are in these photos but it’s still very disheartening to see what it became
    Justin Bourassa on Enchanted Forest
  • The regular route for many of us neighborhood kids traveling between home and the John Howland Elementary School at Cole and Luzon Avenues included walking through this fire station. The firefighters had a small penny-candy counter, and they were always ready for us when we we...
    Mark Howe on Engine Company No. 21
  • A minor correction: the architect, a cousin of mine, is Philemon F. Sturges III, not Philemon E. Sturges III.
    Mark Howe on Downtown Bonanza Bus Terminal