Blast from the past

Dickie B from HB · 10-07-2019, 11:56 PM

Just wondering if anyone remembers Handy Landing and their Quadi Moccasins ?

joey2665 · 10-08-2019, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Top-Water

The images I can get my hands on this early. I have some really old ones too.

The best store on the water.

Where in the Weirs was this store?

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MeredithMan · 10-08-2019, 06:47 AM

...a great memory to start my day. Loved going there as a kid with my father when he would go to get gas in the car and get a coffee...

ApS · 10-08-2019, 07:02 AM

The year of the color postcard (above) is about 1962.

The tall skinny box in the right-foreground is a telephone booth.

coltgov101 · 10-08-2019, 09:46 AM

I remember that place well. Those type of stores all had there own personalities. Each one , interesting on its own. Much different than today's mega stores. Nice to see that piece of history, thanks.

Descant · 10-08-2019, 12:19 PM

Must be the Indian "Weirs" influence. Happy Landing sold "Indian"souvenirs, as did the Trading Post up the street in the Tarlson Arcade building. I remember Quoddy moccasins, and water skiing with Dick Binette. He barefooted; me, not so much.

mcdude · 10-08-2019, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Top-Water

For the record ........ there is no such place as happy landing and there never was.

Common mistake. For Correct-Ness

HANDY LANDING

Dickie B from HB · 10-08-2019, 09:13 PM

I remember back in the fifties when WLNH was an AM station, 1350 AM. Every morning we would hear the radio ads for Handy Landing. Always advertising Quoddy Moccasins.

Wifi-1 · 10-09-2019, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Dickie B from HB

I remember back in the fifties when WLNH was an AM station, 1350 AM. Every morning we would hear the radio ads for Handy Landing. Always advertising Quoddy Moccasins.

I remember waking up to them in the morning, after they came up to full power. Back when you could get a couple of stations of TV on rabbit ears

BroadHopper · 10-09-2019, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by pondguy

Vacant lot now part of the Margate, it was owned by the Kelly's

Their daughter Laura is a good friend of mine! The memory she shares!

sum-r breeze · 10-10-2019, 01:49 PM

From the looks of the various pics...does it appear that they added a second floor to the existing building with the gas pumps in front?

trfour · 10-12-2019, 01:29 PM

It was Happy when we were there, by car/ truck/ and or boat!!

We were there by boat this day

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Dickie B from HB Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 62 Thanks: 9 Thanked 18 Times in 11 Posts	Blast from the past Just wondering if anyone remembers Handy Landing and their Quadi Moccasins ? Last edited by Dickie B from HB; 10-08-2019 at 09:03 PM.

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MeredithMan Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Bedford, NH; Meredith, NH Posts: 956 Thanks: 263 Thanked 816 Times in 334 Posts	you made my day... ...a great memory to start my day. Loved going there as a kid with my father when he would go to get gas in the car and get a coffee...

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ApS Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida (Sebring & Keys), Wolfeboro Posts: 5,939 Thanks: 2,209 Thanked 776 Times in 553 Posts	Based on Chevy Wagon... The year of the color postcard (above) is about 1962. The tall skinny box in the right-foreground is a telephone booth. __________________ Is it "Common Sense" isn't.

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coltgov101 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Nj now. Spindle point in the past.(35 yrs.) Posts: 87 Thanks: 106 Thanked 10 Times in 4 Posts	Kind of interesting to me I remember that place well. Those type of stores all had there own personalities. Each one , interesting on its own. Much different than today's mega stores. Nice to see that piece of history, thanks.

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Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,384 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 1,629 Times in 1,061 Posts	Must be the Indian "Weirs" influence Must be the Indian "Weirs" influence. Happy Landing sold "Indian"souvenirs, as did the Trading Post up the street in the Tarlson Arcade building. I remember Quoddy moccasins, and water skiing with Dick Binette. He barefooted; me, not so much.

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Dickie B from HB Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 62 Thanks: 9 Thanked 18 Times in 11 Posts	Handy Landing radio ads I remember back in the fifties when WLNH was an AM station, 1350 AM. Every morning we would hear the radio ads for Handy Landing. Always advertising Quoddy Moccasins.

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sum-r breeze Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Burlington Ma / Laconia NH Posts: 396 Thanks: 155 Thanked 201 Times in 97 Posts	Second Floor? From the looks of the various pics...does it appear that they added a second floor to the existing building with the gas pumps in front? __________________ Wave cuz I'll be wavin' back

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