Old Wolfeboro

Top-Water · 10-28-2020, 08:49 PM

Someone on the forum must have a story about this place.

mcdude · 11-13-2020, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Top-Water

Someone on the forum must have a story about this place.

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ApS · 11-13-2020, 08:02 PM

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Someone on the forum must have a story about this place.

'Can't help with the railroad-car diner, but Charlie's Diner became White's Restaurant before it became Mast Landing.

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These pits were phased out because too many mechanics were killed or injured using them. Heavier-than-air fumes and gases would collect in the pits causing the mechanic to pass out or suffocate if no one noticed their distress.

When I worked in one of those pits, the obvious dangers were the scorpions at the bottom! (This was in South Miami, FL, where I worked on some interesting foreign cars, including the Amphicar!).

barefootbay · 11-13-2020, 10:09 PM

What a great collection of Old Wolfeboro pix !!

tis · 11-14-2020, 06:46 AM

We are talking about two A & P s. It was where the Stationery Shop used to be which is now Back Bay Clothing and then moved up the hill where Hunter's Shop and Save is now. The First National was where Dive Winnipesaukee is now but then moved to where Harvest Market is now.

fatlazyless · 11-14-2020, 08:00 AM

A neighbor's incredibly luxurious three car garage has a grease/oil pit in the center bay built by Bruin's right winger, Ukraine hockey player Dmitri Khristich in about 1998 so's he could work on his old Lada car built back in the U.S.S.R.

For a 1970's boxy Lada is best to have a grease pit. If you put that car up on a lift, the wheels or something could fall off car.

Both the Plymouth Walmart and Laconia Valvoline have oil/grease pits mostly for doing oil changes since not too many grease fittings, anymore.

mcdude · 11-14-2020, 09:22 AM

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The First National was where Dive Winnipesaukee is now but then moved to where Harvest Market is now.

The Wolfeboro Shopping Center was built in 1958 by Henry Hopewell and Frank Whipple of Tamworth. These buildings are on the original site of back bay, which was slowly filled in when the town used the area as a dumping site. From Images of America - Wolfeboro Historical Society - Arcadia Publishing - 2001

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fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,922 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 306 Thanked 1,054 Times in 767 Posts	A neighbor's incredibly luxurious three car garage has a grease/oil pit in the center bay built by Bruin's right winger, Ukraine hockey player Dmitri Khristich in about 1998 so's he could work on his old Lada car built back in the U.S.S.R. For a 1970's boxy Lada is best to have a grease pit. If you put that car up on a lift, the wheels or something could fall off car. Both the Plymouth Walmart and Laconia Valvoline have oil/grease pits mostly for doing oil changes since not too many grease fittings, anymore. __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store!

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barefootbay Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 396 Thanks: 78 Thanked 107 Times in 75 Posts	What a great collection of Old Wolfeboro pix !!

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tis Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,833 Thanks: 764 Thanked 1,474 Times in 1,029 Posts	We are talking about two A & P s. It was where the Stationery Shop used to be which is now Back Bay Clothing and then moved up the hill where Hunter's Shop and Save is now. The First National was where Dive Winnipesaukee is now but then moved to where Harvest Market is now.

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