Durgin Park Dining Room | Memories
by Elouise
~~~Durgin Park Waiting Line, mid-1960s
The line says it all. This place is popular! Looks like a Sunday dinner crowd to me. A Boston landmark, before this area was gentrified and lost its true Boston charm. One of our favorite memories.
When you get to the door, you still have to get up the stairs. The dining room is visible through the windows on the 2nd floor. Long tables, oilcloth covering all tables, chairs lined up on both sides. Sit where we tell you to sit! Eat and leave!
Noisy, hot, humid and low-cost. Heaven on earth food at a fabulous price. Before the days of health-conscious eating. I remember Boston baked beans to die for, Boston brown bread crammed with raisins and slathered with butter, and Indian pudding with whipped cream smothering it. Enough said. Take a look at the menu (and prices!) and drool.
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 24 April 2015
All photos from http://www.1964.alumclass.mit.edu
Telling the Truth 
Those were some good days, it seems…
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Many of those days were good indeed!
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My, that brings back memories. Leta and I ate at Durgin Park in 1955. I remember the long tables with the oil cloth covering. I was still in the army at Ft Meade MD; Leta had recently graduated from KU and was working at a psychiatric hospital in Rockville. We drove to Boston for a weekend to visit your uncle Paul, and to sightsee in Boston.
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What fun! You and Leta must have some pretty wonderful memories. Maybe you already know that waiters and waitresses at Durgin Park were encouraged to be curt and a bit rude with customers. I wonder if they’re still that way. I guess someone decided that would be a great way to stand out! I’m glad you enjoyed the post. I’m guessing the food was even cheaper in 1955. But no less fatty!
Elouise
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Those were the days my friend. I thought they would never end. Life seemed simpler then. Not a care for my young mind. Still at three bucks back then a steak was a luxury and 2 lb. of lobster for three bucks man oh man what a deal. Elouise thanks for the journey back in time.
Much love Tom
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I was just thinking about you yesterday, wondering if you’d see this! I’m so happy you did, and that it brought back wonderful memories. Yes, life seemed simpler–even though it might not have been! We won’t see those prices again, will we? Think of it, it was just yesterday….
Your friend Elouise
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Thanks for thinking of me Elouise. It does seem just like yesterday.
Joy to you
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What do you know, we did go there, I never knew the name of the place, I’d never have thought of it as a park, when I think of a park in the US I think of Bryant Park in NY
I’m sure, I have a photo of me walking towards this place trailing behind the W.O. Emma & Luke, taken by Sarah,
Found it! if I knew how I’d have attached it to this comment 🙄
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That’s great–that you found the photo! Maybe it’s worth a post. Including the photo of course.😄
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