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You're in Worcester?

Welcome to FR.

Some of those old three deckers were really gorgeous. I owned a few that were custom jobs, built by the early jewish
families. Used to be able to recite the different styles, like Queen Anne and others but I've forgotten a lot.

Wormtown isn't all bad. The music scene was always good. Saw the Stones live at the Cove. Used to know Ralph pretty well. I hear the Chadwick SQ. Diner is still there but don't know if Ralph is still the owner.

Some great pubs and diners too. The Boynton on Highland street was always good. We'd go in after work for the all you can eat steamers and wouldn't leave til they ran out of clams.

I used to make collection rounds on friday nights through all the low rent district around Piedmont st area where we had crack dealers, hookers and biker gangs, and those were the good tenants. I would walk in the front door of the Cardinal or El Coqui and those places would empty out in a rush. Most everyone in the joint owed me rent and the rest would run because the others did.

A lot of happy memories of ol Wormtown.

So tell me, if you're a native, what's the absolute best view of worcester?

I live in Shrewsbury, actually. I'm not a native. Only been here for a few years. I've heard a lot about the Wormtown music scene back in the day, but that was well before my time.

I don't know about the best view of Worcester, but there's a big hill on Rte 9 in Shrewsbury that affords a great panoramic view- especially at night. Worst view would probably be everything that you can see from your car in the southern part of twon around Rte 146 and Rte 20. Pure industrial wasteland.

Some of those triple deckers are still wonderful. Unfortunately, many have been allowed to deteriorate. It's sad, because you can tell that years ago, many of them were handsome looking buildings. Of course you could say the same thing about much of the city. Worcester really would have been something to see 50 years ago when it was a big industrial powerhouse and the city had well over 200,000 people.