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❑ OBITUARIES SUNDAYCAPE COD TIMES, JUNE 22, i980 ' PAGE 13
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56 years, little has changed
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F. Now window boxes with geraniums -
decorate the outside, hanl;Ing below
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cases, old wood framed glass display _ *s �,$ g' ,.� �.�� k ,.,'` uy 1.
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welcomes On the back wall hang posters for
'leasure to "mild cool" Granger Tobacco. They 't �I ' ' a, �f .. � '� '' � a � , .;a �- � � ,.
vere a sur- feature illustrations of "Fat Freddie "v, x,, v` s' � -`'• t1�a tl,p ,
You to +Fitzsimmons, great National
Ruth still League pitcher," and a squatting,
on every. contented Jimmy Wilson, a one-time ,,,*t-..
were built catcher who managed the Chicago
hes. Cubs In near -obscurity during the war
s River Is years. ,4 ) y' «y ,trg t K „ • § - k °1', TI 3a
R! retailing,
> ime when The more you look around, the more I ,
Q you wonder why an dealers°
Ad ted tile, didn't clean out the Hamblin years
rU1C f10ating ago.. - _ :::,r6�, a�€.'"ri•.a, _. �'..S'', :d''�° +�`.i' `E' + ,
eat elated 'Oh; l got some baseball cards of �W t
' Babe Ruth and them at home. Must be;
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tlg, the In, 1s� h 0 Or $5 bplece,,•thays Frail 3 ,.
grata of ar- !
!`ealant ad 'thing gets more valuable as it, ets,
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Ida tobacco older. g.,y,
atback, and Tucked aw
tie 309. ay ln§ide the garage,
behind a pile of old bald tires, there's90
a 1942 Hudson sedan with a four -note
horn that la " ,
ump)dg gas plays How dry I am.' It
leHamblinb once belonged to Charles Henry yy�
>>-t. Davis; theweallhy South Yarmouth'
man who ]Sued In the House of Seven 3
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whodCtsas Chimneys. The Rambling bought the
g"sdfrteking car In 1953 for $400, used It for a few
int )hkill
years, then let ftsif.
Francis has been offered $4,000 for •- « -
ke.. cafe of the tar. If you ask him I. he's hold in �
le don't.da ; Out lot more he'11 Just smile and sa � t �
lornuf[ikor> "Yeah"He's no too].
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' The office.'is cluttered with
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since 1934,, cheesecake calendars, decades of•, .
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vouchers and memos that cover the
lgh sohuol:' walls Ilke.'shinglesx "I
IftetWorld cedar ;<"replace-
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took over. Ment bulbs and fuses that all but bury
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her W. H. an old roll-top - desk, and other
treasures. such as a mint -condition
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Lire from a 1927 Buick. "Never been T
to jkobii, .4
Alg drums ' ,on a coq" says Fronds.
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front yard Out In the back shop is a black 1951 a �;f� l ',•�R u j
Was still Cadillac, Its hood slightly ajar as It so -1
Surrounded in their office by decades of vouchers, spam ports J station la Bass River much the way their ,
hen It was ftteone never quite finished working and calendars, Gordon, left; and Frauds Hamblin operate their gas 1924, I
D §fay, en on it. "That's mine," says Francis. y father did when he built It in
ew dozen Can't seem to get it running. Been ` (Staff Photos by Milton Moore)
a In 1935,, _there 10 years or so." ' � '
ed to the The shiniest piece of equipment in years man trots Harwich, sits patiently out- j1=?1
relegated the whole place Is a contrast in fire For years he's also serviced the side the shop on an overturned crate, Because Of the war, our father where Gordon can sneak abreak dur- x
is enough .engine red a few feet awe Probably South Yarmouth's post office's fleet of waiting for Gordon to finish tunin u g Sundays,.. Y Ing his long days.
started closin Sunda s, ' says Fran- -
oidg. the newest thing in the garage, it's a door hydraulic liftgnsta led in on them on
hisrl9b6,, Muheanegsido g P cis. ` He liked it so well he never got ' . A lot of people come in to have
tiny new
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destined to carve out a back to the seven -da ' week. We staywork done on their old cars," Francis
garden "Oh, I dunno, I guess they got about In e 6 In the morn pretty busy, 'specially at Inspection sa
n by the g den far Francis in New Hamp• 16, 19, or 20 of 'em," he says from g'" says.Silva,."Dont know what time. Mostof'emisre eats." Ys, nodding toward the 1936
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iambllns shire. "JusE bought a place there last got Into me, forgot they don't open till P Packard that someone dropped oft in
under his cap,' worn, at an angle, 9:30 i "and I beep comm' here YeP, been an lnspectlon'station the back lot. "They hate to see us go.
fching to Year," he says. "Hope to have a good• Rcotie Kazootte style. '!t work on all since f was a kid.'C since I was a kid," adds Gordon, "Oh, we've fust gotten up in age and
'close sized garden" of 'em,ou they usually get 'em down The Hamblins charge between $5 on is twisting
finalAnyway,
title can- stay on n the house behind athe sholll here about S In the ¢venin`. They need and $6 an hour for lrge bet doesn't since the earl Mustang. "As ug into place want to take It a little easter. An wa
p• -'em In the da "As far as f know, fella that wants to buy the place say's F
property He'll keep on driving school buses for y' as does seem to bother them that other Behind the co in a corner next to a mark gonna try t keep it as
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ecream. the town, something he's done for Francis. s. Manny iSilve, a g ay-halred same wores kPt three times that for the le of old boxes capped with a dusty Ing. Geez, hoc the
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pith helmet, Is a sagging easy chair papers." P Y pass those
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been gas pumps have
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added and a .re
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moveda round, but the service
station has changed little since
the faded phofo, left, was
p t rg .t ten+ 3 taken In the late 1920s, The
walls of the station are almost
a museum of advertising
posters and signs, r1gM.
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