Deandre Hopkins Visiting Patriots Next Week

[jimnance]

A blind man walks into a bar. Then he walks into a table, then a stool, then he knocks over a pitcher.

That sounds like the voice of experience

 

[Lansdowne]

Cambridge kid here. Small world.

Nothing like a good slice of mushroom pizza from Angelos across the street from Rindge. Used to get it all the time when I was in the area. The cheese fries were awesome too.

On the subject of Nuk Hopkins, I’m in “I’ll believe it when I see it” mode. Then again I wanted Julio Jones to come here and he ended up being completely washed. I think Hopkins still has a couple years of elite production left in him. Hope we get him. When you miss repeatedly on drafting a wideout, and can’t trade for a young stud, you have to settle for an established stud who is on the wrong side of 30. Not many opportunities to improve and not often that a receiver of his caliber makes it to free agency in the first place.

 

[captain stone]

Or the windy city pizza on gallivan is pretty good! Hella good Buffalo wings.. I doubt they'll be able to even get in the parking lot at Cathy it's always jammed up! LOL

Haven't tried the Windy City place yet... I believe it's on Morrissey Blvd, and not Gallivan, but I'm very familiar with that part of Morrissey too because it's close to Saint Ann's church, near which my folks lived for 25 years...

FYI, Gallivan Blvd used to have the old Neponset Drive-In theatre on it, the area around which was seriously considered for a time as the new home of the Boston Patriots...

 

[captain stone]

Jimmy Myers just confirmed on WILD

That Jimmy Myers? He still alive?

 

[captain stone]

I'm a pizza lover so I'll put this place on my list to go to. Unfortunately I live on the OTHER side of the city, close to RI, so it will have to be a special trip.

BTW- My parents mede REGULAR trips to Regina's in the North End from Dorchester when I was a kid and a the plate sized pie was fifty cents and the big one was a buck and a half. They truly ARE great. BUT....only at the one in the North End. Those ovens are the same ones they had in the 20's, that's the 1920's when the place first opened. When they franchised out they couldn't duplicate the ovens of course and while it is good, its not the same as on Thatcher st.

In my twenties I had a place in the NE that was within walking distance. Now that was a GOOD couple of years. I even met my wife during that time.

I remember reading/hearing the story of their oven, which is like a couple of decades older than Regina's itself! We would try to go there sometimes after a matinee event at the Garden... We weren't alone with those thoughts, of course, so quite often we had to choose other options... By the '70s I think the prices had increased to a buck & $2.50, but such is the price of success...

 

[captain stone]

I am a Somerville kid.
Vinny‘s subs and Now Closed Victors Calzones
Mama Lisa‘s and Leones has been a staple for 50 years

Born at Somerville Hospital, lived in East Somerville until I was 3, between Foss Park & Broadway... I remember taking the Orange Line train into town with my mother & brother from the old Sullivan Square station, which was like the Biggest thing I had ever seen! Lost half of our neighborhood when I-93 was being built, sadly... Our old triple-decker might be the last one standing on that side of New Hampshire Avenue...

 

[Lansdowne]

Born at Somerville Hospital, lived in East Somerville until I was 3, near Foss Park... I remember taking the Orange Line train into town with my mother & brother from the old Sullivan Square station, which was like the Biggest thing I had ever seen! Lost half of our neighborhood when I-93 was being built, sadly... Our old triple-decker might be the last one standing on that side of New Hampshire Avenue...

That’s my neighborhood, nice! Sullivan Station is still likely as you remember it, and the T in general is probably worse today than it was in your day. Don’t let Hopkins ride the T, he’ll never want to come back here. Otherwise a lot of the city has changed. Gone are the days of the Assembly Square Mall, replaced by the fancier Assembly Row. Somerville High got redone. That Boys & Girls Club on Washington Ave replaced by luxury condos.

 

[Real fan 02]

Haven't tried the Windy City place yet... I believe it's on Morrissey Blvd, and not Gallivan, but I'm very familiar with that part of Morrissey too because it's close to Saint Ann's church, near which my folks lived for 25 years...

FYI, Gallivan Blvd used to have the old Neponset Drive-In theatre on it, the area around which was seriously considered for a time as the new home of the Boston Patriots...

Yes I live in lower mills so I drive by it everyday! Windy city moved to the new location where gallivan meets Morrissey your right. Yes I can remember that! I beleive it was right where the Walgreens in neponset strip mall now is.. what a cluster it is to try to get in that place.. 93 off ramp and all the traffic..

 

[Patsgofor4]

Thread derailment in progress by the BMI >35 squad. Nothing gets past them….especially carbohydrates.



But I kid…

 

[RIpats88]

so, he hasnt signed anywhere yet. so seems like hes going to wait this out and see if another team gives him even more money..

 

[TheRazorsEdge]

Nothing like a good slice of mushroom pizza from Angelos across the street from Rindge. Used to get it all the time when I was in the area. The cheese fries were awesome too.

On the subject of Nuk Hopkins, I’m in “I’ll believe it when I see it” mode. Then again I wanted Julio Jones to come here and he ended up being completely washed. I think Hopkins still has a couple years of elite production left in him. Hope we get him. When you miss repeatedly on drafting a wideout, and can’t trade for a young stud, you have to settle for an established stud who is on the wrong side of 30. Not many opportunities to improve and not often that a receiver of his caliber makes it to free agency in the first place.

Angelo's!!!!!! WOW!!!!! Brought me back to HS days. I'll have to make it a point to visit, through old friends I know they are still open.

Agreed on all points on Nuk.

 

[TheRazorsEdge]

Born at Somerville Hospital, lived in East Somerville until I was 3, near Foss Park... I remember taking the Orange Line train into town with my mother & brother from the old Sullivan Square station, which was like the Biggest thing I had ever seen! Lost half of our neighborhood when I-93 was being built, sadly... Our old triple-decker might be the last one standing on that side of New Hampshire Avenue...

Lots of my family lived in East Somerville ...I was in East Cambridge, a hop skip and jump away.

 

[Ross12]

I can’t imagine Hopkins is leaning that heavily towards Tennessee. While he is probably mostly focused on the money, he also most likely wants to be in the spotlight again as much as possible. Going to Tennessee in a run-heavy offense where they barely used and then got rid of AJ Brown, and their QB room is on shaky ground on top of that, just doesn’t seem like the place to do that. Conversely NE is running an offense he knows can feature him because it’s what propelled him to stardom in the first place with BOB in Houston.

 

[captain stone]

That’s my neighborhood, nice! Sullivan Station is still likely as you remember it, and the T in general is probably worse today than it was in your day. Don’t let Hopkins ride the T, he’ll never want to come back here. Otherwise a lot of the city has changed. Gone are the days of the Assembly Square Mall, replaced by the fancier Assembly Row. Somerville High got redone. That Boys & Girls Club on Washington Ave replaced by luxury condos.

I'm OLD; this is the Sullivan Square station I remember as a toddler:

Trackless Trolley at Sullivan Square Station, December 11, 1946

Date: December 11, 1946Source Collection: Boston in Transit Boston in Transit - The BookFigure 7.40 - Sullivan Square Station, December 11, 1946Descending along one of the ramps converted in the early 1930s for use by rubber-tired vehicles, BERy trackless trolley number 877 departs from the...

bostonintransit.com

The Schrafft's building was still making candy back then! I also remember seeing the old Hood's dairy plant with the bottle on top of it (not the same bottle that's in front of the Children's Museum downtown, BTW)...

 

[captain stone]

Yes I live in lower mills so I drive by it everyday! Windy city moved to the new location where gallivan meets Morrissey your right. Yes I can remember that! I beleive it was right where the Walgreens in neponset strip mall now is.. what a cluster it is to try to get in that place.. 93 off ramp and all the traffic..

Lower Mills used to be part of my jogging trail when I still lived in Dorchester... My wife grew up off Eliot Street near the Capen Street stop on the Mattapan line... She said that when she was young she could still smell the chocolate from the old Walter Baker plant, even after the plant had actually closed the year she was born......

 

[captain stone]

I can’t imagine Hopkins is leaning that heavily towards Tennessee. While he is probably mostly focused on the money, he also most likely wants to be in the spotlight again as much as possible. Going to Tennessee in a run-heavy offense where they barely used and then got rid of AJ Brown, and their QB room is on shaky ground on top of that, just doesn’t seem like the place to do that. Conversely NE is running an offense he knows can feature him because it’s what propelled him to stardom in the first place with BOB in Houston.

The two offers are probably close enough that he now has to ponder other differences between us & the Titties, such as p-p-playoff chances...

 

[Lansdowne]

I'm OLD; this is the Sullivan Square station I remember as a toddler:

Trackless Trolley at Sullivan Square Station, December 11, 1946

Date: December 11, 1946Source Collection: Boston in Transit Boston in Transit - The BookFigure 7.40 - Sullivan Square Station, December 11, 1946Descending along one of the ramps converted in the early 1930s for use by rubber-tired vehicles, BERy trackless trolley number 877 departs from the...

bostonintransit.com

The Schrafft's building was still making candy back then! I also remember seeing the old Hood's dairy plant with the bottle on top of it (not the same bottle that's in front of the Children's Museum downtown, BTW)...

I take that back then, it’s much different now lol! I wasn’t around for the Charlestown Elevated. The extent of the old T I remember was the Causeway Street elevated track in front of the original Boston Garden. Yet somehow the trains are running even slower today, and there seems to be a derailment reported every other week. I’m glad I’ve invested in good walking shoes because I’ve had to do a lot of it these days.

 

[Real fan 02]

Lower Mills used to be part of my jogging trail when I still lived in Dorchester... My wife grew up off Eliot Street near the Capen Street stop on the Mattapan line... She said that when she was young she could still smell the chocolate from the old Walter Baker plant, even after the plant had actually closed the year she was born......

Awesome!! Yes, I'm around butler street so I know definitely know where she grew up! Still a beautiful area just busy as heck! Traffic galore! Years ago when it was being made into condos you could occasionally smell the chocolate remnant in the area! Most of the original people from Dorchester/lowemills have moved to parts of Quincy and Milton as Dorchester is just busy and jammed up with Traffic these days!

 

[borg]

Born at Somerville Hospital, lived in East Somerville until I was 3, between Foss Park & Broadway... I remember taking the Orange Line train into town with my mother & brother from the old Sullivan Square station, which was like the Biggest thing I had ever seen! Lost half of our neighborhood when I-93 was being built, sadly... Our old triple-decker might be the last one standing on that side of New Hampshire Avenue...

My brother rented in Somerville decades ago (near I-95) and my lasting memory of my treks through Somerville were the Bathtub Mary statues in front of so many homes.

 

[captain stone]

I take that back then, it’s much different now lol! I wasn’t around for the Charlestown Elevated. The extent of the old T I remember was the Causeway Street elevated track in front of the original Boston Garden. Yet somehow the trains are running even slower today, and there seems to be a derailment reported every other week. I’m glad I’ve invested in good walking shoes because I’ve had to do a lot of it these days.

After coming from a game/concert/wresting/boxing event at the old Garden, we could stand on the southbound platform of the Green Line and see which of the cars into town would come first: the elevated trolley from Science Park, the North Station trolley on the street, or the Orange line train as it turned the corner from City Square... If it were one of the latter two, we had time to run down the stairs and catch them; or in the case of the Orange line train, back UP the stairs to its own, separate platform... Good times, good times...