How about this great photo of the Atomic Submarine Sandwiches shop in Salem, NH? The negative was found recently by Dave G. who works here at Retro Planet while he was going through some old photos belonging to his father-in-law. This photo looks to be from the late 70’s. Located on Route 28, the Salem

Black Moons Today Whoopee Pies are all the rage. I think Martha or Oprah recently blessed them, and now it seems everywhere I go I see pumpkin, peanut butter, gingerbread, red velvet and jumbo versions of whoopee pies. When I was a kid they where called “black moons” and the black moons I remember most

A Part of New England Soda Pop History Preserved If you’re a lover of Moxie Soda, you may enjoy a little history about the famous Moxie bottle stand. It is a 32-foot high by 10-foot wide Moxie Bottle replica that was originally designed as a trade show booth from which to distribute samples of Moxie

I’ve heard many stories about the former glory days of Pine Island Park and the memories that many people still have of the place. I try to visualize what the park must have looked like back in the early days.

When I was a kid growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the most exciting place my brothers and I could think to go was Riverside Park in Agawam, Massachusetts.

“Larry’s”, as the old-timers still call it, is just one of those great old-time restaurants that serve basic comfort food—everything from club sandwiches to veal parmesan (I still think it is pork, but it is great just the same), open face roast beef sandwiches, franks and beans, fried haddock, pot roast—you name it.

Spicket, Methuen & Landry’s Ski Hills There was a time in New England when it seemed there was always a local ski hill right around the corner. When I was a kid we skied a couple of times at Spicket Hill in Salem, NH. I don’t remember much about it except it was very small

Hockey Memories at The Frost Arena Skating Rink (Lawrence, MA) Does anybody remember the Frost Arena in Lawrence, MA? I used to play a lot of hockey in that place back in the early ’70s. I played on the Salem Sabers, in a league against the Salem Stars, the Cornels and a bunch of other

In the early 1900s, The Hudson, Pelham & Salem Railways (HP&S) opened Canobie Lake Park as a pleasure resort to increase the excitement of the expanding trolley lines into Salem and the surrounding Greater Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill and Nashua communities. The expanding automobile ownership of the 1920s drastically reduced trolley use, along with revenues. The

At one time, Lawrence had as many as 8 single-screen theaters in operation around the city, with most of them located on Broadway.