Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1803
I know it’s not really time to think about Thanksgiving, but I saw my friend Bill Bauer this weekend, who offered a memory of Dorchester in the 1930s.
Bill’s dad owned a bakery on Washington Street from 1931 to 1945. This memory is from the year Bill was 13 years old. Bill is 88 now or will be in a week or two, so this was 75 years ago, or 1937. The Ashmont Grille was a cafeteria-style restaurant at that time, but at Thanksgiving they roasted turkeys for the neighbors. Bill’s dad went to the Ashmont Grille to cook turkeys for people from the neighborhood. People would bring in their turkeys, and Bill’s dad would put them in the oven to roast at the proper time, do the basting, etc. Then at the pre-arranged time, the neighbors would come by up to pick up their cooked birds. Bill’s dad was the cook in the family, but that day he was so exhausted the family came to the Grille and ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the cafeteria.
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