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3484 F.J. Doyle & Co. / CAFE - PUB is closing in BOSTON
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Mr. Jones Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 3:07 PM EST
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Boo hoo!
fog fog fog

It is a SAD SAD DAY....

SO MANY MEMORIES with the Boston boyees
At that place....made MUCHO DINERO's from
Bidness arrangements in that place from 79-95???

I will miss it....

Haven't been there in multiple D.E.C.A.D.E.S...

but it was an institution...

Especially to buy off politicians with THICK No.10 BUSINESS ENVELOPES and get Irish assignments...

Oh well...
Mr. Jones Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 3:13 PM EST
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JamAica PlaiNs
StoNeYbrOok
The Harvard Arbitorium ( was always a good after hours parking lot to conduct bidness...then get food & beers at Doyle's)
opelmanta1900 Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 3:52 PM EST
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I like tgi fridays...
RMAN4443 Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 4:18 PM EST
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Mr. Jones wrote:
JamAica PlaiNs
StoNeYbrOok
The Harvard Arbitorium ( was always a good after hours parking lot to conduct bidness...then get food & beers at Doyle's)

As a young teen I carved a heart with my girlfriends name, and 4eva in it, into a tree in the Arnold Arboretum....I really thought I loved that girl, but I don't think I could find that tree if my life depended on it.....Anxious
frankj1 Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 5:14 PM EST
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Doyle's ain't the only old place closing up in Boston.
Jacob Wirth...I heard Amrheins is next
delta1 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 5:20 PM EST
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no surprise the girlfriend left you RMAN...she read your carving as "for Eva"...she neva liked Eva...
RMAN4443 Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:18 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
no surprise the girlfriend left you RMAN...she read your carving as "for Eva"...she neva liked Eva...

true, I never thought of that.....what was I thinking?....Brick wall
RMAN4443 Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:22 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
Doyle's ain't the only old place closing up in Boston.
Jacob Wirth...I heard Amrheins is next

is Jacob Wirth's still open? I thought I heard something about them closing a year or two ago...Think
izonfire Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:30 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
As a young teen I carved a heart with my girlfriends name, and 4eva in it, into a tree in the Arnold Arboretum....I really thought I loved that girl, but I don't think I could find that tree if my life depended on it.....Anxious


That would be a great show. If your life DID depend on it, and you had 30 minutes to find that tree or you would be put in front of a firing squad. And you are filmed through the entire ordeal.

Now THAT would be a show
frankj1 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:38 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
is Jacob Wirth's still open? I thought I heard something about them closing a year or two ago...Think

yeah, closed like a year or so ago.
The Tam was closed but somebody reopened it.
izonfire Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:40 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
yeah, closed like a year or so ago.
The Tam was closed but somebody reopened it.


Yeah, the young ones don’t appreciate the history and nostalgia.
Millennials are losers
frankj1 Offline
#12 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:44 PM EST
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izonfire wrote:
Yeah, the young ones don’t appreciate the history and nostalgia.
Millennials are losers

blocks get purchased and expensive condo/apartment developments go up. Even if the bar or restaurant is still standing, the neighborhood changes...not just income but ethnic changes too (sorry, but it's true in older congested cities). The new residents don't have the attachment to 100 year old joints.
RMAN4443 Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 6:53 PM EST
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Wirth's had some great German food, and some cool music on occasions too...I used to love the old German drinking songs they would play, and the drinking contests(back in the olden daze when bars could stage drinking contests)Beer
frankj1 Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:03 PM EST
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yeah, I didn't go there much. Did do a few years as a Thursday lunchtime regular at Amrhein's though (boiled dinner for lunch). I think they had the oldest draft beer pump in Boston, maybe the country.

Used to go to a bunch of dives in Allston/Brighton/Cambridge, people would have been surprised at some of the amazing things that came out of some of those kitchens. But they were just dirty old joints, not one or two century old landmarks.

Doyles really has been the same for decades. Now I wish I had gone more often, and certainly within the last 20 years or so. Not really that far from me.

MrJones, thanks for the memories.
izonfire Offline
#15 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:03 PM EST
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[quote=frankjThe new residents don't have the attachment to 100 year old joints.[/quote]

Yeah. Like I said. Losers.
frankj1 Offline
#16 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:04 PM EST
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izonfire wrote:
[quote=frankjThe new residents don't have the attachment to 100 year old joints.


Yeah. Like I said. Losers. [/quote]
and you were correct.
but do they hafta take down our stuff?
izonfire Offline
#17 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:14 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
Yeah. Like I said. Losers.

and you were correct.
but do they hafta take down our stuff?[/quote]

Jealous I guess. Outta sight, outta mind.
Then they can focus on Starbucks, getting triggered and general douchiness.
It’s in the master plan
frankj1 Offline
#18 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:24 PM EST
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they woulda liked Doyles...and the other joints.

Doyles still drew the old Irish crowd, but suburban kids like me, and newer local working class residents in Jamaica Plain from P.R. and the Dominican felt right at home with the gov officials and other suits. It was one of the places where you may as well have been nekkid, cuz no one was impressed nor disappointed in your appearance. Your demeanor meant so much more.

It was wicked pissah.
izonfire Offline
#19 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:31 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
they woulda liked Doyles...and the other joints.

Doyles still drew the old Irish crowd, but suburban kids like me, and newer local working class residents in Jamaica Plain from P.R. and the Dominican felt right at home with the gov officials and other suits. It was one of the places where you may as well have been nekkid, cuz no one was impressed nor disappointed in your appearance. Your demeanor meant so much more.

It was wicked pissah.


There’s more than a few places like that in Chicago. Hopefully, they hang on.
Would be nice to preserve the heritage.

Unless it’s a southern joint.
Then, demolish it. Right Vic? Anxious
Mr. Jones Offline
#20 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:32 PM EST
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One last times I was in Boston??? I was working at a Craft convention at the convention center....I made a wrong turn and ended up at the KENNEDY library at very early Dawn...

Some wack job was at a Vietnam veteran statue across the bay from the library in full battle fatigues with an M-16 AND A BANNANA CLIP...AS I DROVE BY AROUND 5:45-6:15 AM AND IT WAS A LITTLE FOGGY.....I looked in my rear view mirror and the mudderfuuuuuccckkking wackjob was
scope-ing me the entire way along the driveway to the library...

Scared the living crap out of me...

One way in and only one way out...I waited a good 30 minutes till going back ..and luckily he was gone by then...

I was late for" work"...too say the least...

Boston can be W.A.C.K.Y....AT TIMES...πŸ€”πŸ˜²β˜ΉοΈπŸ’†πŸ½β€β™‚οΈπŸ”„πŸ”‚πŸ”‚πŸ”‚πŸ†˜πŸ†˜πŸ†˜
frankj1 Offline
#21 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:44 PM EST
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Mr. Jones wrote:
One last times I was in Boston??? I was working at a Craft convention at the convention center....I made a wrong turn and ended up at the KENNEDY library at very early Dawn...

Some wack job was at a Vietnam veteran statue across the bay from the library in full battle fatigues with an M-16 AND A BANNANA CLIP...AS I DROVE BY AROUND 5:45-6:15 AM AND IT WAS A LITTLE FOGGY.....I looked in my rear view mirror and the mudderfuuuuuccckkking wackjob was
scope-ing me the entire way along the driveway to the library...

Scared the living crap out of me...

One way in and only one way out...I waited a good 30 minutes till going back ..and luckily he was gone by then...

I was late for" work"...too say the least...

Boston can be W.A.C.K.Y....AT TIMES...πŸ€”πŸ˜²β˜ΉοΈπŸ’†πŸ½β€β™‚οΈπŸ”„πŸ”‚πŸ”‚πŸ”‚πŸ†˜πŸ†˜πŸ†˜

I know the area well and totally understand
izonfire Offline
#22 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:50 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I know the area well and totally understand


Hey, somebody’s gotta guard the area.
I appreciate the guy’s initiative
tailgater Offline
#23 Posted: Mon, Oct 7 2019, 11:59 AM EST
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This is sad.
We should all meet at Durgin Park to reminisce...
frankj1 Offline
#24 Posted: Mon, Oct 7 2019, 1:42 PM EST
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bad, bad man.
delta1 Offline
#25 Posted: Mon, Oct 7 2019, 2:19 PM EST
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it's happening everywhere, except the ballpark...the young people are self segregating from the old people .....and vice versa...

couple of very nice diners in town with exclusively senior citizen clientele, serving breakfast and lunch...people there eat mostly in silence, watching TV; the Fox News channel on all the TV's ....that have anything to do with it?

the places with sports events on the TV's that serve appetizers and beer at all hours are crammed with the younger and louder crowd...people there barely notice the action on the TV's...instead they yell at each other and laugh a lot...
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