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Now houses the Reading Public Library. 34: House at 11 Beach Street: House at 11 Beach Street: July 19, 1984 : 11 Beach St. 35: House at 26 Center Avenue: House at 26 Center Avenue: July 19, 1984 : 26 Center Ave.
Samuel Longley Bickford (1885–1959) began his restaurant career in 1902. In the 1910s, he was a vice president at the Waldorf System lunchroom chain in New England and, in 1921, he established his own quick-lunch Bickford's restaurants in New York. [1] [2] Bickford's lunchrooms offered modestly priced fare and extended hours. Bickford's ...
Reading was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s. In 1693, the town meeting voted to fund public education in Reading, with grants of four pounds for three months school in the town, two pounds for the west end of the town, and one pound for those north of the Ipswich ...
In 1769 the area's first meeting house (church and civic building) was built, giving the area a sense of identity separate from portions of Reading that would later be set off as Wakefield and North Reading. Since then the area has become a focal point for religious and civic institutions in the town. [2]
The Corner Lunch Diner is a historic diner at 133 Lamartine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1955 and moved to Worcester in 1968, it is the largest diner in the city, and a rare example in New England of remodeling work done by the Musi Dining Car Company of Carteret, New Jersey .
The Parker Tavern is a historic house museum in Reading, Massachusetts, United States.Built in 1694, it is the oldest extant structure in Reading. [2] The saltbox was built by Abraham Bryant, a farmer and blacksmith, and Ephraim Parker operated a tavern on the premises in the 18th century.
North Reading (pronounced, as is with Reading as (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / ⓘ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 15,554 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ]
The restaurant industry in the United States is large and quickly growing, with 10 million workers. 1 in every 12 U.S. residents work in the business, and during the 2008 recession, the industry was an anomaly in that it continued to grow. Restaurants are known for having low wages, which they claim are due to thin profit margins of 4-5%.