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The post about “surprises” about the annual changes from one summer to the next got me thinking. I love Ptown and know things can’t stay the same for ever … but sometimes it’s fun to stroll down memory lane, so please join me …which ones of your previous ‘favorites’ are gone? And, in keeping with the spirit of the board … now that your favorite is gone, where do you go instead?

Here’s some of my ‘extinct’ restaurant favorites:

- The Moors Restaurant

- Fat Jack’s for Breakfast or dinner

- Dancing Lobster (The 2 different Commercial Street locations – wasn’t it on the Pier where Towsends is for a year?)

- The Flagship Restaurant (that was in the same building as the Dancing Lobster’s SECOND Commercial St location – especially loved the look of the bar area).

- Stormy Harbor (sat here twice at the window table on prom night and enjoyed watching the limo pull up at Town Hall to drop off the kids …)

- Georgie Porgie’s bagels … I still have one of their travel mugs … and was a super-sized Cumberland farms really necessary?!?! Sure, add more gas pumps, but why more store? Do you really need that much space to sell lottery tickets and snacks?

So, now I eat at Napi’s, Mews, the Lobster Pot (sure it attracts tons of tourists – but I think I qualify as one too – and the food IS good) and Bubala’s. I’ve been doing the Post Office Café for breakfast for years, but had my first evening meal there last summer and was quite pleased. For a light breakfast I hit the Coffee Pot. Although not in Ptown, I love having breakfast outdoors at Adrian’s at the Outer Reach.

Other things I miss:

Mr. McNulty sitting outside the Lobster Pot.

The Yellow Plane (for site-seeing) …

VanDerek’s Ice Cream – they made a good ice cream soda and very few ice cream shops even sell them these days. Turner’s has good ice cream and makes excellent ice cream sodas -- it’s a decadent indulgence at least once per visit!

The OLD vehicles (with back windows that open) that Art’s Dune tours used --- but I still love taking a tour :D. Definitely worthwhile!

Sitting on the Adirondack ‘loveseat’ outside of the Provincetown Art Association Museum in the grass where they built the addition … but I must say “KUDOS!” to PAAM … the expansion is spectacular!

I miss the pink and blue umbrellas of Café Blasé but I like The Patio’s wooden “deck” better than the rough stones of the past that made for wobbly tables and chairs.

All the motels along Rte 6a just outside of P-town … I miss the days when we could get in the car on a whim and know (as long as it wasn’t a sunny holiday weekend) we’d find a reasonably-priced place to stay …. Now many are condos … I imagine it is nearly impossible to sell a motel to continue on as a motel these days … real estate is high (maybe not as high as it was but high enough) and the season is short so the numbers just don’t work if a mortgage is necessary to make the purchase … but I can still think selfishly, can’t I? ;)

The post about “surprises” about the annual changes from one summer to the next got me thinking. I love Ptown and know things can’t stay the same for ever … but sometimes it’s fun to stroll down memory lane, so please join me …which ones of your previous ‘favorites’ are gone? And, in keeping with the spirit of the board … now that your favorite is gone, where do you go instead?

Here’s some of my ‘extinct’ restaurant favorites:

- The Moors Restaurant

- Fat Jack’s for Breakfast or dinner

- Dancing Lobster (The 2 different Commercial Street locations – wasn’t it on the Pier where Towsends is for a year?)

- The VanDerek’s restaurant that was in the same building as the Dancing Lobster’s SECOND Commercial St location – especially the curved bench in the bar area …can’t remember the name of this place .. it’s been gone for a long time (what can I say, I’m old!) and the building is now private property --- a residence, I think?

- Stormy Harbor (sat here twice, at the window table on prom night and enjoyed watching the limo pull up at Town Hall to drop off the kids …)

- Georgie Porgie’s bagels … I still have one of their travel mugs … and was a super-sized Cumberland farms really necessary?!?! Sure, add more gas pumps, but why more store?

So, now I eat at Napi’s, Mews, the Lobster Pot (sure it attracts tons of tourists – but I think I qualify as one too – and the food IS good) and Bubala’s. I’ve been doing the Post Office Café for breakfast for years, but had my first evening meal there last summer and was quite pleased. For a light breakfast I hit the Coffee Pot for a muffin. Although not in Ptown, I love having breakfast outdoors at Adrian’s at the Outer Reach.

Other things I miss:

Mr. McNulty sitting outside the Lobster Pot.

The Yellow Plane (for site-seeing) …

VanDerek’s Ice Cream – they made a good ice cream soda and very few ice cream shops even sell them these days. Turner’s has good ice cream and makes excellent ice cream sodas -- it’s a decadent indulgence at least once per visit!

The OLD vehicles (with back windows that open) that Art’s Dune tours used --- but I still love taking a tour :D. Definitely worthwhile!

Sitting on the Adirondack ‘loveseat’ outside of the Provincetown Art Association Museum where they built the addition … but I must say “KUDOS!” to PAAM … the expansion is spectacular!

I miss the pink and blue umbrellas of Café Blasé but I like The Patio’s wooden “deck” better than the rough stones of the past that made for wobbly tables and chairs.

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I’m afraid none of your old favorites are ringing a bell – but I have one of my own:

Anyone else remember the old kite shop on Commercial Street? It had a tree stump out front that had been shaped into a chair – I’ve got tons of photos of me as a little girl sitting in that ‘chair.’ As the years when by the stump started to waste away and an effort seemed to have been made to encase it in cement – but now the stump and the kite shop are all gone and a series of t-shirt shops has come and gone. I’m sure that stump-chair has been gone for 20 years or more but I still miss it.

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Yup, I remember that. The stump is gone, but there IS a kite store, right on Ryder St at the beach, across from MoJo%26#39;s.

I don%26#39;t remember the name of it, but back in the %26#39;60s there was a hippie shop in the basement of one place where you could slide down a slide from the sidewalk to enter the store.

pastiche ... that%26#39;s FUNNY!

It definitely was before I started going there (my family travelled NORTH from Boston for short vacations ... I didn%26#39;t discover the Cape until I was out of college) ....