Hawthorne Hills Community Club

What happened to the Pidge Tavern?

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  • nap
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Hopefully we can find the time to bring this up at the meeting tonite and get people planning for sharing history so come over for 40 neighbors

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I finally spoke to Paul last night, and to Joe Palmer a couple weeks ago; both reiterated that it was believed to have been razed in the late 1930s. Paul is in the process of getting some additional material about it. I came across this today, which suggests that it stood until the late 1960s!

http://www.vcrail.org/history-vc/clegg/chapter1.html

 

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  • mp775
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I found the 1940 photo!

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=ri/ri0100/ri0127/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Pidge%20Tavern,%20586%20Pawtucket%20Avenue,%20Pawtucket,%20Providence%20County,%20RI&displayType=1&itemLink=S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Pidge+Tavern,+586+Pawtucket+Avenue,+Pawtucket,+Providence+County,+RI))

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Could you relink again...nothing came thru or put the picture on the website

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