My View of Life on the Dock
Here is Susan Parent and Don Boyle’s Toodeloos Toy Store Under Construction. Video Coming at 8PM
Notice how just about every square inch of wall space is covered with the types of shelving and boarding that you can hang stuff from? They plan to pack this place with toys.
Toodeloos Toy Store Update 5/8/10, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
After getting many requests from GMG folks who wanted to know what was going into the space at 137 Main Street I finally caught up with one of the owners for an interview which will be up at 8AM.
You look up the word worker bee in the dictionary and you see a picture of Heather Demarkis. The broad just doesn’t stop. Buzzing around sweping in front of the building, buzzing around dusting, buzzing around painting.
She’s a good one that Heather Demarkis.
A real asset to Gloucester’s Downtown. Buzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Heather At Menage Gallery Gives The Joint A Facelift, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I love it downtown.
Downtown Gloucester New Years Eve Dec 31,2009, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Downtown Gloucester New Years Eve Dec 31,2009, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Love it! Thanks Manuel!
For any of you that have relatives in warm climates you may want to send them a link to Good Morning Gloucester to show them what fun they are missing!
Many Stores Open Late Offering Refreshments and Super Sales! A Good Excuse To Go Out and Get Significant Discounts, Your Christmas Shopping Done Early and Hang Out With The Homies!
What Up Homie?, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Downtown Gloucester Brick, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
So beautiful. Do you ever take the time to look up when you are walking around downtown and admire the beautiful architecture?
Downtown Gloucester Brick, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Vickie Van Ness puts the Downtown Gloucester Block Party Website Together, check out the Block Party Website for Information by clicking this text
The second floor is being framed. For those of you keeping up with the deconstruction/construction of the block you can check out the slideshow by clicking this text
Downtown Construction Update August 31, 2009, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
In the past couple years there has been a renaissance Downtown and a big part of that renaissance is because of the pride and effort put forth by the Downtown Merchants and Restaurateurs. More flower boxes have popped up and you see merchants that have purchased their own benches to put out in front of their stores. The House of Raven, Cormorant Shop have recently put out new benches. Dennis Bryant down at The Mosaic Studio has benches in front of his store and other places too.
It’s great to see.
Annette Cares For Flowerpots In Front Of Espresso Restaurant Downtown Gloucester, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Because 62 Main Street sits on a bend and this unit which is being refurbished sits above La Trattoria, it has unique sweeping views up and down Main Street. Not only that, to the left it neighbors the gardens in front of the Sargent Murray House. Plenty of light and huge windows make this a very cool spot for the Downtown Gloucester lover to call home. Video tour at 8AM
Mike and Jane Fonzo’s 62 Main Street, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Main Street Gloucester just getting better and better all the time!
Portside Grille At Cruiseport has been packed every single day. One of the recurring things I’ve been noting when soliciting feedback from people about the Block Parties is that people really love alfresco dining. Other than the Block Parties there are a few places you can really enjoy this type of dining around town -the Cruiseport unique-to-Gloucester sliding open frontage to the waterfront, Lobster Pool Restaurant in Folly Cove, the Rudder, the Studio, Latitude 43 deck and the Gloucester House.
Hopefully some group of downtown business owners get together and find a concensus as to how they would like to close Main Street to vehicular traffic on Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer. Gloucester Crossing will be opening soon. It is of my opinion that the Downtown business owners really ought to start thinking about soliciting the city for the street closures as a way to differentiate and make Downtown Gloucester the destination it has been developing into. They just need to take it to the next step. It wouldn’t have to be a Block Party every summer weekend night but if the Block Parties showed anything it was that Gloucester is a social city and given the opportunity to see and be seen people will show up.
Lobster Meat At Cruiseport, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 