Thank you very much for this memory. I miss home so much it's unbearable...Things like this kinda help though. I was born in the Memorial hospital on the right that you pass...Raised in Fryeburg, Maine. great video, and the music and the video makes my eyes water..Oh...I never realized Shaws used to be next to Ames....Jeeze. Guess I was pretty damn young then. 19 now. Thanks again. Jerry
Started visiting there in 1968. No McDonald's. No outlets. The Sears catalog center was there, as was the Eastern Slope Inn, Joe Jones, and Ethan Allan (and the bike-ski shop next to it where my family purchased wood X-C skis). Cranmore still had the Skimobiles, and the Kearsarge fire tower was manned. There was an airport next to the Dairy Queen. The Burger King was an old building with candlepin bowling. We used to drive over the covered bridge in East Conway, burned long ago, and we used to drive the single lane covered bridge in Conway (that was a trick). The strip had a drive-in (saw a few movies there), Pool-in-Pine motel, and a few other things, mostly trees, no Staples or K-Mart. The North Conway Rail Station was boarded up for years (now nicely restored), and you could hear the freight train from Portland every day. We'd go to the Fourth of July fireworks there every year. The local radio station had a weather show at 7:50am where they rated the weather on a scale from 5 to 50 cents, which is what you'd put into your piggy bank, and they told you what X-C ski wax would be good for the day. The radio station (WBNC I think, later became WMWV) went off the air in the evening and you could get WBZ on the same AM frequency. No FM side back then. On TV you got channels 6, 8, and usually 13, sometimes 11. I worked at Dexter Shoe (in its original building) for a short time around 1980. As kids we used to ride our bicycles along The Strip the whole way from the IGA/Ben Franklin to the Eastern Slope. Not sure how good the bicycling is there now! Lots and lots of changes! Not quite the same. Wish I had movies from back then!
The valley is beautiful. Been there many times. My sisters live in the area. Yes it has changed a lot over the years,but so has the world. The people are nice and love their valley and are friendly and make you feel like you are home. Progress can never be stopped just improved and tolerated! Nice video! Thanks
Thank you for this video. Used to be out here every weekend in late 90s/early 2000s with the family. I live in Conway now and drive down this exact road daily astonishes me how things have changed
Thanks for bringing back many fond memories! I spent quite a bit of time in the Mt. Washington Valley from when I was little in the early '60s until just before I moved to Florida in the mid '90s. It's sad that there have been too many changes that have forever changed the 'old' valley, but the locals there are still true blue Americans. The small town in FL that I now live in reminds me quite a bit of how it used to be in N. Conway, just without the snow (lol).
Love this video. I miss this look of North Conway/Route 16. mostly over the past 10 years its been morphed into a more commercialized area. But it's still remains to behold the classic welcoming friendly, nostalgic vibe for me, and many others too. Oh the memories.
@@nhbobwhite Ohhh I'm sure! However, I wasn't even born yet but I should have been. I am so into everything about the 70's, especially the much better music!
wow today is june22nd 2020 in the middle of a pandemic. i was born at memorial hospital in 1958, and grew up in Conway. So different since i was a kid, was very hard to watch everytime they took a bunch of trees down for another factory outlet, most only lasted a few years ,then there was just empty buildings, Flatlanders liked coming up her to relax and enjoy the country. But they have turned it into their cities now. i still live here and call it home,but don't like what i see anymore.
I am with you there. I've lived in the valley area more or less since 1990. All my kids were born at Memorial. So much has changed even since my youngest was born last year 😕
I have to add my 2 cents, I so much agree with both of you. The valley has changed dramatically, especially the last 5-7 years. I'm not a native, but lived here in the late 70s (a magical time for the valley). I left for 20 years and returned in 2000 and been here since (bartlett). But the last few years it's overcrowded with rampant building. They're tearing down historic buildings (homestead restaurant, and currently a 1700s farm in center conway). The old howard johnson/fandangles is now a 4 story big box, intervale motel is slated for demo and another 4 story big box monstrosity. Mom & pop places are being pushed out. Oh so sad! But truth being, it's happening everywhere! Imagine life in another 30 years, yikes! Glad I'll be gone. At least there's a few old places left, as long as it's not the weekend! Btw, this is my video, wish I had a better quality camera and didn't pan back and forth so much...
@@nhbobwhite I totally agree. I am born, raised, and still live (unfortunately) in the dump known as Massachusetts. However, I have had family in North Conway since the 60's (way before I was born) and have been going there my whole life. I'm 32 now and confirm, it has changed. The town I am from/still live in was very similar but also changed in similar ways (but even worse). It sucks to see. My parents retired and live in Conway full time now and I still love going, but I miss how it used to be when I was a kid in the 90's.
this town i remind everithing here in this place i did buy all last wekeends in 2011 watch this make me cry i wish back to work fryeburg maine greatings friends GREEN THUMB FARMS I MISS every one
Parents took a bus for their honeymoon in 1966. I've had a house there since 1990. Only get up about a couple weeks now every year. Center Conway to me is a eyesore. My house is about a 5 minute ride to the village, but also far enough away to get away.
nice vids. I worked on green granite inn on 2007 but I didnt see how was there on 99'... I remembered some names ; wendy,george wuu,amy,turkish workers,john(bustard),mike,aaron,and many people...! I love you NH.I love you all people !
That's cool about your car! Unfortunately the past two years have been a quantum leap in messing up a beautiful small town which North Conway once was. When they razed the 200 year old Homestead Restaurant 4 years ago and put up a damn ugly Autozone cement bunker building, and it's still full tilt destruction today😥
this video makes me sad, im 16 and have gone here for years...now it kinda sucks goin here with all of this new bullshit... oh ya and fandangles burnt down!!
man i sure do miss the way it used to look.....now it looks like some trashy southern town...i should know i'm in KY now. think the traffic wasn't so bad on that road it's all part of it.
I'm am going to be sooo lost...if its changed that much since 99 and really the last time I drove it on a regular basis 79 I am so screwed.....Ricky, Lorraine, Makayla...someone I need an escort and driver!!!
The Yankee Clipper has changed a lot... Now it's a money-grubbing shit-hole. :( I'm really sad about it, because it used to be a such great memory for me and my love. I miss the legit N.Conway with the pristine baths... :(
I lived with the guy that owns it, his parents used to own it but it got passed down to him. My mom worked at the Blueberry Muffin and she said the kitchen was disgusting and the hotel was actually supposed to be on Hotel From Hell but the owner refused after some issues regarding payment from the show or something like that
Thank you very much for this memory. I miss home so much it's unbearable...Things like this kinda help though. I was born in the Memorial hospital on the right that you pass...Raised in Fryeburg, Maine. great video, and the music and the video makes my eyes water..Oh...I never realized Shaws used to be next to Ames....Jeeze. Guess I was pretty damn young then. 19 now. Thanks again.
Jerry
Started visiting there in 1968. No McDonald's. No outlets. The Sears catalog center was there, as was the Eastern Slope Inn, Joe Jones, and Ethan Allan (and the bike-ski shop next to it where my family purchased wood X-C skis). Cranmore still had the Skimobiles, and the Kearsarge fire tower was manned. There was an airport next to the Dairy Queen. The Burger King was an old building with candlepin bowling. We used to drive over the covered bridge in East Conway, burned long ago, and we used to drive the single lane covered bridge in Conway (that was a trick). The strip had a drive-in (saw a few movies there), Pool-in-Pine motel, and a few other things, mostly trees, no Staples or K-Mart. The North Conway Rail Station was boarded up for years (now nicely restored), and you could hear the freight train from Portland every day. We'd go to the Fourth of July fireworks there every year. The local radio station had a weather show at 7:50am where they rated the weather on a scale from 5 to 50 cents, which is what you'd put into your piggy bank, and they told you what X-C ski wax would be good for the day. The radio station (WBNC I think, later became WMWV) went off the air in the evening and you could get WBZ on the same AM frequency. No FM side back then. On TV you got channels 6, 8, and usually 13, sometimes 11. I worked at Dexter Shoe (in its original building) for a short time around 1980.
As kids we used to ride our bicycles along The Strip the whole way from the IGA/Ben Franklin to the Eastern Slope. Not sure how good the bicycling is there now!
Lots and lots of changes! Not quite the same. Wish I had movies from back then!
I was born here in 1998. I now drive down this road every day and it's crazy to see what has changed and what has roughly stayed the same.
I was there in Fall 99', this is exactly the way it looked, lively, energetic and picturesque. can't believe how fast 25 years went by 😅
The valley is beautiful. Been there many times. My sisters live in the area. Yes it has changed a lot over the years,but so has the world. The people are nice and love their valley and are friendly and make you feel like you are home. Progress can never be stopped just improved and tolerated! Nice video! Thanks
Thank you for this video. Used to be out here every weekend in late 90s/early 2000s with the family. I live in Conway now and drive down this exact road daily astonishes me how things have changed
Thanks for bringing back many fond memories! I spent quite a bit of time in the Mt. Washington Valley from when I was little in the early '60s until just before I moved to Florida in the mid '90s. It's sad that there have been too many changes that have forever changed the 'old' valley, but the locals there are still true blue Americans. The small town in FL that I now live in reminds me quite a bit of how it used to be in N. Conway, just without the snow (lol).
Love this video. I miss this look of North Conway/Route 16. mostly over the past 10 years its been morphed into a more commercialized area. But it's still remains to behold the classic welcoming friendly, nostalgic vibe for me, and many others too. Oh the memories.
My god... How I wish it was 1999 again. Long live the 90's.
The 70s would be even better🤗
@@nhbobwhite Ohhh I'm sure! However, I wasn't even born yet but I should have been. I am so into everything about the 70's, especially the much better music!
wow today is june22nd 2020 in the middle of a pandemic. i was born at memorial hospital in 1958, and grew up in Conway. So different since i was a kid, was very hard to watch everytime they took a bunch of trees down for another factory outlet, most only lasted a few years ,then there was just empty buildings, Flatlanders liked coming up her to relax and enjoy the country. But they have turned it into their cities now. i still live here and call it home,but don't like what i see anymore.
I am with you there. I've lived in the valley area more or less since 1990. All my kids were born at Memorial. So much has changed even since my youngest was born last year 😕
I have to add my 2 cents, I so much agree with both of you. The valley has changed dramatically, especially the last 5-7 years.
I'm not a native, but lived here in the late 70s (a magical time for the valley). I left for 20 years and returned in 2000 and been here since (bartlett). But the last few years it's overcrowded with rampant building. They're tearing down historic buildings (homestead restaurant, and currently a 1700s farm in center conway).
The old howard johnson/fandangles is now a 4 story big box, intervale motel is slated for demo and another 4 story big box monstrosity.
Mom & pop places are being pushed out. Oh so sad! But truth being, it's happening everywhere! Imagine life in another 30 years, yikes! Glad I'll be gone. At least there's a few old places left, as long as it's not the weekend!
Btw, this is my video, wish I had a better quality camera and didn't pan back and forth so much...
@@nhbobwhite I totally agree. I am born, raised, and still live (unfortunately) in the dump known as Massachusetts. However, I have had family in North Conway since the 60's (way before I was born) and have been going there my whole life. I'm 32 now and confirm, it has changed. The town I am from/still live in was very similar but also changed in similar ways (but even worse). It sucks to see. My parents retired and live in Conway full time now and I still love going, but I miss how it used to be when I was a kid in the 90's.
Thanks for the memories it looks so different in 2018
this town i remind everithing here in this place i did buy all last wekeends in 2011 watch this make me cry i wish back to work fryeburg maine greatings friends GREEN THUMB FARMS I MISS every one
Parents took a bus for their honeymoon in 1966. I've had a house there since 1990. Only get up about a couple weeks now every year. Center Conway to me is a eyesore. My house is about a 5 minute ride to the village, but also far enough away to get away.
i grew up in jackson nh (5mins down the road). amazing place to groq up and go through school
nice vids. I worked on green granite inn on 2007 but I didnt see how was there on 99'... I remembered some names ; wendy,george wuu,amy,turkish workers,john(bustard),mike,aaron,and many people...! I love you NH.I love you all people !
Would you happen to have any more videos of the North Conway area or Fryeburg from this time period?
Haha, I loved the Yankee Clipper Inn. We stayed there last summer, on top of the restaurant. It was great.
Seen my old grand am parked at Shaws lol
That's cool about your car! Unfortunately the past two years have been a quantum leap in messing up a beautiful small town which North Conway once was. When they razed the 200 year old Homestead Restaurant 4 years ago and put up a damn ugly Autozone cement bunker building, and it's still full tilt destruction today😥
Love the soundtrack.
WMWV - the local station
is this the original quality of the video? if not, would it be possible for me to get a higher resolution copy of this video?
God bless you
Was Cathedral Ledge resort shown in this video? Id it was than i missed it
Started going there in 1974. Major changes
ha, I go to the "new" kennett, lol, it's like a little trip down memory lane, seeing all the trees still there, lol.
I was there before they even started that side road project going down to shaws. 96-7 maybe
i m from guatemala this memories make me cry because i want back heehhehe
Um, where? I live here, and there is no "Kohls II" being built
I hate man-made, when it comes to buildings, just, no, that will never replace the view I get every morning.
this video makes me sad, im 16 and have gone here for years...now it kinda sucks goin here with all of this new bullshit... oh ya and fandangles burnt down!!
man i sure do miss the way it used to look.....now it looks like some trashy southern town...i should know i'm in KY now. think the traffic wasn't so bad on that road it's all part of it.
Um, not really, depends on what your preferences are...
I'm am going to be sooo lost...if its changed that much since 99 and really the last time I drove it on a regular basis 79 I am so screwed.....Ricky, Lorraine, Makayla...someone I need an escort and driver!!!
The Yankee Clipper has changed a lot... Now it's a money-grubbing shit-hole. :( I'm really sad about it, because it used to be a such great memory for me and my love. I miss the legit N.Conway with the pristine baths... :(
I lived with the guy that owns it, his parents used to own it but it got passed down to him. My mom worked at the Blueberry Muffin and she said the kitchen was disgusting and the hotel was actually supposed to be on Hotel From Hell but the owner refused after some issues regarding payment from the show or something like that
Much more retail there now. And much more traffic, especially in the summer.
TO bad he looked left so we couldnt see Fandangles
Right? There's a huge hotel being built there now. It's an eye sore
@@willowlove0802 It sure is! Now another eye sore hotel being built where Junge's Motel was!
Too blurry to see anything
All the way to Errol
7:37 turn right, Dirty Woody's house
Wore out some tires driving it for years.
I grew up there to much geo engineering it started weather wise going down and out in the 60s
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