[JMS] RE: W1AXL vs W1HRX

[GARDGORE at aol.com]

Hi everyone:

I did indeed visit Malden, Massachusetts a few years ago to see how much from 
earlier times was still there and what has changed. I discovered the site 
where National once stood at 61 Sherman Street was gone because of urban renewal. 
My research seems to imply it disappeared sometime in the late Fifties which 
probably explained National's move to Washington Street in Melrose which was a 
short distance away. There is a Safeway grocery store in a small shopping 
center now where National once stood. Sherman Street and Jackson Street no longer 
exist and Abbott Street was moved over to make room for a large bank 
building. I also visited North Reading (or Middleton) to see what remained of Millen's 
homesite and the old farmhouse. James Millen Drive is still there but it is 
now a residential street in an upper middle class neighborhood. There was a 
half million dollar home on the site where the farmhouse once stood and I saw 
young children's toys in the yard and a young man was washing the family SUV in 
the driveway that afternoon. I stopped and asked him if he knew the history of 
the area and he didn't know a thing about it. 

73, Greg