Market Friday
A post for Market Friday hosted by @dswigle, if you haven't followed her yet you should she is one of the kindest and most supportive people here on Hive, a comment from her is like a ray of sunshine on your page.
This is the one tag and challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.
For this weeks post, I am going to share shots of three food places, starting with the Frates Milk Bottle Building.
Now I have driven by this a few times, and have meant to go and get shots of it for ages, well I finally did last week, I thought it was a cool and unique style building
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But looking it up I found there are a few Milk bottle buildings here in Massachusetts and some in other states as well, so maybe not that unique but I still think it is pretty cool, I have also found where some other ones are not to far from here so I plan to go and check them out soon
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The Frates Dairy company was based in New Bedford, Mass., and is known for having built three buildings shaped like milk bottles. Two of the three have survived. This one is in New Bedford
the Milk bottle is 52 feet tall
the building was originally an Ice cream stand, then a restaurant built and operated by Frates Dairy company.
bottle-shaped building was constructed by steaming wood and warping it to create the shape of a milk bottle. Once constructed, the bottle was then topped with a red bottle cap. The sides of the bottle were painted to resemble milk -- as it was delivered to homes during that time
it was a Frates restaurant till 2003 when it was purchased by a local couple who continued it as an ice cream stand, only to put it up for sale again in 2005.
G&S Pizza purchased the property at that time and still sells local Bliss Dairy Ice Cream in the warmer months as a nod to the historic landmark bottle
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Just across from it is a Restaurant Mikey B's here is their sign
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And the building
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And across the road is Pa Raffas, an Italian restaurant, there is also a Ma Raffas restaurant, I may be wrong but if I remember correctly someone told me the Mother of the family runs Ma's and the Father Pa's
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And that’s all folks
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