Main Street Hyannis, Part 2

These two vintage stores are da bomb.  I loved looking at the clothes in Plush & Plunder, even though I wouldn't buy it, but Treasures & Temptations was exactly that.  I just don't have the room anymore to buy stuff like this unfortunately.  

There is a really cool tree at the end of this alley.  A bar/restaurant is built under and around it.

My pictures don't do the tree justice.

That's the top spilling out over the awnings.

Funky shark.  By the way, several beaches have been closed because of sharks, and one man had his foot nearly bitten off by a great white.  

"One of things is not like the others..."  Although I was pleased to see BBay included with all these other sexy and exotic locales.  

I am still sad that this place is now a small arcade.  It used to be Lorania's Toys & Books, a wonderful children's store.  I got my Narnia & Middle Earth map posters there in 1978.  They had so many great little toys - wooden puzzles made in Germany, stuffed animals, floats and beach balls, whiffle ball sets, etc.  I was so sad that it closed some time in the 80s I think. 

This carousel used to be located in the West End Market Place, which also had small shops and food vendors but is now closed.  

In the arcade

Colourful towels outside a huge tshirt and souvenir store.

Then I came upon another shop that had some really cool stuff inside.  Tons of kitsch and fun souvenirs.

I say wicked...wicked big.

There was one for every town/village.

Hyannis has duckboat tours now.  Who knew?

Back up towards the winter end of Main again.  There are some very old buildings on this part of the street.

John F. Kennedy Museum.

Chief Iyannough, after whom Hyannis is named.

I have no idea why this waiter has a kerchief/napkin over his face.  Either it's a stick up or the food smells bad.

And finally I leave you with the Lobsta Bah tshirt with more stereotypical Massachusetts phrases, like 'I'm Bangin' a U-eey" and "That's a Wicked Pissah".

Main Street Hyannis, Part 1

Before the Cape Cod Mall was built in about 1970, Main Street was the only place to go shopping in Hyannis for clothes, furniture, office supplies, gifts, etc.  It's undergone a lot of changes over the past 40+ years and so many of the original stores have closed and been replaced by funky gift and tshirt shops.  When I was growing up, the eastern part was known as 'the winter end' because only those stores stayed open year round, while the western part was called 'the summer end', because most were only open in the summer (except for Dragonlite restaurant which was open year round and which is one of the only original businesses left).

I decided to spend a couple of hours one day playing tourist on Main, starting on the winter end and walking down one side of Main to Dragonlite, and back up the other side.  

This is where I started my walk, in what used to be known as Anarchy Alley, because it was covered in punk rock graffiti - band names and Anarchy symbols.  When I was a senior in high school, we used to park in this lot, cut thru the alley and go to Wave Records which was in a second floor space above one of the Army Navy Stores.  Wave is long gone, and the alley has been cleaned up.

Coming out of Anarchy Alley and turning right, this is one of the new stores.  I intended to get Bean and Boo treats in here but their prices are outrageous.  I wasn't going to spend $5.00 for one fancy cookie that would be inhaled in less than one minute.

Nautical & souvenir shop

Bakery.  Yum.

This clock is one of the few original things that remain on the winter end of Main Street.

Bear outside Kandy Korner.

Kandy and souvenirs.

In one of the many tshirt shops.

My real reason for going to Main Street this day was because I needed some bead spacers, and The Bead Emporium is the only bead shop outside of Boston.  Unfortunately I find their prices extremely high so I left empty handed.

Now we're getting more into the summer end of town and this alley leads to Main Street from another parking lot.

OK this might possibly be one of the most amazing stores I've ever been in and I could easily drop a bundle of money on everything in here.  But I was good, despite the vast selection of live Dead CDs that I've never seen before!

This is in one of my fave stores.

I've always loved Seventh Heaven; another store that's stood the test of time.

I had to sneak this shot inside of a store.  Look at all the pretties!