Community Corner

A Look At Lynnfield-Related Items Up For Auction, Sept. 17

Each week, Lynnfield Patch takes a look at items for sale online that are tied to the town's history or present.

Ship Nostalgia: As many of you know, the Mt. Vernon at the Ship restaurant closed down within the past week, inviting questions about the future of one of Route 1's best-known landmark buildings. This postcard appears to be decades old and shows The Ship in its former state, sans the adjoining shops and that other interesting establishment currently located there. The seller states that the building actually represented a brigantine ship from the 1700s. Presumably the poop deck was up to code.

Centre Congregational Church: The seller apparently does not have the name of the artist who created this work of local interest. It's a matted print of the Lynnfield , and the Old Meeting House is also visible in the picture. Not quite out of the Marketing 101 playbook, it is described as "old and used."

Major Leaguer: Lynnfield has been home to its share of Major League Baseball players and other athletes over the years, but not many of them are actually of the home-grown variety. However, I was intrigued to learn that Bob Tufts, formerly of Lynnfield, was drafted out of Princeton and played several seasons in the majors, for San Francisco, Kansas City and Cincinnati. Check out his Wikipedia page here. Another sports website says he graduated from Lynnfield High School class of '73, but I can't vouch for the reliability of that information. This baseball card currently up for sale on eBay dates back to his days in the Giants' minor league system.

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Bicentennial Medal: Last week, I featured a century-old medallion that was created to mark the 200th year of Lynnfield's establishment. This week I've found another medallion, this time dating back to the nation's bicentennial celebration in 1976. It's actually pretty nice. I like the patriotic imagery and the overall clearness of the images.

Acrylite: Back in the days when Yaz was a rising star smashing home runs over the Green Monster, one of his former hangouts, George Page's Colonial, was apparently featured in some sort of advertisement for Acrylite swimming pool domes. The seller says it comes from a 1966 publication. That is one inviting looking pool actually. I'd be curious to know if people ever used to hit golf balls at it.

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