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Montague every Saturday night. In the early fifties, my father purchased a 1929 Plymouth “Tin Lizzie.” The family would pile into the old car and head off to Montague about six-o’clock in the evening. It seemed that the entire

population of the surrounding communities , .

converged on if .. Montague for this 46% - weekly event. All the ~ ‘ seam“

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stores were open until eleven o’clock, as were the restaurants and hot-dog canteens. The “gospel preachers,” set up in Stewart & Beck’s parking lot, were saving souls by the dozens with singing, clapping and shouting for all they were worth.