The Calvery (sic) Diner.Location: Boston, MA, US
Date taken: 1971
Photographer: Yale Joel
Wide angle view of customers eating at the long counter in the Caverly Diner. [note Miller High Life box propping up the donuts in foreground, sweet]Location: Boston, MA, US
Date taken: April 1971
Photographer: Yale Joel
Fried smelts sea food dinner, a specialty at the Caverly Diner.Location: Boston, MA, US
Date taken: 1971
Photographer: Yale Joel
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I think I ate breakfast there. Worked for the Boston MDC maintenance crew. The ultimate summer job. Would have been '80 or so. Got to know a bunch of great Boston kids - from Southie, Dorchester, Charlestown. They knew all the best out of the way places. one morning, we went here for a great, cheap breakfast. Didn't know about the kippers. There were a couple of old guys, out of work longshoremen by the look of them, having, as I remember, a couple of beers. I can't for the life of me remember exactly where it was - but it had to have been close to South Boston (our HQ) - although it was definitely on the Boston (proper) side. It was a classic, man. Old lifer waitresses, short order cooks. Almost certainly gone now - probably long before the bog dig that would have almost certainly swallowed it up. Weird how a picture will transport you.
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