451 Rock Street Fall River, MA 02720 Phone: (508) 679-1071 http://www.lizzieborden.org/index.asp After we left the Fall River Library today we headed to the Fall River Historical Society to do a wheelchair accessibility review. It is located in a beautiful large mansion. There is a circular driveway right in the front of the building and there [...]
404 Pleasant Street Fall River, MA Phone: 508-673-8999 http://www.99restaurants.com/ My friends and I stopped for lunch at the Ninety Nine Restaurant in Fall River today and decided to do a wheelchair accessibility review while we were there.There are three handicap parking spaces up front next to the main entry door. On the other side there [...]
Del’s Frozen Lemonade 835 North Main Street Fall River, MA Phone: 508-730-1861 My friends and I headed to Fall River today to pick up a friend who was stranded because he couldn’t get his car out because the street in front of his house was flooded. As we were driving down North Main Street in Fall [...]
1361 Middleboro Ave East Taunton, MA 02718 Phone: 508-822-7405 http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/mass.htm Massasoit State Park is only a mile from my home and right on the Middleborough and Taunton Town Line. I had never been here before so my friends and I went to check it out and see how wheelchair accessible this State Park is. When you drive [...]
21 West Main Street Hyannis, M.A. 02601 Phone: (508) 775-5630 www.themusiccircus.org In this adventure, Jamie and his crew went to the South Shore Music Circus. The comedian featured this evening was Brad Garrett from the hit show “Everybody Loves Raymond.” When we got to our destination, there was plenty of handicap parking close to building. [...]
33 Charge Pond Road Wareham, M.A. Phone: (508) 295-9622 Jamie, Mom, and Jamie’s Crew visited the Gleason Family YMCA in Wareham, M.A. The facility has a couple parking spaces for handicap individuals. The accessible ramps are not necessary because the YMCA is built on a flat level service with a concrete sidewalk entrance. The two [...]
132 South St. Plymouth M.A. 02360 Phone: (508) 830-4250 http://www.plymouthpubliclibrary.org/index.htm “Concerts on the Lawn,” are held every Wednesday on the front lawn of The Plymouth Library. Upon arriving, we did not have any difficulty finding a handicap parking place. Jamie’s wheelchair maneuvered very easily onto the grass. In the front of the library, there were [...]
120 Commercial ST Brockton, MA 02302 Phone: 508-559-1894 http://www.usps.com/ Today I wanted to do a wheelchair accessibility review of the main Post Office in Brockton because soon will be named the Rocky Marciano Post Office. President Bush recently signed into law a bill naming the Commercial Street Post Office after Rocky Marciano. Rocky is the [...]
758 Centre Street Middleboro, MA 02346 Phone: 774-766-4185 As my friends and I were driving down Centre Street in Middleboro today we noticed a Grand Opening sign in front of a new business named Five Star Dry Cleaning & Alterations. We looked and noticed that it is not wheelchair accessible at all and all laughed [...]
11 Main St West Harwich, MA 2671 Phone: 508-432-6388 http://www.friendlys.com/ I recently had the opportunity to go to Friendly’s in West Harwich. I decided it was a great time to write a wheelchair accessibility review for The Traveling Wheelchair. Entering Friendly’s there were no automatic doors. I had a hard time maneuvering my wheelchair through the [...]
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In loving memory of my grandfather, 'Bud' McAuliffe.
