The Traveling Wheelchair

By Kenny & Company

Entries for August, 2008

Rick’s Cafe

63 Mazzeo Dr Randolph, MA 02368 Phone: 781-961-3339 Ric, Justin and I stopped at Rick’s Café to have some lunch and to do a wheelchair accessibility review today. There are two handicap parking spaces in front of the wheelchair access to the side walk. You will need some help with opening the two entry doors [...]

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Hess Express

1315 Broadway (Rte. 138) Raynham, MA 02767 Phone: 508-824-1431 http://www.hessexpress.com/ My friends and I often stop for gas but usually don’t do a wheelchair accessibility review but this Hess Express is so wheelchair accessible that we decided to do a review today. There is a handicap parking space up front next to a wide cement [...]

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McDonalds in Plymouth

Route 3 South Exit 5 Plymouth, MA, 02360 Phone: 800-244-6227 http://www.mcdonalds.com/ McDonalds is located the same building as the Tourist Information Center of Plymouth so after we saw ‘Enisketomp’ the Indian sculpture who stands tall in front of the building we went into McDonalds to do a wheelchair accessibility review.  There are two entry doors [...]

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Tourist Information Center of Plymouth

Rte. 3 South, Exit 5 Plymouth MA 02360 Phone: 508-746-1150 http://www.mohawktrail.com/html/body_info.html After reading ‘Stoical 25-year-old reminder of the honor due first peoples’ by Diane Speare Triant in yesterday’s Boston Globe my friends and I hopped in the van and headed to Plymouth to see the Indian sculpture. It is located at Rte 3 Exit 5 [...]

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Povo

1 Appleton Street Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-339-9500 http://boston.povo.com/ The Traveling Wheelchair by Kenny & Co is Proud to announce that we are partnering with Povo of Boston  and Jean Ann McLaughlin, publisher of the Cape Cod Disability Access Directory ( http://www.capecoddisability.org/) in a type of collaboration on ‘Accessibility’. Povo is a new a hyper-local [...]

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Riccardi’s

901 Hathaway Road New Bedford, MA Phone: 508-991-4200 http://www.riccardis.com/   After reviewing the New Bedford US Post Office for wheelchair accessibility on Friday, my friends and I stopped for some lunch at Riccardi’s Italian Restaurant and decided to do a wheelchair accessibility of this place too. There is one handicap parking space at the side of [...]

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New Bedford U.S. Post Office

695 Pleasant Street New Bedford, MA 02740 Phone: 508-979-7400 www.usps.com   This past Friday my friends and I decided to go to the US Post Office in New Bedford to do a wheelchair review for we’ve seen many accessibility issues at other US Post Offices. New Bedford is an old, historical city so we figured [...]

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Panera Bread in Boston

200 High Street Boston, MA  02109 Phone: 617-951-1330 www.panera-boston.com After visiting the New England Aquarium this past Thursday my friends and I headed to Panera Bread to meet with Sean, Kate and Brian from Povo. Povo ( http://boston.povo.com/) is a great new local innovative collaborative on-line guide who believes it is very important to include [...]

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The Times Irish Pub & Restaurant

112 Broad Street Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-357-8463 http://www.timesbar.com/ While we were in Boston last week my friends and I stopped in at The Times Irish Pub & Restaurant to do a wheelchair accessibility review. There is a sloped cement walkway leading to the main entry door. The door is wide enough for my wheelchair [...]

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The Reef at the New England Aquarium Plaza

Central Wharf Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-973-5281 http://www.neaq.org/visit_planning/food_gifts_and_souvenirs/food/reef.php The Reef is an outdoor waterfront bar and restaurant that is located at New England Aquarium Plaza on Central Wharf. My friends and I stopped in for a cool drink yesterday after visiting the Aquarium and found this restaurant to be very wheelchair accessible. The entrance is [...]

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