Waltham, Massachusetts city directory 1960, Part 1

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WALTHAM (MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASS.)


CITY DIRECTORY


Vol. 1960 XVIII


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INTRODUCTION 105


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GENERAL INDEX


R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 1,000 city, county, state and national Directories, present to subscribers and the general public. this, the 1960 edition of the Waltham City Directory.


Confidence in the growth of Waltham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Direc- tory is a mirror truly reflecting Waltham to the world.


The enviable position occupied by R. L. POLK & CO.'S Directories in the estimation of the public throughout the country, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an un- rivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co-opera- tion of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Waltham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.


Three Major Departments


The three major departments are arranged in the following order :-


I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major department of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city, ar- ranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a busy and diversified community like Waltham, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common in- termediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.


II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department in- cluded on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Waltham, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.


III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major department printed on green paper. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.


Municipal Publicity


The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Waltham.


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The Waltham Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Waltham City Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 750 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.


R. L. POLK & CO. Publishers.


HOW TO USE YOUR CITY DIRECTORY SEE PAGE XX


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


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bott Motors Inc


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4 les B C Co left side lines and 35


antic Register Co .... top stencil and 12


rnes Rowland H & Co 16 y State Supply Co . . left top lines and 15


atty Brothers Inc right bottom lines and 14 audoin Conrad O .. left top lines and 34 gham & Sons' Inc 5


rd Richard H & Co Inc


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nney Oil Co Inc . back cover and 32 ston Gas Company . back cover ston Manufacturers Mutual Ins Co ..


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wers Insurance Agency Inc


asco Florist right top lines and 21


front stencil, left side lines and 16 'ewster Oil Company Inc 33


urke P E Moving & Storage Corp


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vron's Inc 13 ompo Shoe Machinery Corp 38


emeo Frank H Inc


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verett Herbert I ... left side lines and 37


inn Insurance Agency 23


ilchrist Co right bottom lines


uthrie Lumber Co 11


awes Electric Construction Inc 15 lolland Thomas P Co 13


deal Concrete Block Co


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rwin's Furniture Co 20


ohnson Robert B Co 25


ohnston's Roy Tire Shop


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ordan's Furniture Co


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oyce Francis J & Son


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Kay Jewelry Co 25 ee Drug Co .right bottom lines and 15


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IcKenzie Travel Service Inc .


left top lines and 41 Mendelsohn's Inc . .right bottom lines Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co . Z and 40


Middlesex Family Co-operative Bank


PAGE Mitchell & Corcoran .. left top lines and 35 Moody Stationery Co Inc right side lines and 31


Mooney Frank J 22 New England Mica Co Inc 29 Newton Sash & Door Co Inc


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Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Com- pany back bone, 6 and 7 Nichols W H Company left side lines and 26


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Regan James E Realtor left side lines and 37


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Thompson William H Co


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Waltham Chamber of Commerce B Waltham Chemical Co .... left bottom lines Waltham Citizens National Bank back cover and 8 Waltham Federal Savings & Loan Assn front cover and 9


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Waltham Publishing Co


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Waltham Real Estate Center left bottom lines and 37 Waltham Savings Bank .. back cover and 10 Watch City Liquor Store 25 Wentworth Freedom & Sons Inc bottom stencil, left top lines and 18 West End Chevrolet Inc front cover and 3


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WALTHAM MASSACHUSETTS (Courtesy Waltham Chamber of Commerce) -


Statistical Review


Issued January 1, 1960


Form of Government: Mayor and Council; Council consists of six councillors-at-large and nine ward councillors, elected biennially. Population : U. S. Census, (1950) 47,187. State-City Census, (1955) 50,115.


Area: 13.56 square miles


Altitude: 67 feet.


Assessed Valuation: $114,949,000 (January 1, 1960).


Number of Dwelling Houses Assessed: . 9,432 (January 1, 1960).


Number of Families: 14,484.


Total Dwelling Units: 14,135 (estimated January 1, 1960). 2


Native Born Population: 79.80% of whole population.


Predominating Nationalities in City: American, Canadian, Italian. Parks: 3 with 273.54 acres. 2 Metropolitan District Parks with 81.5 acres; 15 Playgrounds with 65.13 acres, plus 5 play areas at school sites; 1 MDC swimming pool.


City's Bonded Debt: $8,068,000 (December 31, 1959).


Financial: 1 Bank and Trust Company with resources of $70,381,793.44 1 Savings Bank with total deposits of $42,619,773. 1 Federal Savings and Loan Association with resources of $42,657,719. 1 National Bank with resources of $7,861,186.42. 1 Trust Company with re- sources of $8,793,140.44. 1 Family Co-operative Bank with assets of $1,859,887.05. All figures as of December 31, 1959.


Post Office Receipts for 1959: $1,245,549.73.


Churches : 23.


Building and Construction: Value of Building Permits: $13,084,864. Number of Building Permits: 651 for 1959.


Motor Vehicle Registrations for Year Ending December 31, 1959: 22,300. Real Estate Transfers for Year Ending December 31, 1959: Approxi- mately 1,400.


Industry: Number of Industrial Establishments 233: Warehousing 15: Total: 248.


Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 520,000 people, 29 communities, with- in the trading area covering a radius, of fifteen miles.


City Served by: 2 railroad lines, 11 bus lines.


Amusements: Largest theatre or auditorium seats 2,100 people. There are 2 theatres with a total seating capacity of 3,086 people.


Hospitals :. Waltham Hospital with 162 beds and 28 bassinets: also Metropolitan State Hospital, 2,154 beds; Middlesex County Sana- torium, 350 beds; Walter E Fernald School for Feeble Minded, 2,450 beds.


Schools: Number of public school buildings; 19 including 1 high school, 3 junior high schools, 1 vocational high school, and 14 elementary schools. Enrollment: 8,684 pupils, with 374 teachers. Parochial schools: 2 parochial high schools and 3 elementary school build- ings; Enrollment: 2,287.


Libraries: There are 168,548 volumes in the library and branches of the city.


City Statistics: Total street mileage is 153, with 108.7 miles of public way paved. Miles of sewers, 103.77. Water Works (Metropolitan) daily average consumption: 7,369.194 gallons with 133.57 miles of mains.


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Fire Department: Employs 147 men with the following motor equip- ment: 4 autos, 1 utility truck, 7 engines, 2 hose and chemical wagons, hook and ladder trucks. 6 station houses. Value of Fire Depart- ment with property is $782,198.


Police Department: Has 99 permanent patrolmen and officers. 15 re- serve officers and 27 police women, with 1 station and 11 pieces of motor equipment.


11,418.


Meters: Electric meters, 16,888; Water meters, 11,268; Gas meters


Telephones: 32,777 (includes Weston). As of January 1, 1960. Resi- dent, 14,798; Business, 2,928; Extensions, 15,051.


WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS


Data of interest regarding a growing and progressive city. Incorporated a town in 1738.


Voted to apply for City Charter November 30, 1883.


Incorporation act approved June 2, 1884. Accepted by town July 16, 1884.


Election of first Mayor and Aldermen December 2, 1884. Inauguration of first Mayor January 5, 1885.


TEMPERATURE INFORMATION


Mean Temperature, 46.5 degrees.


Highest Recorded, 102 degrees.


Lowest Recorded, 27 degrees.


LOCATION


Situated on the beautiful Charles River, nine miles west of Boston, the rich and fertile plain on which stands the present city of Waltham was called "Eden Vale" by the earliest settlers. Altitude 67 feet, total area 13.56 square miles.


INCORPORATED


In 1738 this area, which then comprised the Western Precinct of the town of Watertown was incorporated as a separate town and named Waltham, but it was not until the establishment of a paper mill in 1788 that it became anything more than an agricultural community.


GORE PLACE


One of the early Governors of Massachusetts, Christopher Gore (1805) built a magnificent house with bricks brought from England, and surrounded it with imported shrubs and trees. This house and the extensive grounds were used for several years as the property of the Waltham Country Club. The property, especially the house and im- mediate grounds, is being restored to its former grandeur and historic attractiveness by the present owners, the Gore Place Society.


LYMAN HOUSE (THE VALE)


This magnificent and unsurpassed country residence has been pre- sented to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities through the generosity of five children of the late Arthur and Susan C Lyman, descendants of the original Theodore Lyman. It is located on Lyman Street at its junction with Beaver Street. Erected in 1793 by Theodore Lyman, a Boston merchant, "The Vale" was designed by the noted American architect Samuel McIntire. Several features of the spacious building reveal Bulfinch's influence on the great Salem archi- tect of that early day, McIntire. The house is a central motif of an estate of 36 acres with spacious lawns, old and modern greenhouses and many attractive shrubs, flowering vines, plants and trees, some of the latter being 200 year old specimens. The place is open for inspection from early June until the middle of September with a nominal charge of admission to help maintain the interesting estate.


BOYS' CLUB OF WALTHAM


One of the nation's finest youth centers occupies 38.000 square feet of land on Exchange Street, a short distance from Central Square. Valued at an estimated million dollars, the Waltham Boys' Club was erected for $680,000 on a "self-help" plan designed to make two dollars do the work of three. Citizens raised $190.000 in a capital fund drive and by self-help qualified for matching dollar assistance from the Charles Hay- den Foundation to complete the facility, which also serves as a com- munity center. The building. dedicated on November 24, 1952, is de- signed for a membership. of 2,000 boys. It contains the William H. Nichols Gymnasium, the Thomas Worcester Auditorium, a flush-deck swimming pool with spectator facilities for 300, games and crafts rooms.


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a dining room with full kitchen for civic meetings and a conference room. Special activities are made available to girls, as well as to adult groups, without encroaching upon the boys' schedule. The Boys' Club is a Red Feather agency and supported in part from funds raised by the United Community Services of Greater Boston.


WALTHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY


The Waltham Housing Authority, established in 1948, constructs, manages and maintains housing for families of low income and elderly persons 65 years of age and older. Rentals are based on income and family size, with Veterans preferance for family size units.


At the present time there are 362 units including: Chesterbrook Gardens, 100 apartments; Prospect Terrace, 146 apartments; Dana Court, 32 apartments; Carey Court and Beaver Brook Apartments for the elder- ly, 84 apartments. The Authority is in the planning stages for approxi- mately 50 additional units for the elderly.


Pending establishment of a Redevelopment Agency, the Authority under the State Law, also acts as a Redevelopment Agency and has started one survey under Urban Renewal provisions of the Federal Housing Law.


The Waltham Housing Authority Chairman is Ball Bartlett; Charles A. Lawless is the executive director, and his office is located at 5 Brook- way road, Waltham.


1843 - THE RAILROAD


The Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company was opened for operation as far as Waltham, November 10, 1843 and to travel, December 20, 1843.


BECOMES A CITY


Waltham had outgrown town government, and was incorporated a city on June 2, 1884. The last six decades have seen a rapid increase in the number of homes within its borders, not at all surprising in view of the advantages which Waltham offers both to those who commute to Boston and to those who work near their homes. There are excellent bus lines which connect with the Metropolitan Transit Authority system at several points.


POPULATION


Waltham's population in 1765 was 663; in 1865-6,896; in 1930- 39,247; in 1940, 40,020; in 1945, 43,579; in 1950, 47,187; in 1955, 50,115; with a potential population of approximately 520,000 residing in 29 com- munities that comprise the Waltham Shopping District. It is essentially an industrial city with a very definite shopping center serving many communities which latter form a complete circle about Waltham. Wal- tham is making a substantial growth as a residential city.


TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES


Waltham is situated in the fourth largest metropolitan district, which in itself insures an excellent local market for all kinds of products. It is connected with Boston by two railroad lines, the Massachusetts Central and the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the latter offering excellent rail shipments to the Central, West, Far West and Northern and Canadian points. Motor truck lines add to the ease of quick shipping facilities. Together with the Watertown Branch. these three roads provide ample shipping facilities, with spur tracks available when needed. It is only a short haul by truck to tap the main line of the Boston & Albany Railroad at Newtonville providing quick rail transportation to points South and West. Inter-city bus service is provided by the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co.


1788 - THE FIRST MILL


Paper manufacturing was the chief business of the town in the early days. Here, in 1788, John Boies, taking advantage of the waterpower privileges on the Charles, built a paper mill. This was soon followed by similar mills at the western and eastern boundaries of the town. In 1812 the Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory Company started operations at the site of the large mills of the Waltham Bleachery and Dye Works, Inc. on River Street. In 1813 came the Boston Manufacturing Company, famed the world over as the first complete cotton mill to in- clude both spinning and weaving by power under one roof. The Wal- tham Bleachery and Dye Works, Inc., was established in 1820 as the first bleachery and dye works in the world. Buildings are now occupied by Raytheon Manufacturing Company.


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"WALTHAM, THE PRECISION CITY"


"Waltham, The .Precision City" was for many year called the "Watch City" because the making of fine watches was originally its principal industry. The Waltham Watch Company, one of the largest manufac- turers of watches in the world, made fine watches by machinery as early as 1854. It has now discontinued operations in Waltham and maintains headquarters offices in Chicago, Illinois. A portion of the building is now used by the Waltham Precision Instrument Company, and several other concerns occupy the remainder of the space.


DIVERSITY OF INDUSTRIES


There are 248 industries, service and warehousing firms. Of the 248, there are 233 industries engaged in the manufacture of clocks, pre- cision machinery, jewel bearings, dairy and poultry food, pest exter- minators, mica products, electrical switches, batteries, salesbooks, loose leaf account systems, grinding wheels, rivets, gauges, rayon metering pumps, and radar and electronics, along with hundreds of other products.


AGRICULTURE


Although Waltham has long been known throughout the world as the home of high grade industries engaged in the manufacture of quality products, it has always maintained its position as an important agricul- tural center. Here are located the headquarters of the Middlesex County Farm Bureau. In the beautiful section of the city known as Cedar Hill is located the Waltham Field Station, a branch of the University of Massachusetts. Experiments are in progress in vegetable gardening, fruit growing and ornamental horticulture. Civic pride is strong among the residents of Waltham, and at the Field Station our citizens receive help and free information regarding the maintenance of their lawns and shrubbery and the general upkeep of the home grounds.




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