My Dad always wanted to open up a laundromat / bar. I couldn’t even find a laudromat cafe in the area. The closest that I could find were in Frisco and Seattle, so the market is wide open, Dad.

Anyway, do you know anything at all about Quincy, MA? “It’s wicked awesome” doesn’t count.

• It’s old: settled in 1625.
• It’s small 26.9 sq. mi. (10.11 mi. of which is under water)
• It’s full: Population is over 88,000 people, 69,000 of which are honkeys, and 18 are Sea Monkeys
• It’s 12 miles from Boston, and 223 miles from New York, and it’s happy that way.
• It’s bordered by Braintree, Milton, Randolph, Boston, Weymouth, and the Atlantic Ocean.
• It has 9 boroughs: Hough’s Neck, Squantum, West Quincy, North Quincy, Merrymount, Germantown, Wollaston, Quincy Point, and Quincy Center.
• It has 12 grade schools, 5 middle schools, 2 high schools and 2 colleges.
• It had the 1st railroad in the U.S.: further research proved that this may be incorrect. We may be #9…comin’ down Chicago line. If the train goes off the track, do you want your money back? One pidayda 2 pidayda, 3 pidayda foah.)
• The 1st Productive Iron Blast furnace in the U.S., Furnace Brook, was established in 1643.
• We have 5 libraries, including the Thomas Crane Library, which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson: he’s famous with architect geeks.
• and…Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana..Robin! to the Bookmobile!
• We have the 712 mile marker on the old Boston-to-Plymouth Highway, which was one of the oldest roads in the United States. It was built in 1639. I had no idea Plymouth was so far away. Man, I should check my facts.
• 2 Presidents were born and lived here. Two. Count ‘em. (John Adams, 1 & John Quincy Adams, 2.) and they’re buried in the basement of the United First Parish Church. It’s true. Ms. Cleo told me.
• Did I mention that John Hancock is buried here, too? Oh, yea. It’s true. He is totally dead, and we got him.
• We have the USS Salem which is the world’s only fully preserved heavy cruiser. It becomes the world’s only fully preserved heavy haunted cruisers around Halloween every year.
• You’ve heard of Kilroy? He was in Quincy first. The slogan “Kilroy was here” originated in Quincy. Yes it did. I have proof
• We have the Nantucket, the only operational lightship in the U.S. which is stationed in Marina Bay.
• We have had 88 quarries in Quincy that supplied all the granite for all the rich Boston folks. 88. That’s a lot of holes.
• We have 4 MBTA train stops and 16 bus routes
• We’re a nuclear target because of our shipbuilding capacity.
• We launched the first nuclear-powered surface vessel, in 1961, the USS Long Beach.
• We gave a commuter boat
• We have radio for the elderly or elderly at heart.
• We have a hospital
• We are the mother f’n home of Dunkin Donuts, of which there are 13 here (that’s almost 1 per square mile).
• Howard Johnson’s started in Quincy. I found the granite marker in the Wollaston MBTA parking lot one day.
• And we are the home of the Quincy Claw.

So now that you know Quincy’s so cool…you can move in right now before it’s totally and utterly polluted by the God damned Quarry Hills nightmare.

There are some nice photos of the impact, some more lies, and an award.

Man I just got so pissed off from all of this research, that I e-mailed the mayor with this:

I’ve been reading a lot about the pollution in Quarry Hills, and I have noticed that between this project and the 1200 unit projects going up on top of Quarry street that Quincy does not intend to protect it’s citizens from big business or their pollution. It seems we have gone from a city with a small towm feel to a toxic dumping ground for anyone with some cash.

Thank you for your time. I understand that you are a busy man.

I need help…

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