industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles garbel. hometown heroes who for some reason though they could probably go anywhere take their skills and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner, today s special, a tribute to the old european immigrant culture of the area, the new england boiled dinner. so i hear rumors of corned beef and cabbage, is that right? charles: yeah, we do every week we do a corned beef and cabbage dinner. anthony: slowly cooked corned beef, boiled potatoes, steamed cabbage. wow, that s a beast. awesome, thank you. how long have you been here? charles: two years. anthony: are you from the area? charles: yeah i grew up here, i ve been coming here since a kid. went through a few owners then came up for sale and decided to give it a shot. anthony: generally speaking, who are your customers? charles: most of them are retirees, they ve been coming since they were 30. anthony: and this, you don t see so much anymore
dino-era homemade pies and lots of them. all baked on premises. raspberry cream pie for me, thank you. this is not something that we see a lot of. old school pie like that and this number of them. charles: yeah. everything is made here. and they re all the original recipes from the 60s. the index cards are so old, they re all faded yellow. anthony: this is exotic for me. charles: really? anthony: oh, yeah. how s business? charles: it s getting better. the drug problem has started to really get rampant. took over may 1st, 2012, and by the end of that year i was broken into four times. it wasn t just me that was broken into, it was multiple businesses time after time. i came in one morning to open up, and i actually had a guy in front of the register and he got up, pulled a knife out. i realized it really wasn t worth anything over a knife. anthony: i think what you re doing here is terrific. i mean, where a man can go and get a good hot open turkey sandwich and good slice o
again and again all over the country, i keep running into situations like this where industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles garbel, hometown heroes who for some reason though they could go anywhere, take their skills, and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner, today s special, a tribute to the old european immigrant culture of the area, the new england boiled dinner. so i hear rumors of corned beef and cabbage, is that right? yeah, we do every week we do a corned beef and cabbage dinner. slowly cooked corned beef, boiled potatoes, steamed cabbage. wow, that s a beast. awesome. thank you. how long have you been here? two years. are you from the area? i grew up here, been coming through here since a kid. went threw a few owners then came up for sale and decided to give it a shot. generally speaking, who are your customers? most are retirees, they ve been coming since they were 30.
ed: so my father was here, a millwright, a millwright s job is a jack of all trades if you will. if there was something that needed to be repaired. anthony: you could work in a mill and live in a nice home, send your kids to school, make a living all on a mill salary. ed: you bet. anthony: it s unthinkable now almost. what happened to the business? ed: things are going to other countries, but not coming back to the united states. anthony: this town became redundant. ed: correct. anthony: again and again all over the country, i keep running into situations like this where industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles garbel. hometown heroes who for some reason though they could probably go anywhere take their skills and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner, today s special, a tribute to the old
me. charles: really? anthony: oh, yeah. how s business? charles: it s getting better. the drug problem has started to really get rampant. took over may 1st, 2012, and by the end of that year i was broken into four times. it wasn t just me that was broken into, it was multiple businesses time after time. i came in one morning to open up, and i actually had a guy in front of the register and he got up, pulled a knife out. i realized it really wasn t worth anything over a knife. anthony: i think what you re doing here is terrific. i mean, where a man can go and get a good hot open turkey sandwich and good slice of pie, it s a beautiful thing. hey, how s it going? um. who are you? i m val. the orange money retirement squirrel from voya. i represent the money you save for the future. see? we re putting away acorns to show the importance of being organized.