Collector’s secrets: Stories from a Massachusetts license plate expert
At one point Stewart Berg had collected 100,000 license plates. Stewart Berg smiles next to only a few boxes from his license plate collection, which is partially stored in a Cambridge warehouse. Courtesy of Stewart Berg.
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As a little kid in the 70s, Stewart Berg visited the same street in West Roxbury where one house held garage sales every other Saturday morning during the two to three months of summer when the weather stays balmy, and he always sang the same question: “got any old plates?”
License plates, that is.
“I must have bought like 100 plates from this lady. She was right across from this church on Center Street,” said Berg, a local Massachusetts license plate historian and the state’s preeminent collector. “I just remember not hesitating to go there the first thing every Saturday morning to see what kind of new stuff she had … how she was getting some of the stuff and finding
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Roadwork has begun on Shelby Drive, which is expected to last until the fall. The project consists of installing new storm drain, sewer main and water main along Shelby Drive from Sunset Drive to just south of Stanley Steamer Drive. Additional work includes the installation of new asphalt pavement, curb and gutter, a shared-use path on the north side of Shelby Drive and the reconstruction of driveway entrances along the project corridor. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
For years, Shelby Drive was one that many local motorists avoided, and when that wasn’t possible, proceeded with caution. That should soon change.
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Once home to a toxic industrial plant, Yorklyn has reshaped into a bustling Delaware destination perfect for tourists and locals alike.
More than a decade after National Vulcanized Fiber declared bankruptcy and shuttered its last remaining plant along Red Clay Creek in Yorklyn, the fortunes of this quiet village in northern Delaware, no longer tied to a toxic industry, now turn on the pocketbooks of day tourists and urban exiles eager for an escape out to the country.
Approaching the village on Creek Road, as the bends of the pavement leap across rapids and over historic railroad tracks, Yorklyn’s natural beauty almost conceals its sordid industrial past, when not that long ago fish were unable to survive in the water. Where once stood rows of brick and steel industrial buildings are now ruins, many reclaimed by nature or removed by the state, along with hundreds of thousands of pounds of heav
Somewhere around 20 years ago, I went to a company get-together in Estes Park, Colorado. Yes,
The Shining. We actually stayed in the hotel and had various meetings and activities there. We also had some free time.
I have to say that I feel like I m more of a rock guy than a radio guy, so when the after-hours chatter turned to radio things, I got a little bored. I decided to go sit out on the front porch of the Stanley Hotel (next to a Stanley Steamer) and have a smoke. It was just me and the dark.
Now you need to know that the Stanley Hotel basically sits at the bottom of a bowl with a horseshoe of trees that curves around the back and lines the sides. It certainly is a vision, and it s easy to see how one of the world s scariest stories took place on the grounds. Back to our story.
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