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The Martha s Vineyard Times
This Was Then: Superintendent of streets
Keeping the streets clean in Vineyard Haven in the early 1940s was no work for slouches.
George Sears and Mike Fontes, Vineyard Haven, circa 1940s. Courtesy Chris Baer
“You didn’t have tractors, you didn’t have the machinery that you got today,” recalled the late Basil Welch of Vineyard Haven in a 1982 recording. “We had an old 1936 ton-and-a-half dump truck, and we put a plow on it that had to be pumped up and released by hand. We used to go out and plow snow with that thing. You had to put chains on the back wheels, and that was in the days when before you plowed the streets, you shoveled the sidewalks. [The Tisbury Highway Department] used to hire the school kids to shovel the sidewalks away from Main Street, but we used to shovel the sidewalks on Main Street and then plow the snow on Main Street. Then we had to shovel all the snow that was on the street into the trucks and cart it al
“Why would they come in and destroy the house like that, I have no idea at all,” he told NBC 6.
King believes about $10,000 worth of personal items were stolen, including laptops, a collection of coins and jewelry.
“Man, I’m feeling kind of torn up inside,” he said. “A deep hurt.”
King said his house was tented Thursday night because workers had filled the house with poisonous gas to get rid of termites, making it dangerous for anyone inside.
“It could’ve killed [the thieves]] on site,” King said.
He noticed a barred window wide open Friday morning. King noted that in the eight years he s lived in the house, he s never been victim to something like this.