Waltham Watch Company

Edward took this photo of the Watch Factory building from a vantage point at the Mount Feake Cemetery across the Charles River in 1962. “You can see the pilings of what formerly was the dance hall and boat house, Nuttings on the Charles, that burned down. The river, in the winter, sometimes froze completely from Nuttings to Forest Grove quite a distance away. It's hard to believe, but at times a truck was placed on the ice to plow the snow so skaters could skate all the way. I skated it many times.
    Although I was a good ice skater, I never became a passable roller skater. I tried roller skating in Nuttings when it was no longer a dance hall, but allowed roller skating.
    I had to quit that pastime because I kept bumping into the pillars in the huge room and falling to the floor when I tried to stop or turn. That floor gave one quite a burn besides putting a hole in one's trousers.”