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100 YEARS EXPLORING LIFE, 188&-1988 



Main Street, Falmouth, circa 1932. Photograph by Alfred F. Huettner, MBL Archives. 



to hire a taxi for twenty-five cents — to see a twenty-five cent movie. Others 

 walked into Falmouth for the big show. Once a group persuaded the 

 absent-minded Robert Chambers to drive them over. Afterwards the group 

 disbanded because some wanted to walk back and others decided to get an 

 ice cream cone first. Chambers got a ride with another group, forgetting his 

 own cai\ The next day he notified the police that someone had stolen his 

 vehicle. Soon they reported back to him that it was found in front of the 

 movie theater and that he had better move it immediately since it was 

 illegally parked. 



Woods Hole does not ofi'er much variety, but it does off"er simple 

 diversions. For a number of years after Prohibition, people gathered to 

 watch the Dude train roll in from Boston, for example. It was always 

 amusing to see who had enjoyed the bm' car a little too much this time. In 

 Woods Hole, one really does not need much more in tlie way of entertain- 

 ment. Scientists are supposed to stay in their labs working, emerging only 

 on occasion for such breaks as mentioned above, are they not? They do at 

 any rate. The fact that some types of scientific work allow breaks may help 



