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In the late 1930s, my mother, Mary Casey, and her sister, Dorothy Canney, and their husbands bravely opened a tea room they called Casey’s Bungalow on Jackson Street. My understanding is that it was in Methuen, but the Jackson Street address suggests it may have been in Lawrence. Since nobody had any money at that time I don’t know where they got the money to open the tea room, as my mother always called it, but it didn’t last a whole long time.They made the mistake of letting their friends “cuff” meals so they soon went broke. I was about four years old, but I do remember it and remember the dining room and The ladies room which I was not supposed to use. Before my family bought it, it was called Flo’s Tea Room run by a single mother, Florence Kavanaugh. The house is still there, but everything around it has changed quite a bit. Curiously, I now live up the street from Casey’s bungalow
Check out Charles Rennie Mackintosh's designs for Miss {Kate] Cranston's Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland. Her Willow Tearooms were restored years ago, so, yes, you can still get an idea of what he and Cranston did, which was basically bring strikingly modern design to Edwardian Scotland. But more importantly, here's the food: https://www.mackintoshatthewillow.com/menus/
In the late 1930s, my mother, Mary Casey, and her sister, Dorothy Canney, and their husbands bravely opened a tea room they called Casey’s Bungalow on Jackson Street. My understanding is that it was in Methuen, but the Jackson Street address suggests it may have been in Lawrence. Since nobody had any money at that time I don’t know where they got the money to open the tea room, as my mother always called it, but it didn’t last a whole long time.They made the mistake of letting their friends “cuff” meals so they soon went broke. I was about four years old, but I do remember it and remember the dining room and The ladies room which I was not supposed to use. Before my family bought it, it was called Flo’s Tea Room run by a single mother, Florence Kavanaugh. The house is still there, but everything around it has changed quite a bit. Curiously, I now live up the street from Casey’s bungalow
Check out Charles Rennie Mackintosh's designs for Miss {Kate] Cranston's Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland. Her Willow Tearooms were restored years ago, so, yes, you can still get an idea of what he and Cranston did, which was basically bring strikingly modern design to Edwardian Scotland. But more importantly, here's the food: https://www.mackintoshatthewillow.com/menus/