Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  Bourne locals are pleased that the Bridge View Grill is open again. Locally owned and managed, they are affiliated with Monument Beach Pizza, down in Mo Beach, as in "Give me mo' pizza!" Like many places, they took a sabbatical during the pandemic, but they are back in business now, and business is good. Tonight they have a special feature. They will have the band playing on their deck from 4 PM to 7 PM tonight. High Attitude will help you laugh at all the tourists crawling over the bridge while you drink cold beer. They are just back in business, but have a good pub menu which I have sampled several times. Yes, I have salad sometimes.  Any place on Cape Cod has to have seafood. 100 Trowbridge Road, open year round.  Come in and get stuffed!

 Is there room on Cape Cod for another fast food heavyweight? Would a White Castle succeed here, or is there some local mojo thing that would kill it before it grows? Sure, there is war in Europe and gas is $5 a gallon, but this is important . I took the liberty of photoshopping a White Castle into the Belmont Circle rotary in Bourne, but it could go anywhere on the Cape. White Castle is a Kansas-based hamburger franchise chain that is most commonly associated with New York. You mostly find them in the Midwest, but you most likely have seen them in New York. There was one in Boston for a while, but the Great Depression killed it. It's a falafel place now. Famous for their Slider mini-burgers, they are as good a bet as Hardee's or Carl Jr's to be #4 if you started listing prominent hamburger chains. However, the gap between WC and the Big 3 (McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's) is precipitous. White Castle has 377 locations. McDonald's has 36,000. It's bet...

  Boston Harbor just recently hosted the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series , although they didn't actually use cliffs. One would think that cliffs are essential for cliff diving, but not in Massachusetts. Nobody died, it must have made some money, it brought great visibility to an obscure sport and it made at least one local writer think of possibilities. Since cliffs aren't really needed for cliff diving (which, if you use the technical terms, is actually High Diving), and since the event seemed somewhat successful, it does make your author wonder what other Massachusetts venues could host such an event. One place stands out above all the others. The Bourne Bridge gets the duke over her Sagamore sister because she has better parking. It's not as crazy as it sounds, although it is pretty close. A high dive has a technical definition, involving at least one somersault and being able to exit the water under your own power. There is also something about not making a big splas...