YOUR COMMENTS

So many years there and so many memories...ill miss it!
- MissingYou, Manchester

Mike, it it were advantageous for Trader Joe's or Whole Foods to put a store in Bedford, they would. They, like every other company, are interested in profit and if they can bilk you and some of your friends with your median $80k/year income, I'm sure they'd be happy to.
- William Smith, Manchester, NH

Many good old memories from the late 70's working for Fern Genest and putting the mints on the pillows.

Especially when Upper Falls was built and the Key Club came to town.

Let's leave it at that.
- Would You Like Your Bed Turned Down?, Goffstown NH

Mike, I have seen your posts before and that has to be the 3rd time ive seen you post how much the "median income" of Bedford is. No one really cares what you make or what the median income of your little town is. Get over yourself. Your living on land that most cows did there business on for generations. …..What irony
You see the problem is that you guys could build "upscale" establishments but there isn’t enough of the "well to do" people in your town to justify high priced (im sorry over priced) establishments.
Beside the point most of the people might be able to afford to shop some of these places, but when you take into account a lot of those people in your town over paid on those half a million dollar (or more in some cases) mortgage they bought, they cant possibly afford to live in an overpriced out and shop at a over priced store. Good luck with that!
- ryan, manchester

On a whim, my family and I stayed there in October for a weekend event in Manchester. It has deteriorated so much we had to complain about several issues and ended up getting a free nights stay at a closed hotel. Gotta Love It.
- John M, Penacook, NH

It was still open?
- Jason, Londonderry

RIP Wayfarer.

Here's a great history of it: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/23/travel/rituals-every-four-years-a-star-is-reborn.html?pagewanted=all
- Jim, Bedford

I suppose something as visionary as a riverwalk including the mill, lined with a hotel and upscale merchants, cafe-bakeries, an anchor like Trader Joes or Whole Foods and the like would be out of the question?

After all, with a median income of $80K, that might actually be successful in Bedford.

I suppose we'll get another drugstore instead. You can never have too many drugstores.
- Mike R., Bedford

The end of an era of the 70's-80's of the grander NH lifestyle. I guess time
will only tell what we end up with as businesses deal with cut-throat competition and narrower profit margins while dealing with cost efficiencies and a ROI to stockholders.

No matter how much change we have in the world or for that part in our backyards, things don't get better, just a little worse as we lose part of our identity to big and boxy buildings with a hollow feel and one looking like another no matter if your Deluth, Minnesotta or in Bedford, New Hampshire.
- Jack Alex, Manchester