Weathervane Seafood Restaurants closes four locations

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January 26, 2015, 04:26:01 PM Last Edit: January 26, 2015, 04:28:00 PM by retailisking
Three locations in Maine and one in New Hampshire shut their doors for good
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/26/weathervane-closes-3-maine-restaurants/

HannafordHearts

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January 26, 2015, 04:36:15 PM
Wow, I had no idea that there were even other Weathervane restaurants. A very long time ago, there was a Weathervane restaurant in East Greenbush, NY. It later became a place in a similar vein called Fisherman's Cove, and has now been sitting vacant and boarded up for over 8 years.

retailisking

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January 26, 2015, 05:06:27 PM
They've been steadily closing locations over the last decade or so. There were a couple locations in Massachusetts as well, including one on the strip in Lynnfield. The Sanford, Maine location closed a while back. This development is really inconvenient for me as I have a sizable balance on my Weathervane gift cards!

BillyGr

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January 27, 2015, 02:30:58 PM
Quote from: HannafordHearts on January 26, 2015, 04:36:15 PM
Wow, I had no idea that there were even other Weathervane restaurants. A very long time ago, there was a Weathervane restaurant in East Greenbush, NY. It later became a place in a similar vein called Fisherman's Cove, and has now been sitting vacant and boarded up for over 8 years.

There were two others in the area as well - one on Wolf Road (which was an old Ponderosa and is now a 99) and one just south of Saratoga Spa state Park on Route 9 (which had been empty for some time after Weathervane closed and I am not sure what may be there now or what it was originally).  I believe Saratoga was around for a couple years after the other two, but don't remember for sure when it closed.

Also note that the East Greenbush one was the original Howard Johnson's in the area.

I think they had somewhere around 15 or so at their peak - I know when they closed the ones here they blamed the high cost of transporting fresh seafood the distance to this area from the shore areas.

JimSawhill

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January 31, 2015, 09:34:41 AM
Is the Dover location, which was an old A&W Root beer stand, still open? When my parents and I went to Maine, we ate at either Sanford or Dover, NH.
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