Ryder Street Extension

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Ryder Street Extension

 
MacMillan Pier Bus Stop

The closest thing Provincetown has to a bus terminal is this little shelter, built in 2009 by the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority primarily for the benefit of riders on its Flex buses between Provincetown and Star Market, Harwich, and its Shuttle service. You can see the rooftop solar collector in the photo at right, used to power nighttime lighting. The shelter was designed by John MacPhee of Define Design in West Yarmouth. It’s one of seven such shelters built along the Flex route, with financing from the National Park Service. As it happens, buses of the Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company arrive nearby from Hyannis, but their patrons usually head to a different building. • Map ¶ Posted 2013-08-20

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Mojo’s

This guilty pleasure stand may have a transient look to it, but in fact it’s one of the town’s “legacy” dining spots, going on 40 years in 2013. Why, Mojo’s has been around longer even than Napi’s. It has been called a hot dog stand, a clam shack and a fry joint. The single-spaced, double-column, two-page menu runs to well over 100 items, but I usually stop at the jalapeño fries, which can sustain me for about 15 hours without need of another meal.

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Fishermen’s Wharf (also, Cabral’s Wharf) | Provincetown Marina | Cape Cod Oil’s Gas Dock | 9 Ryder Seaside Dining

It was at the wharves that women parted from their husbands. It was to the wharves that they returned trembling when a fishing vessel, gone too long, returned with its flag at half mast — if it returned at all. The women of Provincetown, who also faced the sea, were often overlooked when men accounted for the heroism of the fishery. So perhaps some cosmic leveling explains the fact that the women received their waterfront tribute, They Also Faced the Sea, by Norma Holt (d 2013) and Ewa Nogiec, a decade before the unveiling of the Provincetown Fishermen’s Memorial project. The installation certainly catches most visitors’ eyes, as it can be seen prominently on arrival and departure from MacMillan Wharf. But it is not Fishermen’s Wharf only distinction.

The original pier shed of Sklaroff’s Wharf, forerunner of Fishermen’s Wharf. [Link] 

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John E. Bennett Memorial Pier

The name of this small pier commemorates Capt. John E. Bennett (1941-2002), the chairman of the town Conservation Commission, owner and skipper of the schooner Hindu and founder of the Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta and Yacht Race. Born in Medford, Bennett was in the first graduating class of the Cape Cod Community College, founded in 1961. Having raced the Hindu in the Gloucester Schooner Festival, Bennett was inspired to organize a like event in Provincetown, where he lived.

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Vacuum Pump Station

Hiding under Ye Olde Cape Codde shell is the heart of a 21st-century sewage disposal system: a 6,000-gallon tank, two wastewater pumps and four vacuum pumps that essentially suck large slugs of wastewater through PVC connector pipes from domestic valve pits all around town and then propel it out to the treatment plant at 200 Route 6. It began operating in 2003. • Map ¶ Posted 2013-08-20

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Restrooms

Humble? Certainly. But nonetheless among the most popular places downtown. The restrooms are kept orderly by attendants on the town payroll, one of whom was photographed by Mischa Richter in his poignant, evocative chronicling of local residents. The portrait was accepted into the municipal art collection in 2010. • Map • Posted 2013-08-20