He compares the Cambridge Street of today to the cleaner, neater Cambridge Street in his photographs.
"Along this street, we had a baker, a butcher, a drugstore on every corner," he says.
D'Onofrio too says she remembers the pleasure of shopping along Cambridge Street.
"You'd go out to shop," D'Onofrio says, "And you'd go to one place for your dairy, your butter and eggs, another for your bread, another for your meat, and you'd always see your friends along the way."
At his restaurant, Mitchell attempts to preserve the convenience and comfort of the way the area used to be.
"There are old people who have been coming here for a million years," he says. "Unlike McDonald's, it's kind of your place, your little slice of history, of memorabilia, and it's real. People feel that they can come in here and see their friends, see the same waitresses."
"When people come here with their children and their grandchildren," he says, "I think it's almost like they're coming back to a place they remember--like coming home."
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