Big Fire at the Harborside

Man, just what you need, another fire story. This time, I was headed downstreet for a night of drinking at the Black Buoy in mid May 1977. I parked my Ford Maverick in front of the 5&10, about 10 o'clock, and by chance ran into a friend of mine. He was headed to the Buoy also, so we walked down the sidewalk and past the Harborside Restaurant, owned by Eddie Ryder. Thats when I noticed a weird grease odor which seem to coming from the restaurant. The place was lit up, looked kinda open with two or three guys hanging out inside. I remember remarking to my friend about the smell as we walked pass the restaurant, and then thought no more about it. After downing some shots and beers for about an hour, the fire whistle went off on the roof of the Municipal Building. We noticed some activity around Main Street and some dude came in and mentioned a fire inside the Harborside. After about a half hour the smoke from the fire got kinda heavy inside the Buoy, so we and about a half dozen others stumbled across the street to watch the fire. The restaurant, a bakery and Montgomery Wards were all on fire. We watched from the sidewalk across the street for about an hour. Then my friend remembered he had left his hat in the Black Buoy, I don't know why the fuck he was wearing a hat for in May, but we walked back, but by this time the bar was full of smoke and closed up for the night. So we had to finish drinking at the Sandbar that night. The big Easter Sunday fire would follow in almost the exact same place in 1994 and take out the hardware store among others, but man, that's another story.
Harborside was on the right by the two men