The Salem Strangler
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Major McGleish's was a very popular bar back in the day. Back in the eighties uh when I worked here, Majors looked completely different. А на бе. Seriously, this is where the line would go. All the way down here. I mean not every night, but most nights, yeah. The line would be like right where I'm walking, two or three people deep, mostly Salem State College students. Busy place. It was a place to be. That was the bouncer, doorman. It was most Friday and Saturday nights. That door would be closed when I'd be standing directly behind this door. Oh wow. Places changed. Quite a bit. Yeah, it's crazy coming back here after all this time. people refer to majors like chairs, like norm, everybody knows your name.
You would know everybody sitting here, you'd know the bartenders, you know the people in the kitchen. This was all the same. Actually These are the same tables. I remember Claire sitting right there. Yeah.
Sure.
This just it just never goes away. All I did. We'll show up to work one night. And now I'm connected to this. For the rest of my life. What happened to her? Shouldn't have happened.
My name is James Gravel and I am Claire's younger brother by two years. I'm one of six with mom and dad, so there's eight of us total in a small home and Claire's uh three out of six. We're just a tight knit. Irish Catholic family. But did everything with family. We went to St. Michael's, which was a Catholic school there. She was very feisty, very feisty, um, redhead, had a lot of friends, knew what she wanted in life, would fight for it, would fight for her family. Player was uh ray of sunshine and a breath of fresh air. She just had a very outgoing personality about her. But tell me about her going off to college. I was somewhat surprised she stayed somewhat close to home because Salem is only forty, forty five minutes from North Andover.
If you've heard of Salem, Massachusetts, the odds are the first thing that'll come to mind are the witch trials that happened in the sixteen hundreds. Nineteen eighty-six in Salem, Massachusetts, was kind of a really interesting time because there was this transition going on where Salem was starting to recognize that even though this is an unfortunate thing that happened, it's part of our culture. It has become a huge um tourism industry. The witchy thing is what brings people here, and Salem is definitely a tourist town. Nineteen eighty-six was a big year. Top Gun was a was the big movie. Very good year. The Celtics won their championship. For the Celtics today, it was the sweet sixteenth NBA championship.
Gas was under a dollar. Claire, she loved all sorts of genres of music. The album Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf. Duran Duran Duran Duran was her favorite band. I remember Claire introducing me to you two. She's like, Oh no, you gotta listen to this band, this band from Ireland, because she was fiercely proud of her Irish heritage. She loved you too. Claire and I went to a lot of concerts. We saw Rush, I don't know how many times. We saw Journey, I don't know how many times. If it was up to Claire, she would have married Steve Perry from Journey because she absolutely loved his hair. Claire Gravel. She was 20 years old. She was a student at Salem State College. Claire, I got involved with a lot of stuff there at Salem State.
And ended up working for National Brail Press. She used to talk about just how amazing it was all the time to see, you know, have people with disabilities, the way that that uh things were made for them, whether it be elevator buttons or trying to give them greater access. Claire liked to go to Major McCleaches. It was her hang out, her friends hang out. It was just a typical college bar.
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