If you grew up in Lynn, you probably remember the Dairy Queen on Broadway. It was a staple. A place where you grabbed a Blizzard after a Little League game right behind the store, cooled off on a hot summer night, or just made a quick stop because, well, it was Dairy Queen. Then, sometime in the early 1990s, it was torn down and replaced by a Walgreens in 1994. Just like that, a Lynn classic was gone.
Massachusetts is home to about 30 locations of Dairy Queen and it looks like the wait is almost over for Lynn.
A “DQ Coming Soon” sign has appeared on the former Santander Bank building at 414 Broadway in Lynn. I was there over the weekend and couldn’t believed what I saw! That puts the new location just down the road from where the original stood at 290 Broadway. More than 30 years later, Broadway is getting its Dairy Queen back…