EXCERPT FROM -
Morse Code: ‘Rock ‘n’ roll’ diner
By Steve Morse, Globe Staff
Boston Globe
Calendar Section, pg. 25, City Edition
May 4, 1995

"...

The 400-capacity, split-level diner/club is about a mile from the Centrum, tucked behind a factory complex known as Northworks. It’s on 95 Pescott St. (right off Grove Street) and it’s well worth the effort to locate it.

If the word funky was invented for anything, it was invented for Ralph’s. When you walk in and turn left, you’re in the “rock ‘n’ roll diner”, originally built in the ‘30s in Worcester’s Chadwick Square, then moved to its present site by owners Ralph and Carol Moberly in 1979. It’s an ultra-cool, burger-and-chili joint that serves food until 1 a.m.

If you turn right, you move into Ralph’s grotto-like bar inside a former factory building (great idea to attach the diner to this warehouse-like space, which had been a fire station for the factory). The crowd, ranging from twentysomethings on up, is quite friendly, especially by most urban standards. And the bohemian-favored room is filled with murals painted by local artists, as well as bric-a-brac like an antique phone booth and various yard sale goodies.

Upstairs is the concert room, which has a laid-back, Local 186 feel, but with many more eccentric furnishings. There are mannequin legs jutting from a wall; rock stickers plastered to a window (from the bands Spinning Jenny and Grinning Broadly, as well as from the Newbury Comics chain); and even a couple of motorcycles hanging from the ceiling (though this isn’t a biker bar)...Boston acts Jennifer Tryin, Cobalt 60 and Letters to Cleo have all played there; as have such national bands as Alice In Chains, Living Color and the Smithereens."

148 Grove St
Worcester MA 01605
508.753.9543

"Eat at Ralph's & Live Forever"


Welcome Bands:

For General Booking please contact us at: ralphsbooking@gmail.com or Message us on our myspace, www.myspace.com/ralphsdiner

In your email, please make sure to include all band links, including your myspace page. Please Keep Bio's brief.

For Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Extreme Metal, or Grindcore: Please contact Metal Chris at www.myspace.com/metalthursday

Set times are at 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm, and 12:30am. Bands MUST be able to play a 45 minute set unless other wise specified. SET TIMES ARE FINAL. Calendar on myspace does not reflect the set order.

On the night of your show, come down early, see a new band or have a burger. Please don't be late, but if you are going to be late, call the club: 508-753-9543. Bands please do not ask for payment before 1 AM.

LOAD IN is @ 8PM. There is no backline. Any sound related questions, tech specs etc, please contact Sound Guy Steve at: s.merrowsound@yahoo.com.

Once booked, Please make time to come to the club and promote your show. Hang up posters, hand out flyers, etc...

Please email your show flyer to: ralphsbooking@gmail.com so we can use it to promote online.

Thanks!!!
Ralphs Rock Diner

BEER LISTING:

Bottles:

- Amstel Light
- Blue Moon
- Bud/Bud Light
- Cider Jack
- Coors Light
- Corona
- Guiness Pub Can
- Heineken
- Michelob Ultra
- Mike’s Lemonade
- Miller High Life
- Miller Light
-Narragansett/Light - Old Speckled Hen (upstairs only)
- Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Rolling Rock
- Sam Adams/Sam Light
- Sierra Nevada

Drafts:

- Bud/Bud Light
- Bass
- Guiness
- Harpoon IPA (upstairs only)
- Newcastle