![]() Inside, the rustic décor included wagon wheel light fixtures and wood paneled walls. The illuminated Schlitz signs in the windows and Budweiser placard on the roof made it unmistakable. Smack dab in Park Square it was hard to miss the towering stockade fence that surrounded the club or the huge “Hillbilly Ranch” sign complete with tree log lettering. The “Ranch” was not only unique for the live music it brought to the city but also for its radical appearance. At the time, the only club of its kind in the city and perhaps the predecessor to New York’s CBGB’s (initially envisioned as a Country and Bluegrass club where Punk music wound up taking center stage.) For Segalini’s new place the name resulted naturally- he had to name this new venue the “Hillbilly Ranch.” A friend convinced him to turn the place into a music venue, but not just any venue, this would be an outlet for Country and Western and Bluegrass music. By the late fifties, the restaurant had run its course and Segalini was looking for another business to invest in and potentially re-purpose the site where his restaurant was located. Settling in Boston, he opened an Italian restaurant in the years that followed near Stuart and Carver streets in Park Square. In 1939, Frank Segalini came to the United States from a small village in northern Italy in search of the American Dream.
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