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Whatever Happened To... Jimbo's

South in Braintree
Staff Writer The Patriot Ledger
Published 3:47 p.m. ET Feb. 11, 2020 Updated 3:54 p.m. ET
Feb. 11, 2020

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WHAT IS IT?

Jimbo's South opened in 1985 at the corner of

Franklin and West Street in Braintree at a site
long occupied by restaurants. From 1957 to the
early 1980s, it was the home of the Braintree 5
Corners Chinese Restaurant. Before that, the
Allison House occupied the property, and before
that, it was a restaurant named Anne Standish.

LAST WE HEARD

Jimbo's South's original owner was Charles

Doulos, whose family operated the legendary
Jimmy's Harborside on Northern Avenue in
Boston for three generations. Jimbo's was
intended to be a less formal version of the Boston
seaside eatery. The Boston restaurant closed after
80 years in 2006. A short circuit in a sign
sparked a 1996 fire that caused $40,000 in
damage and briefly closed the Braintree
restaurant. The 240-seat Jimbo's hosted comedy
shows for more than a decade. The Doulos family
sold the restaurant to Christopher DeCloux of
New Hampshire, who renamed it Jimbo's Steak
and Fin. A few years later, in 2008, the
restaurant abruptly closed.

WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?

The property remained vacant for a few years

before the building was torn down and replaced
by the TD Bank branch that now occupies the
site.

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