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You've been able to get something to eat at one Harvard Square corner for more than 100 years now
By adamg on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:52pm
The Cambridge Historical Commission has been digitizing old photos, maps and documents, among them, this 1918 photo of the corner of Boylston Street (now JFK Street) and Mt. Auburn Street in Harvard Square, with this caption:
Lunch where we all ate. Connor. Betty (sic) known as Mothers, or greasy spoon. Cambridge. Mass. 40 & 32 Boughton St. 1918
Today, there's a Tasty Burger at that spot.
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Comments
Boughton Street?
The former name of JFK Street was Boylston.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/9/29/boylston-st-renamed-to-hono...
You're right, it should've
You're right, it should've been Boylston in the Flickr record -- looks like it was a transcription typo. It's since been corrected!
- Emily, CHC Archivist
Bears don't usually go there any more
It's too crowded
And there's still a garage there
...even though you can no longer park your car in it.
(waits for inevitable Harvard Yard dialect jokes...)
Tangent: hey folks, some of us have been...
...getting busy updating the map of Boston Boundary Stones.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=1tVpPT0ptWYbyP3axbkRoLcqz...
Here's my informal rules for the game:
* Don't edit the monuments as "confirmed" unless you've personally seen them.
* Please post a picture (or three) and take from as close to the same angle as the photos in the 1896 book as you can.
* Annotate your edits with your initials, and the date.