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Venerable giant bookstore is moving; West Roxbury, Roslindale both say 'move here!'

By adamg on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 4:03pm

The Globe reported yesterday that Newton's New England Mobile Book Fair is looking for smaller quarters and that it's already scouted out several possible locations, including West Roxbury.

That, of course, got the eye of City Councilor Matt O'Malley (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain), who urged the stored to move to Westie. As an incentive, he said he'd help them unpack.

Not so fast there, says Roslindale Village Main Street, which says the now empty Prescott Building on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square (where Jerusalem Trading used to be) would be perfect for the bookstore. Other Roslindalers have been jumping into the Book Fair's post on the topic to support the idea of the store moving to Roslindale.

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Comments

By Anon on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 5:23pm.

Either Roslindale or W. Roxbury sounds good to me.

I wonder where they are looking in W. Roxbury.

By adamg on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:45pm.

It's still a mostly empty block. No parking, though.

Hmm, plenty of parking at the Spring Street Cafe (the cafe's kind of small, though)

By Anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 8:51am.

I think both Panera & the BurgerFi places are still empty.

By adamg on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 11:35am.

And plenty of parking there.

By In The Know on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 5:33pm.

Panera was still being used as a test kitchen site. Not sure if it still is, but was just a few months back.

Burger Fi is trying to sell it as a pre-populated kitchen/restaurant so the new owner will be a turn-key in.

By anon on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 5:47pm.

My parents started dragging me there almost 20 years ago which in turn got me hooked on reading.

By theszak on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:19pm.

Looking for information about Germantown neighborhood in Boston, where Germantown in Boston is located, how its name came about for this Boston neighborhood, history, interesting neighborhood features, et al. Emphasis... a neighborhood in Boston! Google didn't turn up the information... unless there are better search terms not yet determined.

By Sock_Puppet on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:14pm.

Look for a brewery

By adamg on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 6:47pm.

Good guess, but where would the brewery have been?

Germantown was in West Roxbury, along Grove Street, towards Dedham. Where the Deutsches Altenheim still is.

By theszak on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 7:32pm.

A bit more information turned up
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/61c12e/looking_for_information_...

By Waquiot on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 8:39am.

Adam is right. No, there are no set boundaries, since most people who lived there when it was actually called that are dead, but my gut is that the intersection Grove and Washington Streets would be the center.

Now it is called "the Incineration Zone" by the locals.

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 9:20am.

W . that was Middle East peoples turf.

By Waquiot on Sun, 03/26/2017 - 7:10pm.

Along with the Lebanese.

The Abbouds were by where the Pleasant is when they left the South End.

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 9:30am.

Nearby though, at one time ,
West Roxbury Liederkranz, , 46 Rockland street, West Roxbury,

By Sock_Puppet on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 8:25pm.

Near the corner of Bismarck and Germania. You think Haffenreffer is an Irish name?

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 9:22am.

http://www.jphs.org/victorian/bostons-lost-breweries.html

© 1997-2017 Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Box 302924 · Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130-0053 · http://www.jphs.org

By Felicity on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 7:10pm.

Quincy has a Germantown
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown_(Quincy,_Massachusetts)

The German Consulate has lots of info on individual businesses
http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/03__Consulates/Boston/05/__Are...

By theszak on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 5:30am.

How do you get the entire link's characters included and live! in the previous contribution time stamped Fri, 03/24/2017 - 7:10pm?... the tags didn't work at "More information about text formats" "Compose tips Text Formats" http://www.universalhub.com/filter/tips

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 11:05am.

The Germantown neighborhood sits on a peninsula surrounded by the Town River and Rock Island Cove, and its residents express gratitude for their homes so close to the water.

"People pays thousands of dollars rent to live on the ocean," said Malone, who has lived for about 12 years in the affordable housing run by Quincy Housing Authority.
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By MrZipnotloggedin on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 10:48pm.

There was a German Lutheran Church in Roslindale, Augustus Avenue I think. Demoed about 10 years ago. It's mentioned in Anthony Sanmarco's book on Roslindale. Boston Landmarks Commission has a report on it that may have more background.

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 8:23am.

The breweries are the key. There was a club off Boylston street, Danforth street I believe , that was the called the Shul-Verein that moved to Walpole, ( see link ,http://www.germanclub.org/sommerfest, check it out ) There were all sort of clubs around with German type names, and there is a place in West Roxbury, Deutsches Altenheim , ( https://www.germancentre.org/about-us/)>. Check them out for more detail, all my German amigos are gone. Auf wiedersehen,

By In The Know on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 5:36pm.

Congratulations on your completely successful hijacking of this thread on a bookstore with a totally off-topic question about "Germantown."

At least it wasn't a rank on the Boston Public Library.

The legend strikes again.

By anon on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 12:01pm.

I'd be interested in seeing how many NIMBYers who cite traffic as a reason to condemn developments are for moving this to West Roxbury. I worked on Needham St for years and the traffic caused by the bookstore was always a weekend disaster.
That said, I love this store and the family who runs it. I'd love to see it in Dorchester or a more walkable location but I'm sure the west-of-the-city customers wouldn't set foot in Dot and even Roslindale might be a little too urban for their sensibilities.

By mplo on Sun, 03/26/2017 - 8:25am.

That was kind of a cool place, right on the Newton-Needham line.

Too bad it can't be moved downtown, where more people would have immediate access to it, via the MBTA or whatever.