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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

Dirty Old Boston

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: DELI SANDWICH HISTORY

Written by JIM BOTTICELLI Posted June 5, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Of them all, many would argue that Jack and Marion’s in Brookline served as the local standard-bearer of quality New York-style delicatessen fare with service to match.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Blue Hill Ave, deli sandwiches, Dirty Old Boston, DOB, G&G, New Yorker Deli, Pick-A-Chick, Premier, sandwiches, WGBH

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THAT FUNKY SQUARE

Written by JIM BOTTICELLI Posted May 12, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Eats

Taken from this world in the late ’90s and turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch—a development that till this day peeves many square vets, the loss being one of those perfect early symbols of accelerated gentrification in retrospect—the Tasty was a one-room diner that was about 30 feet long and a quarter that wide.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Eats Tagged With: Boston History, Cambridge, Cambridge history, Dirty Old Boston, harvard square, history, old Harvard Square, The tasty

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE WARD 8

Written by JIM BOTTICELLI Posted March 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Drinks, LIFESTYLE, Restaurants

Pore through the pages of any cocktail history tome and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a distinctive contribution to the art that is Boston’s and Boston’s alone. The Ward 8, however, is a drink that did originate here, specifically at the long-gone Locke-Ober restaurant on Winter Place (in the spot currently known as Yvonne’s).

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Drinks, LIFESTYLE, Restaurants Tagged With: brother cleve, cocktails, Dirty Old Boston, Ninth Ward, Ward 8

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: MISSING JIMMY’S

Written by JIM BOTTICELLI Posted March 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Jimmy’s, which first opened as the Liberty Cafe and was eventually renamed after its owner, had little competition until 1963, when Anthony’s Pier 4 was opened by restaurateur Anthony Athanas.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Anthony’s Pier 4, Boston History, brother cleve, cocktails, Dirty Old Boston, Jimmy's Harborside, Legal Seafood, Ninth Ward, Seafood, South Boston, throwback, Ward 8, waterfront

GRAVE ENCOUNTER: A QUEST TO LEARN HOW A KENTUCKY TOMBSTONE WOUND UP IN AN ALLSTON BASEMENT

Written by KEVIN WONG Posted March 28, 2019 Filed Under: Dirty Old Boston

Was it the result of a college prank? Something more sinister? It’s possible that nobody will ever find out.

Filed Under: Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Allston, grave, Kentucky, search

THE EERILY FAMILIAR TALE OF SHADRACH MINKINS AND THE CENTURIES-OLD FEDERAL THREAT TO THE COMMONWEALTH

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted March 7, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston History, Fugitive Slave Act, Journalism, Shadrach Minkins, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE RISE AND RAGE OF BOSTON PUNK IN THE ’70S, ON FILM

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted November 2, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Most subterranean icons never got much recognition in their day, but there have been some consolations in the decades since, in part thanks to Boys From Nowhere: The Story of Boston’s Garage Punk Uprising.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1970s, Boston, Boys from Nowhere, Chris Parcellin, Dirty Old Boston, history, Lenny Scolletta, movies, Music, Punk, Sugar Shack, the rat, WBCN

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE HUB’S WAR ON SATAN

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted October 11, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Looking through old newspapers, it’s clear that there have always been unscrupulous cult leaders in Mass. For the most part, they’ve worked for Christian churches.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Frank Sandford, Globe, Halloween, history, Holy Ghost and Us Society, Salem, Satan, Satanists, throwback, witches

SOUL SURVIVORS: A DEEP LOOK AT THE HUB’S OBSCURE DISCO SCENE

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted September 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

"It took a lot of patience. It wasn’t an easy three years to get the records I wanted before I could start making the actual mix."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Berklee, Boston Disco, Boston Goes Disco, Cojo, Dirty Old Boston, Larry Wu, Sugar Shack, throwback

THROWBACK: IS HOMELESSNESS WORSE IN BOSTON NOW THAN IT WAS A CENTURY AGO?

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted August 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Boston’s most infamous homeless shelter was established only a few years later, in 1915, under Mayor James Michael Curley, who was as well known for his corruption as he was for being a friend, however superficially, to the downtrodden.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Brockton, Dirty Old Boston, homelessness, Long Island, Marty Walsh, Quincy, throwback

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