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Dirty Old Boston

THROWBACK: MESSAGE IN A GOBBLE

Written by KYLE CLAUSS Posted November 23, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Partisan turkey, a viral gold watch, and Republican trolls in New England 130 years ago

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Irish, Copley square, County Cork, Democrats, Dirty Old Boston, gold watch, Honest Hugh, Hugh O'Brien, Katie Gillette, New York City, NYC, Republicans, thanksgiving, Vermont

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: DELI SANDWICH HISTORY

Written by 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 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 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 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

BUY ME, BOSTON: CLASSIC ADVERTISEMENT PATCHWORK PROVIDES VAST PORTRAIT OF MASS CULTURAL HISTORY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 7, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

"I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it."

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: books, Boston History, Boston magazines, Boston Media, Brian Coleman, Buy Me Boston, Dirty Old Boston, media, throwback Rathskeller Brattle Theatre

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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