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Dirty Old Boston

PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: American Experience, Boston History, congestion, Dirty Old Boston, history, MBTA, shortcuts, subway, throwback, traffic

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HOW HUB MEDIA COVERED KOREA 100 YEARS AGO

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted June 12, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

But even before North Korea was ruled by some certifiable madman or another, back when the North and South were united, the intrigue coming from the West—including here in Boston—was of a similar fashion, underlined by apprehension over perceived threats, however valid.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, history, media, negotiations, North Korea, throwback, Trump

REMEMBERING THE MAY DAY RIOTS

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

As tensions grew between authorities and socialist types, one infamous standoff in Roxbury in 1919 showed just how grisly things could get. At Monroe Avenue and Humboldt Street, activists and Boston cops fought hand to hand until police backup led to more than 100 arrests.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1919, Boston, Boston Police, Dirty Old Boston, labor, May Day, May Day Riots, protests, throwback, unrest

WAKE UP THE EARTH: A SHORT HISTORY OF BOSTON RESILIENCE AND CELEBRATION

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted April 18, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, Dirty Old Boston

In order to make such a corridor for motor vehicles possible, housing would have had to be demolished. As the city saw in the West End and other neighborhoods, “the consequential displacement would affect thousands of longtime residents,” Vrabel said.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Activism, Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Festival, I-95, Jamaica Plain, throwback, Wake Up the Earth, WUTE

JOB PROMISES, THEN AND NOW

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted March 13, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

From textiles to technology, and the American House to Amazon

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1918, Boston History, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Dirty Old Boston, history, labor, Massachusetts History, throwback, workers

GET A GRIPPE: THE FLU HIT BOSTON EXTREMELY HARD 100 YEARS AGO

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted February 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Flash back to 100 years ago, when the Spanish flu epidemic was similarly worrying Americans. With vaccine developments not nearly as ubiquitous as they are in 2018, many Boston-area doctors relied on pseudoscience and, out of both desperation and ignorance, said and did whatever they could to tame an ongoing public outrage about flu deaths.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, flu, history, influenza, Massachusetts, throwback

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HEROIN DAZE

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

An abridged trudge through Boston’s long, repetitive history of opiate abuse

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Heroin, history, opiates, throwbacks

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: CANDIDS FROM EVERY NOOK IN THE HUB

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 11, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Old Dirty Boston skips over the safe stuff and picturesque renditions of the Freedom Trail. As Botticelli explains in the intro, his book conjures “a place where you could find a parking spot if you needed it.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: boston mayor marty walsh, Dirty Old Boston, Jim Botticelli, Marty Walsh, NPR

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