(Image Credit: CL Properties)Posted on 09/18/2021 10:57:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
It has two bedrooms and one bathroom. There’s also a private garden and roof deck.
The story of the unique building, called a “spite house,” dates back to when a man returned home from the Civil War and learned his brother had taken the property. So the man built the tiny house to block sunlight from his brother’s home.
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Dated a red head from Boston 35 years ago for a year.
Far left feminist nut we mixed like oil and water and fought over politics every day
What they say about redheads in bed is 100% correct.
She died from breast cancer 6 years ago
Whenever I hear or read about Boston I think of her.
Uh,uh….no area called combat zone during WWII…..it was Scollay Square that was iffy.
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I was “fortunate” enough to experience the combat zone back in the 80s and at that point I was told it had settled down a bit. Was total anarchy, no laws no police after dark.
I actually worked there for Bekins when it was all being bulldozed over, we weren’t allowed to get out of the truck.
For a kid from NH in the 70s and 80s when somebody said they had been to the combat zone on a Friday or Saturday night...it was like a badge of honor.
I like it
“So this is dear old Boston, the home of the bean and the cod. Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God.”
How did you get my picture?!?!?!
Bk
My father always called it the “Combat Zone” and said that’s what the locals called it.
I have no idea myself, because it was before my time.
It’s a knock-out. Here’s a link to the pix...https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/44-Hull-St-Boston-MA-02113/59181015_zpid/?
Don’t have the chowdah in Provincetown. I did and found out it was cream of sum yung gai.
In central Italy.. sits in 25 acres of private land and boasts its own vineyard, olive groves and ancient woodland, set amongst the rolling Tuscan hills. Innovative as well as idyllic, the property uses solar panels to provide hot water, while underfloor heating keeps the house warm in the winter months.
Ya nevah had a lobstah roll?
I did. But not in Boston. I was in Plymouth to see the plantation, and the rock. Lobster roll is good.
I am a local…..Scollay Square during the war.
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I looked up “Combat Zone Boston” on Wikipedia, and just as you said, the term applied to that area in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
My family lived in the Boston area for a few years in the early 1970’s, so my father must have been applying the then current term to his World War II memories.
However, I remember him calling it Scollay Square, too. As a young teen, in my mind I thought it was spelled “Scully” or “Skully,” the way it sounded to my young ears.
I walked around there once or twice during the daylight hours and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary in the early 1970’s. I guess the seedy aspect of it went into fully swing at night.
I also remember opening a bank account at the Boston Five saving bank in Boston back in that time period. Their circular sign with the image of a Buffalo nickel on a pole caught my eye.
Back then, they paid 5% interest on a simple passbook.
Those days are long gone!
By the 1970s the old Scollay Sq. was gone, The Federal building and new city hall replaced it.
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If you walk down the platform at the Government Center subway station, you’ll stop at a barrier. Beyond that barrier you can see that the station platform once was much longer. On the walls beyond the barrier are the original tiles spelling out Scollay Square station.
Memories -——I worked in Bowdoin Sq. in the 1950s and had to walk through Scollay Sq. often——quite a walk. :-)
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