Remember driving into Boston with my mother in the '50s via Blue Hill Ave and seeing blocks of stores with hebrew lettering.
Yes...Kosher markets, Religious Bookstores, a real Interesting Community.
We had the most GORGEOUS theater, “The Oriental”, which was prettier than Grumman’s Chinese Theater.
Also, the “G & G Deli”, where politicians used to stand on the tables and give speeches, and the original foot-long hot dog joint, Simco By The Bridge!
Beverly Sills lived down the street, and most of my parents friends were Holocaust Survivors.
Donna Summer and bobby Brown also came from the neighborhood, but the demographics had changed by then.