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Last vestige of tiny downtown park few knew about knocked down

Shopper's Park Orange Line entrance removed in Downtown Crossing

Tim Lawrence watched the destruction of the Shopper's Park entrance to Downtown Crossing station this morning.

Shopper's Park was a small tree-lined area next to the headhouse, created by Filene's and then torn down when some New York developer demolished the main part of the Filene's building to create a giant hole.

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It's going to be replaced with another park. :)

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Or another giant hole in the ground?

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I'm not sure I would have ever called that area a "park", nor would I have referred to it as "tree lined". As for few knowing about it, let's just say the substance abusing and homeless populations certainly knew about it.

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The Needle nook & urban outdoorsman campsite

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What better place to erect a Donna Summer memorial than at the beginning of Summer Street. Rename that platform back to its historic name. People would come to the neighborhood seeking to buy Donna Summer souvenirs, memorabilia, and vinyl records. Even the buskers inside Downtown Crossing Station could capitalize by featuring Donna Summer music.

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I'd love one.. but we're dating ourselves. My younger fellow friend I have.. goes "Donna who?" (he's under 25).

But one problem with your suggestion. Summer street is on the other side of the Filene's building. The park was at Hawley/Franklin/Washington ;)

And wasn't Summer was the original name the Red Line platform, and the Orange Line one was Washington? (if my memory serves me correctly)

Cute idea though!

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Actually no, the OL Oak Grove platform was formerly "Summer." Orange was Winter & Summer and Red was Washington:

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Winter/Summer were consolidated to "Washington" in 1967.

Note: The colors on this map predate the MBTA and do not reflect the current MBTA color scheme.

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At the station presently known as Downtown Crossing, the Oak Grove platform was originally called Summer Station — besides this entrance on Franklin Street, the main entrance is at the other end of the platform, on Summer Street.

The Forest Hills platform was called Winter Station. As I'm sure you know, the Winter Street passageway ends right at that platform.

Originally, just the Red Line platforms were called Washington, but in 1967 the entire station acquired that name, before receiving its current, generic moniker in 1987.

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I should know this.. this friggin map is hanging over my bed. I look at it every day when I climb into bed at night.

Like I said, if my 'memory serves me correctly'.. of course my memory can't remember what I had to dinner last night so it can't be trusted sometimes..

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I look at it every day when I climb into bed at night.

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I rub my tattoo for that. You know, like rubbing a Buddha for good luck.

No, I look and think "what could have been" (It's the 1945 expansion map)

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But it will provide you important things like the lyrics to the Gilligan's Island theme song and the name of your 3rd grade teacher.

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Donna Summer is an important person in musical history — her great talent is something that can be looked up to with pride. There are many other tourist attractions around the country, based on musical artists who passed away a long time ago.

I'm sure the love of Donna Summer will live in the hearts of many people for years to come — and she was even more popular in Europe than she was here — people from Germany will flock to a Donna Summer museum!

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:) I didn't say that

I LOVE donna summer..

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She went to high school in Dorchester!
The Jeremiah E. Burke School

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That had a name?

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Reader's Park. Otherwise known as the home of the creepy Irish Famine Memorial.

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You're thinking of the State entrance. This one was a block away.

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Looks like you can get a view of it on an old version of street view from 2007

2007 view

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1983 view...

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Nobody mourned the demise of that one either.

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It was a little concrete enclave with a 70s Brutalist style fountain commemorating when QEII came to Boston for either 1976 or her 25th jubilee. The fountain went dead in the early/mid 90s, and then it was destroyed in the 28 State Street expansion.

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