Aline Kaplan explains its link to the Marquis de Lafayette and takes a look at its later descent into a key part of the Combat Zone.
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Aline Kaplan explains its link to the Marquis de Lafayette and takes a look at its later descent into a key part of the Combat Zone.
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not a ZZ top fan?
By Michael
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 9:56am
Shouldn't it be "A-how-how-how-how LaGrange Street got its name"?
I thought it was going to be space-related
By perruptor
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 1:23pm
What is the correct way to pronounce this street name?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 11:09am
And is it the same as how you pronounce it in West Roxbury? (I've never actually heard anyone say the name of either street out loud.)
I Pronounce Both The Same
By Suldog
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 11:14am
Lah-GRAYNJ.
Suldog
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in (boston) english you would
By Jimbo
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 11:25am
in (boston) english you would say "la grange" with emphasis on the second syllable, soft second g, silent e, and pronounce the second "a" like you would in the word "and" ...in french it would be similar except you would pronounce the "r" more like a "w" and the second "a" like you would say "aw" as in "aw shucks"
Long "A" Sound
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 12:36pm
I was born in and have lived in Boston for over 50 years ago and never did I hear "La Grange" pronounced with an "a" like "and", as in "grand". It is pronounced with a long "a" sound like range, as in "home on the range". Or like the color gray. La Gray-nge
The Grange
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 12:08pm
But with a La instead of The.
As in "let's go to the dance over at the Grange Hall".
Interesting but highly condensed
By 70s Person
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 11:11am
Interesting but highly condensed history of the Combat Zone. Counter-intuitively enough, the Combat Zone also had a certain facade of "respectability" about it. Circa 1976 Mayor Kevin White even had a ribbon cutting ceremony declaring it "Boston's official red light district". The 70s were like that, for better or for worse.
Interesting
By scott
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 12:08pm
Good read. The only thing I would take issue with is that it says the Combat Zone was killed by the internet. It is much more complicated than that. Its demise started much earlier and the technology of that day was the VCR. Also a lot of credit should be given to the community
Historical accuracy?
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 01/03/2019 - 2:07pm
I am struggling to understand how the chateau could at the same time be "untouched since the death of la Fayette" and also contain walled off rooms with documents as recent as 1990
Left unsaid
By AgingCynic
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:34pm
The murder of Harvard football player Andy Puopolo was the event that really galvanized City Hall into closing the Zone.
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