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What time on Friday?
What time on Friday?
The Watch HOSPITAL
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Stupid mistake
Fixed, thanks.
Nooooooooo!
An institution....
Who Gets The Carpet?
The DEP or the CDC lab on Albany Street.
When I wore a watch I half expected to get the plague if any part of my skin ever touched that floor.
Lost Boston
I’m sorry to hear this. Bromfield Street is one of my favorite streets in Boston, for reasons I can’t fully articulate. It just always makes me feel like I’m stepping back in time a little bit, with Marliave’s and other small, local shops...not overrun with big chains and not restored to a degree that it no longer feels like a real place. I know there’s a plan to build another high-rise luxury condo building on it and I’m afraid that will be the final nail in the coffin for me. I’ll enjoy it while I can.
Yup
One of the few areas of the city that actually feels like and old school "city". I'm all for progress, but it's sad to see things like this disappear. It's not just Boston though. I was recently in Manhattan, and it had the same feel. Fewer independent businesses, more chains and residential space.
RIP
RIP the City Sports Outlet.
Where can I get a watch
Where can I get a watch battery changed now?
Most jewelry stores
Most jewelry stores can change a battery for you.
Joseph Gann Jewelers
I’m partial to Joseph Gann Jewelers, just around the corner in the Jewelers Building (above DSW Shoes). Like Bromfield St, it’s like a step back in time. Family run and good customer service.
SAD!
Really
bromfield street
i worked at sherman’s in the late 80s. even then bromfield was like going back in time. me and my boy tom used to pretend we were construction workers and eat lunch in marliaves. we were underage and but they never carded us for our two beers because, you know, we were construction workers. i remember we used to go into one of the baseball card shops a lot. the asian guy who owned the place wore a holster with a 357 magnum around his waist and i think he was waiting for his chance to use it. penn’s pub had great subs and the guy would always ask if you wanted “salt and pecker” on your sandwich. the sherman’s dock was on province street and we shared a freight elevator with the old wendy’s on washington street. wendy’s floor was 2 inches of brown water, roaches, and swimming rats but we still ate there. used to love to just sit outside and watch all the activity. always something happening.
Pseudo-Europe
Bromfield Street was the most exotic and evocative street when I moved to Boston in the early 80's out of high school in the Midwest. All of Boston seemed exotic and old and brick-y and what I imagined Europe must look like (just books and movies back then).
That was all uniquely encapsulated and concentrated on Bromfield with the little shops with all of the geegaws in the windows and the people and the shadowed narrow sidewalks. And I kinda roll my eyes thinking about it now, but for a kid just starting to see the world a little, the Jewishness of the street was something I had never experienced before, and really added even more to the character and allure of the block(s).