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40 kinds of beer - and an A&P!
By adamg on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 9:44am
WGBH takes a stroll down Sesame Street, um, through Inman Square in 1970:
Take a stroll through Inman Square, Cambridge in 1970. pic.twitter.com/GKbXFIb6XB
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Three great things about this short video
The guys who just start following Mr. Turtleneck Public TV Guy as he walks through a neighborhood he just assumes his viewers have never heard of.
The way Mr. Public News Taking a Break from Pledge Week shoplifts something from the fruit stand.
The way he just crosses into traffic, proving Massholes have been around for a long time.
I like the point of the piece
I like the point of the piece was that Inman Sq was considered unique because it hadnt changed in years. Meaning people have been complaining about everything else that is new is all the same for 50 YEARS!
I also like that there was a line of traffic a mile long. So traffic isnt worse than it used to be, people are just more impatient and more intolerable than they used to be.
Traffic was about as bad as
Traffic was about as bad as you could expect it to be if you stopped it while a TV crew were pushing a 1960s "portable" TV camera along the street.
He should have yelled "I'm walkin' here" at the end.
mmmm....
I thought I saw a couple parking spots though. We don't have THOSE in Inman anymore!
He took a big one
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A&P
The Somerville Market Basket was originally built as an A&P, but the chain didn't stay very long before closing it. I've been told that the oversized Walgreens just east of Arilngton Center was also built as an A&P.
More recently, I recall a small A&P on Tremont Street in the South End, just over the Mass Pike from Chinatown. It turned into a Wollaston's grocery, but that eventually closed too. i'm not sure what it is today.
Modern Hardware
Modern Hardware in Haines Square in Medford was an A&P. The letters are still on the floor of entryway.
Reporter?
Who is the Reporter?
Shunneded
Who shuns the 5 and Dime? Lack of commentary?
"and perhaps if you find yourself with quarter or two to spend, you can buy some plastic crap made in Japan here at the 5 and 10 store. Ah look, a Nixon tea set. Resplendent!"
Funny, he doesn’t mention...
... Legal Seafoods.
Greetings.
C'mon, no one used to talk like that. I guess you had to sound stilted to be on GBH then. (What was the name of that ridiculous Making Things Grow person that they had? She seemed to have come out of a Victorian-era novel.)
But I really wanted to talk about smoke shops. Every neighborhood had them -- they were always dark and dingy places, a place where you could always get the weekly football card. I am certain that the one in Newton Corner -- Mac's -- looked exactly like the ones everywhere else.
It was
Thalassa Cruso, but I had to look that up. She sounded like she went to British acting school.