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Boston Light Beer was before its time
By adamg on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 12:02pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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Two Buildings Left In This Pic.
It is the one at the far right and the one you can see a sliver of to the right of that.
Huzzah urban renewal!
And the answer is...
You can't win on Jeopardy if you don't actually answer the question.
Wow
Just wow.
Even with the clue in the photograph, there's no way I would have recognized the area.
I mean, there are good reasons for urban renewal, and there's what happened there.
Sorry
Three Buildings.
You can see the Courtyard by Marriott (then The Bradford) in the back of the pic.
One of these days I want to do a blog series
called "The Caves of Mid-Century Boston." The thing that's currently at 490 Tremont will be one of the subjects.
Tremont St
Tremont street. As the awning of Record Cafeteria declares proudly—near what is now Berkeley St. and yes it doesn’t look the same nowadays.
Too Easy
The awning on "Record Cafeteria" says 510 Tremont...
Address not blocked out...
Adam, you should've blocked out the address on the awning of Record Cafeteria.
It clearly reads 510 Tremont St. when blown up.
Washington St. Brighton
coming out of Oak Sq. toward Brighton Center...
tremont st boston
south end
The awning says
510 Tremont Street.
520 Tremont Street
There's a blown-up version here where you can read the street number on the Record Cafeteria awning:
https://www.facebook.com/DirtyOldBoston/photos/5800452839982129/?_rdr
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Suddenly, I want a Coke
I don't know how the food at the Record Cafeteria tasted but I'm willing to bet it was better and (inflation adjusted) cheaper then I normally have for lunch in the city. I only wish there was still places like that around. I'd settle for a Woolworth lunch counter.
In that photo I see no less than four places to have a coffee or lunch. There's a lot about old Boston which should stay in the past. Ubiquitous cafes & cafeterias aren't one of them.
Record Cafeteria?
Named after, or adjoining, the former Record-American newspaper office, perhaps?
Winthrop Square
No, the Record and the American were in Winthrop Square, in the financial district. The Boston American was the morning paper; the Boston Record was the afternoon paper. Both were under the same ownership and management (Hearst), and so they were in the same building. In 1961 they merged and became the Boston Record-American.
Likewise, the Herald came out in the morning, and the Traveler in the afternoon. And in 1972 the two merged newspapers in turn merged with each other.
Probably not
The Record American was always on Washington Street on Newspaper Row. One of the reasons it bought the Herald Traveler was to get the HT printing plant, which admittedly was a few blocks from where the photograph was taken, which was Tremont Street.
Boston Light was on tap in some taverns until the mid-70s
along with Pickwick Ale
Here it is from July 2012
Before Chevron on Tremont was built.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3447335,-71.0703037,3a,75y,52.2h,87.78t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKLszfDOeodM-IPbdQy0tQA!2e0!5s20120701T000000!7i13312!8i6656
I gotta get out more
I would have said this wasn't even Boston (except the street signs clearly prove that it is.)
The Answer!
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows Tremont Street opposite 527 Tremont on August 16, 1940. You can see a high res version here: https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_c0e45a76-747...