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Then and now: 46 Winchester St., Bay Village

By adamg on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 3:22pm


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By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 3:37pm.

They probably all laughed at Milton Berle and Bob Hope in 1951:

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By cybah on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 3:45pm.

Lou Walters is Barbara Walters father.

She dedicates several chapters in her autobiography that came out several years ago about her time as a child and her father being a nightclub person in the 30s and 40s.

It was an interesting read about her and her relation to Boston's history prior to 1950.

I know she mentioned the Latin Quarter a few times. I wish I hadn't given away my copy of her book to someone.. that I never got back.. b/c now I want to re-read those chapters to see what she wrote.

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By Friartuck on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 4:36pm.

Where we can troll people who don't return borrowed books.

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By cybah on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 8:49pm.

I moved around the time I loaned it out. I remember it being in a box and moved. That was the last time I remember seeing it.

I remember lending it to someone but who I cannot remember.

The other thing is.. I had two copies of the book. One I was going to give to my grandma but she died before I had a chance to give it to her. Now both copies are gone.

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By John Costello on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 3:55pm.

The parking lot was developed in the past two years.

https://www.jgarlandenterprises.com/1-17-edgerly-place

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By CopleyScott17 on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 4:19pm.

...not to be confused with the two different unconnected segments of Edgerly Road, the public streets in the East Fenway.

Navigating Boston is such an adventure:-)

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By adamg on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 5:15pm.

I should've paid attention to the "2020" at the bottom of the Google Street View, grrr. Next time, I need to not be so lazy and actually go take the photo myself.

Thanks, I've left up the street view, because it was that way for such a long time, but added in a link to the condo project.

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By BikeBoston45 on Wed, 02/21/2024 - 9:59am.

I think, from the angle of the photo and where the piano stores are, it's more likely the edge of the common, no? obviously across the street from the garden though...

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By lbb on Thu, 02/22/2024 - 9:03am.

It's four blocks from the Public Garden (corner of Arlington and Boylston) - not super-long blocks, but it's certainly not "the edge of the Public Garden".

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By Will on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 4:30pm.

Was the Mayor an etymologist?
Also who put the burly in burlesque?

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By anon on Wed, 02/21/2024 - 10:25am.

What exactly was her "act"? I recall Jorgensen from talk shows in the 1960s and found her to be interesting and, indeed, a pioneer. But what did she do as a nightclub performer? I don't remember her having any hit records or anything like that.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 02/21/2024 - 5:36pm.

Her theme song was "I Enjoy Being a Girl" from Flower Drum Song

I and a bunch of my title 9 girls refused to sing that in Junior High because it was so freaking awful, but I get how she might have embraced it.

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By Claire on Wed, 02/21/2024 - 8:29am.

Do you know when the building was razed and why?

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By Charles Bahne on Wed, 02/21/2024 - 2:57pm.

It looks like the Welcome Center was on the Common, at the corner of Charles and Boylston. The buildings on the right of the photo are on the south side of Boylston, across from the Common, in the area called "Piano Row". The large one with the Steinway sign is the old Steinert Hall, until fairly recently home to M. Steinert & Co., piano retailers.

Google StreetView today, photo from June 2018:

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