I am 45 and don't remember this being the case in Boston in my childhood.
There were bubblers on the Public Garden and Boston Common that are now gone, though. But I don't think they were removed because of pressure from the bottled-water industry; I think they were removed because they were constantly being vandalized. (This is why we can't have nice things!)
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Date: 2010-06-08 04:36 pm (UTC)There were bubblers on the Public Garden and Boston Common that are now gone, though. But I don't think they were removed because of pressure from the bottled-water industry; I think they were removed because they were constantly being vandalized. (This is why we can't have nice things!)