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davis_squareSorry if I missed an earlier post... does anyone know what's going to replace the Social Security building?
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Date: 2011-02-16 02:54 am (UTC)Before Social Security moved in, it was a small department store which I remember as 'Marks' but other older folks remember as 'Sparks' -- I'm not sure who's correct.
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Date: 2011-02-16 03:08 am (UTC)and put up a parking lot. It was a really cool building though, I remember it. It had a "downstairs" and everything!I believe Woolworth's was at the now SS building. Many, many moons ago.
And further down, where the Bank is now, there was another store, whose name escapes me, but it caught on fire and they had to destroy it.
Accross the street from the now Starbucks was GRANTS, another dept store.
ANd on the same side of Starbucks, on the corner accross from the now Dunk Donuts, was Thom Mcann, who IIRC sold the first Earth shoes (http://www.dressthatman.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=ACCE128), for both men and women.
Davis was once a shopping Mecca. Who would have thunk?
God, I'm old....
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Date: 2011-02-16 03:12 am (UTC)Where the Citizens Bank is now, was a Chinese restaurant then. Ming Toy, I think? And what's now Goodwill was Cummings, another department store (or was it a shoe store?). The Gorin Building had Almy's, a small local chain store.
There's still a 'Highland Shoes' sign in the pavement in front of what's now Cameras Inc.
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Date: 2011-02-16 03:35 am (UTC)Hmm... Park Snow, yes you're right about that one. That's the store I remember with the wonderful wooden staircase to the floor below.
And, I'm sure your right about everything else. My god, you're bringing back memories.
I moved to Davis in 1967 (age 7), so I remember bits and pieces. And in the 80's THE MALLS were the places to be! I wouldn't be caught dead in Davis Square!
If only I had know then what I know now....
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Date: 2011-02-17 02:09 pm (UTC)I remember hearing that the Social Security building was going to be relocated, but I don't know where.
If you look at the loopnet.com listing you can see how they made one of the drawings look like it had Urban Outfitters type banners outside.
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Date: 2011-02-17 01:55 pm (UTC)It had been rumoured to be a Urban Outfitters but I talked to someone who said that is not happening, or not yet anyways.
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Date: 2011-02-17 02:29 pm (UTC)Urban Outfitters opened in Allston last year so it seems like they are looking into different areas.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:54 pm (UTC)Not me -- men's clothing and shoes are a huge unmet need in the Davis-Porter neighborhood. I used to occasionally shop at the Porter Square Gap before it disappeared.
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:56 pm (UTC)but before that I think it was 'Cummings'... a woman's clothing store that i used to shop at when i was in junior high school because they had petite sizes in dresses.
my most memorable places in Davis Sq were:
Frascati's ... where we hung out in the booths for hours and after hours too.
The Waldorf (MIke's now)
Cummings (local women's clothing chain)
Brighams (ice cream)
woolworths ( ice cream and hamburgers and 5 and 10)
Gorins
Pasiks
Park Snow
The smoke shop....the only one left in the sqaure from those days.
The Woodbridge Inn and The Blarney Stone
The Pine Tree Diner
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:43 pm (UTC)Do you recall where each of these businesses were located? The ones I think I know:
Brigham's - now Starbucks, was Papa Gino's in between
Gorin - now Foundry and empty storefront next door (temporarily in use by Actors' Shakespeare Project). Was Almy's department store for a while in the 1980s
Parke Snow - was in old One Davis Square building, demolished for new CVS/Boston Sports Club building
Woodbridge Inn - hotel burned down, Ciampa Manor is there now (was Blarney Stone in this hotel?)
Pine Tree Diner - demolished (or maybe moved elsewhere?) for Holland Street Red Line station
but I don't know where Frascati's, Pasik's, or the original Woolworth were. I recall a 'Woolworth Express' on the north side of Elm Street in the 1980s but it didn't last very long.
Was the Waldorf open 24 hours?
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Date: 2011-02-17 06:04 pm (UTC)I don't remember Cummings but I remember an awesome remainder bookstore (fantastic remaindered art books) in the location where Goodwill is now.
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Date: 2011-02-17 06:21 pm (UTC)You should ask Jim Campano. He seems to have an encyclopedic recall of all the old timey places and where they were located.