Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December of 1972--when the military started relying entirely on volunteers to flesh out its ranks--and he had to amble on down to the fringes of Central Square to register for the draft. He remembers City Hall, where the draft cards were issued, as a tabular and turreted brick fortress with rows of arched windows through which he got a sidewise view of neon wriggles in the shopping district...
Another intriguing place in Central Square is the Odd Fellows Hall, a narrow brick building with stained glass windows. The Joy of Movement Center rents it now, but an outgoing dancer with unkempt hair and lots of bedraggled skirts assured me that there are still Odd Fellows in Central Square; she said the organization was "for old men, essentially, like the Elks or the Moose Club." There must be something to this group that the other two lack, though, because it alone rates a cryptic definition in the American Heritage Dictionary: "Odd Fellow: A member of the Independent Order...
...Society is also a pseudonym. As you drive out Concord Avenue towards Belmont Center, the middle of three innocuously drab brick buildings is labeled "American Opinion, 395 Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During...
Raia is the only person working in his part of the building, the brick part, these days. There are two other offices there, but both are empty. Taxman, an income-tax company, is closed in the off- (not near April 15) season and will reopen in January, as it does every year. AID, Inc., which finds temporary employees for businesses, is shut down for good. Business was bad in the Concord Building, and AID is scouting for a new location...
...finance story, like the stories of most buildings. In 1927, when the first J. Henry Quinn moved into the second-floor office, the building was owned by Mary E. McDonough and valued, along with its land, at $236,000, its worth having recently jumped with the addition of the brick part...