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...Brattle Square Florist Shop, I'm told, is the oldest store in Harvard Square. It's been run by the same family for the last 80 years. It supplies flowers to Harvard students who need them for room beautification, for formals, for heartfelt apologies. Most significantly, it captures the spirit of Cambridge in a way that many of its more recently-established neighbors (read: Store...
Tucked in between Brine Sporting Goods and Calliope, the Florist's facade is dominated by an overflowing display of green. And white. And red. And orange. And brown. I counted something like ten different colors of plants and flowers in the storefront, plus about one gazillion different tones of said colors. The visual effect can be dumbfounding; in my notebook I have one helpless observation: "flowers everywhere...
Letterman's father, a florist who died when David was 27, was a "polar opposite. When he would walk through a room, lamps would rattle. He was funny and energetic and a goofball, screaming and hollering, making corny jokes. Then when he died, the focus shifted obviously to my mother, and none of us realized how quiet and undemonstrative she was. It took some re-getting used to. My first 27 years, I'm living in a fraternity house. It was all thunder and lightning. And with my mom now, it's kind of a gentle spring rain...
Loker Commons area draft plans also show space for up to three booths for services which could include a newsstand, a sweet shop, a florist, a ticket office, a fax machine, e-mail terminals or short-term facilities for student-run activities...
...brought in the customers? Well, Coulouras says that while the restaurant is sometimes mistaken for a florist's, it's never mistaken for an official Harvard establishment...