Word: kiosk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bids for the land will be opened by the end of December, and the MTA plans to install terminal facilities on the remaining land soon after this date. Subways and buses which presently enter the Harvard Square station would disembark passengers in the yards rather than through the kiosk in the middle of the Square...
According to the proposal, passengers would reach an underground bus level from the subway by escalator. A continuous bus service between the yards and Mass. Ave. would shuttle passengers to the Square. The kiosk would no longer be used as an exit, and escalators would carry passengers from the shuttle-bus to the street level through other exits along the sidewalks of the Square...
...Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd each Sunday dawn, even though Shinder's consignment of papers from Minneapolis' twin city does not arrive until 8. Every copy bought from Hyman for 20? had a resale value of nearly...
McCann reiterated his belief that the monumental traffic jams further up Boylston St. towards the Square can be eliminated "if the City will remove the kiosk and the MTA outlets in the middle of the street...
...Sullivan proposal, a 15 story office building on stilts, would have perhaps two stories of ramp-type parking and an MTA bus terminal on the ground and subground levels. Inherent in the plans is a transfer of heavy MTA traffic from the kiosk to the site over the present trackless trolley entrance and exit on the northern edge of the Square, technically part of the Cambridge Common...