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...VARSITY Liquor is moving out. The little store wedged into a corner of the Square next to the Tasty has been serving the neighborhood for more than 50 years. Although the Varsity could never boast a huge selection, students could always count on it for beer or booze for extracurricular activities...
...same family that opened the business in the 1930s after the repeal of Prohibition still owns it. Over the years Varsity Liquor has become part of the fabric of the community. It weathered wars, riots and even the years of construction on the new Harvard Square MBTA station. But the family business could not withstand the powerful forces affecting Harvard Square today. The owner of the building is evicting Varsity Liquor on June 1 because an unnamed party offered to pay three times the current rent...
...acquisition of a liquor license last year, after a five-year battle with the Cambridge License Commission, is the main cause of the improvement, said Starsield...
...handicap to not have a liquor license in Cambridge," the owner said. "The fact that we didn't have a beer and wine license lost us a lot of potential business." He said the commission had denied the pizzeria a beer and wine license because it felt that enough businesses in the Square had such licenses already...
...There is whiskey everywhere and not a drop to drink, only lemonade," Vellucci complained at the dinner, which was held within sight of the distillery's liquor-bottling apparatus...