Word: macdonald
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...MacDonald says that while the Square was once home to a host of “stores with character and stores with characters in it,” he now finds himself in small company. In the old days, “there were stores here you couldn’t get anywhere else,” he says. Now, “that base has been eroded basically because the stores in the Square have become very homogenous...
...It’s sad,” MacDonald says. “I’m one of those older guys I used to look at when I was younger...
...store but made few changes to its interior. Richard and William Ehrlich ‘22, ‘25, who operated the store as well as the family’s historic tobacco shop in Boston, hired MacDonald’s father to manage both stores, and MacDonald himself began running Leavitt and Peirce in the mid-1980s...
...MacDonald, who used to deliver inventory to the store for his father, says the store used to be a “social epicenter...
...think in the old days, and it was literally a hangout. I mean, it was a shop, but it was also a place where people would gather and socialize,” MacDonald says. “I think society in general doesn’t have time to gather and socialize—people did it in the barber shop, they did it in the butcher shop. Now they plug in at Starbucks and barely have a conversation...