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Only after Sullivan had obtained an option on the site where the Treadway Motel now stands did the University and the city even begin to discuss the possibility of building a joint parking garage there. While Harvard and Cambridge sat by and watched, Sullivan rounded up the $350,000 banknote that he needed to take up the option. The motel has been a financial success and has added quite a few parking spaces to the area. If University and city still sulk, they had better ask themselves why they did not get there first...
...case of the 15 story building on stilts, the promoter has once again crept up behind the sleeping University and almost stolen the bacon. However, to Harvard this project represents a problem slightly different from that of the motel...
...motel caper, the University was directly concerned as an interest group and slightly less as a civic leader. It would have been decidedly beneficial to both city and University to have a large parking garage in Brattle Square. As an investment, particularly, it would not have hurt Harvard...
...task of filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle Square. The new management is already planning to add several more stories, and the parking is just fine...
...Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell or two to a car trunk, and assiduously playing the great American game of "separating the girls from the Girl Scouts...