Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blocks northeast of Central Square, there's small bar and grill dubbed "The Famous." One woman who lives around the corner describes it as "our neighborhood pub, where we drop in during the afternoon, have a drink, and just talk for awhile...
...afternoon last November, "The Famous" was noisier than usual, as residents of the neighborhood celebrated the selection of their area as the site of one of the nation's first 63 Model Cities programs --the federal government's latest attempt at a concentrated attack on urban problems. Drinks flowed freely as the celebrants hastily plastered the walls with hand-lettered signs reading "Model Cities belongs to the residents...
Cambridge has emphasized resident control of Model Cities ever since the City sent its application to Washington last spring. At that time, the City Council guaranteed residents of the model neighborhood a majority of the seats on the agency which will run the program in Cambridge...
LAST Wednesday, the committee finished writing the ordinance to define the functions and membership of the CDA. There will be 24 members on the CDA, 16 elected by residents and the other eight representing the universities, businesses, and charitable agencies in the model neighborhood. Subsequently, area residents will vote in a referendum whether to approve the ordinance or not. If they do, it will then go to the City Council for ratification. Hopefully, by the end of March elections will be held for the CDA's area-resident seats...
...tawdry section of the city and an easy one to miss. It's stuck in a little corner between the Boston & Maine Railroad's potato shed and the Hoosac piers. The Hon. Frank E. Mullen Express-way, a big green steel structure, zooms over part of the neighborhood, the Everett-Forest Hills Elevated zooms over another part. Every two or three minutes an MBTA train passes overhead and the whole neighborhood rattles and shakes. In the middle of the neighborhood is a dirty, unkempt, little, asphalt-paved park dedicated to the memory of a Congregational minister who settled there...