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...Great!," said egg roll vendor Linda Loui, who has worked at the Oktoberfest for the past two years. "When we told [Executive Director of the Harvard Square Business Association] Sally Alcorn, the director of the fair, that we were bringing Chinese food, she was thrilled. People want to see something different," she said...
According to Alcorn, the Oktoberfest, which parallels the 75-year-old Munich celebration and is sponsored by the Business Association, has been expanding ever since its inception by the Wursthaus restaurant eight years ago. But while the Munich Oktoberfest originated as a celebration of Prince Ludwig's wedding and of drinking special Oktoberfest beer, the Harvard Square Oktoberfest started, according to owner of Wursthaus, Frank Cardullo, as an attempt to attract more business to the Square after the rebuilding of the MBTA Red Line...
...onlooker seeking beer at this Oktoberfest, however, met with the real surprise of this year's celebration: a new alcohol policy that banned alcohol from the streets...
...reactions to the policy change were mixed among vendors. Food vendors like Loui frowned on the rule--"What's an Oktoberfest without beer?," she said. Added a vendor from Tacos El Bruce, "Business is lousy. People aren't drinking and eating because there's no booze." On the other hand, the vendors of arts, crafts, and other non-food items were overwhelmingly in favor of the new policy. Sona Belle, who sold Balinese jewelry at the fair, recalls: "[Last year] it got seedy toward the end. We were right next to a paddy wagon, and police were handcuffing a youth...
Said Cardullo, who started the Oktoberfest eight years ago, "I'm annoyed about the alcohol policy. This should not have happened. An Oktoberfest commands beer...