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...story of the Square is a neverending saga of independently owned shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
...Book Case is not the first store in the area to go out of business. The Cambridge Book-smith, Emack and Bolio's Ice Cream, Pizzeria Regina, Luscious Licks and J.F. Olsson and Co. have all closed in the last few years...
...pressure to cushion the impact of the recession was highlighted as some of the city's oldest businesses went under. Harvard square's J.F. Olsson's, which survived the Great Depression, closed its doors this February after 107 years...
...Stephanie Henry, of Allston, during a visit to J.F. Olsson's, a gift shop which succumbed last week to the recession...
Walsh notes that none of them, however, arechain stores.CrimsonDaniel H. SchumannJ.F. Olsson's on Brattle Street in HarvardSquare closes after more than a century of serviceto the Cambridge community...