Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energies, I comped The Crimson. I went into the comp meeting thinking of possibly comping news. The news comp requirements were read, and I headed straight to the photo lounge. Eight weeks later, I was elected to The Crimson and began my long love-affair with the building on Plympton St. I spent nights and days learning more about photography than I thought possible. But what kept me there was this intangible sense of belonging that I desperately needed. My roommates and I did get along, and we are still good friends, but we were so fundamentally different and travelled...
Other Square institutions you shouldn't miss are Elsie's (71 Mt. Auburn St.), the home of both the "Big Burger" and the "Roast Beef Special," and Tommy's Lunch, (a the corner of Plympton and Tommy's Lunch, (at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts.) the favorite place for late might (open until 2 a.m.) lovers of cheese steak and pinball. And the trappes (Bostonese for milkshake) are good and thick. Theu, of course, there's the Mug and Muffin (1382 Mass. Ave), a good place to watch the locals and overhear pretentious conversations taking place...
...tired of Plympton Street head over to The Book Case (42 Church St.) Post cards and junk gifts fill the top floor and a labyrinth of used volumes make up the basement. Look in the six-by-six foot "Room A" for occult books, "Room B" for religion, and go to the store's Annex (33 Church St.) if you don't like reading in the dark. The Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) is another sure bet for cheap used books, especially in the social sciences...
Schoenhof's Foreign Books (76A Mt. Auburn St.) recently opened at this expanded location. This foreign language buffs' paradise will send away for rare titles, just as the Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) will take special orders for poetry books. Contemporary poets stop by here occasionally to get their picture taken or just to browse through the 9000 poetry titles...
Lawyers and those training to join their expanding ranks find used law books at the Harvard Book Store Law Annex (12 Plympton St.). Titles published by the Big H can be found in Holyoke Center at the Harvard University Press Display Room (1354 Mass...