Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last December, Polaroid had planned to convert the property at 16-18 Pine Street into parking space. Instead, the area is now the site for a locally run low-income housing project...
...Pine Street project began last fall when COBI (the Conference of Organizations, Blocks, and Individuals)--a group formed by the people in Cambridge's area number 4--discovered Polaroid's plans for turning the property into a parking lot. The residents wanted to use the area for a play lot, since recreation facilities are scarce in that area...
...Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization, stepped in as intermediary between the neighborhood and Polaroid. The company struck a compromise and sold the lot at less than cost to the Corporation, who made the proviso that COBI buy the lot within four years...
David Skinner, vice president of the Polaroid Corporation, said yesterday, "We do anything we can to save neighborhood property. Then we work with the community in deciding what to do with it." In this instance, the community decided to renovate the existing building to provide low-rent housing facilities for two Cambridge families. Mr. Skinner said a lot on Harvard St. is also being turned over to the Cambridge community for redevelopment...
...line between liberalism and radicalism seemed less pronounced in 1939 than today, a fact which catalyzed this process of identification. But the play should remain, on one level, a parable of American social history; if this level has been obscured, it is not only through the Dean's polaroid lenses but through some error of emphasis on the part of the production's director, Mike Nichols...