Word: scollay
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...rhyming lyrics, he innocently boarded the T at Kendall Square, changed trains downtown, and headed for a Jamaica Plain stop. But when he realized that he couldn’t pay the requisite nickel to exit, Charlie became a permanent tenant of the MBTA, journeying every afternoon to Scollay Square—better known today as the grim Government Center—to pick up a sandwich prepared by his wife...
...Larry: Shit, I used to box up there. There and in Scollay Square. Shit, long time ago. Then I did two tours in the Marines, then some other shit. But now I'm back. I live just down the road now, like two miles away. But I'm never fucking coming back. I just called my friend. An Italian guy, lives down the road in Ledyard. He's gonna come pick me up. Shit, I'm never coming back. Fuck...
...Which of these is not true about the Old Howard, a renowned Scollay Square "strip palace...
...someday, when the drug-addicted prostitutes have disappeared along with the junkies in the alley-ways, when the Combat Zone is as long-gone as old Scollay Square, I might even want to have an office there...
...facing final exams with a feeling of assurance that I would make it and someday graduate. I was so relaxed that I even consented to go with a bunch of boys to the old Howard that night. That old burlesque house no longer stands in Scollay Square, and I don't much regret it. I went only once and sat directly under the edge of the first balcony. The men up there were not very gentlemanly. Some were chewing tobacco and used the area below for a spittoon. Most of my gang left before the girls onstage finished taking...