Word: scollay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston burlesque died a painful, bawdy death on Saturday night, when the roaring of "Ballin' the Jack" brought the white certain down for the final in Scollay Square's Casino Theatre...
Again, after a fire this summer, the neglected Howard Athenaeum in Scollay Square fell before the encroachments of the same Government Center. Known to its loyal Harvard patrons as the Old Howard, the theater was closed in 1953 for unpaid back taxes. The Howard stage, largest in Boston, had seen the graces of Gypsy Rose Lee, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and John Wilkes Booth. During more than a century, it was used for religious revivals, legitimate theater, vaudeville, burlesque--even as a factory. When the end of the Howard was too close to be averted, the Howard National Theater and Museum...
...construction of the new Government Center, which has already claimed much of storied Scollay Square, will soon level several more victims into the forgotten wastes of eminent domain...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition next week of the historic book shop row along Cornhill between Scollay Square and Fanueil Hall in downtown Boston. The buildings now slated for eventual destruction include the Brattle Book Shop, formerly Closeworthy's, the oldest extant book store in America...
...battle against blight is slowly being won. New York's urban renewal program has consumed as much money as the programs of all other U.S. cities, has cleared 7,000 badly blighted acres. Boston has a far-reaching urban renewal program that is currently demolishing the old Scollay Square area to make room for a $150 million government center. While many big U.S. cities are still at the bulldozer stage, Chicago's major surgery is almost at an end; it has completed or nearly finished 26 clearance projects at a cost of $121,500,000. Last week Truck...