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Most (but not all) of Scollay Square's attractions are just as openly displayed as they are at the two burlesque houses. It all depends, of course, on what you're after...
...Yale Club of Boston, when it decided in 1927 to mark the birthplace of its founder, evidently felt slightly embarrassed about the change that has come over the old neighborhood. A plaque was erected--just outside of Scollay Square--with the notation that Eli was actually born a few yards away...
Very little of old Boston is left in Scollay Square, but what does remain seems to be ageless. The greatest staying power is found in the bars that line the Square and the alleys that lead out of it. Boston's first taprooms were located in the area, and if the current population has anything to say about it. Boston's last taprooms will be there...
Harvard men have their own places to drink. For them Scollay Square is primarily the home of the Old Howard, one of the nation's oldest burlesque houses. The Howard Athenaeum has been operating as a theatre continuously since 1845. The building it inhabits was originally built as a Millerite church, and later it was made into a theatre at which Edmund Kean and other great actors appeared. It is now the oldest American theatre...
...Scollay Square's bars are not particularly lush--sawdust serves for a rug in a good many--but one can get as completely, unconsciously drunk in them as in the Copley's Merry-go-Round. That is enough of an attraction for their patrons...