Word: scollay
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...more romantically entwined couple, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire starred in "Holiday Inn" at the Paramount. Dinner could be had for an easy sum at Durgin Park. And if a Harvard man was lonely and alone, or out with the fellows instead of a girl, Boston's Scollay Square beckoned from its Old Howard Casino...
...some idea that they might want to build something, at sometime, somewhere. The first thing we did was to go to Washington and change the decisions which had already been made both in Boston and Washington. We brought about the concept of the Government Center to replace Old Scollay Square. We then determined, that since a new city hall is built only about once a century, that it was better to build a building that was worthy of the City of Boston and which would hopefully blend in with historic Old Boston in a sensible way, but without any effort...
...finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...
Boston has been braver. Five years ago it embarked on a project to demolish its seamy Scollay Square area and replace it with a 60-acre, twelve-building Government Center. The focus of the whole complex, according to the site plan drawn up by I. M. Pei & Associates, was to be a brand new city hall. Determined to have a stirring design, Boston held a nationwide architecture competition*that attracted 256 entrants, and the city appropriated $20 million for the building in advance...
They may not have savvy but at least they will be welcome, which wouldn't be the case if Mrs. Hicks were to move into Boston's handsome old City Hall. (The elaborately expensive but heroically handsome new City Hall in Scollay Square won't be ready for the January, 1968, inaugural.) Aside from the ramifications of her stand on de facto segregation, the opening of old Boston wounds and divisions--just now healing--would have been one of the saddest aspects of Mrs. Hicks' election as Mayor. Under Mayors John B. Hynes (1950-1959) and John F. Collins...