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...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...
...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...
...that T Wharf once had the reputation of being a center for Bohemians. "That depends on what you mean by Bohemian," she said. "Sure, we used to do some funny things. Like once we all got dressed up in fancy costumes and walked from the Wharf clear up to Scollay into a Hayes-Bick. But they wouldn't serve us. Well, then, when the Megansett Junior Tea Room was out at number 22-23 on the Wharf, we used to have big parties just for the Wharf people. We'd have costumes, and a bar, and once in a while...
While progress on plans for the new Government Center around Scollay Square brings demolition of the present structures closer every week, Boston historical societies are redoubling their efforts to save buildings of historical importance from the wrecking crews. Perhaps newest among these societies is The Howard National Theater and Museum Committee, whose members are determined to preserve a former hot-spot of Boston burlesque, the Howard Athenacum, known more affectionately to those whose heart was lost there, as the Old Howard...
Ferranti concluded: "I see no need for a passport photo agency at Harvard. For 40 cents you can go to a place in Scollay Square that will do the job--six photographs for two dollars. This is a lot cheaper than any amateur could possibly do it with any kind of a lab around here...