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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Around the corner, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop provides a taste of elusive bohemia. The tiny room, crowded with tall shelves and nothing but poetry serve as welcome antidotes to the Disney-fied independence of the Harvard Bookstore. Plus, Grolier never opens before noon--no true bohemian book-store does mornings...
...bookshelves tower above Beringer and Johnnie Walker boxes overflowing with books. Rolling metal ladders facilitate browsing. Old black-and white postcards of Dorothy Parker and Charles Baudelaire cover the ends of the shelves. A dark gray cat named Blue stalks the aisles, and its owner (also owner of the store), Vincent McCaffrey, is available for a chat about London...
...first things don't look too promising. Perhaps getting off here wasn't the best idea. The corner is home to several nail salons, a couple of seedy looking rent-to own agencies, a Spanish-American food store and a check-cashing operation. Nearby are a few small restaurants, one of which is aptly named "South End House of Pizza." The menu resembles Tommy's, and the place smells the same, but Nick behind the counter says no, they don't deliver to Harvard Square. Nick doesn't have any advice on what to see in the South End, much...
...Mass. Ave and Newbury St. in all of its sandstone and blue-steel glory, daring passers by to share in its decadence. Indeed, everything about Tower Records screams excess, from the double revolving doors to the haphazardly placed blue and orange neon lighting. According to Beth Blodgett, a store employee, Tower is "big and cheap and... so Tower...
...atmosphere is that of a three-story disco, minus the cage dancers. It's hard to resist funking it up to the mothership once George Clinton is pumped throughout the building via the store's massive sound system...