Word: street
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crossing the line between Cambridge and Somerville on Kirkland Street is always a strange thing. Stepping over that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
...Last week, as I walked towards Union Square, it was refreshing to see something other than snow-white gables atop pristine Harvard brick. I made my way past Union Square towards the outskirts of Somerville. Dead ahead I could see that the street I was walking on was about to end as it merged with a multi-leveled highway...
...Seeing that the day was done for these men, I decided that I would make my way home as well. I stepped back out onto the deserted main street behind the transfer station and headed back towards the highway. The air was crisp and the sky was clear blue. Gazing off into the distance I noticed the gold peak of the Capital building sparkling like a beacon for my journey back to my red- bricked home...
...DeWolfe Street Garage...
...walk in, we can't turn to the right. Or left. But we do get sucked into a tunnel of table displays. Schor points out how similar the sales style is between the books here and the Abercrombie emblazoned T-shirts across the street. "What Barnes & Noble has done here is part of a shift from hand-selling a book as a unique commodity to selling books like they're selling anything -- Godiva, chocolates, calendars. . . anything...