Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of this particularly bothers the residents. If the tide keeps them from driving onto the pier, they just row--right into their hallway if necessary. But it does bother the Quincy Market people, who claim the wharf, though presently safe, is fast deteriorating. In fact, says Mr. Love, the Market quite recently had to close up a couple of hazardous apartments...
Making our way through the mass of maritime paintings (now stacked on the floor for lack of wall space), antique furniture, ship's lanterns, piles of historical material on T Wharf, and other nautical and sentimental memorabilia common to many T Wharf apartments, we eventually noticed a slight but distinct westward list in the floor. Mr. Love, of Quincy Market, believes this to be a defect due to the rotting substructure. Mrs. Kimball, however, insists that her section of the building was constructed with a list so that the late 19th century sailmakers could lay their goods lengthwise along...
Once she had piloted us out to the balcony, Mrs. Kimball launched into the history of T Wharf, beginning by dispelling the widely believed yarn that the Boston Tea Party took place there, and ending with the unhappy demise of the Magansett Junior Tea Room, where she had enjoyed frequent parties until it closed...
What kind of charm T Wharf diffuses remains a mystery. Neither the residents, nor the owners, claim to find any historic value in the Wharf beyond its importance as the former center of the cod-fishing industry--one of the industries significantly responsible for raising Massachusetts Bay to its major commercial status. Nor do they claim any architectural beauty. Quaint it may be, but not beautiful. Yet it has an aura which, as Mr. Love remarked, "seems to have a knack of inducing acute nostalgia in anone who has ever known it--including...
...added, "spending $250,000 on renovating a pier which will never repay our capital expenditure can't be worth while to a company which is operating on stockholders' money. We just can't afford to save the Wharf for wholly sentimental reasons." Even raising the present $55 to $95 rents 100 per cent (which most tenants would be willing to accept) could not cover the costs of repair, said Mr. Love...