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...long, faded-yellow loft building now used for apartments, a few lonely fishing boats, and an occasional tourist are all that remain today of what in better days was one of the world's greatest fishing wharves. Perhaps the only fish people could see at T Wharf in recent years were those they consumed off of the willow pattern china at the Blue Ship Tea Room, a popular seafood restaurant at the tip of the wharf...
Situated near the foot, of State St., where it meets Atlantic Avenue, T Wharf was built sometime between 1708 and 1718 as a relatively unimportant appendage to adjacent Long Wharf, which, until 1868, extended all the way back to historic Faneuil Hall and docked the greatest schooners of its day along approximately one mile of pier. As steamships gradually superseded sailing vessels during the latter part of the 19th century, Boston's importance as a shipping port declined and the extraordinary length of Long Wharf became unnecessary. Needing additional land, the city constructed Atlantic Avenue, chopping Long Wharf in half...
...fishermen took over the Wharf and constructed the present long yellow loft as their headquarters. When built, the second and third story rooms of the loft probably extended 75 feet to accommodate sails and masts. But after 1914, when Fish Pier was built, fishermen gradually moved to South Boston, leaving the T Wharf building for anyone who could use a cheaply constructed, commercially obsolescent loft...
...defending Coast Guard will probably pose the most trouble to the Crimson in the Danmark series. Sailing at their home wharf, the cadets will undoubtedly uphold their reputation and level some big guns at the visiting fleets...
...mild coronary for me brought on by cha-cha-cha lessons which began in West Berlin, starting with a delightful Italian movie doll named Giorgia Moll, continued in Rio de Janeiro with Mrs. Juscelino Kubitschek, First Lady of Brazil, and ended on stage (with Katharine Huntington) in a wharf theater in Provincetown, Mass...