Word: wharfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston got the message. Along its historic waterfront, it is quietly working on the nation's largest federally aided renovation project. Already, a number of 19th century wharf buildings have been made into 1,500 units of elegant middle-income housing. No sooner does one batch of apartments come on the market (rents start around $500 per month) than they are snapped up, proof that many well-to-do people will choose good downtown housing over the pleasures of the green suburbs...
...advertisement in the Boston Gazette made it sound like a holiday: "All those jolly fellows who love their country and want to make their fortune at one stroke, to repair immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a hearty welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
...sequence of events began to unfold at an appropriate venue, DiMaggio's restaurant (Joe and Dom own small interests) on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, where Dick O'Connell, the general manager of the Boston Red Sox, got a message to telephone Charlie Finley, the exasperated (and exasperating) owner of the Oakland Athletics. For days Finley had been trying to trade or sell seven premier players of the A's who had refused to sign contracts; now he hoped to arrange a package deal that O'Connell could not decline. The spring trading deadline...
Boston Artists Market, Lewis Wharf, Boston: Erotic art (group' show) through February...
Sipple had arrived at his pivotal destination wholly by accident. He had left his apartment some seven blocks away shortly after a 10 a.m. breakfast of cereal and coffee. Unemployed and fond of long walks on nice days, he had considered strolling to Fisherman's Wharf. Instead, he wandered toward Union Square, where he was surprised at the number of demonstrators protesting such conditions as high oil prices, poor schools and U.S. involvement in the Middle East. He asked why they were there. "What's the matter with you, stupid?" one replied. "Don't you read the papers? Ford...