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Demolition of Boston’s West End
Chambers and Barton Streets, July 19, 1959 (via).
Missing the West End
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Architecture critic Robert Campbell has a nice essay in today’s Boston Globe asking “What makes the memory of this neighborhood so durable? Why do the people, half a century later, still feel that they are members of it?” Of course, the demolition of the West End figures prominently in my novel The Strangler. (Photos: Boston Globe.)
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(Images: Boston’s old West End under demolition, ca. 1958-60.)