The Boston History Project: Sullivan Square Charlestown with Anthony Sammarco
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2017
- Boston Historian Anthony Sammarco looks at the founding of Sullivan Square in Charlestown and the elevated railway and local business. (Herald video by Robert Greim)
I REMEMBER IT ALL. 8 YEARS OLD. THANKS ANTHONY. 1952
Very nice. No discussion of Sullivan Sq. station can be complete, though, without mentioning the Sun Spot lunch counter located on the train platform.
Cool! My mother, two aunts and myself have all worked at Schraffts at one point!
Si did my brother-in-law!
Great series, I drove a semi for years, one of my stops was a printing company right at the intersection your near, it was a very tight loading dock, and of course the cars kept coming, very busy all the time, but my specialty was backing into tight spots, I'd wait for a break and boom, slide it right in first shot, I don't boast usually but I'd backed into crazy situations before, some of the reviewers would watch me because they'd day no one else does it in quick first shot, usually they gotta get a guy out there to hold up traffic, holding up traffic was my nemesis , I'm retired now but reminds me of those days. Thanks for old man memories. Good luck to all🙏
I would take a bus from Medford into Old Sullivan Square, I’ll never forget the bus went in the side of the Station and up the ramp to the right into old Sullivan Square, and get on the El and go into North Station and go into the old Boston Garden and watch the old Boston Braves hockey team. I can still hear the wheels squealing going around the corner from Washington Street Onto Causeway Street. Great times. I did all this at 10 years old with no worries at all.
So did I!
But I boarded the bus @ the Mystic ave. stop in Somerville.
We used to go into the the old Hotel Madison to get autographs of the NHL teams, including the Montreal Canadiens.
So much fun!
@@tommarchitelli1479 Nice ! We would hang around ramp behind The Gahden that led up into it after Braves games and Before Bruins games for autographs. I still have Willie O’rees Autograph. I do remember Derek Sanderson wasn’t the nicest guy at the time. Pretty sure drugs and alcohol had something to do with it sadly. I was like 13 years old and it created quite an impression on me.
It shows some of Old Sullivan Square.
I use to take the El out of Sully to get to Thompson Sq and then walk back to the CR Edwards Jr High. That was from 70-74. I was 10-14 years old then. We would take the El all over back then for 10 cents. Then you'd grab a transfer to either catch a bus or another trolley or train from North Station to go where ever. Sometimes we'd grab the blue line to Orient Heights to go fishing. Sometimes we'd take it to the end of a line just to go for a ride. We knew it was time to turn around when we got to Franklin :) - Always enjoyed riding the El into North Station though because you could smell the fresh bread being baked at the factory there. Also to Haymarket to get veggies and meats with my grandfather. North Station was a busy stop with the Boston Garden right there. We'd go to Park St just to go up those super long escalators and then slide down the rails in between them. Great memories playing around on the Elevated.
Great work. Only thing I thought you could have put in was the other 2 dairys United farmers and whitings
Danny Mac Revere sugar was also beside Dominos sugar
I was just going to say the same thing
We got our milk from Whitings!
Where my townies at!!
I worked for $35 per day in the old graphics arts building on a Polaroid assembly line back in 1990 to by milk and diapers for my first born child🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️
I don't really see a "thriving" neighbourhood in the wake of demolition but more a generic traffic island.
Totally. Sullivan Square feels like dead space on the side of the highway or something now
lol, then people built the assembly square~~ Avalon changed factories into apartments...
Ahhhhh, I remember a car load of freckle faced townies teens speeding by hanging out of their car yelling racial slurs at my cousin and I over by BCC in the late 90s. I live in Charlestown now :(
Me too, lots of ignorant poor white people there in the 90's....now it's all yuppies!!
Yeah, the good ol' days.
Sigh :(
Bunker Hill Monument?
USS Constitution?
Spicc., aknods