Boston The Way It Was part 2 - 'Scollay Square'

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
  • Boston The Way It Was: A WGBH 2 volume series about Boston in the 1930/40s. Aired in 1995.

Komentáře • 66

  • @enzos711
    @enzos711 Před 7 měsíci +5

    My father was a (pro) Big Band Drummer, in the late 40's / 50's .. He use to tell me about the Old Howard .. esp the Time he went back stage and talked with Louie Armstrong who gave him advice about perseverance & practice being being the key to making it ..

  • @royroberts7262
    @royroberts7262 Před 4 měsíci +2

    got my first tattoo from harry lefty liberty 1960.Skip school and go to the Casino.Great memories

  • @ishine845
    @ishine845 Před 12 lety +13

    great great post.........i finally know what has been making my mom tick all these years.....what a great time to be alive.......

  • @davidswift7776
    @davidswift7776 Před 3 lety +7

    Thomas O’Connor was a great listen👌
    Historic historian HOF Boston College’s finest !

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 Před rokem +2

    so well done !

  • @JohnShields-xx1yk
    @JohnShields-xx1yk Před měsícem

    Boston born 1960. God bless America🇺🇸

  • @bmfraser26
    @bmfraser26 Před 11 lety +16

    My Grandmother Henrietta was a Burlesque girl in the 20's in Boston. Such a cool time!

  • @bornagainbornagain6697
    @bornagainbornagain6697 Před 5 měsíci

    My dad grew up in the west end. He told me all about Scollay square. He was born in 1917.He did tell me about Joe Nemo, but left out the rest. I now know why he reveled about Scollay Square thanks to your video. Thank you so much for this and for sharing.

  • @stevenquinn4641
    @stevenquinn4641 Před 7 lety +20

    Too bad these districts are gone all over America

    • @georgejoseph90210
      @georgejoseph90210 Před 4 lety +4

      Steven Quinn. "Urban Renewal".... destroyed all the old beautiful buildings and Character of the cities...

  • @ishine845
    @ishine845 Před 12 lety +9

    best doc on the internet to date.............kool beans

  • @khadijahbright4745
    @khadijahbright4745 Před 7 lety +6

    I loved traveling to Cambridge over the "salt & pepper " shaker bridge as my parents called it LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

    • @danieltobin6250
      @danieltobin6250 Před rokem

      Some of us in Boston still call it the salt and peppa bridge.

  • @donh7909
    @donh7909 Před 4 lety +7

    I was just a kid, a pre-teen in them days... When I remember seeing Joe and Nemos..

  • @barbarapineda5730
    @barbarapineda5730 Před 3 lety +2

    I weren't born thats years this indivi...born thats times..

  • @normanwyatt8761
    @normanwyatt8761 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I've been there.......I lived it in the 1950's.......The Old HOWARD, the CASINO, JOE And NEMOS, The swarms of SAILORS, the ROAR of the GREASE-PAINT, the SMELL of the CROWD.......Gone forever........

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 Před 4 lety +18

    A shame our cities have lost their edge. Condos and yoga boutiques now.

  • @JustinSmithPYRO
    @JustinSmithPYRO Před 3 lety +2

    Up and down up and down. And omg all the guy's gooin and gawin 😂😂😂 Fuckin priceless 🤘🤘

  • @jamesricker3997
    @jamesricker3997 Před 4 lety +46

    They tore down Scully Square to put up Government Center dominated by Boston City Hall ( The ugliest building in America)
    What a waste.

    • @Michaelbos
      @Michaelbos Před 4 lety +3

      James Ricker , yup

    • @brianog5267
      @brianog5267 Před 2 lety

      Amazed what destruction American government has caused not only throughout the world but also a n our own cities and towns….yet we still want more of it??? Definition of insanity….

    • @troy66777
      @troy66777 Před 6 měsíci

      Literally, lmao

  • @dennisbeaton8814
    @dennisbeaton8814 Před 29 dny +1

    Rosie the cab driver was my neighbor in Everett ma.

  • @mikestone6527
    @mikestone6527 Před 5 lety +7

    JFK was in love with "Peaches Strange" oh my

  • @boblebovidge7049
    @boblebovidge7049 Před rokem +3

    Error:Night shots were of Times Square,NOT Scollay Sq.

  • @kz1000ps
    @kz1000ps Před 11 lety +7

    This is wonderful!

  • @MrCrowebobby
    @MrCrowebobby Před 4 lety +3

    I tried to get into the Old Howard with some older friends when I was 15, but they wouldn't sell me a ticket so I went to a nearby movie house. I was approached by two men, one after the other, which scared the life out of me. When I left I imagined they had followed me and was even more frightened. Took me years to realize it was my imagination. (By that time, I was approaching boys in movie houses myself.) I got into the Old Howard a bit later, but truthfully can only remember the comics. This must have been in 1952.

    • @georgeadams5390
      @georgeadams5390 Před 4 lety

      Did ya catch @ids? Hope so

    • @MrCrowebobby
      @MrCrowebobby Před 4 lety +3

      @@georgeadams5390 No, I didn't and as I'm already 82 and no longer having sex, it's unlikely I ever will. Sorry to disappoint you.

    • @ToldAlthea
      @ToldAlthea Před 3 lety

      Hmmmmmmmmmm.....

    • @user-ll9zd2dh6h
      @user-ll9zd2dh6h Před 5 měsíci

      reminds me of the old metropolitan in NY.As I got up to go to the mens room there a lad was busy ministering to the man seated in front of me but he seemed more interested in the kung fu movie playing than the bj he was getting!
      "Kick his ass!Thats it,kick his ass!......."

    • @user-uo7fw5bo1o
      @user-uo7fw5bo1o Před 4 měsíci

      I bet you had a LOT of fun! 🤤😋😈

  • @KikiF7
    @KikiF7 Před 4 lety +4

    Now everything is closed because of COVID! Gawd I hate this! 😞

  • @mrdm1967ify
    @mrdm1967ify Před 5 lety +1

    Wally is still on Mass Ave. The clientele is mainly college students though.

  • @georgia_swann
    @georgia_swann Před 8 měsíci

    “I never went the-ah”!

  • @sciencey2858
    @sciencey2858 Před dnem +1

    12 years ago...

  • @byobge
    @byobge Před 3 lety +2

    Is there any city in America that has had a longer time since it was "cool" than Boston?

  • @Noname-ll3qu
    @Noname-ll3qu Před 6 lety +7

    Good neighbor and the memory den in Fallout 4 is based on Scollay square

  • @normanwyatt8761
    @normanwyatt8761 Před 6 dny

    How powerful were the buggies from the 1880's ? Answer ( One horsepower ) For every horse add on another horsepower.

  • @1933utube
    @1933utube Před 5 lety +15

    its tonic, not soda

    • @RSTI191
      @RSTI191 Před 5 lety +1

      Tonic is something you put in your hair.

    • @RSTI191
      @RSTI191 Před 5 lety +1

      ...and It's gravy - NOT sauce

    • @marthadwyer2856
      @marthadwyer2856 Před 4 lety +3

      Rst28 not here in Boston . Tonic is what we call your soda. I’ve been corrected all of the country but when home here in beans land it’s always tonic

    • @mdfootball41
      @mdfootball41 Před 4 lety

      Siobhan Kane Who the fuck calls it tonic here lmao

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 Před 3 lety +1

      Definitely Tonic. I have relatives in Northern Maine that still call it Pop. 😂

  • @6atlantis
    @6atlantis Před 3 lety

    ❤️

  • @barbarapineda5730
    @barbarapineda5730 Před 3 lety

    I visit the Boston twn, then..2018, and o had too..ask question..first..and this brist american, told me..about this under ground sub ways..Charlie's, is a so.
    Ol 1889s

  • @rickylafleur9601
    @rickylafleur9601 Před 4 lety +1

    Goodneighbor

  • @bugs4680
    @bugs4680 Před 5 lety +3

    When evil came too be show buisness

  • @paulb562
    @paulb562 Před 4 lety

    hello Hidding. Atlantis. ??? hello

  • @user-ms6nm2lm8b
    @user-ms6nm2lm8b Před 2 měsíci

    So Scollay Square was Slutty Square. Same shit

  • @dumboxthomas6758
    @dumboxthomas6758 Před 4 lety +2

    It's an interesting video...stopped watching a third of the way. But I'd like to say.... It's always nice to see things of the past. But what this video shows is that one thing hasn't changed and that is, the broken nature of man. To see these people talk about the stripping away of a woman's dignity as a fond memory is just sad. Call it burlesque, or whatever you want but it's just one thing in the end. Sad, dusty, death. Not life giving. But life destroying.

    • @user-uo7fw5bo1o
      @user-uo7fw5bo1o Před 4 měsíci

      Yeah, yeah... let the straight guys have their fun!