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Armed holdup in front of Boston Latin Academy
By adamg on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 2:06pm
Boston Police report two men were held up by a pair of gun-wielding thugs shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday at 205 Townsend St. in Dorchester.
The victims were then forced to remove their backpacks and empty the contents on the ground. The suspects then picked up the victim's belongings and fled towards Warren Street.
Police report one of the alleged assailants didn't go very far: When officers found a group of four men standing at Warren and Quincy streets, they noticed one of them was wearing the same sort of backpack the two victims had reported stolen. They pat frisked him and found cell phones that the victims identified as theirs.
James Exantus, 18, was then arrested on charges of armed robbery, receiving stolen property and larceny from a person.
Innocent, etc.
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My alma mater - under
My alma mater - under another name. During the early 1970s, during a time when the city was boiling racially, I used to walk home through Roxbury to Jamaica Plain. Never had a problem.
Another name
was Girls' Latin, right? Back when Boston Latin School was for boys only?
Yes. I attended it before
Yes. I attended it before that, when it was Boston Tech. It was originally Roxbury Memorial, and was known as something like Hebrew Memorial, for all the Jewish students who attended.
Learn Something New Every Day
After flunking out of Boston Latin (twice - long story) I graduated from Boston Tech, located at the corner of Warren and Townsend. Shows how often I get into that part of town now: When did that building first become NOT Tech?
Suldog
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1992 - Got It (D'Oh!)
If I had kept reading, until ClearySquared's comment, I had my answer.
Suldog
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Not-Tech
Boston Tech apparently moved out in 1987, to a space on New Dudley Street (since renamed Malcolm X Boulevard.) In 1989 Tech merged with the Mario Umana School, and in 1992 it was renamed the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science.
http://www.obryant.us/servlet/pub?REQTYPE=pubhistory
Boston Latin Academy moved into the building at Townsend & Warren in summer 1991.
http://www.blagls.com/about.html#history
Thanks, Allstonian
n/t
Suldog
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I attended the Latin Academy across from Fenway Park 1984-1990
You are correct, NotWhitey: where Latin Academy is now used to be Boston Tech until 1992, when BLA moved from the former mail facility on Ipswich St. Before then, BLA was in Codman Square.
Two different formerly differents!
BLA was indeed formerly Girls' Latin. I graduated from GLS in 1973, back when it was in Codman Square. Both Latin schools went co-ed my senior year, and a year or two later GLS was changed to Boston Latin Academy, because what guy wants to graduate from "Girls' Latin School"?
GLS/BLA spent decades in various "temporary" buildings - even the Codman Square site, which they occupied for many years, was officially temporary. That building was condemned (and later renovated as mixed-income housing) and the school moved to Ipswich Street, and finally given a permanent home in the renovated building, formerly Boston Tech, on Warren Street.
Latin School, Latin Academy?
Then what's up with the one over here on Avenue Louis Pasteur in the Fenway? (Came here a looong time ago, but I'm not from here, you can tell...)
Boston Latin SCHOOL
The school on Avenue Louis Pasteur is Boston Latin *School*, not to be confused with Boston Latin Academy.