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ANTHONY!

Remember what Wednesday used to be in the Italian North End?

Dirty Water posts a ton of old Boston TV commercials, from a skinnier Jay Leno hawking the Globe to a big-hair, legging-o-riffic 1980s Jordan Marsh ad.

Prince...

By Flip (not verified) | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 8:04am

...Spaghetti day!

ANTHONY!!!

By bostnkid | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 9:40am

the kid who played anthony grew up and worked for stop and shop over in their readville warehouse.he filed a harrasment suit against his employer because everyone gave him such a hard time about being ANTHONY!!. i guess his co-workers used to torment him with it.that was 5-10 years ago.

Mother yells Anthony and

By Alice Duchamp (not verified) | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 10:10am

Mother yells Anthony and only one kid answers the call? That isn't the North End.

That Alf clip was strange.

ms.duchamp

By bostnkid | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 10:25am

you stole that joke from youtube.reworded it, but stole it just the same.leave the joke stealing to dane cook please.

guilty

By Alice Duchamp (not verified) | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 11:27am

guilty as charged

you are not guilty

By bostnkid | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 11:38am

until i make it past the black crown vic with the tinted windows.you might beat the rap!

ahahah

By Amy (not verified) | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 3:21pm

JORDAN MARSH *IS* STYLE-O-RAMA

!!

Lowell as Spaghettiville ... who knew?

By bobmetcalf | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 7:35pm

Had no idea that Prince was located in Lowell...
Wow, great local story, thanks.

Hard to imagine an era when pasta was considered
"ethnic", but there you go.

Same era, there used to be a restaurant in Revere called
China-Roma, that specialized in simultaneous Chinese and
Italian. Now THAT was exotic...and toxic! Anthony
wasn't running home to that place, he was running away
from it.

Everyone who ate spagetti on

By Mark (not verified) | Fri, 03/21/2008 - 8:18pm

Everyone who ate spagetti on Wednesday knew that!

How old...

By Othemts | Tue, 03/25/2008 - 10:45pm

How old is that Prince Spaghetti ad? I don't feel like I should be old enough to remember it but I do.

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