When Kenmore Square was Kenmore Square

By adamg on Fri, 07/20/2007 - 4:49pm

Mr. Butch's death gets Some Assembly Required to pondering the old, scruffier Kenmore Square:

... The hotel has tried to reference the Square's past by designing its street-level retail space with some stores one flight above the street and some one flight below, but it seems like an empty gesture. Maybe the Square is nicer these days, but it feels a lot less vital, and somehow less real. ...

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Kenmore Square

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Comments

Try living in Kenmore Square instead of visiting and, well,

By NewAndImprovedKenmore on Fri, 07/20/2007 - 11:40pm.

let's just say the Renaissance of Kenmore Square was more than welcome.

Nothing wrong with the old Kenmore memories, but I'll take listening to the Fenway Crowd roar over a cold beer at an outside table at Eastern Standard anyday over the Rat.

BTW, re: the blog posting, India Quality is still alive and well next to Nuggets in Kenmore Square.

Kenmore Square's always been a pretty cool place.

By independentminded on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 2:37am.

I lived just right outside Kenmore Square back in the late 1970's, when I was attending B. U., and it was a cool place back then. I remember when the Rat was there--and hearing some rather both cool and awful stories about what went on there. Intense.

India Quality

By Some Assembly Required on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 12:15pm.

> BTW, re: the blog posting, India Quality is still alive and well next to Nuggets in Kenmore Square.

I'm glad to hear that, it's the first place I ever had Indian food.

The Day the Music Died

By BrucemB on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 8:35am.

As soon as the Rat was no more, there was no more Kenmore Square.

How come ...

By adamg on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 9:19am.

Nobody remembers Lucifer?