James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley with a zebra wearing a hat
By adamg - 9/24/11 - 9:35 am
The Boston Public Library has posted a bunch of Leslie Jones photos of Curley (and some of predecessor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald), including this one.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
There's 'responsible, carbon-neutral snow removal' and then there's the Curley approach
By adamg - 1/31/11 - 2:27 pmOver in Allston/Brighton, Marcie Laden is advertising responsible, carbon-neutral snow removal, in other words, her daughters with snow shovels.
Contrast that with Mayor Curley's 1948 letter to MIT (found by BostonTweet), asking for the Institute's help in coming up with a way to use flame throwers or chemicals to shrink snow accumulations.
The Rascal King lives forever in West Roxbury
By adamg - 6/25/05 - 9:36 am
The dining room of the West Roxbury Pub and Restaurant is a paean to the life of James Michael Curley, from boyhood through old age - a Curley mural fills all four walls of the room (local residents paid $20 to have their faces immortalized behind and next to Curley).
