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Leverett Saltonstall would have been aghast at 4 a.m. doorbusters

By adamg on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 11:25am

Business Insider reports on the controversy when FDR pushed Thanksgiving back a week to give Depresssion-era merchants an extra week to move product:

... The selectmen of Plymouth, Massachusetts, informed the President, "It is a religious holiday and [you] have no right to change it for commercial reasons." Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to the Almighty, harrumphed Governor Leverett Salstonstall of Massachusetts, "and not for the inauguration of Christmas shopping." ...

Via Jay Fitzgerald.

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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, except when it comes to Allston

By adamg on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 11:00am

Or as Wicked Local Allston/Brighton charmingly puts it: Las Vegas whore in Allston.

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One happy street performer today

By adamg on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 10:53am

The Accidental Fiddler reports that when she got home and uncrumpled what she thought was a $5 bill, it turned out to be a $50 bill:

THANK YOU, KIND PATRON OF THE ARTS!

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Once again, T management lies to its customers

By roadman on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 9:13am

And proves really don't like running the Green Line at normal service levels.

This is what was stated on the MBTA web page regarding Green Line service today:

Friday, November 27

The Green line will operate two car trains every eight minutes throughout the day.

Unfortunately, the reality is somewhat different. Got to North Station about 8:30 and waited 15 minutes, not 8, for a single-car (not two-car) E train that was seriously overcrowded.

Between North Station and Boylston, I observed five other in-service trains. All of them were single cars as well, so it wasn't that there was a mechanical problem with this particular train that caused them to break it in half.

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Thanksgiving hunger

By adamg on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 11:54pm

Matthew I. reports he happened to have his camera with him on the way to Starbucks this morning when he spotted this man on Mass. Ave. in the Back Bay:

Gave this guy a couple bucks. Took his photo from across the street on the way back.

Copyright Matthew I. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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If you spot Francois Truffaut nearby, then you'll have your answer

By adamg on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 10:04pm

Tom O'Keefe took this video in Brookline tonight, reports "I'm not sure if they're Christmas lights or a form of alien communication."

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We don't need global warming for the streets to flood

By adamg on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 8:52pm

Local 718 tweets a "major water-main break" has flooded Newmarket Square tonight.

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Did Thanksgiving do in John Adams?

By adamg on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 4:26pm

Adams apparently was convinced the reason he couldn't get re-elected was becaue he declared a national day of thanksgiving on behalf of, gasp, Presbyterians. J.L. Bell recounts the whole story.