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Prince Spaghetti House and the Hotel Avery
By adamg on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 6:28pm
They used to be at the corner of Washington and Avery streets downtown, which I know thanks to this photo, one of 1,900 or so photos taken in the mid-1950s of Boston and Cambridge and just posted as a Flickr set by MIT.
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Hotel Avery
Yeah.
The Hotel Avery was the hotel of choice for visiting actors and actresses. I can't find the article, but I remember reading about how the theater stars would do scandalous things in the hallways.
The Haymarket, a gay club, used to be on the first floor for awhile, at least until the late 1980's. Seedy, with hustlers. At least, that's what they said.
First time I was down there looking for it, a cop drove by, rolled down his window and said, "You look like a crime ready to happen."
Below, the start of an article from the Boston Phoenix about the old days and changes to the neighborhood happening then (2001-2002).
More: Making way for the New Boston
reminds me of a memorable night at the Hotel Avery
as a BC student in the early 70's, I worked part-time as a bartender at the "World Famous Two O'Clock Lounge". One of the featured ecdysiasts took a shine to me and once invited me back to her Avery room. Apparently, my candid admission that our March/July relationship was ephemeral prompted her to get my attention my crawling out on the 7th floor window ledge. Visions danced in my head of my mother, rosary beads in hand, reading a Herald headline of "BC student in love-nest stripper death". Once the manager and a Boston cop talked her down, (and got her back on her meds), I beat feet out of there. As we left, the cop suggested that I consider employment in a more mundane environment. Ah, good times.....
nice
some great photos. thanks for posting the link!
The intersection today
Proving that the nicest hotels in Boston will always have the most hideous architecture (See Also: Four Seasons, The)
The best part of the intersection
Is the sign that informs you that you can make a left turn on red there.
On top of Spaghetti...
Has anyone every seen ANYONE in that furniture store that's on top of the Spaghetti House -- under the Reetz?
It's called something like roche bobo...Super high end...
Gotta be soon that place folds, too...just like the other stores up Washington past Paramount --- I mean Emerson/ Suffolk dorms...
Ahhh, progress.
BTW...
...those pictures/ website ROCK...
cheers for the post...
50's Boston always seems so racially and politically sedate when you view it in B/W...
Riigght!