The Boston Diaries
- Rose Kennedy Greenway Copley Square South Station Mayoral election Cambridge museums Emerson Art in Transit Harvard coffee Hoop Dreams collective memory Government Center politics EGL Mass Ave Thanksgiving toys T Dorchester Wenham Art Deco trains Faneuil Hall libraries Coolidge Corner holidays Prudential food home JFK foliage public art Boston Public Library Downtown MBTA UMass noir Harvard Square Harvard Film Archive snow art exhibition New England Savin Hill South End Old Harbor Starbucks MIT Financial District Back Bay Mihailidis jazz books Friendly Toast Boston Common Brookline Kendall Square cinema Newbury St Chinatown trees Roxbury Tremont St Haymarket Pavement Coffee House community art Central Square Boston Harbor Bay Village community fieldwork North End stations McKenna's work fall Portraits of America Boylston St Newburyport
Tag Archives: Coolidge Corner
Day 87: Irving’s Toy and Card Shop
While at Coolidge Corner I came across Irving’s Toy and Card Shop on Harvard Street. It’s been there since 1939 and it’s run by Ethel A. Weiss, a 99-year-old local who leaves “heartfelt messages” and notes on the door for … Continue reading
Day 87: Brookline
A nice walk around Brookline including a quick stop at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (JFK’s birthplace at 83 Beals Street) and New England Comics.
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged books, Brookline, cinema, Coolidge Corner, fieldwork, JFK
Leave a comment