If You Grew Up in Boston in the 1970s, You Remember This

A purple-centered muffin, a $1.25 bleacher seat and neon signs your mother told you not to look at. Here's where all of it went. If you grew up in Boston in the 1970s, a Saturday downtown meant Washington Street and Jordan Marsh, the department store that had been Boston's own since 1841. We go back to the bakery counter and its famous blueberry muffin with the sugar crust, and find out how a store recipe ended up in The New York Times. We also follow the Enchanted Village, the Christmas display a Bavarian toymaker built in 1958, and where it finally ended up. Then we go to the places your parents talked about: Scollay Square, the Old Howard and its odd beginnings, and the wrecking balls that made way for Government Center and City Hall. When the square came down, its burlesque houses moved a few blocks south and became the Combat Zone. In 1974 Mayor Kevin White drew a legal line around it, and in 1976 a night at the Naked i changed how the city saw it. There's Fenway too, from Carlton Fisk waving his ball fair in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series to Bucky Dent in 1978. We look gently at the busing years, from Judge Garrity's ruling to South Boston High to The Soiling of Old Glory. And we end with the Hancock Tower's falling windows, the reopening of Quincy Market and the Blizzard of '78. Subscribe for more trips back to the cities we grew up in. #Boston #1970s #Nostalgia