Old School Boston has the best photos of Boston from the "old days". I lived in the Boston area from 1973 through 1992, so I guess that's now the old days.
The Wursthaus - Harvard Square, 1917- 1996. @Historicimage pic.twitter.com/rJIWnHZBCH
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The Wursthaus was just outside of Harvard Square. The food was heavy German and not that good but in the 70s it was the only place you could find that offered a large selection of foreign beers and that was enough for us. It closed in 1996, after almost eighty years at that location.
Less than 100 feet down the street and down some stairs was Jonathan Swift's, a club that featured the best in local New England music acts, including NRBQ, the Pousette-Dart Band, and the Estes Boys' in which one of my roommates played pedal steel (later, for several years, he played pedal steel with Mickey Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band). It's also where I sat having beers with Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee as he hilariously described the debacle of the 1978 season. Swift's closed in 1986.
For my memories of one of the great Boston area eateries of the 70s read Rita's Place.
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