Walking Down Amnesia Lane In Cambridge

Moving on to Boston....We lived in New England twice earlier in our lives...the summer of 1968, in New Haven, immediately upon getting married, and then the academic year of 1970-71, in Boston. Digging deeply into the Sherouse Family Digital Archives, I have recovered a variety of pix from those years, to accompany the account below of an afternoon visiting some old haunts in Dorchester and Cambridge.

Summer of 1968...we sold ice cream for Good Humor in New Haven
and environs...Vicki eventually got the West Haven route...driving a
standard transmission Jeep

And I got the downtown/Yale Bowl route; not our most glamorous
postings, but we made a ton of money to help us finish our undergraduate
studies; and worked 12 hours a day, six days a week for 3 and a half
months; and ate a lot of ice cream ("waste")

A year later, I was a graduate student at MIT, occasionally
exploring the northeast

Vicki taught at East Bridgewater HS, and we had a studio apartment
at 15 Beale St., in Dorchester, right by Ashmont Station (Red Line)

The kitchen; note bottle of Brouilly...some few items we still have

In the living/bedroom/study...a lot of this furniture followed us 
to Columbus, and beyond...

MIT rotunda then

The neighborhood

Departure...one of our first Adventures in Moving; to Columbus

Flash forward 56 years...Ashmont Station now

And 15 Beale St....much upgraded, the whole place relatively gentrified

After Dorchester, we checked into our hotel in Quincy and then
took the Red Line to Cambridge and Harvard Square, to check out
the Harvard Coop (bookstore), where I had invested heavily in
1970-71; the Red Line we found relatively unchanged...

Things have changed at the Coop, however; there are no text
books at the main Coop building; they are all in an annex down
the street; above, and in the next two pix, are the entirety of print
text books for the University and its affiliates...

Thus

And thus; that's it; things have changed

We spent a little time walking about the campus; remembering nothing...

But abiding by the rules

At length, we decided to walk to Kendall Square and MIT; here, some of the
resident Cambridge turkeys (look them up) come out to welcome us

Interesting buttressing

Pop-outs...MIT appears hemmed-in by such tech-corporate
giants; in my day there were mostly dead or dying factories

I was a major supporter of the MIT Coop too

We thought briefly about trying to find the philosophy department...
but it was late, and MIT is such a maze of buildings...and philosophy
and linguistics have merged and are probably somewhere else

So we settled, as the sun set, for a few pix to compare with 1970s'