No wonder Jamaica Plain residents speak and act as though they can have some control of what happens in the neighborhood. Starting 49 years ago, local people along the Southwest Corridor banded together to stop a highway from splitting the neighborhood. Then they persuaded government to move the elevated Orange Line from over Washington Street and put it in the corridor with other positive additions.
Read MoreJamaica Plain has not seen such excitement in years and but for the serious side of the affair it would have eclipsed the Fourth of July celebrations held in this vicinity.
Read MoreHow the game of baseball brought unexpected recognition and honors to a modest Jamaica Plain man, George T. “Red” Johnson, and his namesake team, the Johnson Bombers.
Read MoreJulia’s Beauty Shoppe in Jamaica Plain, the oldest salon and one of the oldest businesses in Jamaica Plain. The shop, started by Moore’s mother, Julia Spagnoletti, has been a part of JP for 75 years, remarkable in a neighborhood known for its diversity and change.
Read MoreA small bungalow at 281 Lamartine Street, built in 1940, is a rare, documented mail-order or “Readi-cut” house by the Aladdin Company of Bay City Michigan. The Aladdin Company was one of the longest-lived and most successful of the “Readi-cut,” “built-in-a-day” companies which flourished between about 1905 and World War II.
Read MoreThe memories of Dorothy Neagle Cook of her time at the Margaret Fuller School in the 1950s.
Read MoreIf you go to the super market and examine the soft drink shelves, it will take a good bit of luck to find that particular New England soft drink - Moxie - that was based here in our neighborhood for twenty-five years.
Read MoreOne of the biggest crimes in Boston history occurred in quiet Jamaica Plain, with running gun battles and a dramatic shootout at bucolic Forest Hills Cemetery. The story includes foreign anarchists, less-than-astute police work, a mysterious woman, and more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel.
Read Morehe Jamaica Plain Cooperative Association, a real estate organization, composed of several of the leading business and professional men of that section of the city, has just approved the plans for a handsome, new, 80-apartment house, which is to be erected on Center St., opposite Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain.
Read MoreWell, not exactly like the other stations on the dial, but there was a broadcasting transmitter from my bedroom at 590 Centre Street in the late-1940’s that reached a small neighborhood audience, and far beyond as we shall see!
Read MoreThe streetcar tracks were still there, winding down from Dudley Station, following Roxbury Street to Columbus Avenue and under what we called “The Bridge,” the dividing line between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. The railroad bridge carried the old coal-burning steam trains over Centre Street and along Lamartine Street out to New York or some faraway place that a pre-teen couldn’t comprehend.
Read MoreJamaica Plain really hadn’t changed much from the 1880s until after the Korean War in the 1950s. Times weren’t stable for those seventy-some-odd years.
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