This article is based on a talk given by Gerry Burke to a meeting of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society the evening of November 9, 2005 at Doyle’s Café.
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A fire that swept through the north section of the Forest Hills Hotel, at the junction of Hyde Park Ave. and Walk Hill St., Forest Hills, yesterday afternoon, drove 400 guests in the building in a stampede to the street and did damage to the hotel and adjacent property estimated at between $16,000 and $18,000.
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Among the instances of the business development there is none in the local district that has been more rapid and substantial than that of the Farnham & Nelson Co., of Jamaica Plain, the large and well-known concern engaged in the building of high-grade automobile bodies andall that pertains to the automobile above the engine and running gear.
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My name is Frank Norton and I was born in Jamaica Plain on May 7, 1943. We lived on the second floor of a three decker at the corner of 51 Custer Street and Goldsmith Street.
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Hailer’s Drug Store, one of the oldest retail landmarks in Jamaica Plain, shut its doors for the last time Monday. [1993]
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Ripe guineos verde green bananas Dominican olive oil, dulce de leche candy, Embajador chocolate, and Yaucono coffee, shrink-wrapped for freshness. Shoppers who push through the swinging metal doors of Hi-Lo Foods are on a mission: to fill their carts with foods like these that they often can’t find anywhere else.
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In 1970, when the Boston Housing Authority converted the factory building at 125 Amory Street for senior citizen housing, it marked the end of the long history of one more manufacturing concern in Jamaica Plain. The building is now known as the Amory Street Apartments, but for fifty-five years it was the home of the Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company.
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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.
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Jamaica 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.
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How 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.
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Julia’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.
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A 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.
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