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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:20 PM
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Poll question: Cambridge or Somerville?
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 05:21 PM by Kathy in Cambridge
Or should it be Cambridge/Boston or Medford/Somerville?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:21 PM
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1. i grew up in Meffa so i gotta go with Cambridge.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:24 PM
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3. I got to La Cascia's for my Italian cold cuts
Medford has some great Italian food.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:27 PM
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5. If you haven't gone yet, go to Bob's, best subs ever!
i used to love and now miss La Cascia's Sicilian pizza, yummy. Bob's is on Main street, low number if i remember right.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:23 PM
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2. I once met Howie Winter and Whitey Bulger in Summahville.
Howie owned a bar and had video poker machines in the back room. This was in 1976.

Somerville = Blue collar
CXambridge = White collar
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:28 PM
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6. Cambridge was pretty blue collar too when I was growing up
You're thinking of West Cambridge, where the Brahmins live.

Somerville still has some fun townie bars though. We still go to the Paddock and the Sligo. :-)
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:31 PM
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9. OMG!!! The Paddock!! When i went home for a visit we went there
i hadn't been in years, i love their buffalo wings. Moriarty's was my watering hole back in the day---now known as Cory's.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:33 PM
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10. The Paddock has great food.
If you come back for the DU gathering in April, you should try L'il Vinny's in Magoun Square. The food is wonderful.
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 06:00 PM
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16. Yare...
I lived in Nawt Cambridge up near da Summavul line theah in 1970; pretty close to Pahtuh Squeh. We were a bunch of fukin hippies, but the kids liked us.

:hi:
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really-looney Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:37 PM
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23. From one of those kids
If you were one of those college boys who would buy beer for us, as, we high school kids stood outside the packie next to Jumbo's on Broadway or Norton's on Mass Ave (it would depend on which way the police chased us) I say a thousand thanks. The guys drank whatever beer was on sale and the girls mostly drank Reunite Risotto(with the twist off cap)we needed you college types to keep us in beer. The park we hung out in is now Mario's.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:29 PM
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7. Hey, Whitey's brother Billy almost killed me one day on Arch street
i should have let him run me over, maybe just my foot, i probably could have paid of my mortgage.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:26 PM
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4. Poor Medford/Somerville.
I lived on Hawthorn Street in Somerville for a summer. I would pick Boston/Cambridge, too.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:31 PM
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8. Somerville is pretty happening these days-and the real estate prices
Oy!

East Somerville is still pretty blue collar. Somerville is progressive with great bars and restaurants. it's come a long way.

You would not recognize Davis Square, and the apartment you probably lived in on Hawthorne Street would probably sell for 450K.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:43 PM
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11. They were digging Davis Square's T station when I lived there.
Somerville's Big Dig. I probably would have felt much better about the place if the T had made it out that far then.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:48 PM
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12. I was in high school and early college then
Somerville was scary back then. My best friend in HS grew up on Willow Ave near Davis Sq. It was very townie.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:49 PM
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13. LYNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where all the drugs are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:51 PM
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14. lynn, city O sin, you never come out the way you went in
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:54 PM
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15. Cambridge during the day,
Somerville bars at night.

Redstone
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:12 AM
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17. kick
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:01 PM
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18. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it
Voting for Somerville, that is.

I've lived here 20 years. Some day I'll tell you my Vinnie Piro stories.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:02 PM
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19. Lower Allston
:P
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:04 PM
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21. I heard that place sucks
:P
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:21 PM
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25. indeed it does
:evilgrin:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:03 PM
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20. Why not Boston?
I highly, highly recommend Bukowski's on Dalton Street, off Boylston, as the place to go. I know all the bartenders so we will be treated well, the food is good, there is a parking garage right next door, and they have 120 different kinds of beer.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:05 PM
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22. cambridge
for what though?
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:00 PM
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24. This is just a silly poll-has nothing to do with the gathering
:-)

There were a bunch of them last night. Lawrence/Lowell, Madison/Milwaukee, etc.
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really-looney Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 10:31 PM
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27. Lawrence/Lowell
How many votes were their for none of the above?
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:13 PM
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26. Good Memories of Willoughby Street
in Somerville. Most populated city per capita in Massachusetts. Two of my best buds were my housemates on Willoughby St.

I loved Davis Sq too. Bones is still there, I believe; good BBQ.
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