Three Things to Know Today:
1. Your daily scheduler, the events calendar has the following events booked today:
6:00pm North Station Transportation Study – Visioning Session at West End Museum. A public meeting has been scheduled to kick off the community engagement process for the North Station Area Mobility Action Plan. The study will cover the West End, Government Center, and North Station areas. The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) in conjunction with the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) and other city departments, will host a visioning meeting to kick-off the North Station Area Mobility Action Plan (NSAMAP). View the meeting posting.
7:00pm NEWRA Zoning, Licensing & Construction Committee Meeting, at Mariner’s House, 11 North Square, 2nd Floor. The ZLC Agenda will hear about The Wine Bottega, who is seeking transfer of ownership, along with the Battery Wharf Hotel, who is seeking live entertainment addition to certificate of occupancy. See the agenda.
2. Extra, Extra! Read all about it! View the following clippings from the news: The Saturday Evening Girls: A Legacy of Life Lessons & Artistry. The Saturday Evening Girls (SEG) started in 1899 as just a reading hour on Saturday nights in Boston’s North End, eventually leaving behind a legacy of female empowerment, where immigrants of Jewish and Italian descent came together through socialization, education and artistry. Read more on the North End connection to this famous group of women at, The West End Museum.
Prince the Cat once ruled the North End. Now he’ll be memorialized online. Prince, the black cat that was all too familiar throughout the Old North Church will now be featured in an interactive mobile game, called “Prince’s Prowl,” a digital tour with Prince as the guide, continue reading more at, The Boston Globe.
3. Social media snippet: @Jason825 sharing this photo of Endicott Street in 1915, when the gas tank was still in “the gassy!”
Corner of Endicott St. Lafayette Ave. in the #NorthEnd #Boston circa 1915. Gas Tank in #TheGassy #DeFilippoPark pic.twitter.com/sVB2sZ9GUX
— Jason A. Aluia ® (@Jason825) June 25, 2016
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Great picture, Jason. Could that be uncle Vito sitting on the curb stone?
The Gassy or Gas House was used in the manufacture of coal gas from coal. Coal gas was used for street illumination, cooking, heat, etc. Barges would bring coal up the coast from southern mines and many North Enders remember swimming off the barges which were docked where the skating rink is.
One of the byproducts of this process was coal tar which was just dumped into the harbor. When we still had a beach on Commercial St. you would see big lumps of this tar in the sand and you had to be careful not to step in it.
Arthur Laurentano posted the photo on facebook. But it is a good one.