Hello, This morning I was discussing Chardon Street in Boston with my friend, and he thought that Chardon Street was part of "Scollay Square." I looked in my old street-map book .. and it actually looks like Chardon Street is maybe .. a block away .. from the infamous "Scollay Square" which was exactly (as I'm told) .. where "City Hall Plaza" exists now. Does anyone know whether "Scollay Square" included neighboring streets? Being curious (again), I did a search for "Scollay Square" and found this great web site: http://www.bambinomusical.com/Scollay/ Not only does David Kruh's book sound like fun reading, but information on David's life sounds like fund reading ... :o) Since I have just joined this List, I don't know if someone has already posted this information, but it doesn't hurt .. to get a few chuckles (again).. and start your weekend off right! (Make sure you read all the different parts of this web site.) :o) To get back to Chardon Street, .. I see on the map, that in the general vicinity were: Scollay Square, Pemberton Square, Bowdoin Square, and Haymarket Square. (Oh, how that area has ... CHANGED!) It's a good thing that people like to publish books .. on the history of certain areas .. because.. our grandchildren and our grandchildren's grandchildren .. would never believe ..that the Boston .. of their time .. looked like the Boston .. which exists .. only in the photos and illustrations of ... history books ... And, by reading the excerpts from this book (on-line), it says that .. originally, .. the "Scollay Square" neighborhood .. was where "the elite" of Boston lived .. But, the Irish (and other) immigrants arrived in the 1850's (etc.).. and "changed the look of the neighborhood." My friend also remembers meeting .. Mr. William SCOLLAY .. and says that he invented .. that "whistle" which you hear when "the oilman" delivers oil to your house. Because of that .. invention.. Mr. Scollay was able to afford a penthouse apartment in .. Harvard Square .. This William Scollay must have been a grandson, or something ..of the William Scollay whom "Scollay Square" is named after .. One part of the above web site .. is a type of "guest book" where people can write in with a short memory of .. visiting "Scollay Square." Since I've been in the Boston area all of my life (since 40's) .. I know first-hand, plus from reading (on-line) .. brief histories of .. how Boston used to be ... that .. Boston has QUITE .. the history .. Could someone recommend a book which .. "tells it like it was" ?? Have a good weekend, Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. This is still in regards to my grandmother's stay in "The Temporary Home" from approx. 1899 to approx. 1909. And, what is amazing to me .. growing up in the 1950's .. is to see on eBay .. picture post-cards .. of what both Tremont Street .. and the people walking up and down that street .. looked like .. around 1900 .... (I also see on eBay .. that someone has written a small book on the history of the Jordan Marsh Store ... in downtown Boston. To this day, I remember going to what is now called, "Downtown Crossing," .. to "visit Santa Claus" and Jordan Marsh's "Christmas Display" .. and to walk up and down the street .. looking at the "store windows" of both Filene's and Jordan's .. with all their wonderful .. "animated Christmas scenes." And, I also remember the wonderful Christmas display .. on the Common! Being in downtown Boston (Tremont St. and Washington St.) at Christmastime .. was a magical time .. for a child ..)