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6 unusual facts about Harvard Square


David Kantor

While teaching at Harvard College in the 1960s, he owned a bookstand in Harvard Square that was pulled behind a donkey.

Fitchburg Railroad

The Harvard Branch Railroad was incorporated and opened in 1849, splitting from the Fitchburg in Somerville and running to Harvard Square.

Harvard Square

The 1970 film Love Story, by the late Harvard alumnus and Yale University professor of classics Erich Segal, takes place almost entirely in and around Harvard Square during its first two-thirds, while Harvard undergraduates Oliver Barrett and Jenny Cavalieri meet; finish college; get married; and Oliver goes to Harvard Law School while Jenny teaches school, living in a second-story walk-up in what looks like Watertown.

The 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus takes place in Harvard Square near the film's conclusion, after the Richard Benjamin character learns that his girlfriend, Brenda Potimkin, an undergraduate at Radcliffe College played by Katharine Ross, left her diaphragm in the top drawer of her bureau at home for her mother to discover.

Konstantin Simun

He is the author of the Memorial to puppeteer I. Fokin installed in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2001.

Society of St. John the Evangelist

The members of the North American congregation live at a monastery designed by Ralph Adams Cram in Cambridge, near Harvard Square.


Carlos Dorrien

His work is scattered throughout New England, including the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, South Boston Maritime Park, Harvard Square, MBTA Alewife station, Lowell, and several other locations in the greater Boston area; most recently, at the Stamford Courthouse in Stamford, Connecticut.

Rotaries in Massachusetts

Dawes Island Park Massachusetts Avenue (Massachusetts Route 2A) Peabody, and Garden Streets in Harvard Square, in an elongated configuration due to portal into Harvard Square Bus Tunnel

The Accidental Time Machine

Mass Ave joins many municipalities and areas in Massachusetts together such as Cambridge and Arlington, which Matt travels to, and includes real-world landmarks Matt sees such as Harvard Square, Inman Square, Kendall Square and Porter Square.

The Hahvahd Tour

Currently Trademark Tours starts every Hahvahd Tour outside of the Out of News Kiosk in Harvard Square and ends the tour in Winthrop Park.

WHRB

The broadcast area expanded considerably in 1995 when the transmitter was relocated from atop Holyoke Center in Harvard Square to its present location atop One Financial Center in downtown Boston.


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Charles River Valley Boys

All were fans of bluegrass and old-timey music, and they began performing together, often with others, at Harvard, appearing regularly on the Harvard student radio station WHRB and becoming regular performers at Tulla's Coffeehouse in Harvard Square.

Thayer Street

While Harvard Square has long been controlled by chain restaurants and stores, many businesses on Thayer remain independent, such as Avon Cinema, Blue State Coffee, Rockstar Body Piercing, East Side Pockets, and NAVA- New And Vintage Apparel with certain notable exceptions such as Johnny Rockets, Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, Urban Outfitters, Chipotle, and CVS Pharmacy.