While I was an undergraduate at the school across the street in the late 1960s, I worked part time at the Ferrante-Dege camera store at 1252 Mass Ave. One of the “older” (that is “adult”)employees at the store, Bob Smith, was the night manager at the Harvard Square, and when he was on duty he let other FD staff in at a substantial discount. Plus, we got to sit in the loge, which was otherwise closed. I recall that the seats were wicker and had upholstered cushions. (Is my memory failing me?) And when my girlfriend and I went there we’d generally know the few other people in the loge.
My first wife (then girlfriend) and I lived down one block and around the corner at 99 Hancock Street when the Orson Welles opened in the spring of ‘69 and had Sunday brunch at a restaurant that was part of that building in late '77 or early '78 during our last visit to Cambridge before the end of our marriage. Frank Rich was a sophomore, recently elected to the Crimson as I recall when he wrote the article about the theater’s opening. It seemed like such a cool place.
While I was an undergraduate at the school across the street in the late 1960s, I worked part time at the Ferrante-Dege camera store at 1252 Mass Ave. One of the “older” (that is “adult”)employees at the store, Bob Smith, was the night manager at the Harvard Square, and when he was on duty he let other FD staff in at a substantial discount. Plus, we got to sit in the loge, which was otherwise closed. I recall that the seats were wicker and had upholstered cushions. (Is my memory failing me?) And when my girlfriend and I went there we’d generally know the few other people in the loge.
My first wife (then girlfriend) and I lived down one block and around the corner at 99 Hancock Street when the Orson Welles opened in the spring of ‘69 and had Sunday brunch at a restaurant that was part of that building in late '77 or early '78 during our last visit to Cambridge before the end of our marriage. Frank Rich was a sophomore, recently elected to the Crimson as I recall when he wrote the article about the theater’s opening. It seemed like such a cool place.