Auf Wiedersehen: The Wursthaus, a landmark Harvard Square eatery founded in 1917, closed July 31 after operating under bankruptcy protection since 1993. The owner's son said the shutdown was not related to the landlord's hopes of demolishing the building and putting up an office-retail complex. Those hopes do threaten The Tasty, the Wursthaus's tiny neighbor. And on Brattle Street, The Blacksmith House-home of fine Viennese pastries since 1946-has been taken over by an Italian bakery, Panini.
Unfortunately this is a continuing general pattern of distinctive places in harvard square (and all of Boston, and I suppose other cities) being replaced with mall chain stores.
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Date: 2006-04-09 12:04 pm (UTC)Auf Wiedersehen: The Wursthaus, a landmark Harvard Square eatery founded in 1917, closed July 31 after operating under bankruptcy protection since 1993. The owner's son said the shutdown was not related to the landlord's hopes of demolishing the building and putting up an office-retail complex. Those hopes do threaten The Tasty, the Wursthaus's tiny neighbor. And on Brattle Street, The Blacksmith House-home of fine Viennese pastries since 1946-has been taken over by an Italian bakery, Panini.
Unfortunately this is a continuing general pattern of distinctive places in harvard square (and all of Boston, and I suppose other cities) being replaced with mall chain stores.