Don't "park your car" here

[urbpan]

I was on my way to my class and saw the building it's in in daylight for the first time. Well, dusklight, anyway. I realized that someday I'll want a picture so I can say "see, I went to Harvard! in there!"

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[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Whenever people try to stereotype the Boston accent by saying "pahk your cah in Hahvahd yahd" I tell them: "You can't pahk ya cah in Hahvahd Yahd 'cause there ah no pahking spaces there, but you can pahk ya cah at Stah Mahket if you have a Stah Mahket cahd."

[turil.livejournal.com]

Lack of parking spaces doesn't stop people from parking somewhere! The sidewalk, Boston Common, and middle of the travel lane are favored places for some folks to leave their cars these days, apparently. And during "moving season" Harvard opens up the Harvard Yard gates for parents to drive their cars up to the students' dorms to drop off or pick up their luggage.

But yeah, it's kind of an odd phrase.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

The sidewalk, Boston Common, and middle of the travel lane are favored places for some folks to leave their cars these days, apparently

some months back someone did this to the sidewalk right in the middle of davis square. it made me all nostalgic for greece, but americans were less used to it and there were a bunch of them (plus a cop) clustered around it. you'd think they'd never seen someone park a car on the sidwalk before! ;)

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

I used to work in the offices above the Wursthaus - is it still there? I was one of the bookkeepers for it and some stores owned by the same guy - and certainly working in Harvard Square was one of the reasons I took to using a motorcycle as my main form of transportation. Anyway, that's when I took up parking on sidewalks, a habit I've kept ever since, sometimes even when there were legitimate places to park!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

This is from the September/October 1996 "John Harvard's Journal" (now harvard magazine)

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.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Too bad. The owner's son, mentioned above, had a lovely classic Beemer - well, at the time it wasn't classic, it was relatively new - an R100, I think, in an odd 2-tone orange gas tank paint job which was, for some odd reason, popular on that model. I used to park my bike on the sidewalk right next to his.

I bet absolutely NO ONE missed the tripe lunch special, though. Even though all employees got free lunch at the Wursthaus, the weekly tripe special sent us all out to pay someone else for lunch, posthaste. That particular distinctive element, best celebrated in the absence.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it was an R75 or an R90. Now I really don't remember. Darn! Why don't I remember the exact model of a motorcycle I parked next to for a while 30 years ago????