Jamaica Plain old-timers will remember that only two clocks really mattered in our youth. One was outside of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank at 696 Centre St. and the other important clock was in the lobby of the Jamaica Theatre at Hyde Square.
Read MoreThe International Chinese Business Business Directory of 1913 included four entries for Chinese-owned businesses in Jamaica Plain.
Read MoreIn 1953, when Classic Cleaners opened 50 cents you could get a jacket dry-cleaned at their new shop on the corner of Centre and Green streets.
Read MoreHailer’s Drug Store, one of the oldest retail landmarks in Jamaica Plain, shut its doors for the last time Monday. [1993]
Read MoreRipe guineos verde green bananas Dominican olive oil, dulce de leche candy, Embajador chocolate, and Yaucono coffee, shrink-wrapped for freshness. Shoppers who push through the swinging metal doors of Hi-Lo Foods are on a mission: to fill their carts with foods like these that they often can’t find anywhere else.
Read MoreJulia’s Beauty Shoppe in Jamaica Plain, the oldest salon and one of the oldest businesses in Jamaica Plain. The shop, started by Moore’s mother, Julia Spagnoletti, has been a part of JP for 75 years, remarkable in a neighborhood known for its diversity and change.
Read MoreThe Ross ledgers run from 1926 to 1941. Thomas Ross took his son Wallace Ross with him on his jobs, and in March 1933 Wallace took over from his father. Happily the names of his father’s clients continue to appear on the accounts.
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