Burlesque
Queens! Vaudeville Comics! Hot Dogs,
Tassels,
even George Washington! Yes, they're all
here on the Scollay Square web site, with pages where you can learn more
about the Square, including the entertainers and celebrities who flocked
here during its 120-year reign as Boston's entertainment district.
You'll also find article reprints, cartoons, photos,
postcards,
videos and audio, including rare recordings of Sally
Keith singing. You can also buy autographed copies here of the
only books written about Scollay Square:
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Includes 180 photographs and postcards, many of which have never
been published before, including extremely rare views backstage and on
stage at the Old Howard.
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$19
plus $2.00 S&H (U.S. only) Use VISA, Mastercard or PAYPAL. Email
for orders outside U.S.
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$19
plus $2.00 S&H (U.S. only) Use VISA, Mastercard or PAYPAL. Email
for orders outside U.S.
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"This delightful book,
now in its second edition, gives the full history, with all the tassels
twirling, the sailors swooning, the beer halls filled with guzzlers, and
so on. A really fine book about... the Boston that's gone."
David Brudnoy, WBZ radio, Boston |
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SHIPPING FOR $38
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if you have any questions, are overseas, or wish to arrange another form
of payment.
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more about this new documentary all about Burlesque (which features
some Scollay Square veterans) that is coming to theaters in 2010
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Even more pages: Thanks to the generosity of the
people who lived, worked, and played in Scollay Square - as well as some
lucky bidding on eBay - there's so much more information to share with
you, including a page of
postcards of Scollay
Square. We also have the work of Boston Post cartoonist
Francis
Dahl, comedy legend
Fred Allen and
BBD&O ad man (and Old Howard enthusiast)
Francis
W. Hatch. You'll also find pages on
Adams
Square, the nearby
Hotel Madison,
one on the
1987 renaming ceremony, another
on a unique
art / architecture project in Scollay
Square, and another with a complete reprint of an 1898 magazine
article on the
building of the Boston's subway.
We've also posted a page with
excerpts
from the books as well as some
errata.
Additionally, there is a page about the author's popular
slide
lectures, which include not just Scollay Square but the West End,
Route 128, the Ponzi Scheme, and other topics. Two more fun pages are a
look at
Scollay Square in books and
Scollay
Square in the movies. Finally, but perhaps most importantly,
is a page devoted to the family that gave the Square its name:
The
Scollay Family. We also have a complete
Site
Map here.
Thank you for visiting
