Burlesque Queens! Vaudeville Comics! Hot Dogs, Tassels - even George Washington - they're all here on the Scollay Square web site. Created by the author of the only two books ever written exclusively about Scollay Square, this website is packed with pictures and stories of the people and the places that drew millions here during its 120-year reign as Boston's entertainment district. Please also visit our page of antique postcards and another with Francis Dahl cartoons. We are also compelled to offer this page of regrettable errata from both books.
Have you any photos, menus, ephemera or other memorabilia we could add to our page of Scollay Square memories? Do you remember Scollay Square and want to share a story of your time there? Email David if you do.
Taken surreptitiously by James and Elvira MacDonnell, a young couple who snuck an 8mm camera into the Old Howard in the early 1940s, capturing several performances. Though we see MUCH more at the beach these days the prudes at YouTube have deemed this video for adults only, so be prepared to jump through some hoops. But it's worth it, trust me!
Over the years we have been contacted by descendants of the family who gave the Square its name. Some have also asked for help with genealogical research. Please visit this page and feel free to write if with any questions - or answers - about this family.
From gamers Jennifer and Amber comes this screenshot from an XBox game called FALLOUT4. It takes place in an alternate post-apocolyptic version of history, one which (according to its Wikipedia page) features 1940s and 1950s aesthetics, resulting in a retro-futuristic universe largely unchanged since the 1950s,
We were tickled to see the designers included the Scollay Square theater, rendered to look a lot like it did in our own, (only slightly less apocalyptic) universe as it was in 1961. This was just before the theater - and the rest of Scollay Square - were razed to make way for Government Center.
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