Posts Tagged ‘Zebra Lounge’
October 14, 1961: That Fateful Day
“Wake up, wake up! Channel two is on fire and has just burnt to the ground.”
Read MoreA stranger in a strange land
From Fred Barzyk: Bill insisted I try to get into the scholarship program. You studied for your graduate degree at Boston University and worked three days a week at the Educational Television station. Free tuition and you got $600 to live a year in Boston!
Read MoreRat Alley Reminiscence (1959)
From Paul Noble Now, here’s a really choice photo, from Brooks Leffler. It’s the entrance to Fred Barzyk’s and Tom McGrath’s dreadful little hovel in "Rat Alley," 1959. It was literally in a back alley which ran from Massachusetts Avenue out behind the Zebra Lounge. The hundreds of resident rats were the size of house…
Read MoreLiving Places of the Not-so-rich and Occasionally Infamous (1957-63)
From Don Hallock Just around the corner from the former Zebra Lounge, (the present-day Crossroads Tavern, shown in this photo to the right of center) was a pair of apartments at 27 1/2 Massachussetts Avenue, over a greasy spoon eating place which shared a kitchen with the Zebra. The second floor was occupied by Bill…
Read MoreThe Scholars Did It All (1957)
From Vic Washkevich Doing a mental replay of our group’s year at the Dream Factory from ’57 to ’58, I was reminded again of the station’s truly humble beginnings. WGBH was born directly over a luncheonette in what once was must have been a roller skating rink, and baptized by the water sprinkled on God…
Read MoreZebra Lounge: From Boston to Krakow?
From Don Hallock What’s the difference between a Bostonian Zebra and a Polish one? Clearly, it’s not the pigeons. Received this photo simultaneously from Don Mallinson, Stew White, Paul Noble and Jean Jolly. I don’t know which of the ’58 group actually went to Krakow, Poland, but someone came back from there with it. As…
Read MoreReunion 2006 Date Confirmed
From Fred Barzyk The date of the second WGBH Reunion is now firm! The event will take place on Saturday, July 15, 2006. Scheduling runs this way: There will be a morning session for old timers – circa 1950s through 1970s – from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm in the Cahners conference room on the…
Read MoreFriday night at the Zebra Lounge
From Don Hallock — 2000 The Zebra Lounge will be remembered by those who frequented it, as a rather ordinary, dimly lit, smoke-filled watering-hole on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street. Today it’s known as The Crossroads. For years, in the late ’50s, the Zebra served as an after-work hangout for Boston University…
Read MoreBob Carey Dies at 59
From Don Hallock Bob Carey was a truly multi-talented individual. Born in Melrose Massachusetts in 1941, his early radio career included producing the Speed Anderson all-night radio show at WVDA. He joined WGBH-FM in 1965 as an engineer, and became Director of Radio in 1970. After leaving the station in 1975, Bob owned and operated…
Read MoreQuo vadis WGBH (1946-2000)
From Don Hallock: It may surprise you to know how many places the station has called home. WGBH’s origins were in a converted skating rink on the second floor of 84 Mass. Ave. and the office spaces on the third, were the first home of WGBH from 1955 to 1961.
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