VOL. 115 - NO. 22 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 3, 2011 $.30 A COPY MEMORIAL DAY DOWNTOWN BOSTON BID Honored in East Boston JOINS JEWELERS OF 333 WASHINGTON STREET IN UNVEILING NEW PEDESTAL CLOCK The new Downtown Boston erty and business owners ers Exchange Building was Business Improvement Dis- committed to achieving originally a hotel. Today, it is trict (BID) joined the Jewel- downtown’s full potential as a significant retail area ers of 333 Washington Street a premier and vibrant desti- where 125 merchants sell on May 25 in the unveiling nation. The organization’s jewelry, food, and vintage of a new 15-foot, gold-leaf ped- work is designed to benefit goods. Located at 333 Wash- estal clock at the historic property owners, businesses, ington Street in Downtown Boston Jewelers Exchange visitors, students, and resi- Boston, the Jewelers Ex- Building downtown. dents in Downtown Crossing, change Building is managed Built by Medfield-based the Financial District, Lad- by seven trustees. Electric Time, the clock der District, and Theater Dis- About Electric Time resembles a pocket watch, trict. This April, the BID in- Since the 1920s, Electric evoking a time when people troduced its Clean and Hos- Time has been a premium frequently set their own pitality Ambassador program clock manufacturer, build- watches by neighborhood to Downtown Boston. BID ing recognizable clocks in clock towers. Jewelers Ambassadors serve as a major cities across the Exchange Building mer- friendly presence in the dis- United States. Currently chants hope the clock will trict, maintaining public located in Medfield, Massa- have a similar significance spaces and offering assis- chusetts, Electric Time’s today by serving as a new tance to visitors. notable projects include meeting place (“Meet me at About the Jewelers designing the Filene’s Clock the clock”) for those who live, Exchange Building and, mostly recently, restor- work, shop, and visit here. Built in 1922, during the ing of the Faneuil Hall “I was honored to unveil Art Deco period, the Jewel- Clock. this clock tower and publicly thank all the people who helped make this project pos- sible,” said Jay Shoostine, member of the Downtown Boston BID and its Neigh- borhood Advisory Board and a The East Boston community honored our war veterans trustee of the Jewelers of 333 on Memorial Day with a parade to various Memorial Washington Street. sites. Starting in Central Square and traveling to “The clock tower is another Maverick Square stopping at the Vietnam Veteran’s symbol of the revitalization Memorial and Korean War Memorials, the American Flag underway Downtown,” said was raised, the National Anthem was sung along with Mayor Menino. “It has much the Pledge of Allegiance. Wreaths and American flags significance for the 125 mer- were placed and a moment of silence was given at each chants who do business at memorial. The day was sponsored by The East Boston the Jewelers Exchange Veteran’s Council, Post 608, Veteran’s Council, Korean Building.” War Veteran’s, Italian American Vet’s, Fire Department, The clock design was mod- Post 4, American Legion, Kiwanis, Police Department and eled after an old E. Howard East Boston High School Army JROTC. and Co. clock that was for- (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) merly on Washington Street in Downtown Boston. “This clock tower is an- other meaningful addition to News Briefs our neighborhood, and it’s fit- ting that it was installed at by Sal Giarratani the Jewelers Exchange Building, a site already pos- We’re All Red States Now sessing so much history,” Remember back in the 2000 campaign said District 1 City Councilor between George W. Bush and Al Gore when Sal LaMattina. the news media created those red and blue Those who were acknowl- states on the tote board? Liberal states were edged at the unveiling pastel blue and conservative states were hot ceremony include Mayor red? That’s history now as so many states Thomas Menino, Randi have been going under and into the ground. Lathrop of the Boston Rede- California used to be that long blue state on velopment Authority, and the the west coast but now thanks to the leader- Jewelers of 333 Washington ship of former “governator” that state is now very Street and the Edward red, as in pretty broke. Ingerstoll Brown Trust, which If anyone out there belongs to AARP, the lat- both funded the construction est AARP Bulletin magazine shows a dark red of the new pedestal clock. map of the U.S. of A. with “Going Broke” written About the Downtown across the map. The failed economy has united Boston Business the nation into one color, the color of red, as for Improvement District going broke together. The Downtown Boston BID is a private not-for-profit Slain Navy SEAL Honored corporation created by prop- (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) with Ship Name In 2005 Navy SEALs were fighting for their THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT lives on a mountainside in Afghanistan’s Kunar 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON Province. 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He had played dice for four hundred dacy for the Repubulican 2010 “moving toward a more light gradually, and were a young boy named Sporus thousand sesterces a point Party nomination for Presi- moderate centrism for the thought to have been com- castrated and even ordered (about $20,000.00). when dent Thursday. That is as- 2012 election ... but then mitted because of his youth. a transsexual operation for fishing, he often used a suming the announcement times change, and so does As time passed, there was him. Nero then married the golden net, and he never went off as expected. With Mitt. A year later, with the no doubt that his mind was youth, complete with bridal made a journey with less Mr. Romney one is never Tea Party ... Romney is tack- twisted and that his mental- veil, and they lived together than a thousand carriages. sure — after all, he might ing back.” ity was perverted. as man and person. One They say that his mules yet change his mind and In February 2008, after the As soon as darkness fell, witty remark of those times were shod with silver, and take the recommendation of “Super Tuesday” early pri- he left the palace garbed in stated that the world would with a thousand carriages the Wall Street Journal, maries I wrote in this space various disguises and vi- have been a much better that makes for a lot of mule which, on May 12th opined: of Romney: After spending — ciously attacked men who place if Nero’s father had had shod. “Mr. Romney is compro- according to published reports were homeward bound. the same kind of wife. There is no way that Nero mised and not credible. If he — $35 million of his own Those who resisted were History tells us that one of was more extravagant than does not change his mes- money, he is getting beaten up stabbed and thrown into the his favorite games was to in building. He built a palace sage, he might as well try to by both McCain and sewers. He even robbed cover himself with an ani- that extended all of the way knock off Joe Biden and get Huckabee whose combined shops, set up a secret black mal skin and then approach from the Palatine Hill to the on the Obama ticket.” spending doesn’t approach market in the palace and on hands and knees to com- Esqualine Hill and he called Ouch! When you are Romney’s. After spending then squandered the pro- mit perverted acts on men it the House of Passage. It the choice of the Republican $1.16 million per delegate to ceeds. During one of his and women who were first was destroyed by fire but establishment and the get to this point — trailing nightly escapades he mis- bound to stakes. One histo- soon rebuilt and called establishment’s own news- McCain nationally and in treated a woman and was rian reports that there is “Nero’s Golden House.” Ob- paper disses you, you got the large states and trail- almost beaten to death by strong evidence that Nero taining the vast amount of with a capital “T” and that ing Huckabee in the South — her husband, thereafter, he even had illicit relations land required for a house of stands for trustworthiness, Romney has yet to learn that never went out on the prowl with his own mother. this size might have been a which is what many Repub- he can’t buy the nomination. with out having some of his He gave presents and most difficult and expensive lican primary voters find Shortly after the results were palace guards following in wasted money without limi- task for most people, but not lacking in Mr.