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The Border Cafe: Closed Forever

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It is a sad day. I just learned what I have suspected for a long time. The Harvard Square branch of The Border Cafe is closed permanently. They had been closed due to a fire, but it is the pandemic that truly ended it.

I only saw mention of the Cambridge location. Burlington and Saugus seem to be okay. I don’t know if they’ve been open at all since March, and I sure as hell am not planning on going to find out. I just hope that post-vaccination, they are still there waiting for us.

Pour one out for The Border. We hardly knew ye.

Pics from Yesterday

I took a half day off from work yesterday so that I could get into town for the Rush show early. I took a half day off from work today so that I could sleep late… although I didn’t sleep late. Dummy.

Anyway, before going to the garden I went to Harvard Square. I wanted to have lunch at the REAL Border Cafe on Church Street, as opposed to the imposter in Burlington. I also wanted to see if any of my old go-to used record stores were there. They weren’t. That is sad.

Here’s a couple of views from the roof of the parking garage on JFK street.
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I don’t think I ever noticed the Prudential building in the distance from up there before.
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As a Bruins fan, this is obligatory any time I visit the TD Garden.

“Behind the net to Sanderson, ORR!! BOBBY ORR!!”
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While we were waiting in line to get into the Garden, this dude on the other side of Causeway street was snapping pictures of everyone.
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Again, as a Bruins fan this is obligatory. 2011 is starting to feel like the long, long distant past.
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Vine

Vine is downright silly. Seven second videos looping endlessly? How silly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTylkhb_EIs

Then again, twitter is silly, and facebook is silly, and instagram is silly, and youtube is silly, and pretty much everything is silly, and I’ve jumped on those wagons too.

Oggl One Ups Hipstamatic

I didn’t realize this until this morning, but if you use Oggl you can go back and change the lens/film selections of photos you’ve already shared. I shared these last night:
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But I could have sworn that I did not post them as black and whites. I thought I had changed to a color film before sending them off everywhere. Today I played around for a minute and a half and was able to change them to these:

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Cool, eh? The downside is that I cannot re-share them via Oggl itself, and the new configuration actually replaces the old one in the photo stream, so it’s not like you can take one picture and save 50 different versions of it or anything crazy like that. Still, I don’t think you can do that with Hipstamatic itself. You have to set the lens/film/flash (does anyone use the flash? I don’t) before you snap the pic.

Just letting you all know.

Harvard Square

I spent a good chunk of my 20’s and early 30’s visiting Harvard Square. The record stores, the ice cream shoppes, and most importantly the Border Cafe. Those days are over now as I’ve moved on to an infinitely better life, but Mike, Larry, and I turned back the clock for a few minutes tonight. I still love the whole neighborhood.

JFK Street in Cambridge, just down the road from Harvard Sqr

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