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50 years ago this month, April edition

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Farewell to the gas station at Cambridge Street and Terry Avenue. It’s going to be a Convenient MD location.

 

Cambridge Street Auto Repair

Fifty years ago, it was an Esso station under the ownership of Jack Kilmartin. The station went through many owners, but he held it the longest. These ad shots are from exactly 50 years ago, April of 1969.

Other material from that same location:

 

This is now the Gulf station on the corner of Terry Ave.

 

Diagonally across the street, 50 years ago this month, Mister Donut was born.

 

Mister Donut, across from Terry Ave., c 1975. Opened April 1969.

 

Burlington’s first minuteman company, April 1969
Cheryle Little of 2 South Bedford St.
Kim Frederikson, 60 Lexington St., performed in the ballet “Giselle,” presented by the Boston Ballet Company.
William Costello and Rose Ann Markow played with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony in Jordan Hall. Proceeds from the event helped pay for the orchestra’s trip to Switzerland.

Also this month, Town Meeting approved ordering a row of temporary, portable classrooms at the high school (now Marshall Simonds Middle School) similar to the ones already installed at Memorial Elementary School across the street.

Portables at Marshall Simonds (then the high school), early 1970s.
Portable classrooms behind original Memorial School, late 1960s. Burlington was the first Massachusetts town to use portable classrooms. Removed in 1978.

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