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50 years ago this week, April 20

A section of Forbes Ave. was washing away.

This weekly series will post every Friday morning, except when it doesn’t.

Sears died a few weeks shy of its 50th anniversary at the Burlington Mall.

Ernst Makechnie grew the Boston area’s biggest blueberry farm, while teaching violin too.

The IGA Foodliner, resurrected from old 35mm slides.

When a Malden boy brought subs and pizza to this frontier town, he created a monster.

Working with perishable food means you don’t get to sleep late or take extended coffee breaks.

The founder of Winn Street Service has seen mayhem, saved lives, and has at least nine lives himself.

The odd building that was born Episcopal and converted to Judaism.

Long before Abati and Connors, the head honcho was a horse named Dick.