Promised Land to Looking for Rachel Wallace

All good things must come to an end, and so it was with the office in the Combat Zone. 

"I had been urban-renewed right out of my office and had to move uptown.  My new place was on the second floor of a two-story round turret that stuck out over the corner of Mass Ave and Boylston Street above a cigar store." - Promised Land ch. 1

It's at that asterisk on the southwest corner of the intersection.  It's a very short walk to the ballpark from here.

There may have been a cigar store underneath at the time but it's yet another bank branch now.

Addendum:  Keith Sullivan writes in to note:

"You say that it is a bank now, and wonder if it was ever a cigar store. Well, it was, and called the Berklee (or Berkeley) Smoker. Sometime in the
early 70's, '71 or '72, it was either owned or managed by the father of a girl I knew. I looked for a job there, but ended up not taking it because of the hours."

 

Another view

Yet another

He wasn't lying about the renovations that drove him out.

Classy neighbor right across the street.  The Berklee College of Music.

We're still in the same basic area.  There's the Prudential building looming over Boston.

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