Monday, July 26, 2004
MAP
Look at this. Just the thing to warmup the heart of a person who is just a little regretful at not having a teevee for the Convention: DNC Floor Map/Fleet Center Boston. Play with it. It is great. I found American Samoa seats. Look at the on-stage monitor!
It makes us nostalgic; a little bit. When we left Boston, the Fleet was just getting built and the site looked like this.
To the left there, see the parking garage? That is the former site of the Hotel Manger. It is actually the Tip O'Neill General Services Administration Building. I stayed in the Manger when I came to MIT to be interviewed. That was in 1954. OK. Say it. FIFTY years ago.
The mangy Manger. I don't remember why I chose it. I think because they said they were close to the Charles River and so was MIT. It was still a cab ride, although I found later I could have gone on the T for a lot less and faster. That was imploded too.
Memories. Twenty years later, we lived at Charles River Park just to the upper left. I used to run past the Garden on my 'dock' loop. And so on. Today, it is all swarming with delegates and security people. I am glad that I am not there.
