When Boston was grittier  By adamg, Sun, 12/02/2012 - 12:37pm
Dirty Old Boston is a Facebook page where you can see tons of
photos of the "Boston/Cambridge area as it appeared before the
Gentrification of the 80's began."  Free tagging:    By anon on
...and it's mostly a bunch of townies who're all GET OFF MY
LAWN.  I especially like the BU bridge photo, where you can't
see more than a block because of all the pollution, but someone
declares it "best skyline view in Boston!"  Would people please
stop whining about gentrification? Demographics have always
shifted in Boston. JP used to be all Italians and Irish, for
example. Mattapan used to be heavily Jewish. So are we going to
whine about "gentification" when white people start moving to
Mattapan?  By anon on  I don't think gentrification is the
problem as much as "generification", if that is even a word. It
always seems to follow that with gentrification comes a genric
blandness. The grit and guts, the very URBANESS is removed. Even
when there is an attemp