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Bette Arnold’s yellow Rolls Royce, parked outside her restaurant in downtown Boston every day in the 1970s, gave the eatery its name and attracted countless walk-in patrons. Photo/Digital Commonwealth/Warren Favor
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Bette’s Rolls Royce was a celebrated Boston nightspot in the seventies

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Numerous people were employed as ice cutters in the winter months to harvest the product from the region’s frozen lakes and ponds.
History

When ice was king in Boston

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This 1980s ad for the Boston nightclub Spit is emblematic of its punk attitude.
Arts and Entertainment

Spit was a Boston nightclub with an attitude

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This ad in Billboard magazine was part of the marketing hype to establish the ultimately ill-fated “Bosstown Sound.”
Arts and Entertainment

The Bosstown Sound was a short-lived attempt to market local psychedelic...

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Jack’s Joke Shop in Boston attracted generations of prank lovers over its 85-year history.
Lifestyle

Jack’s Joke Shop kept Boston laughing for 85 years

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Steve Sweeney, who surged to fame in the 1980s Boston comedy scene, is known for his pugnacious style and use of Boston accents and dialects to poke fun at his native city.
Arts and Entertainment

Boston’s comedy scene boomed in the 1980s

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His appearance in a 1969 Prince Spaghetti television commercial made 12-year-old Anthony Martignetti of Boston’s North End a celebrity for the rest of his life.
Notable People

Boston’s Anthony Martignetti was immortalized in a spaghetti commercial

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Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, once a quarantine hospital, is now a 114-acre recreational area with a beach, hiking trails, and a visitors’ center with a café and a marina.
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Boston Harbor’s islands have overcome their dark past

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News

Celebrity studded AARP event comes to Boston

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Finance

Boston area fourth among 2012 Best Cities for Successful Aging

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