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Legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday played a week-long engagement at the Flamingo Lounge in Lowell just a few weeks before her death in 1959. Photo/Wikimedia Commons/William Gottlieb
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One of Billie Holiday’s last performances was in Lowell

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Big Brother Bob Emery hosted a popular children’s television show in Boston in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Big Brother Bob Emery was a beloved Boston children’s TV show...

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Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley’s concerts in Cambridge in the early seventies introduced live reggae to a generation of college students and other local music fans. Photo/Wikimedia Commons/Dennis Morris
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Reggae was part of the soundtrack for 1970s Boston area college...

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Musician Jimmy Buffet’s song “Boat Drinks” came from a madcap February night in Boston that involved a stolen cab.
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Jimmy Buffett’s “Boat Drinks” song is based on a true Boston...

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The WGBH Channel Two-Mobile, built for promotional and fundraising purposes, was sure to draw attention when it was spotted around Boston during the 1970s.
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The WGBH Channel Two-Mobile was quite the sight on local roadways

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Legendary Boston police officer Robert “The Bear” Fawcett escorting Mafia hit man and informant Joseph “The Animal” Barboza to court during the mid-1960s. Photo/Courtesy of Boston Police History
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Robert “The Bear” Fawcett was a Boston police legend

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WBZ-TV Channel 4 in Boston’s Bob Lobel, Liz Walker, Jack Williams, Joyce Kulhawik, and Bruce Schwoegler were known as The Dream Team during the heyday of network television news from the 1970s into the 1990s.
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WBZ’s Dream Team represented a golden era of television news

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The new documentary film “Life on the Other Planet” is a tribute to many of the lesser-known bands from Boston’s rock scene during the mid-70s to mid-80s.
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‘Life on the Other Planet’ film takes Boston rock music fans...

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Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting bill in 1812 that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was said to resemble a mythological salamander.
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Massachusetts governor signed a redistricting bill two centuries ago that led...

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The FBI took this surveillance photograph of Angelo Mercurio (right), with Raymond Patriarca, Jr. arriving at a Mafia induction ceremony in Medford in 1989 that it recorded.
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First-ever recorded Mafia induction ceremony occurred in Medford

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