Boston Chinatown Banquet - Combat Zone

[geocgeo]

Do an internet search for..

Now and then: Chinatown, Combat Zone

[jevilscientist]

Use to go to the Liberty Bookstore II. Naked I Cabaret.Haymarket club.

[e8tballz]

U can still easily find drugs in that area at night.

[a13mac1]

Boston is a ghost town now I lived there for 11 years but had to move because its to depressing...

[umbdude]

I was lucky enough to be in my teens in the early 90s before the city tore down the remainings of the combat zone, but by then the big shops like Naked I was already gone. I had so much fun in the area...pilgrim, liberty...all those places.

now it feels like a dry town. Those luxury buildings never seem to fit into those few blocks in my opinion.

[oldschoolbx1970]

@umbdude Same thing with NYC's Times Square,too.

[MultiJohnson2]

just wondering, what year was this newsclip made?

what year is the old footage from?

[kingofallwhites]

Bring back the Combat Zone in it's full former glory!!!

[wreckingball007]

Ohhh...the good ol' days.

[mellowsky47]

I have always respected the hard working honest Chinese people. I loved the zone but I never hurt an asian.

[kingofallwhites]

@mellowsky47 yeah they come from good stock and they're so little and polite too

[bEANtOWNMAMii617]

you know how much prostitution goes on in chinatown boston. its crazy!! they need to put a stop to it

[bundangbear]

Great, now it can all look just like one big suburb. GENTRIFICATION KILLS CITIES!

[DevSodDribble]

@bundangbear Some cities need killing.

[Mike1964]

My Dad used to play in bands up and down the strip during the 60s and 70s. By the mid-70s that area was really nasty. I remember riding in the car during the daytime. We locked the doors and rolled up the windows. You could tell by the old architecture, that area might of had some class in the centuries before. I remember seeing the "liberty building" where the liberty tree once stood. I don't think "the sons of liberty" could imagine what was to come later!

[martybearass]

the 70's was the best time I enjoyed in the combat zone,17 yrs old and was workin in an adult peep show!!Playland bar the best!! State theater! mmm good times in the balcony ;) the stuart theater had good action as well damn the good old days and it was safe!!! you just had to know where and what you was doing :)

[hangnail4000]

GLASS SLIPPER 4 LYFE

[rotaryseven]

Watching this video, I hear the name Mayor Flynn? I think he ran Boston when I was in my youth? Why is this still up?

[bundangbear]

@rotaryseven Becasue it's part of history, Sully. Wicked pissah!

[DUBSAC]

I wish it was still there

[waitwhatwasthat]

is this the area that you have to keep a baseball bat in your car to ward off all the thugs trying to walk across your car?

[lonsumtravlr]

@waitwhatwasthat No, that's actually a better part of Chinatown, down Beech Street by the gate. Great, great Taiwanese food. Those guys, I think, werent' from there (and I'm not just saying that because almost all of them looked white--they seemed to be heading back to their cars).

[jmyers221]

@waitwhatwasthat YES... YES... YES...

[royalfool1195]

@waitwhatwasthat yes

[facepalmmedia]

I love chinatown, best part of the city.

[DomenicDee]

Anybody know what year this news segment was produced? Just a guess, looks like the early 90's.

[REIGN131]

All that stuff about ppl walking around drunk etc... Um its exactly the same today- only difference is that today EVERYTHING is in chinese

[lovetrain442]

It was a jungle in there !!!

[ceecoursian]

Now they just sell the porn in the Chinese stores. Nothing has changed.

[ShellsPink]

Roger Pace!! xoxo

[VicountClovis]

I played guitar for Roger Pace once. He was unbelieveable

[TheMarshall67]

I remembered going to the Publix Theater back in the 80's to watch Kung-Fu flicks and cheesy horror shows..Oh the memories!.

[October2nd1869]

My first apartment was on Washington & Beach in like 86-87 a 2nd floor box over a book store. I must have watched Taxi Driver too many times, because I wanted to live there.

I can still remember the smell of that place.

[bos78]

I don't think they'll stop until downtown is just one big wallgreens. Cities are better when people from the suburbs are afraid to go there.

[mooville32]

Me and my friends used to take the T to a bar called Harry's back in the early 80's where we'd get served. We were all about 15 years old then.

I miss that place!!!

[mainetc]

Excellent video on the history of Boston combat zone! Thanks

[DocHolliday1881]

I lived in Boston in 1981 when the Combat Zone was shrinking. I used the Combat Zone of that time as the setting for a script I'm writing.

[mountholyoke]

I was very happy to see this video! Very interesting with wonderful old footage of Boston. I am a proud resident of Chinatown (3 years and counting) and of Boston (10 years total) and I was interested to see how this neighborhood has developed. I am glad that the seedy elements have abated, but I hope the gentrification does not inflict too harshly on Chinatown.

[ongordonstreet]

Now, in 2008, the Combat Zone has been reduced to a pair of strip clubs, and Chinatown, thankfully, continues to thrive.

[dkublin]

good old days....(: