Irving Square in the 1950s
Browsing through some things I’ve saved through the years, I came across this photo from an article in the Middlesex News.
As you can see, there was a Sears store where the Store 24 is now. It was called the Smith Building, and burnt down in 1966. From the age of the cars in the photo, I’d date this view to the early 1950s. Thanks to the Framingham Historical Society, which let the newspaper reprint the view.
dee said,
March 10, 2008 at 4:58 am
FRAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY WAS ALWAYS “WITH IT”.
Jim Kelley said,
February 27, 2009 at 4:46 am
I remember that Sears store, it was called a satelite store, next door was a store that sold specialty food items calles S.S.Pierce, and a couple doors down was Seymour shoes, Pete Seymour died a year or so ago and was a great guy, in the 60s Bates News occupied a space near Seymour shoes and that’s where I brought my paper route money to be counted by Rocky Bates every Sunday when I was 11 to 14 yrs old, ending circa 1963 when I got a job pumping gas at the Concord Street Shell station on the corner of Lawrence and Concord street. The new Shell building was built on the property of Joe McManus who had a Jenny station there for many years, he would not sell the property to Shell, he rented the property to them and made a bundle in the process.