A parking garage? You must be on an HMO.
Late twenties.
Hey, I was born in the hospital overlooking Spot Pond! Grew up in Melrose, though.
Hey hey hey, the li’l Lils lilted into life linked!
Shit, I wanta know.
A Ford tatoo to let you know she’s “high maintenance”.
:dubious:
Fucked or rogered daily?
New England Memorial? Me too. You didn’t go to Horace Mann Elementary, did you? My mom used to teach there.
I’d hate to see it go, especially as a result of this kind of grandtanding. I, too, used to be able to see it from my dorm window. It’s the very last of the many signs that used to ring the Charles River Basin. A lot of thenm were multicolored and/or animated in some way. Now the Heinz 57, the Cain’s sign (“Mayonnaise/PotatoChips”), the Carter’s Pens sign (in cool multicolored neon, aping the pen colors), the Whiote Fuel Sign (with its animated oil gusher) are all long gone. Only the Citgo sign, with its scrolling up and down whote background, and its scrolling in and out red triangle, remains. (And it looks a helluva lot better with LEDs than with neon tubes, many of which would be out and would ruin the effect) I suspect its proximity to and visibility from Fenway Park is responsible for its survival and the protectiveness Bostonians feel toward it.
Citgo may now be effectively owned by Venezuelans, but Cities’ Service (I still remember the original green-and-white Triangle + Clover logo) was founded in Middle america, and was US-owned for most of its history.
Yeh, poor old NE Memorial, shuttered and dark now. Its vacant hulk looms next to the assisted living where my mom lives now.
Horace Mann was on the other side of Melrose from where we lived at first, in the Highlands. Went to Whittier for K and 1st grade, before they closed that four-classroom wooden antiquity. Then we moved to a house behind the main library and I went to Coolidge. Which, come to think of it, also closed as a school and was reborn as condos.
Hmmmmmmmmmm… am I seeing a pattern here?
I remember when the Citgo sign was new. I am so freeking old. I hate Bush, but Chavez is such a prick that it would be fun to see a temporary sign of him being butt fucked by W yelling “Ole this amigo”.
Joke for you Bostoners:
Cab driver sees man lying by side of road, holding his groin, and groaning. He stops to see if the man needs help. The man gasps “take…me…to…hospital”. The cab driver say “Peter Bent”? The man says “Bent? She damn near bit it off”.
Today she was wearing really short shorts rolled down at the waist. The Ford badge in all its faux-3D glory is bisected by the strap of her thong, to the right of her tailbone.
What Exit, like all ballparks, Fenway does all of its renovations post-season. For Fenway, this late in September is post-season… 
What would someone of Click’s (or is it Clack’s) vintage have on his class ring?
Het Cal, you brought back memories…how long was it since the ECA (Electronic Corp. of America0 went away-it was in cambridge.
ralph124c:
I don’t recall an ECA sign. Either it predated me or my memory is shot. Or both.
ENugent:
Where on the Brass Rat do they put the Citgo sign? I was class of '77, and there’s no obvious place for it on my ring. Did they start incorporating a Boston Skyline on the side or something?
What really amazed me about the Citgo sign, which I’d seen a thousand times on TV before I visited Boston, is how far it is from Fenway. It looks like it’s across the street or something, but it’s well past the highway beyond the Green Monster. (Photo whoring)
We all have a beaver (“nature’s engineer”) on the face of the ring - it’s called a Brass Rat because of that. The sides have an image of the front entrance of MIT and the MIT seal on them. Starting with the class of 1990, the edges have the Boston skyline on one side (complete with Citgo sign) and the Cambridge skyline (complete with the big ball on top of the Green Building) on the other side. The details of the design are different every year. You can see the 2004 ring here.
I’m not sure what was on the ring at the time that the Magliozzis graduated (1958 and 1972, respectively). Presumably it was the beaver, the entrance to the Institute, and the seal, but I haven’t seen rings of that vintage to confirm.
Oh, and starting in the mid-90’s some time, the rings started including a map of the Institute on the inside of the ring, too.
In 1977, at least, you had the beaver on a stack of sticks, incorporating the class year somewhere. Each year’s beaver was different. Ours had a stack of “77’s” in it, including (the only time I know this happened) the stick in the beaver’s mouth.
There’s the Institute Big Dome as seen from Great Court/Killian Court on each side, only the year in roman numerals isn’t 1861 (as on the real thing), but your class year. The pediment actually has “Massacvhusetts Institute of Technology” on it, written out in full. But you need a magnifying glass to see it. On the two sides (presumably where the skylines are) is simply a geometrical pattern.
The inside is blank, except for your name, major, and year.