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Article: TAKING DIVERSITY TO THE BANK CAMBRIDGE'S CENTRAL SQUARE, A MEDLEY OF ETHNIC VOICES, SEARCHES FOR ECONOMIC REBOUND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1990
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CAMBRIDGE - Fresh from Minneapolis and on her way to a new
job as manager of the Cambridge Food Cooperative on Massachusetts
Avenue, Paula Gilbertson took one look at Central Square last year
and said, "restless."
Later, Gilbertson taped a quotation found in a publication to
the wall behind her desk because it expressed how she felt about
the square. "If ever there was a neighborhood of many faces and a
multitude of voices," it said, "it is congested, restless Central
Square."
Wedged between affluent Harvard Square and the rapidly
expanding Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Central Square is
down-to-earth, funky, arty, congested, shabby and exciting. Some
locals say it is the ...