Sometimes the Shuttering of a Café is More Than Just a Business Closing by Joseph Levendusky The endearing little red building on Bow Street Each succeeding generation of Harvard Square roustabouts claims to have known the real, authentic Square. It begins, if you peruse Mo Lotman’s excellent Harvard Square: An Illustrated History, with John Updike musing about his Square in 1950. In 1972, the Harvard Crimson lamented, “While the Square is no longer unique, it still remains unusual, if only because it orients itself towards a young, semi-intellectual audience.” But such ritual whinging may no longer be a mere generational gripe. If you haven’t heard the news: Harvard Square ain’t what it used to be. The Square has been,…
