Strange Cares posted:

There used to be a great little tea shop called Tealuxe in Harvard Square with this weird little copper tables and a pretty good selection of tea. It was super cozy and I spent a lot of time there over the years, even though they didn't have a bathroom so you'd have to go down the street to piss .

Then a big conglomerate purchased the building they were in, tripled the rent to drive everyone out, and turned it into chain stores. Now there's a lovely chain taco place there called "El Jefe's" that sucks rear end.

I just found out that they're gonna do the same thing to The Garage, which was this little independent mall made out of an old parking structure that used to have a cool sci-fi bookstore (which has now moved and still exists thank god) and a bunch of weird anime stores etc. The structure of The Garage was super weird since it was all adapted from ramps for cars so there are all sorts of weird mezzanines and so on. It's gonna be bulldozed though, and I haven't had the heart to look up what they're turning it into. Probably more chains, it's all we get in Boston now.

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