In Marcine Karon’s lifetime, there was little need to leave Central, and Harvard was another world
Marcine Karon, 96, looks back contentedly on a life in Cambridgeport and says she wouldn’t have wanted to spend her life anywhere else.
One family has been in the same Pearl Street home since 1886
Have you ever wondered who built your home or lived there before you? Denise Davis-Sullivan of Cambridgeport doesn’t have to wonder.
Growing up in Cambridgeport from the 1930s into the 1950s with Patricia Ann Smith Lucas
Ann Lucas grew up on the eastern edge of Cambridgeport surrounded by members of her extended family after her grandparents arrived from North Carolina during the Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern states.
Growing up in Cambridgeport has been idyllic, but Gen Zers see the area changing around them
Neither Nora Sokolovska nor Katrina Pallais can imagine a better place to grow up than Cambridgeport. And the 17-year-olds don’t just mean in comparison to other Cambridge neighborhoods. They mean on the face of the earth.
Growing up in Cambridgeport was unforgettable for Louis Fenerlis, the child of Greek immigrants
Louis Fenerlis, of Louie’s Haircuts in Boston, considers himself to be a proud product of Cambridgeport. When his family moved during during his first year in high school, he says he never adjusted to the new town.
Eliodora ‘Josefina’ Yanguas Perez opened Harvard Square’s first European-style café
Today there are at least 20 cafés in Cambridge where patrons can enjoy espresso drinks. In 1959, there was exactly one. That was the year Spanish immigrant Josefina Yanguas opened Café Pamplona on Bow Street.
