Watching City on a Hill. Definitely not the first series, film, or documentary on the place I’ve seen. I know one thing, I would never go to Charlestown and fuck around nor talk shit to people. I wouldn’t do that anywhere but I think you get my meaning.
We got any Boston people? Has the area been gentrified (Toonies) like so many others have or is it still representing? Just curious. Any stories you have from there?
I’d pay to see someone with a Yankees uniform walk through there on a busy day
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Originally posted by Prefontaine: I know one thing, I would never go to Charlestown and fuck around nor talk shit to people. I wouldn’t do that anywhere but I think you get my meaning.
Not nearly as bad as other cities. I've walked through Charlestown many times with my daughter with no problems. One time my daughter was wearing her Judge Yankees jersey. My daughter graduated BC and decided to stay in Boston in the south end. I have never felt unsafe or unwelcome. Can't say the same for Philly, Chicago or even NYC. Charlestown does have some very interesting history, especially bank robbery.
The Charlestown of today is much tamer to outsiders than in the 70’s or 80’s. In those days if you weren’t from there you didn’t go there, I’m Italian and from the North End and Eastie, it was bad going to Southie during those times as it was all Irish and very territorial, you’d be fighting people if you went to the wrong bar, or park, or hangout, in Charlestown you’d get stabbed. Charlestown and “Townies” had a tough reputation, for lack of a better term you “didn’t fuck around there” or with them. A code of silence was a very real thing, my friends from there had longshoreman Union cards at 15, a lot of kids started doing banks and armored cars around the same age. After a bank robbery in greater Boston the cops would flood Charlestown, but nobody ratted, if they did, they and they’re family didn’t last long. Different world, different time. When busing came, and black kids were bused there it was horrid, the stuff that happened, made todays bullshit seem amateur. The Town is based on real events and a book, but Hollywood added it’s spin and nonsense. Charlestown still has the ghost of that reputation, the white yuppies that move in are called “Toonies.”
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Originally posted by spunk639: The Charlestown of today is much tamer to outsiders than in the 70’s or 80’s. In those days if you weren’t from there you didn’t go there, I’m Italian and from the North End and Eastie, it was bad going to Southie during those times as it was all Irish and very territorial, you’d be fighting people if you went to the wrong bar, or park, or hangout, in Charlestown you’d get stabbed. Charlestown and “Townies” had a tough reputation, for lack of a better term you “didn’t fuck around there” or with them. A code of silence was a very real thing, my friends from there had longshoreman Union cards at 15, a lot of kids started doing banks and armored cars around the same age. After a bank robbery in greater Boston the cops would flood Charlestown, but nobody ratted, if they did, they and they’re family didn’t last long. Different world, different time. When busing came, and black kids were bused there it was horrid, the stuff that happened, made todays bullshit seem amateur. The Town is based on real events and a book, but Hollywood added it’s spin and nonsense. Charlestown still has the ghost of that reputation, the white yuppies that move in are called “Toonies.”
Thanks for the insight and history.
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