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Sunday Meeting Group, circa 1870
Sunday Meeting Group, circa 1870
This group, seen here during an outing by the Providence River, met every Sunday in the back room of Warren G. Currier’s drug store in Brookline Village. Most of the men lived close to the store located just north of Davis Ave. on Washington St. This photo appeared on page one of the December 7, 1907 issue of The Brookline Chronicle.

In the back row from left to right:
  • Justin Jones, founder and editor of the Boston weekly, the Yankee Blade; he lived on Harrison Place (Kent St.)
  • Oliver Cousens, a carpenter whose house and other buildings were on School St.
  • Eben Morse, lived in the Village and ran a stable and hackney business there
  • Warren G. Currier, owner of the drugstore in Harvard Square where the meetings were held
  • Alfred Taylor, a young wool broker who lived in the family house on Harvard St. next to the Baptist Church
  • Patrick Dillon, a policeman who lived on Davis Place

In the front row from left to right:
  • Joseph Thomas Waterman, a carpenter who lived on Aspinwall Ave. and whose son, Alfred Patterson Waterman, provided the photo to the Chronicle
  • Charles Chase, an operator of a delivery service who lived on Washington St. near the library
  • Thomas S. Pettingill, sexton of the Baptist Church and town undertaker, who lived on Harvard St. by Aspinwall Ave.
  • James H. Boody, a painter who lived in Brookline Village
[Courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth (CC BY-NC-ND). From the Brookline Photograph Collection published by the Public Library of Brookline]
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Brookline Record Stores: From Edison's Phonograph to Village Vinyl

In 2024, I sold my collection of a few hundred vinyl record albums to Jonathan Sandler of Village Vinyl & Hi-Fi in Coolidge Corner. They were mostly jazz albums I'd bought in the 1970s and 1980s, including quite a few older albums I'd picked up in used record bins during those pre-CD years.

The covers of the album, as well as the music on them, carried a lot of sentimental value for me. But I hadn't actually owned a turntable for years, and I was glad that, in addition to providing me some extra cash, the music would find new owners/listeners, especially amid a growing appreciation for vinyl.


I also gave Jonat...