Transcript of oral history interview with James MacKenzie
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Interview with James MacKenzie conducted by Sari Roboff discussing The Fenway. Interview topics include: Growing up in Holyoke, MA, graduating high school in 1896, his wife Gertrude attending Simmons College when it was a new school, The Fenway before it was developed, moving to Boston in 1907 to work for Blake and Lowe's Pump Works, The Hurricane of 1938, Victory Gardens, the Rose Garden, landfill in the Fens, price of rent over time, the opening of Fenway Park, neighborhood shops, people of the neighborhood, and police's horse drawn wagons Interview mentions: Park Drive (FKA Audobon Circle), Ruggles Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Peterborough Street, Huntington Avenue, Jersey Street, Beacon Street, Queensbury Street, State Street, and St. James Avenue.
