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Harvard Book Store was established in 1932 by Mark Kramer, father of longtime owner Frank Kramer, and originally sold used textbooks to students. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Family-owned for over seventy-five years, the store was sold in the fall of 2008 to Jeffrey Mayersohn and Linda Seamonson of Wellesley, Massachusetts , and remains an independent business.
[1] [2] Reflecting the shifting dynamics of Boston's retail districts, the company opened its Harvard Square store in 1988 and a location in Boston's Back Bay in 1993. The store launched its web site in the winter of 1995, the first comprehensive travel book site on the web. In 2007, it had over 40,000 pages.
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Event Date Venue Neighborhood Event type Notes Boston Marathon: Patriots' Day: Within the city, predominately on Commonwealth Avenue. (Finish at Copley Square.) Back Bay, Fenway-Kenmore, Allston/Brighton: Marathon: The world's oldest annual marathon, beginning in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, roughly 26 miles west of Boston.
The main store is located in the heart of Harvard Square, across the street from the Harvard subway station headhouse. The Coop was founded as the Harvard Cooperative in 1882 to supply books, school supplies, and wood and coal for winter heating. [1] MIT, following its move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, invited the Coop to open a branch of ...
The Picnic's current owner, Tony Davis, began working with Weist in 1983, when Davis was an undergraduate at Harvard University and a part-time store clerk at the Picnic. [6] [10] [11] A comic book veteran, Davis is also a co-founder of the Boston Kids Comics Festival. [12] [13]
Schoenhof's Foreign Books. Schoenhof's Foreign Books was a brick and mortar specialty bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square.Founded in Boston in 1856, Schoenhof's claims to be the oldest foreign language book dealer in the United States and to offer the largest selection of foreign language books in North America.
The volunteer-run bookshop sells books, pamphlets and zines. One of the most popular books is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. [3] Apart from the bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center serves as a space for community organizers to use for meetings and special events. It also hosts a weekly movie night. [7]