http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2008/04/15/nobody-knows-your-name-at-cheers/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:19:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 /boston_daily/2008/04/15/nobody-knows-your-name-at-cheers/#comment-6963 agingcynic Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:49:27 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/04/15/nobody-knows-your-name-at-cheers/#comment-6963 Not to argue with you Rhea but the "Manhattanization" of Boston changed a lot more than the Bull & Finch. (Although Billy Z stopped drinking there well before "Cheers". B&F was already getting the posers.) When the financial district became real-life "Monopoly", locals were priced out of non-expense-account spending. Cheap drafts can't coexist with $1,000/sf buildings. Not to argue with you Rhea but the “Manhattanization” of Boston changed a lot more than the Bull & Finch. (Although Billy Z stopped drinking there well before “Cheers”. B&F was already getting the posers.) When the financial district became real-life “Monopoly”, locals were priced out of non-expense-account spending. Cheap drafts can’t coexist with $1,000/sf buildings.

]]> /boston_daily/2008/04/15/nobody-knows-your-name-at-cheers/#comment-6961 Rhea Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:21:03 +0000 /boston_daily/2008/04/15/nobody-knows-your-name-at-cheers/#comment-6961 And when I went to Emerson, the bar in question was still the Bull & Finch. The television show "Cheers" was still many years in the future. And Emerson students like me were part of the regular crowd. The bar's fame has changed it forever. And not in a good way. And when I went to Emerson, the bar in question was still the Bull & Finch. The television show “Cheers” was still many years in the future. And Emerson students like me were part of the regular crowd. The bar’s fame has changed it forever. And not in a good way.

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