Remembering The 'West End'

BOSTON — The familiar sign on Storrow Drive reads, “If you lived here, you’d be home now.” It’s promoting an apartment complex that replaced a neighborhood that used to be home to a diverse and bustling working-poor community of immigrants.

In the 1950s, residents of the West End were forced to leave when Boston seized the land by eminent domain for an urban renewal project — now widely denounced as a massive mistake.

To this day, former residents feel the loss of their homes, and they occasionally gather to talk about the old days.

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