Word: centralization
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Lined with popular shops and department stores, Central Square attracted people from all over the Boston area, making it Cambridge's downtown...
Longtime resident Nellie Banks recounted to Boyer her memories of the stores of Central Square...
...Central Square was something else," Banks said. "All those nice stores. Gorin's, Corcoran's, Harvard Bazaar, Enterprise. You could get most anything down there...
Immigration played a large role in the growth of Central Square, providing a cultural flavor for the area that still stands out today...
...Many storeowners were immigrants or the children of immigrants," Boyer says. "Central Square revolved around them...