Cambridge Directory, 1963, Part 1

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Publication date: 1963
Publisher: New Haven : Price & Lee, 1961-
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201 CAMBRIDGE STREET CAMBRIDGE 41, MASSACHUSETTS


TEL. 864-3645


COUNTY BANK


AND TRUST COMPANY


MAIN OFFICE


CENTRAL SQUARE


CAMBRIDGE


515 MASSACHUSETTS AVE.


BRANCH OFFICE


EAST CAMBRIDGE


310 CAMBRIDGE STREET


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10 TEMPLE STREET TEL. KIRKLAND 7-3621


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NEW ENGLAND'S MOST EXPERIENCED AMBULANCE SERVICE


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TROWBRIDGE 6-0400 CAMBRIDGE 39, MASS.


THE OPERATE OUR OWN RADIO STATION KCD 912 DIRECT OFFICE CONTACT WITH AMBULANCES


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TEL. TR 6-2440


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INSURANCE


STORER, DAMON & LUND


CAMBRIDGE, MASS.


DOUGLAS E. POOLE


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MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


COMPLETE BANKING SERVICES


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Our second century of operation finds us in almost every corner of Cambridge with up-to-the minute banking facilities and services.


Cambridge Business and Industrial Concerns, both large and small, have learned that Harvard Trust is always interested in their progress ... always ready to consider any sound type of financing for manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing or servicing.


Cambridge Residents find Harvard Trust a full-service bank in every sense-a bank that handles all banking needs including checking accounts, savings accounts and every kind of a loan.


For assistance with your particular banking needs, call or visit your nearest Harvard Trust office. TR 6-1700 is the number for any of our Cambridge offices.


· CAMBRIDGE Harvard Square (Main Office)


· Central Square


Kendall Square


· Porter Square


. Alewife Brook Parkway Also in Arlington, Belmont, Concord and Littleton


HARVARD TRUST COMPANY


Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


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The Services of Trained Men. . . Specialists in All Branches of Gas and Electric Service Are Available to Customers and Prospective Customers


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Cambridge Gas Company


303 THIRD STREET


UNiversity 4-3100


Cambridge Electric Light Company


46 BLACKSTONE STREET


UNiversity 4-3100


Mount Auburn Cemetery


The Oldest Garden Cemetery In The United States


N OTED for the beauty of its natural landscape and its historic interest. Here are buried Louis Agassiz, Edwin Booth, Phillips Brooks, Charles Bulfinch, William Ellery Channing, Charlotte Cushman, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles W. Eliot, Charles Dana Gibson, Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Winslow Homer, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, William T. G. Morton, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Josiah Royce, Joseph Story, Charles Sumner, Theodore Thomas and many other famous persons.


An Investment Fund of over $8,700,000 provides for the proper mainten- ance of perpetual care lots and ornamental grounds.


Complete Cremation Facilities. Choice of two chapels for services. Niches for urns in chapel columbaria, cinerary urns, concrete crypts and burial vaults.


Desirable Lots for Sale. Landscape gardening and florist service. Cut flowers, potted plants, Easter lilies, Christmas wreaths, and other decorations avail- able at greenhouses or placed on lots.


For further information communicate with the cemetery office.


MOUNT AUBURN STREET Cambridge 38, Massachusetts KIrkland 7-7105


Price & Lee's CAMBRIDGE


(MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASS.)


CITY DIRECTORY 1963


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CONTAINS:


· Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory


· Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens


· Complete street and avenue guide, including householders, and occupants of office buildings and other business places, with telephone numbers


· Telephone numerical directory


PLUS


Useful and interesting information about the city


Price $85.00


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PUBLISHER'S NOTE.


The information in this book is gathered as far as possible by actual canvass, and is compiled in a way to ensure maximum accuracy. The publishers cannot, of course, guarantee the correctness of information fur- nished them nor the complete absence of mistakes, hence no responsibility for errors or omissions can be assumed, but we will welcome the bringing to our at- tention of any inaccuracies so that correction may be made in the next Directory.


THE PRICE & LEE CO., Publishers.


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CONTENTS


Page


Abbreviations


121


Alphabetical Directory


122


Apartment Buildings


85


Associations, Clubs and Societies


87


Banks and Trust Companies


91


Buildings - Office and Public


93


Buyers' Directory.


41-84


Cambridge - "What You Should Know About"


13


Cemeteries


94


Churches


94


City Officers


31


Classified Directory


85


Convents.


98


Corporations and Chartered Institutions


See Alphabetical Directory


County Officers (Middlesex)


35


Courts


36


Fire Department


33


Governmental Directory


28


Halls ..


105


Hospitals


105


Index to Advertisers


8


Justices of the Peace


107


Libraries.


31


Maps


Inside Back Cover


Notaries Public.


111


Numerical Directory


653


Parks and Playgrounds


113


Police Department.


33


Post Office


38


Public Libraries


31


Railroads


115 School Department


33


Schools, Colleges and Academies


118


State Government ..


37


Telephone Numerical Directory


Green Section


United States Government


38


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Ahern & Lay Inc


47


All Better Services . 48


American Friends Service Committee Inc 44


Austin-Hastings Co Inc 68


Avery & Saul Co


70


Bella Vista Inc . 79


Billings & Stover Inc


50


Bonner John Co Inc The .


54


Brattle Films Inc.


82


Bremis J J Real Estate


75


Cambridge Brake Service 42


Cambridge Chamber of Commerce top lines and 40


Cambridge Chronicle & Sun top edge


Cambridge Civic Association 44


Cambridge Electric Light Co. .opp inside Front Cover and top lines


Cambridge Exterminating Co. 51


Cambridge Federal Savings and Loan Association top lines


Cambridge Gas Co . opp inside Back Cover, bottom edge and top lines Cambridge Housing Authority 56


Cambridge Lumber Co . Back Cover


Cambridge Savings Bank


front edge


Cambridge Taxi Company


82


Cambridge Trust Company.


insert opp Telephone Numerical Directory and top lines


Cambridge Young Men's Christian Assn.


insert opp


Alphabetical Directory


Cambridgeport Savings Bank . . Back Cover


Carstein Coal Co .


51


Chapin Wood Insurance Agency Inc Front Cover Charter House Hotel top lines


45


Columbian Co-operative Bank


43


Comfort Heating Cooling & Engineering Co


51


Commander Hotel. top line s


Corcoran J H & Co Inc


49


Cosmos Insurance Agency 57 Costa Ambulance Service Inc. Front Cover


Coughlin Thomas F Insurance Agency . 58


County Bank and Trust Company Front Cover


Craig Willard C Insurance Agency


Cutter Wood & Sanderson Co.


Front Cover 71


Clark John R & Associates Inc


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Page


Dana Realty Co.


75


Danehy D P & Son. 51B Deal Paul Caterers 44


Deran Confectionery Co Inc 71


Dixon F W Co 69


Donahue John J & Son Funeral Home 52


Dudley & Borland . Front Cover and 58, 75


E M F Electric Supply Co . top lines


East Cambridge Savings Bank


top lines


Elbery Motor Co Inc


top lines


Ellard Robert P


60


Ellis & Andrews


76


Endres William J Co


top lines


Fantasia Restaurant . 79


General Insulation Company


64


Gilbert Harry A Inc.


75


Gold Star Trucking Inc


83


Goldstein George .


61


Goss B D & Co Inc


51


Green Instrument Co Inc. 65


Griffin Kevin A Funeral Home


52


Hammett J L Company 80


Harvard Trust Co. back edge, inside Front Cover


Hastings W B & Co Inc


59


Hinman Asbestos Corporation


64


Home Carpet Cleaning Co


44


Hotel Continental . . Back Cover


Jose Edwin H 61


Keefe Funeral Home


52


Kolligian Motors Inc top lines


Long A E & Son Inc . . top lines


Loudon Advertising . 41 .


Malcalaster Scientific Corp 67


Malcolm William J & Son


74


Massachusetts Port Authority top lines


Metropolitan Pipe & Supply Co . top lines and 54


Middlesex County National Bank , top lines


Miller Electric Service Co 50


Miss Cannon's Shop Inc 45


Mount Auburn Cemetery . opp Title Page


Nash Real Estate & Insurance 60


New England Transmission Co Inc 83


Niles Company Inc Realtors 77


North Avenue Savings Bank insert opp Numerical Directory North Cambridge Co-Operative Bank . insert opp Classified Directory


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O'Brien Daniel F Funeral Home Inc. top lines Out of Town Theatre Ticket Agency . 82


Owens Henry F Inc 74


Pann Robert L Co 74


Phelan W T & Company


60


Phillips Brothers Inc


Polaroid Corp insert opp Alphabetical Directory


Powers J J Co


46


Price & Lee Co The


12


Prospect Carburetor & Auto Electric Service Inc 42


53


Quinn J Henry 76


Reliance Co-operative Bank top lines and 43


Rinaldo Realty Co.


76


Roche Stuart & Watson


61


Rogers Jesse A Insurance Agency Inc . 59


Russell Henry B & Sons Inc


57


Sage Edwin R Co


53


Sancta Maria Hospital.


55


Simplex Wire & Cable Co


70


Simpson Wm S Inc


72


Soucy Val Roofing.


79


Spilewski's Market Inc


53


Spinelli M & Sons Co Inc


46


Stahleker Steel Corp


. Back Cover


Star Pharmacy Inc


50


Stone George R Co


77


Storer Damon & Lund .


Front Cover and 58


Sullivan Jeremiah Sons Inc 46


Sullivan & Chase Construction Co


76


Sweetnam George H Inc 71


Syl's Delivery Inc.


. Back Cover


Taverna Bros Inc . 45


Treadway Motor House 72


United-Carr Fastener Corp - Central Advertising


and Marketing Research Office 66


United Stay Company Inc. 71


University Detective Agency Inc top lines


University Trust Company . insert opp Classified Directory


Van Iderstine Harry & Son Insurance Agency Inc . 59


Vappi & Company Inc


45


Villa Capri Restaurant 78


Vogel's Wood Turning Shop


83


Warren Baking Corp 42


Waterman J S & Sons Inc Front Cover


Watson Charles B Inc - Funeral Home . Back Cover


73


Prospect Gulf Service.


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Welch James O Company


69


Wheelock Lovejoy & Co Inc White J T Wursthaus Restaurant .


81


77


Wyeth Funeral Service


Back Cover


52


Yarlott Gordon , top lines


ADVERTISERS


WHO KNOW


That which makes any advertiser's approval worth while is the prominence he has attained in his particular line of work.


The advertisers in the Directory are competent judges on the subject of advertising mediums - the fact that they approve of Directory advertising is evidenced by their continued patronage.


THE PRICE & LEE CO.


ESTABLISHED 1873


Publishers City Directories


For Communities in Seven States, with a Population in Excess of Five Million


CONNECTICUT


Ansonla, Derby, Shelton and Seymour Branford and North Branford


Bridgeport, Stratford, Fairfield, Southport, Easton and Trumbull Bristol, Forestville, Terryville and Plainville Danbury and Bethel


Danielson and Brooklyn


Darien, Noroton, Noroton Heights and New Canaan


Greenwich, Cos Cob, Riverside, Old Green- wich and Byram


Groton, Groton Long Point, Noank, Mystic Guilford, Madison and Clinton


Hamden, North Haven and Cheshire Hartford


Hartford Suburban Includes East Hartford, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Bloomfield, Newington, Farmington, Glastonbury and Rocky Hill


Manchester Meriden


Middletown, Portland and Cromwell


Milford and Orange


New Britain, Berlin and Kensington


New Haven, West Haven, East Haven, Woodbridge


New London, Waterford, Niantic


New Milford, Brookfield, Bridgewater Newtown and Monroe


Northern Connecticut Includes Enfield, Thompsonville, Windsor Locks, Ware- house Point, Suffield, Hazardville and Scitico


Norwalk and South Norwalk


Norwich


Prospect, Beacon Falls, Bethany and Oxford


Ridgefield, Georgetown, Redding, Redding Ridge Rockville, Vernon, Tolland and Ellington Southington Stamford Torrington, Winsted, Litchfield, Goshen Norfolk and Harwinton


Wallingford


Waterbury, Naugatuck


Waterbury Suburban Includes Watertown, Thomaston, Terryville, Wolcott, Oak- ville and Middlebury


Westport, Saugatuck, Greens Farms, Wes- ton, Wilton Willimantic, Windham and Coventry


Arrow Maps


FLORIDA


Boca Raton Delray Beach, Gulf Stream and Highland Beach


Homestead, Florida City, Cutler, Cutler Ridge, Goulds, Modello, Leisure City, Naranja, Peters, Perrine and Princeton


MAINE


Bath, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath and Woolwich


Brunswick, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harps- well and Topsham


Portland Suburban Includes Cape Eliza- beth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Free- port, Gray, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough and Yarmouth


MASSACHUSETTS


Amherst, Hadley and Hatfield


Athol and Orange


Beverly (Hamilton and Wenham)


Beverly (Manchester and Essex) Brockton


Cambridge Chicopee, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Aldenville and Fairview


Clinton and Lancaster Fitchburg Gardner


Haverhill, Groveland and Merrimac


Holyoke and South Hadley


Ipswich, Boxford, Georgetown, Middleton, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury, Tops- field, West Topsfield


Leominster


Marlboro and Hudson


Northampton and Easthampton


Palmer, Ware and Monson Quincy


South Berkshire Includes Great Barring- ton, Alford, Egremont, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlboro, Sheffield, Stockbridge, West Stockbridge also Canaan, Falls Village, Conn.


Springfield


Springfield Suburban Includes West Springfield, Agawam, North Agawam, Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Feed- ing Hills, Hampden, Ludlow and Wilbraham


Westfield and Southwick


NEW HAMPSHIRE


Exeter, Hampton, Hampton Beach and New Hampshire Coast


White Mountains Includes Littleton, Lisbon, Woodsville, Whitefield, Bath, Bethle- hẹm, Carroll, Franconia, Haverhill, Lyman, Landaff also Wells River, Vt.


NEW JERSEY


Belleville and Nutley Bloomfield and Glen Ridge Clifton


Elizabeth, Hillside, Linden, Roselle, Roselle Park


Irvington


Kearny, Harrison, East Newark and North Arlington


Montclair, Glen Ridge, Caldwell, Essex Falls, Verona and Cedar Grove


Newark


New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Murray Hill


Orange, East Orange, South Orange and Maplewood


Passaic Paterson


Paterson Suburban Includes Haledon, Prospect Park, Hawthorne, Totowa Borough, Little Falls, West Paterson


Ridgewood, Midland Park, Glen Rock, Fair- lawn and Ho-Ho-Kus


Rutherford, East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, Carlstadt, Wood-Ridge Scotch Plains and Fanwood


Summit, Springfield and Millburn


Union and Springfield


West Orange, Livingston, Roseland


NEW YORK


Beacon, Fishkill, Glenham Kingston


Middletown, Wallkill and Goshen


Newburgh, New Windsor, Cornwall Port Chester and Rye, also Byram, Conn.


Arrow Guides


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Summary Suggested and Planned by American Community. Advertising Association Adopted as a regular feature in all directories published by the Association of North American Directory Publishers


CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS


"The University City"


Form of Government Plan E - City Manager-City Council.


Population 107,716 (1960 U. S. Census).


Area


6.25 square miles.


Climate


Temperate. Annual Temperature Average 50.7ºF. Seasonal average-Winter, 30.36ºF. Summer, 70.3ºF.


Tax Rate $72.60 per $1000 on Real and Personal Prop- erty.


Assessed Valuation


$243,803,050 (1961). $247,985,650 (1962).


Banks 13 with total assets in excess of $515,275,- 000.


Post Office Receipts 6 Post Offices - 5 Contract Stations. $4,997,374.00 in 1962.


Building and Construction


901 building permits issued in 1962 for new construction at estimated cost of $26,- 098,698.


Energy Gas, Electric and Steam provided by Cam- bridge Electric Light Co., and Cambridge Steam Corp.


Telephones


71,287.


Industrial


378 manufacturing concers with 26,000 em- ployed in manufacturing. $123,680,000 payroll to 42.2% of those employed in the city.


Principal Products


Industry is diversified from the manufacture and processing of food to research, de- sign and manufacture of professional and scientific instruments.


Railroads


Boston & Maine. New York Central.


Highways Principal State highways lead into Cambridge.


Transportation


Cambridge is a major trucking center with many inter-city fleets operating on daily schedules to New York and Chicago.


Newspapers Cambridge Chronicle Sun (Weekly). Cambridge Courier (Weekly). Cambridge Edition, Boston American (Daily).


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Radio and Television


WTAO-740 k. c.


Cambridge is in the service area of one edu- cational and three network television sta :- tions. 11 network and independent radio stations also service Cambridge.


Hotels


4 Hotels. 4 Motels. Many tourist homes.


Hospitals


3 General Hospitals with 560 beds, including Cambridge City Hospital.


Educational


"The University City" abounds in education- al institutions from elementary school level to graduate school level. Public School System provides 15 elementary schools, 2 vocational schools and 2 high schools. There are private and parochial schools at all levels, college preparatory schools. Cambridge is the site of Har- vard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Radcliffe College. Total enrollment at colleges and univer- sities is estimated at 15,000 students.


Libraries


Cambridge Public Library has central library and seven branches with over 200,000 volumes available. College and univer- sity libraries are also available for re- search. Widener Library at Harvard Uni-


versity is the third largest library in the world.


Recreation


Innumerable recreational opportunities and facilities available in Cambridge and in adjacent Boston. There are facilities and programs to satisfy all ages, from tot-lots supervised by the municipal recreation department, to concerts by the world fam- ous Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cambridge Civic Symphony.


General Information


The Metropolitan Transit System provides intracity bus lines and a rapid transit system sybway connects Cambridge with Boston in 8 minutes from Harvard square. Cambridge maintains its own water supply system with three reservoirs with a stor- age capacity of four and one-half billion gallons. The water is soft and non-corro- sive. Water rates are the lowest in the state. The system is the most complete of any public water supply in New Eng- land.


Since Cambridge is in the Heart of the Metro- politan Boston area, which includes 17 cities and 48 towns in a 20-mile radius of Boston, it can and does draw on the 2,500,000 population within the area for skilled labor. Rapid transit facilities pro- vide excellent transportation into Cam- bridge.


"You Will Be Happy In Cambridge"


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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS


Founded 1636


Incorporated 1846


WASHINGTON


OF THE


AMERICAN ARDY JA, 3:1775


Washington Elm


--


The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, opened in 1963. Designed by Le Corbusier.


The historic past and the future exist side by side in Cambridge. Famous historical sites contrast with modern buildings in which enterprises of the future are planned for the betterment of Mankind and the Nation.


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THIS IS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS


(Courtesy Harvard Trust Co.)


"Learning, Science, History flow together along the Charles River".


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LIVING IN CAMBRIDGE


"A College Community is an attractive place in which to live, and a college community which provides oppor- tunities for research is of incalculable value to an industry engaged in whole or in part in research"- Mayor Edward A. Crane.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Home


A Modern Home In Cambridge


"Know old Cambridge? Hope you do .-


"Born there? Don't say! I was, too.


"Nicest place that ever was seen,-


"Colleges red and Common green,


"Sidewalks brownish, with trees between;


"Sweetest spot beneath the skies."- -Oliver Wendall Holmes Parson Turrell's Legacy.


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CAMBRIDGE IS A CITY WHERE THINGS HAPPEN FIRST


The first university in the United States-Harvard-was founded in 1636 in Cambridge.


The FIRST Printing Press in North America


The first printing press in North America was set up in Cambridge in 1638. Stephen Daye printed the first book in America in 1640.


The first vaccination against smallpox was administered in Cambridge in 1800 by Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse who was the first Surgeon General of the United States Army.


The first great American telescope was manufactured in Cambridge in 1850.


The first sewing machine was perfected in 1845 by Elias Howe while working in the home of a Cam- bridge machinist.


The first pressed glass was molded in Cambridge in 1827. Enoch Robinson revolutionized the glass making industry when he injected molten glass into a mold to create the first piece of pressed glass -a water tumbler.


The first experimental wind tunnel was built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cam- bridge in 1913. Research at the wright Wind Tunnel contributed greatly to the advancement of the aircraft industry.


The first concepts of inertial guidance for missiles were formulated by researchers and engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Polaris Missile Guidance system resulted.


Many firsts in the future will result from the continuing research and development program now in progress in Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering its second century, has 900 non-classified research projects now in progress.


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EDUCATION IN CAMBRIDGE


Morse School


Cambridge, Massachusetts,-"The University City" offers a wide choice of elementary and secondary school facilities.


In the Public School system there are 15 elementary schools, 2 vocational schools, and 2 high schools. Shown above is one of the modern school buildings of the public school system.


The Public School system provides many services to individual pupils without charge. These services include psychological testing, psychiatric evaluation, instruction for the gifted student, the retarded, the physically handicapped in school and at home, for those with speech, hearing, reading and visual defects.


There are 11 elementary and 6 secondary schools in the parochial school system. Private schools on the elementary and secondary levels are available as are several college preparatory schools.


In the adult education area there are University Extension courses available at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Education is one of Cambridge's "most outstanding products". It's educational opportunities attract scholars from all over the world.


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PUBLIC SAFETY


1


Shown are four pieces of modern fire fighting equipment put into service in 1963 by the Cambridge Fire Department.


Modern equipment, radio dispatched and controlled, with well trained and efficient personnel provides around the clock protection to Cambridge residents and industry.


The 240-man Police Department covers the city 24 hours a day. Radio dispatched patrol cars respond to calls instantly and police assistance is available to any home or industry in a matter of minutes.


The Fire Department has 258 men. Protection 24 hours a day is provided with 29 pieces of modern equipment, radio equipped, and manned by trained fire-fighters. The Fire Department operates a Rescue Company service which responds to fire alarms and all other emergency cases where the special equipment and highly trained personnel of this unit can be of assistance.


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CAMBRIDGE - RESEARCH CENTER OF THE NATION


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Air view of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and proposed "Technology Square" project.


In the "Soaring Sixties" the accent is on research.


Here in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America's industry will find the nation's finest research facilities.


Cambridge is the home of world reknowned Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with their fabulous facilities for research in many fields. Cambridge is also the home of some of the world's foremost private research and development laboratories. It was in Cambridge that much of the electronics industry and other modern scientific advances were conceived, researched and developed.




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