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Pie Alley or Pi Alley in Boston, Massachusetts, is located off Washington Street, near the Old City Hall on School Street. The origin of the short street's nickname remains in question. It may be called "Pi Alley" "because of the dumping into it of the pied type from newspaper composing rooms years ago," or "Pie Alley" "because of restaurants that sold a piece of pie and a cup of coffee for a nickel."〔Warning on Pi Alley; Boston Byway Posted as Private but Traffic Goes On. New York Times, January 11, 1922.〕〔Boston Globe Guide to Boston. 2005〕 It is also known as Williams Court, Savage's Court, Peck's Arch, and Webster's Arch.〔Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston]. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.〕〔Edward Hartwell Savage. Boston events: Boston for 250 years, from Blackstone to O'Brien. Boston: Mutual News Co., 1886.〕〔http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/streetbook/ Retrieved 2010-05-29〕 ==History== Through the years, tenants have included: * The Bell-in-Hand (est. 1795) was "a faithful reproduction of the taverns fashionable in London" in the 18th century.〔John F. Murphy. Up-to-date guide book of greater Boston. Boston: Murphy, 1904; p.60〕〔The Bell-in-Hand, 1795: Boston's Oldest Tavern. (Caledonian ) (NY), v.11, no.4, Aug. 1911; p.166-167.〕 * ''Boston Herald''〔Bostonian Society. Old Boston in early photographs, 1850-1918. Dover Publications, 1990; p.16.〕 * Boston police (c. 1854), corner of Court Square and Williams Ct.〔Edward Hartwell Savage. Boston events: Boston for 250 years, from Blackstone to O'Brien. Boston: Mutual News Co., 1886.〕 * Private residences in 1832 of a clerk, colorer, cordwainer, handcartman, housewright, mariner, nurse, truckman, wheelwright, and several laborers, printers, and widows〔Boston Directory. 1832〕 * David Francis (1779-1853), printer, publisher (Munroe & Francis)〔Roberts. History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888, Volume 2. Boston: A. Mudge & son, printers, 1897; p.333-334〕 * "Oakum pickers tenement" (c. 1711). "In 1711, Oct. 2, a fire commenced in Williams' Court in an oakum pickers tenement, where the woman suffered the fire 'to catch the oakum she was employed in picking of;' all the houses and stores on both sides of Washington St. between School St. and Dock Square were laid in ashes."〔Dearborn's reminiscences of Boston. 1851; p.32〕 * ''Life in Boston'', a weekly periodical (c. 1851)〔Dearborn's reminiscences of Boston. 1851; p.90〕 * Samuel Sewall (c. 1727). "Monday, July 10th, 1727, removed with my family to Boston. Hired a house in Deacon Williams Court next house to Deacon Williams, N. Gates and N. Gleason, bringing my household stuff."〔Sewall, quoted in: "Early Reminiscences." City Record and Boston News-Letter, Jan. 21, 1826〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pie Alley (Boston)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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