Lechmere

There were numerous trolley lines to and from Harvard Sq, Lechmere Sq, etc.

Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height 2010

It's kind of like when Lechmere went out of business — 10 years earlier, people would have been howling.

Dissecting the death of WBCN 2009

Lechmere was the king when it came to kick-ass JVC receivers and other stereo components.

Dissecting the death of WBCN 2009

God, I remember being happy that Best Buy was replacing Lechmere...how little I knew...

Dissecting the death of WBCN 2009

It's where Porter Street meets Elm at the bottom of the hill, right by the Lechmere Car Wash.

February 23rd, 2007 ceciliatan 2007

Lechmere is dead, and yet its ghost still haunts this odd little place about three blocks east of its resting place.

Dissecting the death of WBCN 2009

Ahhh Lechmere was apparently named after the square, not vice versa.

Boston Globe (and Filene's Basement) « Climate Audit 2006

Now the chain is dissolved in favor of the Best Buys, and Circuit Cities, but Lechmere station is still there.

Boston Globe (and Filene's Basement) « Climate Audit 2006

From a deserted stretch of beach, they were ferried across Boston Harbor to Lechmere Point in Cambridge in boats worked with muffled oars.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

From Lechmere Point, they slogged through marshes before emerging onto a side road to Lexington; but they had scarcely gone more than a few miles when alarm guns sounded through the night air and a distant clamor of village bells told them that word of their mission had already spread.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997