Packard Motor Car Company of Boston, Inc.
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| Address1: | 1089 Commonwealth Ave. | |
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| City | Boston | ||
| State/Province: | MA | ||
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| Country: | USA | ||
| Updated: | 2016-02-23 | ||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: BigKev on 2010-03-14) | |||
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| Historical Entry: (Added by: BigKev on 2010-03-25) | |||
| Building today  | |||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
| Boston, Mass. building (date unknown)  | |||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
| In 1910, he (Alvan T. Fuller) moved his Packard and Cadillac dealerships from Park Square to a new, $300,000 automotive palace at the intersection of Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, opening it - appropriately - on Washington’s Birthday. The location was dubbed “Fuller’s Folly’’ because it was built near swamp land and considered so far from downtown Boston that no one would shop there. Instead, Fuller sold so many cars that other dealers scrambled to open near him, earning Commonwealth Avenue the moniker “Automobile Row.’’ ...by the 1920s his business “was recognized as the world’s most successful auto dealership. | |||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
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| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
| The Packard building in 1940 has expanded to the right from the original building above (Courtesy of Historical new England)  | |||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
| Packard Ad in the 1923 Boston Globe  | |||
| Historical Entry: (Added by: Guscha on 2016-02-23) | |||
| Packard ad. (source: www.bahistory.org/CommAveEast.html)  | |||
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