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Old 05-18-06, 09:30 AM
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From a Harvard PDF I found:

Lansdowne to Pacific:
From the 1890s to about 1910,
where the NECCO building now stands used to be the end
of a large velodrome – a bicycle-racing track, called the
Charles River Park. The Stanley Steamer was
demonstrated here. The velodrome owners tried to interest
the precursors of the Red Sox to move here, but after an
exciting late season surge they lost out in a heart-breaker.
So NECCO bought the land and built its candy factory on
the northern slice.
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