Doug White wrote:

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When I was in college in 1971, I worked at a McDonalds in the North End
over the summer, just a few blocks from ground zero for the flood. This
being Boston, it got very hot & very humid occasionally. I can verify
that every once in a while, you could still detect the faint odor of
molasses in the air.

Doug White

Me too. When I was in college around 1955 I had a part time job at the
world's very first Radio Shack store, the one on lower Washington Street
in Boston, which at that time was still owned by it's founders, the
Deutschmann brothers. That was about eight years before Tandy bought it
up, after it became practically bankrupt.

Someobody there pointed out the molasses smell to me on a warm day and
explained its origin. I was skeptical about it until I looked it up in
the library.

That Radio Shack store was around the corner from an olde tyme "burly",
The Old Howard Theater, a place which helped many of us students grasp
the concept of simple harmonic motion, making it easier to get a passing
grade in basic physics:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/harm.html

Jeff
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