Off the Bricks

Shot Here · STOP 11 · Faneuil Hall Marketplace

For nineteen years this marketplace had a copy of a TV set of a Boston bar.

For nineteen years Faneuil Hall Marketplace had a bar that copied a TV set, which was itself loosely based on a real Boston pub. The Cheers replica poured its last on August 30, 2020. The market had a film career before that, in The Verdict (1982). The gold letters across Quincy Market's portico look original. They went up in 1989. Look up and decide what else is.

This is stop 11 of Shot Here. Walk it free in the app.

The plate

The Copy of the Copy

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Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, South Market Street side
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The dome is a record of its own: the Landmarks Commission calls it the only double elliptical dome of de l'Orme construction in the country. The weathervane on its lantern is copper cattle.

More footnotes on the story card, in the app.

Film and TV, Food

Near Aquarium · Near State · Near Government Center · Near Haymarket · Near Bowdoin

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