Quincy Market

This guide to Quincy Market in Boston opens in November 1975, with wrecking crews demolishing half the building while twenty vendors kept ringing up sales in the other half. You'll hear how the market operated after opening in 1826 with over a hundred stalls of butchers, fishmongers and produce sellers, the clerk empowered to fine a dirty counter, and the unusual lease that brought the Rouse Company in to restore rather than raze the granite halls. Stand under the colonnade where those vendors held their ground through the noise.