From Box Office magazine, 1966: "Reportedly the world's first 'drive up' theater, Ben Sack's new luxury 800-seat Cheri Theater on the ground floor of the nine story 1000 car Auditorium Garage, in Downtown Boston's Prudential Center is designed as an "in-town facility providing all the conveniences of a suburban theater." The Cheri enables patro...

By Jim Botticelli/Dirty Old Boston Creator Jamaica Plain--let's call it JP--is a different sort of Boston neighborhood. The jury's out on the definitive origins of its name unfortunately but a point of local pride is that it has long been intergrated in ways other areas of the city have not. Oh, the well to do live pondside and the hoi-polloi o...