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Quincy's Market: A Boston Landmark. By John Quincy, Jr. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. 283 pages. $29.95.
Visitors to Faneuil Hall today would be hard pressed to see the history underneath the veneer of the "tourist trap" it has become. It is easy to wander through the stalls and buildings and see only the open-air mall that it appears to be. There are nods to its past aplenty: cobblestones, living history reenactors, cramped stalls. The people standing in line at Pizzeria Regina have no idea that they are standing where pigs were once slaughtered, or the cart vendors set up where rickety stalls stood for decades.
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