Nov. 1

When we were young, Boston got older and bolder. The city had fomented a revolution sometime back and was now celebrating the conflagration’s 200th anniversary. Everything old was new again. Faneuil Hall was rebuilt, in the manner of the city marketplace it once had been. Only now it had T-shirts and veggie wraps and a bar named Cheers. It was the 1970s. Capitalism was King, Consumerism his Queen. We were the impoverished rebels.