A tour group led, as always, by a female guide.
At the end of our journey, we retired to Boomer's pizza and mulled over what we had seen. Some things, it seemed, were still the same. In particular, there was the school's practice of always choosing female students to lead the tour groups of prospective students which, to this day, are largely male. By coincidence, many such tour groups were cris-crossing the campus during our visit; I snapped a shot of one as evidence.
A tour group led, as always, by a female guide.
After eating, we also visited downtown Worcester, which had undergone a significant rejuvenation. The local economy in the early 1990's was in serious decline. Over my four years in Worcester, many businesses on Main Street had closed. Boarded-up shop fronts were not uncommon. I remember that one of them sported a sign that read: "Will the last business to leave Worcester please turn out the lights?" At the bottom of this economic slump, the Galleria mall downtown was left with only two stores: Filene's Bargain Basement and a CVS. The rest of the mall was empty.
However, on our visit we found that Worcester had benefited from a significant economic recovery. The Galleria Mall, for example, was prosperous and busy.
The Galleria mall.
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