This week’s Then & Now is a repeat of an earlier entry. The parcel in the Then photo was recently in the news.The current occupant, Walgreens, announced it would close the location June 25.
In September 1968, the Worcester area welcomed a new coffee shop to the Grafton Hill landscape. Dunkin’ Donuts, a growing chain with roots in Quincy, set up shop at 226-228 Grafton St., in a storefront of the two-story Gould Cleaners building.
The grand opening of the Grafton Street store lifted the number of Dunkin’ Donuts in the Worcester area to three, joining locations on Park Avenue in Worcester and on Route 9 in Shrewsbury. Robert Cutter, a former plant manager for Raytheon Co., was the franchisee on Grafton Street, touting “fresh-baked doughnuts every four hours and fresh coffee every 18 minutes.”…