Children and Adults Learn to Coexist in a Boys & Girls Club

It isn't easy for children and adults to coexist within the walls of one Boys & Girls Club.

8 L 706 Ab West End House of Allston-Brighton, Mass., is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Boys & Girls Clubs. To begin with, the facility still bears the name of its former neighborhood, six miles away, from which the turn-of-the century club moved in 1971. In addition, although the original organization was formed by a group of immigrant boys (and its clubhouse built by a philanthropist "impressed by their self-motivation," according to the club's web site), the facility had long been a fitness and recreational mecca for neighborhood adults as well as children.

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