Another Sunday stroll down memory lane... Stoppin' on the corners of Boston's North End with GBH Archives in 1972. | GBH

There were nearly 27,000 runners in last year's Boston Marathon. Forty-five percent, or 12,006 of them, were women. Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. Women weren’t officially allowed to register, but she broke the rules and ran — and was nearly pulled off the course in the process. (From WGBH News) | American Experience | PBS

11K views · 123 reactions | Are you guys too young for The Coffee Connection? Here's a WGBH Media Library and Archives afternoon pick-me-up from 1988! The brainchild of entrepreneur George Howell, the gourmet coffee retailer first opened in Harvard Square in 1975 and would eventually expand to 24 different locations before being acquired by Starbucks in 1994. Fun fact - it is the original home of the "Frappuccino." | GBH | Facebook