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Week of 13 November 1998 Vol. II, No. 14 BU Yesterday There hasn't been a Cadillac or an Oldsmobile in the showroom for a generation, but locals still call 808 Commonwealth Avenue the Peter Fuller Building after the car dealership that occupied the building for 40 years. Built in 1928, the commanding structure now houses several BU departments, and its marble-lined showroom is used for exhibits and special events. There's a slight change to the local transportation scene at the right of the July 1956 photo, too. From the late 1940s until 1980, those streamlined streetcars -- called PCC cars -- were ubiquitous along what is now the MBTA's Green Line. When the B Line was upgraded in 1980 to accommodate the trains that now run there, down came the last of the unnecessarily handsome line poles with the goose-neck lamps. Note too, that before the construction of the Mass Pike Extension reconfigured traffic on Commonwealth Avenue, there was a stop right at the BU Bridge. BU Photo Services