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Bean touter

''We stumbled on a very charismatic figure,'' says Tom Hayes of Beantown Toys. ''We stumbled on a very charismatic figure,'' says Tom Hayes of Beantown Toys. (ERIK JACOBS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
By Johnny Diaz
Globe Staff / January 15, 2009

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Tom Hayes is in Beantown, one inhabited by baked bean characters who drive cars made out of spoons, live in homes called bean pots, and work in skyscrapers that have a certain legume shape. (Full article: 510 words)

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