Hindenburg over South Boston

By adamg on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:18pm

The BPL has posted a number of photos of the Hindenburg by news photographer Leslie Jones, from its flight over South Boston (that oval area below and to its right is what we now call Moakley Park) to its fiery end in Lakehurst, NJ, 75 years ago yesterday.

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OH THE HUMANITY

By eeka on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:54pm.

If only the photo showed the other side of the blimp...

By Sarcastic Sam on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:08pm.

.....it clearly says HOOD on that other side.

Newman (not Ron)

By issacg on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:32pm.

I'm sorry to say that the first thing that comes to mind when I hear that line isn't the Hindenburg -

it's Newman driving the postal truck.

So, it's interesting that a lot

By Kathode on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:01pm.

of Leslie Jones' photographs are local to Boston. But he was in Lakehurst, NJ for the Hindenburg explosion? Was he a photojournalist?

News photog

By adamg on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:23pm.

For the Herald-Traveler for decades. Read more about him (highlight the entire page to deal with the dark font on black background).

Thanks Adam.

By Kathode on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 6:00pm.

He certainly has an amazing collection of work.

nazi propoganda at its best!

By anon on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:28pm.

nazis over boston!

Nitpick

By anon² on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 6:51pm.

from that angle, it looks like it's over the SE/Back Bay and possibly even over Cambridge.

Crazy to see the rail tracks and no 93 cutting a hole through the city! Looks like there;s even lots of unused land.

Actually, it's almost directly over what becomes SouthBay Center

By Jeff F on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 9:39pm.

You can see it's groundshadow down and to the left, in what's now Newmarket Square. The airship is at approximately 2400ft altitude. The plane from which the picture was taken is about 1500 feet WSW of the dirigble, at about 200-300 feet higher altitude. It's early-mid morning, around 9:30am.

What's the maze-like series of structures on bottom right?

By anon on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:15pm.

And what street is in front of those sturctures?
Looks like it runs into dot Ave.
thanks for the info, very informative.

That area is pretty much unchanged

By Ron Newman on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 10:23am.

The street is Old Colony Avenue, and the 'maze-like' structures are the Boston Housing Authority's Mary Ellen McCormack housing project (then called 'Old Harbor Village').

This Google satellite view covers the same area, though from a different angle.

Thanks Ron and Jeff

By anon on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 9:14pm.

Wow, newly developed at that time?

I know that area pretty well from the ground and the early photo looks foreign. All the mature trees and maybe some realigned streets. B+W makes them look lighter than brick too.

Crazy.

Thanks again guys.

The shadow is pointing

By NotWhitey on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:54pm.

The shadow is pointing directly to towards where Southhampton st crosses the railroad tracks. I believe that's part of the rail yard now.

Hinderburg over the Curley School

By Charlie Rosenberg on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 6:21am.

This link indicates it might have flown over Jamaica Plain.

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/11855804726/permal...

if you look really closely....

By bostnkid on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 10:53am.

you can see young jim bulger extorting milk money from his fellow first graders. that kids going to be nothing but trouble!

At young Jim Bulger's grade school

By anon on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 7:26pm.

There was no playing hooky or wedgies or taunting of the girls. Jim kept his fellow delinquents in line.
When he moved on to middle school and a new crowd moved in?

Bah.

Airships on the . . .

By Chris Dowd on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 1:55pm.

. . . comeback!

Hindenburg over South Boston

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