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When you could take the el to pick up some meat and fish

Old Boston el and meat market

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when and where this photo was taken. See it larger.

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Dover street, mid 50s

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Dover Street (currently East Berkeley) and I'd say about 1957 or so from the look of the cars.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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The view today: http://goo.gl/maps/xKAnf

You can see that the buildings in the background on the other side of Washington St are still there.

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Why/when did the street's name get changed?

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Changed when they tore the el down, late 80s, presumably in an attempt to class the neighborhood up a little.

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"Dover Street" had become somewhat synonymous with "Skid Row".

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Dover Street was renamed East Berkeley in 1967.

Pretty much for the same reason you state.

The area around there was decimated by urban renewal projects that tore down the New York Street neighborhood, replacing it with empty lots, light industrial, and, of course, the (now gone) Boston Herald building.

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Well, the sign on top of the station gives it away as Dover Street. Since renamed to East Berkeley Street, here's the view today:

http://goo.gl/maps/YUqkv

The only structure still there appears to be the building on the far right corner of Washington Street, just peeking up behind the station.

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East Berkley Street and Washington St. in the distance. The year was about 1955-1956. At the time the Street was known as Dover St.

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Is this the same Morse Fish which is now on Washington? Seems likely.

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This is coming into the South End on Dover? Where the current auto detail shop at Washington St is now located?

Big changes in store - 11-story office building approved for that site! (80 Berkeley). Ron Druker owns the lots. His family has owned it since ... I think the 50s or 60s - post teardowns.

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Thanks for playing everyone! This is the Dover Street Station on what is now East Berklee St. It was taken sometime prior to 1967, most likely in the late '50s.

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Um...City of Boston....don't you know that it's East Berkeley Street not "East Berklee"????? Thanks for playing!!

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Didn't the Dover St Station end up at the Trolley Museum in Maine? Or was it Northampton St. ? Or both? I seem to recall some components of the Elevated ending up there...

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It's the Northampton Station that is at the trolley museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

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It was Northampton, not Dover. Also, an old signal tower, I believe. Of course, so many great relics of transportation are up there.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Wondering if you could help. Within the past 10 years, The Boston Globe magazine posted a photo of West Concord Street sometime in the 50's. The picture was about the old el. It featured a sign of my grandfather's drug store called Concord drug. I never met my grandfather and my dad passed away a little over a year ago, and I can't seem to find the copy.
I believe the original belongs to a museum at MIT or Harvard?
Do you know if this photo maybe part of your archives or how I might track it down.
Best,
Caroline

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Actually, two photos of Concord Drug:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3401728608/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3401728464/

These are from a collection of photos made for a research project for Kevin Lynch in MIT's City Planning Department in the 1950s. They are beautiful photos of Boston, and nearly 2,000 of them have been posted on Flickr by the MIT libraries:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries

Glad to be of help -- it's always fun to browse through that collection. (Too bad it's not indexed better!)

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This photo was taken in Bostons southend across the street from Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Morse Fish is still there in full operation. Their fish is great.

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