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140 years of JP photos now online
By adamg on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 7:39pm
The Boston City Archives has put up a set of more than 350 photos, taken between 1860 and 2000, showing Jamaica Plain buildings - as well as this couple enjoying a leisurely drive around Jamaica Pond in 1913.
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Wow! Lots of unclaimed houses here.
Have at it folks. Fill in the blanks!
You think Centre Street
and Roche Brothers parking lot is bad now, imagine if people were still driving those things.
Just look at what these boomer/hippies did to JP
Used to be a person could drive around in their 20' long car which got maybe 8 MPG without having to worry about bike lanes or sidewalks or pedestrian crossings. Modern life is rubbish.
Notice the lack of cars on
Notice the lack of cars on Centre. You could still get a space on the street and not be in bumper to bumper traffic.
Exactly
We need to price all these plebes off of the J-way so only Parkway's finest can travel the road without interruption.
Nice!
I recognize a lot of houses and areas around the neighborhood. The shots of the Curley House are pretty sweet. Too bad, there aren't any photos of the elevated Orange Line. I miss riding that thing!
Have at it
http://www.bostonstreetcars.com/orange-line.html
https://www.facebook.com/DirtyOldBoston/photos/a.508917785802354.127796....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c445QyIBh6A
Video for old orange line pictures ect deconstruction▶ 6:00
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c445QyIBh6A
Dec 10, 2010 - Uploaded by Ryan Murdock
Footage from the deconstruction of Boston's Orange Line from the early 1990's. Footage ...
Missing: old pictures ect
I loved the Curley House pics, too!
I wish they'd lease it for events. If they ever needed to raise restoration money, they could sell reproductions of that mermaid tile-- I'd buy one.
So great
to see houses that I hung out in and some that I still know the owners. One pic is one of my bff's from growing up. Her parents still live there - it's right across from the house my mom still occupies.
Loved the old pic of the house at the pond. We used to hand out and play in there - before they fenced it in and after!
What nice memories:)
Bussey Institute?
Does anyone know what happened to this building? It looks like it sat next to the State Labs.
That building is gone, but yes.
On South Street near Forest Hills Station, it backed up to the Arnold Arboretum (most of that land came from Mr. Benjamin Bussey, not Mr. Arnold). The State crime lab is there now (the tall building in some of the pics). As well as a lab for UMass Medical.) Bussey left the land to Harvard in 1835 for a Agricultural and Horticultural Institute. Wiki says the school closed in 1936. Unclear when the building was torn down.
Thanks, Adam! That was a fun
Thanks, Adam! That was a fun rabbit hole to dive down.
Eleonora 'Elo' Randolph Sears
The woman behind the wheel is Eleonora 'Elo' Randolph Sears, the Great Grand daughter of Thomas Jefferson. This was just one of her many automobiles.