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Trolleys rarely delayed due to horses these days

By adamg on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 10:58am

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

Earlier:
This used to be more of a problem.
A major problem.

Neighborhoods: 
Boston
Topics: 
History
The T
Free tagging: 
Horses


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By Waquiot on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:02am.

Common on the right, Public Garden on the left.

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By Gary C on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:02pm.

The two tall buildings in the distance (at Beacon & Charles) are still there.

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By Brent Jeffries on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:12am.

Horse shoes come off, riders scoff.

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By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:48pm.

IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/charles-st.jpg)

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By MattyC on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:45am.

What on earth is that subject line? 2-lambda? The font makes it look vaguely Hangul-esque.

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By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:19pm.

I can never see his subjects.. shows up as a box.

Are you posting from a phone elmer? (or a Mac?)

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By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:43pm.

With Safari on a Mac, it's completely blank — indicating no subject at all is intended for the post.

However, on Chrome and Opera, it's a blank box; and on Firefox, it's a rectangle with "F076" inside. Of course, everyone should be using Safari on a Mac, but since they don't, I'll try to find another character for this purpose that appears more consistent, but which also means nothing at all.

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By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:52pm.

I'm on a Windows machine using Chrome. (On Windows IE, it shows up as nothing)

You have to be careful with extended characters like that. Many are OS-specific. (those emoticons from Facebook also come to mine). The web page encoding will ignore OS-specific extended characters and convert them to ISO-standard ones or a box or empty to display if nothing comparable is avaliable.

Not saying don't do that.. just saying that non-Mac Safari peeps can't decode them to know what to display in it's place.

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By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:01pm.

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By anon on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:06pm.

Phone no - looks like a blue box. And, no, I, like 80% of the world's smartphone owners, don't have an iPhone and don't plan to get one.

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By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:11pm.

There's an equivalent on other OS's for that font.

the Ⓣ according to Microsoft Word is "MS Gothic" font. The more obscure font you have, the less likely others will be able to see it. MS Gothic is a Unicode font so it's pretty universal across platforms.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html

But things like icons that are fonts usually are less supported across platforms. (Webdings, Wingdings, etc are a few that come to mind)

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By MattyC on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:54pm.

So happy I asked. :) I had to do some unicode unit tests for a JVM in a prior job. What a pain. Each new version of unicode adds approximately 20 million new characters and I don't care about any of them. Latin alphabet FTMFW!

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By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:13pm.

I changed that original subject to another character. Do you see nothing now?

Actually, the Ⓣ can vary, depending on the font:

     IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/the-e29389.jpg)

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By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:35pm.

It's blank now.

And yes it has variations depending on the font you used. The one you used above.... I pasted into Microsoft Word. Word said it was MS Gothic, which is what Microsoft Windows translates that to. Unless you tell me which font you are using, I can only go by what Unicode translates it to on a Windows machine. So for me, it's MS Gothic since I'm on Windows.

Some of it may have to do with how Adam's page is displayed too. I don't think drupal hard-sets the font for display. (i.e. he TELLS everything to be in a certain font). It's probably set to 'fixed width' because for me, everything on his page is in Arial (or Helvetica for you mac people), not MS Gothic. But Arial/Helvetica is a standard "web font", which is the defacto "fixed width" font for web pages.

Okay we're way off topic now.. ;)

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By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:40pm.

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By blues_lead on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 1:16am.

Opera on Windows, it's currently blank.

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By baustin on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:13pm.

Probably a rental cart driven by some New York parent dropping their kid off at lumber school.

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By Michael on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:22pm.

"Put a horse anywhere near our tracks and we'll find a way to make it delay service"

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By roadman on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:27pm.

on the tracks, the T would use it as an excuse to delay service.

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By octr202 on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:12pm.

...is upon us!

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By HenryAlan on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:49pm.

Waquiot win the prize on this, but definitely the most recognizable location I've seen so far in one of these pictures. The buildings haven't even changed!

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By Lecil on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:41pm.

What would explain why it look 70 minutes to get from Sutherland to Park St on the Greenline late this morning... :/

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By Mattatonic on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:47pm.

Are we sure this isn't just an example of what the MBTA is planning if winter service is disrupted?

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By noahproblem on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:55pm.

...we can't shoot Green Line trains when they become disabled...

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By Boston City Archives on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:13pm.

Thanks for playing, folks! This does indeed show Charles Street between the Common and the Public Garden. It was taken in February of 1920.

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