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When the snow supplies came by trolley
By adamg on Mon, 02/23/2015 - 10:51am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
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Clearly, not this winter.
Clearly, not this winter.
In Soviet Russia...
Trolley eliminates snow!
Subtraction nor addition ;)
This photo looks like people clearing the snow from the trolley stop. The shovels of the men in the center are empty, tilted down and digging into the snow. Just to the right, the workers with their backs toward the camera have loaded shovels that they're throwing onto an open freight car. In the enlarged version, there's another loaded car of snow just behind the one being filled.
Looks like Charles St., and
Looks like Charles St., and it looks like they are loading the dump car with snow to take away, not delivering.
The small sign at the far right....
...says "Automobiles Run Slowly by Schoolhouse". So somewhere where there is/was a schoolhouse. Other than that. I've got nothing....
Could they be spreading ashes
Could they be spreading ashes, or some other traction aid or ice melter?
Cinders
They were a common traction aid once upon a time. They had the side benefit of being dark, so they arguably helped speed melting on bright sunny days. But they played merry hell on tire longevity.
Summer Street near Melcher Street
n/t
The Street isn't wide enough
Also, there has never been a school in that area. Strictly built as warehouses / light industrial.
Actually, The Snow Is Being Taken AWAY By Trolley!
Shawmut Ave maybe?
It kind looks like Shawmut Ave in the South End, both the scale of the street and the architecture of the buildings around it.
Looks like Meridian street
Looks like Meridian street and London Street , East Boston intersection.. 1940's
Quincy, Red Line Tracks,
Quincy, Red Line Tracks, Monday, February 16, 2015. You all are just getting thrown off by the fact that it's a black-and-white photo!
Hmm...
I'm gonna say Shawmut Avenue at West Brookline, looking north, in 1916. The building in the background on the left looks like the one on that corner now used by Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion. Plus the City of Boston owned land on the right corner then and now, so a schoolhouse totally could have been on the property.
Bet those guys would have loved to have been paid $30/hour to shovel!
Atlantic Ave
by the wharves
The Answer!
Thanks for playing, folks! This is Kneeland and Tyler Streets in Chinatown in March 1916. Snow is being cleared from the street and taken away by the trolley.
That is the train that just
That is the train that just past me on the B Line.