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Imagine if Boston still had all those trolley lines it used to
By adamg on Wed, 08/10/2016 - 11:52am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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Basically impossible
Hardly a clue to be found.
I see a 465 street number on
I see a 465 street number on the building by the blurry gentleman on the left. Also says 467 next to the boys hanging out. I could also swear the door has a faded name painted on it that possible could be 'FIRESTONE' but I really can't tell. It's making me think it's from the turn of the 20th Century by the clothing style.
Yes, this is an outrage!
How am I supposed to google for the answer !?!
Northampton St?
Maybe somewhere between Columbus Ave and Albany St?
Somewhere in East Boston?
I don't know why, I just have a feeling.
Looks like
the numbers 485 and 487 appear on the sides of the buildings, 485 on the left and 487 on the right. Looking at old maps of Boston, numbers increase going southward on the north-south streets, and increase going westward on the east-west streets. So maybe this is a street running north or east from the city center? Has to be a long street if it has the # 485... so an arterial road?
Well, if we did still have
Well, if we did still have all those electric trolley lines instead buses, our air would be a lot less polluted.
???
Your comment and your user name seem incongruous. Has Trump ever mentioned pollution (other than describing climate change as a hoax)? The second night of his convention featured a 20 minute pro-coal diatribe by a WV senator that made "drill baby drill" seem cute by comparison.
Atlantic Ave. in 1901
Atlantic Ave. in 1901
Cool that ...
... even +/-100 years ago, there was a role for the guy who stood over the hole watching those digging it. No cell phone, though.
Border Street East Boston.
Border Street East Boston.
Very industrial looking
Deadwood
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Harrison Av.
between Waltham St. and Berkeley St.
All this hard work and no answer?
That's not fair!
The answer
Per the Archives folks, it's 455-467 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston on July 26, 1913.
What it looks like today.