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By adamg on Tue, 08/04/2015 - 10:40am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what's going on here, where and when.
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Looks like a brewery to me?
I am assuming they are brewing beer maybe? I know JP used to be a hotbed of breweries back in the day
Generators for the UHub
Generators for the UHub servers circa 5 minutes ago.
Those are coal fired boilers,
Those are coal fired boilers, the big round doors are where the tubes were that heated the water in the boiler. they could be found in any large building.
Large boilers
Coal-fed boilers, likely steam generating, presumably for a large building somewhere in Boston.
I was thinkin
that they are going to burn all that stuff, like an incinerator.
My guess, some school somewhere's boiler room.
Incinerating Something
They're big coal-fired boilers, but in addition to the large coal bin in the center of the room, there are numerous trash cans; the man on the left is struggling with one.
I'm going out on a limb and guessing that these men are not the normal boiler room attendants, but are politicians staging this event as a photo-op for the press.
A wild guess: The State House boiler room.
Ash cans
I'm guessing that those are not trash cans, they are ash cans, which contain, oddly enough, ashes from the coal-fired boiler.
A lot of plastic recycle
A lot of plastic recycle toters still say "no hot ashes" on the lid.
Dunno the year, but...
The Hodge Boiler Works, East Boston.
Oh My God No
Please tell me this isn't a continuation of the kosher food truck thread!
MBTA logo on the doors
Never mind that the actual MBTA was established many years after this photo, but I clearly see where they got their logo from!
Brighton High School
This is the custodians shoveling coal into the boilers of the high school on Warren Street. Undoubtedly when the custodians were well respected and compensated for their work. You can tell by their ties and suit coats.
Undoubtedly when the
Nope. Poorly paid, low class, stay out of sight of proper folk, and dress nicely with that meager paycheck because it's expected of you.
The Answer!
Thanks for playing, folks! Those of you who guessed that these are boilers are correct. These are the coal burning boilers in the basement of the High School of Practical Arts in 1922. The photo was taken just prior to the school switching to an "oil burning apparatus," and was likely taken to help justify the switch.
Where was this school, and is it still there?
If so, what is now in the building?
35 Greenville Street in
35 Greenville Street in Roxbury,
http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/colle...
Looks like it's now Phillis Wheatley Middle School.
Nope it is/was the Dearborn school
now slated to be razed to build a Roxbury STEM academy.
"Roxbury STEM academy"
"Roxbury STEM academy"
AKA the Tito Jackson memorial school for cronies