The fallout shelter's on the right.
Patrick Kineavy and Alex Lovejoy of the MBTA recently explored a long-abandoned fallout shelter next to an abandoned trolley tunnel under Tremont Street (the one you see on the right on the inbound platform at Boylston).
Imagine having to subsist on whatever's in this barrel:
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
J.L. Bell reports a cannon that has been in the chamber atop the Bunker Hill Monument since the 1840s is being removed today for restoration. But it's unclear where it will wind up once it's spruced up, he writes.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what this is and when the photo was taken. See it larger.
At least in Roslindale, old trolley tracks never died - they just got covered over with asphalt. Tim Murphy noticed the tracks exposed on South Street for some utility work in front of Wallpaper City today.
Brian MacLean photographed the USS Constitution and the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaling ship in the world, currently here on a port call during its 38th voyage (more photos).
Copyright Brian MacLean. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The folks at the City of Boston Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
Some of you might remember when escalators on the T featured wooden slats that were death on heels. The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this station and when the photo was taken. See it larger.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can you figure out where the Tollgate Inn was and when this photo was taken. See it larger.
J.L. Bell provides an account of "a large Serpent, or monster" spotted by Massachusetts sailors in 1780 (and he tries to figure out why one officer didn't mention it in his memoirs).
La Bibliotequetress asks:
We want book suggestions for kids/YA coming to Boston for first time. History fiction or non fiction to read before trip?
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
Matt Conti watched the USS Constitution on her last July Fourth turnaround before three years in drydock for repairs. More photos.
But which square, and when? The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
Southie Spots shows us the road in front of South Boston High School tonight - repainted for filming for the murdering-thug biopic (you may recall how said serial killer shot up the Globe for its support of busing).
They just get covered over with asphalt until they pop up again when it's past time for the city to repave the roads.
Ari Ofsevit noticed part of tracks and cobblestones on Pearl Street in Cambridge, which last saw trolley service sometime in the 1920s.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
The where of this photo might be easy, but when was it taken? From the Boston City Archives.
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