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Corner building
By adamg on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 11:03am
Another mystery building from the folks at the Boston City Archives. Can you figure out when and where the photo was taken? See it larger.
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Dorchester Ave
I can't read the whole thing, but the sign on the corner seems to say:
A higher-resolution scan might make it easier to read the words & numbers I can't make out here, but it's a wrecking company on Dot Ave, anyway. That ought to narrow things down for the right archives search.
Building wrecking = wrecked building
If it has a sign on it advertising a building wrecking company, it may be because that company is soon going to start wrecking that building....
Don't be fooled!
Don't be fooled by the sign on the building - its an advertisement rather than a street address. This may or may not be on Dot Ave.
Isn't this just a flipped
Isn't this just a flipped version of the same structure that you posted to the Tumblr today, and identified there as 81-91 A St and Bolton?
Same building but earlier?
The tumblr photo shows an awful lot of damage to windows, and adds an electrical transformer to the utility pole, which BTW seems to have strolled around the corner while it was waiting.
Pre-graffiti
Things look way cooler when they're just decrepit and not covered in crappy tags.
It looks like it's the other
It looks like it's the other corner of the same building.
A Street and West Third. No
A Street and West Third. No longer there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives/...
It kind of looks like the
It kind of looks like the building where The Bell in Hand is...
Clearly this was part of the
Clearly this was part of the Amish invasion of 1730
Away with you! We do not
Away with you! We do not speak of those dark, dark days even yet!