Around Natick posts an aerial photo showing what the intersection of Rte. 9 and Speen Street looked like back when what is now the Natick Mall was the Natick sewer beds - a place where raw sewage from Natick and Framingham was pumped to dry out in the open air (thanks, Dave!). That ended, of course, when the mall was built in the mid-1960s.

Ed. Natick trivia note: The intersection of Speen and Rte. 9 is called the Beetleback now because when the state was planning to replace a standard intersection with that weird cloverleaf, South Middlesex News Editor Bob Moore looked at a map and exclaimed "that looks like the back of a beetle!" and made his reporters refer to the plan as the Beetleback.