Photos

Jonathan Berk wondered what these people on the Lagoon today were thinking.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 1941 Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins!

The Boston Public Library's posted a set of Bruins photos from back in the day by news photographer Leslie Jones. Among them:

A concerned citizen complains about some boarded up windows at the Old State House:

This building is visited and photographed by 100s of tourists every month, we should fix asap, reflects badly on boston.

Mick T. spotted some snowpeople along the Esplanade yesterday.

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The Clapp Pear in Edward Everett Square this afternoon.

Back when Egleston Square had a movie theater and an elevated train, in 1939, as captured by Leslie Jones. Jones also photographed snow removal closer to downtown - back when the downtown skyline consisted of one building:

More Leslie Jones snow photos.

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Chris Lovett took some photos as the snow began.

Still, one suspects that Half-Naked Guy, captured by Alex Mellion across from the old Borders in Downtown Crossing, might have to throw something else on soon.

Patty Neal wandered a couple months into the new year at her local CVS today.

Darryl Houston captured the daylight-powerful lights on Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park - put up by a guy who rents an aerial lift to ensure no surface is unilluminated.

Uma Mirani photographed Cambridge Common:

Casey Shockley shows off his rendition of the Red Line at the Andrew-JFK/UMass tunnel, done a year ago at Karma Tattoo in Somerville. He explains he used to live in the Polish Triangle in Dorchester. See it larger.

He joins Dot rat Adam Myerson, who has the Ashmont line on his leg (more) and Josh DeCosta, who has the Orange Line at Sullivan Square on his arm.

Kaitlin Maud, meanwhile, has the entire MBTA map on her arm - both subway and commuter rail (in the photo, north is at the bottom, Green Line on the right):

Dan Ryan spotted this cheery holiday bag on Neponset Avenue, across from the Garvey, in Dorchester. All it's missing is some red ribbons for that festive seasonal touch.

Jeff Tamagini photographed John Rosenthal's anti-gun sign in the Fenway with 20 fresh handprints, in memory of the students shot to death in Newtown, CT. See it larger.

See it being stenciled.

Earlier:
Newtown memorial at Jamaica Plain monument.

The BPL has put up a ton of Leslie Jones winter photos, including this one of the Jordan Marsh nativity scene in 1950. Also see the Christmas displays at other long gone downtown stores, including Gilchrist's, R.H. White, Houghton and Dutton and Jordan Marsh in 1957.

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Brad Kelly reports on the Yume Wo Katare ramen bar, which replaced Zing Pizza:

This place is a foreign country. They have two items: A massive bowl of noodles with pork and a massive bowl of noodles with more pork.

See it larger for part of the window flow chart that helps you determine whether you need pork ramen or should just come back another time:

When your ramen is ready, the chef will ask "NINNIKU IREMASUKA?" This means "Do you want garlic?" This is when you can ask for extra garlic or extra pork fat (ahura).

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The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place and date this photo. See it larger.

The fence in front of the Soldiers Monument in Jamaica Plan tonight was lined with 26 teddy bears and crosses as a memorial for the children and educators killed in Newtown, CT on Friday.

The MBTA forwards this photo from the Blue Line repair facility in Orient Heights, where workers have made a Christmas tree out of a "bolster rack" of trucks used to hold the axles of Blue Line cars.

The Boston City Archives posted this photo of little kids. Can you figure out where and when it was taken? See it larger.

On Saturday, Photographynatalia took in a performance of the Nutcracker in the Quincy Market rotunda.

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Truck Stop Tea Party captured the scene at Charlie's Kitchen in Cambridge the other day.

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Doug Aamoth warns us today:

BE CAREFUL: There's a chicken loose in Boston. It's in Charlestown. A kid is feeding it.

In e-mail, he adds:

I don't know if it's a chicken or a rooster, but the little girl feeding it cracker bits on Sackville Street said it was a chicken and she seemed to have more control over the fiasco than anyone. I'm just happy to still be alive.

Myron Freeman captured the Boston skyline Thursday night.

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The Boston Public Library's posted this ad for the Providence and Boston train station that once sat where Columbus Avenue today enters Park Square - and which replaced an even older station. Note on this map that its tracks crossed the line of the Boston and Albany just before the station.

Here's a photo from sometime after its construction in 1872 - note the Lincoln statue, which remains in the square, although not in the same prominent location:

At the Tufts Medical Center stop on the Orange Line.