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Street scene  in old Boston

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Kenmore square

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Thanks for playing, folks! This shows Dudley and Warren Streets. We believe the photo was taken between 1928 and 1930. You can take a look at a high res version of the photo here: https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_1aaec5e3-c81...

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Dudley Square, some time in the 1920s? I think I see Warren St. on one of the signs.

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Packard’s Corner, Brighton?

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If this was today, you would be looking from where Nubian Notion used to be towards the newish police station. You are facing Warren Street which has had its curve altered in the name of traffic flow.

The big hint is the Irish School of Dance. This area was a big Irish immigrant area socially even into the 1960's.

The key is the Orange Line tracks on the extreme right where they used to turn into Dudley from the south.

That's the Dudley Street Baptist Church in the top center.

Every building here got blasted for the late 1960's courthouse / library / police station complex.

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The "open" area in the background is the Dudley Baptist Church. If you zoom way in, you can see "Dudley Baptist Church" to the left of the Type 5 trolley (I was trying to read the head sign but it's too small/pixelated). The buildings in the middle are along the jog of Warren St between Dudley and Harrison. It's now the library, municipal court and lots of parking lots. Several streets in there (Cliff, Dana and Glenwood) are discontinued when the area was urban renewed in the late 1960s.

Waldorf Lunch was a regional chain of lunch counters with a central commissary providing food to locations. Clover is open in an old Waldorf's in Harvard Square, and interestingly enough operates on a similar model, albeit with slightly different food. To the right the tracks lead into the Dudley Station loops to access the El station. Car 5617 was built in 1923 and ran until 1958. Most of that is gone now, too. But we do have the Silver Line! Dating the photo is harder, but the visible license plate was first issued in 1928, so probably not long thereafter. (Back then, there were no stickers: you got a new plate every year.)

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Please answer the last one.

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They did answer it on Twitter. It was at Cambridge and Charles St.

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Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows Dudley and Warren Streets. We believe the photo was taken between 1928 and 1930. You can see a high res version of the photo here: https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_1aaec5e3-c81...

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