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

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103 Court Street on a sign, so that's behind Govt Center.

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Since I was beat to the location, here are ads from 1900:
IMAGE(http://i65.tinypic.com/2hn5c85.jpg)
IMAGE(http://i65.tinypic.com/2iifhvt.jpg)

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What's a "Punch Figure?"

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Puppets. As in Punch & Judy.

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like Punch and Judy?

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Court Street isn't really all that near Hanover Street. Certainly not as a way to give directions to a place. Maybe things were laid out differently back then?

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Before Scollay Square was urban-renewed away, Hanover Street indeed did reach much further.

http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=437

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Thanks for playing, folks! This shows the Boston School of Magic at 97-107 Court Street on November 27 1912.

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Why not look at historic preservation of the Stenographic Records at Boston City Council?... as was preserved during Busing by Boston Public Library Special Collections!

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"Magicians" Today young students learn to be and make a living being graphic designers back then it was magicians.

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This would be on today's City Hall Plaza, across from the Center Plaza building, between the T station and the JFK Federal Building.

The building just visible at the far left is 109 Court Street. Alexander Graham Bell rented space in the top floor of that building, which has been described as the birthplace of the telephone. There's a marker to that effect in front of the JFK Building.

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... this magic building appeared on the periphery of a prior photo quiz So I remembered it was right near (current) City Hall Plaza. ;-)

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Magic Art Studio
Ray Goulet's Mini-Museum of Magic and The Magic Art Book Co.
Saturdays 10am-5pm
Watertown
http://www.magicartstudio.com/html/museum.html

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Interesting to note that the Blanchard Building, upper, right corner has an ad for Svenskt Tryckeri, which means Swedish Printing shop. There was a Swedish grocery store on Hanover St., down a block or two from Scollay Square, in the 1950s. This would be around the corner from the Blanchard Bldg. Must have been a number of Swedes in the area, at least when the photo was taken much earlier than I remember.

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