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Fund Drive to Rescue Fire Truck Under Way
This 1911 horse-drawn ladder wagon is part of the Lenox Fire Antique Apparatus Association’s collection. It’s not completely clear when it first got started, but sometime approaching the mid-1800s,...
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Question: How do you get a vintage 356 off the second floor?
Answer: Very carefully. We went down to the Boston area over the weekend and stopped by KTR European Motorsports for a Ferrari club dyno day they were hosting. KTR is well-known amongst vintage racers...
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Electric Avenue
Trolley Buses Around the World explores the use of electric-powered people movers past, present and future photo courtesy Iconografix Wouldn’t it be neat to have city buses that don’t spew soot and...
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SIA Flashback – Boston…1941
It’s one thing for somebody with a passing interest in old cars to go around snap-happy on the streets of a particular city, save the photos in a shoebox for 40 years, then trot them out. It’s another...
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Boston, 1960
Thanks to David Greenlees over at The Old Motor for today’s street scene, though we’re sure the drivers of the cars in the photo would think of it as a parking lot scene. The cause for the backup on...
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Boston, 1973
In the early 1970s, East Boston residents were complaining that Logan Airport was grabbing too much land from them and not making the best use of it all. That sent photographer Michael Philip Manheim...
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Boston and NYC, 1973
Returning once again to the EPA’s Documerica series, we find two parking lot scenes taken outside major airports in 1973. The first, by Michael Philip Manheim, shows the parking lot for an airline...
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Boston, 1973
Before we move on too far, I want to revisit the Documerica photo from Boston that we posted last week. For that photo, Michael Philip Manheim visited the neighborhood immediately adjacent to Boston’s...
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Boston, 1970s
David Traver Adolphus pointed out today’s street scene over on the City of Boston Archives on Flickr. Taken somewhere on Boston’s North End, sometime in the 1970s, it shows what we presume were newly...
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Boston, 1958
From the City of Boston Archives on Flickr come these two shots of Worthington Street in September 1958 and the cars lining the one-way street. What do you see here?
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Snowpocalypse in Boston, 1940
We’re guessing if you lived through the Boston Valentine’s Day snowstorm of 1940, even the Mayan apocalypse sounds like a walk in the park. We found these photos in a Boston Public Library set on...
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Boston, 1940s
From the same set of Boston Public Library photos that we featured the other day comes this overhead shot of what appears to be folks waiting to throw rice on a newly wedded couple. Either that or a...
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Boston, 1948
Boston’s North End is a charming little neighborhood that doesn’t look or feel too different from these two photos we found on the City of Boston Archives on Flickr. Above, a shot of Hanover Street...
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Boston, 1949
It’s not that often we get street scenes chock full of trucks, but that’s exactly what we have today with this photo of Devonshire Street looking north, with the old state house in the distance,...
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Boston, 1949, part 2
Trucks figured prominently in our last late 1940s look at Boston, and while not so prominent in this 1949 photograph of Dock Square and North Street, courtesy the City of Boston archives on Flickr,...
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Boston, 1980s
When exactly these photos of the Washington Street Elevated and a couple of its stations – most notably Forest Hills and Dover – in Boston were taken, the Library of Congress‘s records don’t say. We...
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Boston, 1960
Apologies to Rob Ketcherside, whose grandmother took this photo of Boston’s Old North Church in August 1960, for cropping out his family from the photo. And apologies to Bostonians for cropping out...
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Boston, 1940s
Busy day for the car parkers in Boston. Unfortunately, we don’t know which day or even which year photographer Leslie Jones took this shot of a crowded parking lot (courtesy the Boston Public...
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Boston, 1952
You finds parking where you can gets it, especially in Boston. Photographer Leslie Jones must have been high up in a building at Mass General to get this shot of the ramps and ad hoc parking where...
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Boston, 1970s
According to the Boston Public Library, these two photos (from January 1972 above and November 1971 below) show the library’s Johnson building along Boylston Street as construction neared completion....
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Boston, 1950s
From the Boston Public Library’s vast collection of Leslie Jones negatives comes this undated wintry photo labeled Rowes Wharf. One would think the Bostonian snowplow drivers would have done a better...
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Boston, 1956
While most of the Leslie Jones photos we’ve seen in the Boston Public Library’s photo collections on Flickr depict scenes of automotive carnage and mayhem dating back to the 1920s and 1930s, these...
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Boston, 1960s
Reader Robert Carolan sent us this photo showing traffic at Kenmore Square, where Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street intersect, not far from Fenway Park and right beneath the big Citgo sign. Maybe...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950s
Interesting series of images we came across over on the MIT Libraries Flickr page, all taken by one Nishan Bichajian and showing an unnamed intersection from above, with a steady stream of cars and...
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Boston, 1972
We know that Roger Wollstadt – whose photos from across America have wound up in our carspotting series several times now – spent some time in the 1950s at MIT, and we see in these photos of downtown...
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Boston, 1950s
The same folks from MIT that brought us those overhead shots of traffic in and around Cambridge also took these two photos of Boston’s sun-dappled Union Park sometime in the Fifties. They likely fit...
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Boston, 1940s
Ah, here we go. You can’t see the faces of the men walking down the street in these Leslie Jones photos from the Boston Public Library of a blizzard somewhere in Boston sometime in the Thirties, but...
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Boston, 1980s
While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes...
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Boston, 1960s
Based entirely on the license plates and the campaign posters for Gabriel Piemonte, we can say with certainty that these two photos which we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950s
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
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Boston, 1950s
Date: circa 1950s Location: Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, via MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
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