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Saturday, January 22, 2011

TIME MACHINE - More of Boston 1954-1959 - plenty of places to eat and drink back then

Taking a another look at the Boston of 50 plus years ago...

Pictures courtesy of the  Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Steaming Kettle of Government Center in it's Scollay Square days.
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Washington and Friend St - Downtown Boston
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Looks like the South End had a Dairy Queen back in the day.
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Cambridge had 'TOURIST PARKING'.
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I rememember when Bunratty's occupied the spot that Wonder Bar does today on Harvard Ave in Allston, but apparently long before it became Bunratty's it was Wonder Bar.
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Today at Boylston and Berkeley, we have a Starbucks where St Clairs' Fine Foods was located, and what is now Au Bon Pain was a Walton's.
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Looking east down Boylston from Berkeley
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IBM in 1955 - they would build a large office building a decade later
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Boylston and Dartmouth - the baby Hancock towered over all then
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Hayes Bickfords was all over the city, as was fierce rival Waldorfs
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Back in the 50's, Highways inside Boston became C-1, C-9, C-28
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The Copley Square newsstand didn't change for decades.
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Chinatown was well -Chinatown
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Long before FedEx we had Railroad Express
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Boston didn't do J.P Licks in the 50's - HoJo's was king (Copley Square)
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Mass Ave and Prospect St. (Cambridge) - there was a Wimpy Burger where Leader Bank is today
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Checker Cab at Back Bay Station
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The road signs leaving the Sumner Tunnel were impossible to read during the day.
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Memorial Drive has many route numbers in the 50's
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and that concludes this trip in the 'Time Machine' as we park it for the night....more to come
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1 comment:

Joe Harvard said...

Awesome stuff. Keep it coming!! And thanks.