Here are some photographs of places in Boston. After you look at them, I'll tell you why they're here.
Oriental Theater, exterior, Mattapan
The silos, where they stored cocoa beans, at Baker's Chocolate in Dorchester.
Gilbert Stuart elementary school, Dorchester (NOT Milton, as given on the photo)
[photo from Dorchester Historical Society]
Library a half-block from the school, which can be glimpsed to the left
(and also a police station at one time, which I just now learned!)
[photo from Pinterest, Rosanne Foley]
(and also a police station at one time, which I just now learned!)
[photo from Pinterest, Rosanne Foley]
The Elevated, shown here between Egleston and Green.
[photo by Joel Shanus, from TheElevated.org]
So, why have I shown you all of these things? Because they are all mentioned in my piece published in the Boston Herald today and I figured some visual aids would help in your enjoyment when you read it (which I trust you will now do, since I've shown you all of these groovy photos.)
Here's a link to the Boston Herald website! And I thank you for visiting both here and there.
Soon, with more better stuff.
4 comments:
The library, primary school and corner of your high school all look remarkably like those I grew up with in Torrington, Connecticut!
Hurricane Katrina took away a lot of the magic i grew up with. It's memorialized in a song called "Ain't Dere No More" by Benny Grunch.
That. my dear Jim, is an inspired article and I hope the faithful readers of the BH will appreciate it. We have all lost neighbourhoods that were magical to us. The house that my dad built and I grew up in is no longer there. BTW, nice to read something that is Clinton-and-Trump free.
sweet
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