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By adamg on Mon, 08/31/2015 - 10:47am
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My guess is the corner
of Nashua Street and Martha Road. The elevated Green Line is behind the buliding, and you can see 100 Nashua Street (the old MassDPW and RMV Headquarters buliding) in the right of the photo.
Yes
City Archives must be giving us an easy one for a monday.
You've got the location right, but
This would show up in the archives as the corner of Lowell Street and Causeway Street. The names of the streets changes with the destruction of the West End which was done of course in order to keep Boston from having two African American neighborhoods bordering downtown / Back Bay, but I digress.
The building in the back is the Hotel Manger / Madison, not the RMV. The old RMV was a bit more art deco than the Manger.
Here is Delores Handy and Tom Ellis with the implosion of the Madison for that architectural majesty know as the Tip O'Neil building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8Vkr0ARu0
I see it now.
Forgive me for not thinking about Boston pre-elevated Central Artery.
They should implode buildings more often
We got up early to see them blow up the Madison. It was great, a graceful collapse into its own basement, to cheers and then a fascinated silence. As the dust poured out there was a cry from the crowd, "To the LENOX!!"
1960s
North Station area, old west end, Nashua St. You can clearly see the old registry building. Cars and truck are late 50s - 60s era.
Aerial view
Would love to see an aerial view. Is this building a pentagon? A truncated pyramid? An uneven hexagon?
aerial
Via historicaerials.com. The building is in the middle.
That looks to be the old Hotel Manger (http://wgbhnews.org/post/bright-and-dark-days-bost...) at the right.
Note the DubbleWare sign
Unless I misremember, DubbleWare was a brand of clothing manufactured by M. Hoffman & Co. of Boston. I had the privilege of working for Max Hoffman's son Herbert in the 1980's when he was the owner of Radio Stations WBOS and WUNR. They were located in the Hoffman Building at 160 North Washington Street, not half a mile from where this photo was taken.
Herbert Hoffman's son Matthew still owns WUNR, which has since relocated to the Downtown Crossing area.
The Answer
Thanks for playing folks! This is Causeway Street at Lowell Street on December 21, 1959