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P Schell & Son
By downtown-anon
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 11:47am
Typo.
1224 Washington St. Sort of looks like this now
Well someone else beat me to the link.
Washington St. @ Perry St
By aldos
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 11:46am
The view today (looks like most of the buildings in the original photo are gone):
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ylOnmqK.jpg[/img]
From the signage and the power lines, I'll guess it's from the early 1900s.
From Bakery to gay bar.
By anon
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 12:41pm
From Bakery to gay bar.
Buns to Bunns!
By dd808
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 1:11pm
Buns to Bunns!
I'd guess it's prior to 1900...
By anon
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 2:35pm
The Washington Street El opened in 1901 and the photo appears to be taken from across Washington without the elevated tracks in view.
Background
By anon
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 3:09pm
The large brick building in the background is the same, yes?
1894
By Nate
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 12:16pm
My guess is 1894. Looks like Schell's bakery was around from 1850 to 1900ish. The tailor next door was there at least in 1894.
1885 Bakery Review:
[IMG]http://i66.tinypic.com/b7035u.jpg[/IMG]
1895 Map:
[IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/2uqngra.jpg[/IMG]
Build a sea wall
By BostonDog
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 5:28pm
Stupid German taking AMERICAN JOBS. That good review is fake news.
The U.S. had a rapidly developing
By anon
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 6:50pm
industrial economy with grow rates trough the roof during this time, and, had a need for a large workforce, skilled and unskilled. As the 2nd decade of the 21st century winds down, the U.S. is a 'developed' nation living in it's post-industrial age. Economic growth rates are anaemic, our population is already the 3rd largest of any nation on earth (after India and China), and we have zero need for millions of semi-skilled and un-skilled workers. Only large corporations and businesses that $benefit$ from slave-like labor, and political parties that benefit from millions of needy, high maintenance people, benefit; certainly not the average citizen who is ignored and laughed at by the Democratic and Republican party elites.
Whatever happened to Schell?
By Rob
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 12:27pm
Whatever happened to Schell?
They damaged their market share by putting such lousy terms in their franchise agreements that their franchisees had to charge uncompetitive high prices to meet their terms.
Oh, wait... THAT was/is Shell Oil. Don't know anything about Schell and Sons.
Closed by the Feds...
By Ward8Mahatma
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 8:49am
...in the early 1900's when an investigation uncovered it as part of a city-wide Schell game
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 4:01pm
Thanks for playing, folks! This is the east side of Washington Street, at Perry Street, on October 10, 1899.
Not sure if this link will work...
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 4:32pm
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZpPAQAAMAAJ&pg=...
(talks about a nephew of the owner of this bakery -- who ultimately set up his own bakery (and was a lso a labor leader)
Brick building in rear
By Richard Rabbett
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 10:17pm
The large brick building in the rear of the photo (with the crenellated brick design on top) is Bacon's Building at 500 Harrison Ave. which houses the restaurant Cinquencento.
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