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Bucolic scene along an old Boston main street
By adamg on Mon, 08/29/2022 - 12:11pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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West Broadway in South Boston
looking towards the intersection of East Broadway and Dorchester Street. (This square has a name, which I can't remember right now.) My guess is based on the angle of the intersection in the background.
Perkins Square?
Are you thinking of Perkins Square?
That's what I had first thought
but Google search seems to insist that is the name of a completely different place in Jamaica Plain.
An easy one!
Location is looking south on Bunker Hill St right by the Bunker Hill Burying Ground in Charlestown. Lots of clues in the photo.
As for when … license place 635432 would have been issued in 1927, so, some time after 1927. The first building on the left still exists, everything else on that side was torn down in the 1930s for the Bunker Hill projects. The cars look mid-1930s, so I'd guess some time around 1936?
Damn
1938. Off by two years.
Charlestown
My guess is that this is along Bunker Hill st. in Charlestown, looking towards the Navy Yard before the Tobin was built. I'm pretty sure from other old pictures I've seen that the smoke stacks in the distance are in the old Navy Yard and the steeple is the old St. Catherine of Sienna church, now part of the St. Mary St. Catherine collaborative.
Southie
That’s H and west 2nd looking towards the Edison. My guess...
Huh
As much as I think AriO is right, I was convinced it was somewhere in JP due to the Pickwick Ale building and chimneys in the background. One of the roads near the old Haffenreffer Brewery, perhaps.