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Hoof it to the Union Station Fish Market for some fresh oysters
By adamg on Wed, 02/09/2022 - 9:09am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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“Kids” tobacco?
Wait, is Swett, Sandborn & Co. advertising “kids” tobacco?
Brand name, is my guess.
Though that’s who they market to nowadays.
Unpleasant double entendre.
Don’t think it’s a brand name
There was a product called “Dixie Kids Plug Cut Tobacco” which marketed to kids-examples of their lunch boxes and other items can be found for sale on EBay. Kids in the late 19th/early 20th centuries were attracted to chewing tobacco because many of their baseball idols were users.
Children should be taught
Children should be taught that professional baseball is a kids' game being played by adults. Idolizing adult baseball players is not a good strategy.
Yikes.
The good old days, eh!
Don't worry it gets worse
Here's another example of their marketing for this product:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-gra...
JFC
"Not only do I want my children to consume an age-inappropriate psychoactive addictive drug, but I want them to be reminded that this crop is harvested in a brutally violent and exploitative way by vulnerable marginalized people who are often children themselves. And definitely in a racist way. I have discerning tastes, you know."
Causeway st
North Union Station was located where TD Garden exists now.
Yeah feels like Canal St
Bricks and details on both sides seem like bookend what is now a parking lot
Yes, this is it
Building on the left is now Beerworks.
(I worked at 66 Canal in the 200Xs)
I worked on Staniford Street
I worked on Staniford Street at the same time.
canal street for sure
The building to the left is still there, can't see enough of the building on the right to make a judgement.
Like they just excised that pretty little building and left nothing in its place.
It may be the same..
Judging from the rounded tops of the windows, which remain today, albeit bricked up. It looks like someone added another floor and bricked up the windows.
Probably a side street in the area.
Could be Lowell or Lancaster or some such.
Sores Back Then
Stores in photos from back then always seem to be so dark inside and appear to have interesting things on display in the windows.
No fluorescent tubes.
No fluorescent tubes.
The Horse
was obviously a fan of Zorro. The owner had to humor him to convince him to work in winter.
Not that it had any choice.
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"Roslindale" visible on carriage?
kinda looks like like it... Which is not to say that the picture is taken in Rozzie.
The wagon
has the name Knox above rozzie...
122 Canal Street
Which is a parking/unloading area nowadays.
122-124 Canal St
Between 1892 when it was on Union St and 1904 (when it had changed its name). (In 1879 it was on Central Wharf.
The B&M was required by the state to build North Union Station to consolidate operations and resisted for a while but finally built it in 1893. The old B&M station across Canal Street from here was torn down in 1894 and became the portal for the BERy (the Orange and Green lines, eventually), as well as the Green Line's old surface terminal. So probably after 1894, although apparently pretty quickly people called it North Station which stuck.
This building was American Express before the station consolidation, when the "express" services were probably consolidated into the Union Station. (South Station had a specific express baggage building shown on Bromley maps, but North Station's was probably under the same roof.)
Quite the precipitous….
…Christmas decoration above the storefront on the right. Owner must’ve had good insurance (not!)
Ah, oysters and chewing tobacco
One of the classic combinations. It is best, however, when one spits out the tobacco, and swallows the oyster, and not the other way around.
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! Canal Street is correct. This shows 122-124 Canal Street and was taken in about 1895. To really zoom in on the details, you can use this link: https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_6f7ef0ce-623...
Roslindale & Mt Hope Express
Thanks to the new photo one can read the whole sign on that cart. I wonder just WHAT sort of express delivery was being made?