Roving UHub photographer Wiley Cox spotted a freshly storrowed truck sitting outside Micro Center on Memorial Drive in Cambridge this morning. He reports it's the first Mem Drive storrowing he's ever seen, so a round of applause.
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Give the driver some credit
By anon
Sat, 06/11/2022 - 2:00pm
They almost made it.
50 or so years ago...
By Charles Bahne
Sat, 06/11/2022 - 2:04pm
1970 or 1971, I was an MIT student. I forget if it was Memorial Day weekend or Labor Day weekend, but it was the Friday night, fairly late. It was a beautiful night so I decided to walk outside instead of through the Infinite Corridor (which wasn't yet known by that name, but that's another story...). I was walking along Memorial Drive, past the Great Court (now Killian Court), approaching Mass. Ave., next to Building 1. I heard a loud "scrunch" sound and I knew exactly what had happened. I never even saw it -- it was below grade from where I was -- but I immediately walked straight over to the police call box (no cell phones yet) at the corner of Mass. and Memorial. I told the dispatcher that another U-Haul had hit the underpass.
La plus ça change....
(The pedestrian overpass at Magazine Street, near Micro Center, has also been known to be deadly to overheight vehicles.)
When I was at MIT
By mg
Sat, 06/11/2022 - 5:46pm
In the late 70s, we called the ones going under Mass Ave "sardine cannings" for the way the tops were rolled back.
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