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Get your wagon repainted as you're fitted for glasses
By adamg on Tue, 08/29/2023 - 11:05am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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Gonna paint your wagon. Gonna
Gonna paint your wagon. Gonna paint it fine. Gonna use an oil-based paint because the wood is pine. Ponderosa Pine!
Hanover Street?
What's also interesting is the Jasper W. Stone sign in the background, as though Jasper (aka quartz) was born to be a jeweler and nothing else (well maybe an optician)
Charlestown- Main Street
Jasper W Stone was located at 45 Main Street in Charlestown. Frank Roman provided produce to the Navy Yard and had a farm in Wilmington. It looks like it would be between Henley and Winthrop Streets. Doesn't appear any of the buildings still exist today.
You got Trouble, folks
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool hall window after school.
A pool hall!
A pool hall!
Main Street in chuck-town
It’s Main Street in Charlestown
I'd prefer a game of billiards
Over a fitting for glasses, but that's just me.
The corner of Washington
The corner of Washington Street at Massachusetts Avenue, Roxbury.
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo was taken in Charlestown on January 19, 1900 and shows the east side of Maine Street at the north corner of Henley. For more photos of Charlestown, you can visit this link: https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_b2b0d72b-40e...
We'll have more coming soon!
It was spelled Maine Street back then?
rather than Main Street?