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Boston used to have a lot more horses
By adamg on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 1:26pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can fix this photo in time and place. See it larger.
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McCormack Housing projects
McCormack Housing projects 1930's.
Blind, ignorant guess:
Allston/brighton, not far from the railroad corridor where the Pike is now.
I especially enjoyed looking at a single photo that contains a steam shovel, a horse & cart, and an automobile.
Yes Boston had many horses.
Yes Boston had many horses. My grandfather was a blacksmith when he came to this country. He must've done well enough to feed a growing family
Another dumping ground for Whitey's victims ?
Since he's now been found guilty by a jury of his peers, we can certainly speculate
Dorchester
Dorchester, 1918-1922
Agree - Dorchester
I have nothing to base it on, other than a sense of having seen the building on the left. Something about it is familiar to me, but maybe from a different view than the one in the photo.
Lower Mills?
(Now that I've said 'Dorchester', that makes it odds on to actually be Charlestown.)
Suldog
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A Wild Guess
It is a roads project done by the City in the 1920s, so I'm going to guess American Legion Parkway in Roslindale.
That looks like a
That looks like a decent-sized building in the background ... I'll go with Boston State Hospital in Mattapan, 1920sish.
The Answer!
Thanks for playing, folks.
This is the site of Roxbury Memorial High School on Townsend and Warren Streets, circa 1925-1926. Boston Latin Academy is now in the old Roxbury Memorial High building.
I never would have guessed.
But for my two cents, that building, when it was Boston Technical High School, was five stories tall, solid masonry and didn't have a crack in it. They built it right.
That's Why It Looked Familiar To Me!
I attended Boston Tech for 3 years. D'Oh!
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