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There's a pun there somewhere
By coffeeweasel
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 11:35am
There's a pun there somewhere about a bleak street in Boston and a Bleecker street in NYC, but I can't get it to come out.
(No idea about the photo.)
I can place it.
By Patrick_RMG
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:01pm
That's the wrong side of the tracks.
Time: early 1900's (before 1919)?
By John Q
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:04pm
Union Tank Line was the rail company set up by Standard Oil in 1891, and became independent when Uncle Sam broke up Standard in 1911. In 1919, the company changed it's name to Union Tank Car (today's UTLX), so it probably would have restenciled the tank cars with it's new name. No idea where in the city this would be; someplace where hauling oil or other chemicals would be necessary.
Deliveries
By johnmcboston
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:22pm
Well, the building on the left rear has Lube in their name, so they're probably getting a delivery of those tank cars.
However there weren't many places where heavy rail crossed trolley tracks. Given the close proximity of industry and housing, maybe East Boston??
LUBE or TUBE?
By Charles Bahne
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 1:28pm
I can make out "UIT ?UBE AND P??E CO" so I'm guessing that refers to "CONDUIT TUBE AND PIPE COMPANY".
Possibilities
By BostonUrbEx
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:19pm
Could be the Saratoga St crossing in East Boston. I can't think of anywhere else!
Thinking about it some more
By BostonUrbEx
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:27pm
I'm thinking about it some more and this actually could be the place. The gas tanks between Day Sq and Chelsea St Bridge were there at least as early as 1938. They definitely have seen rail service in the past, so the tankers would make sense. We would have to be looking northeast. It would also have to have been before the McLellan Hwy was built, which I'm not sure when it was built. At right, the tracks start fanning out a little, as they approach the former railyard in Eastie.
First Street in Southie??
By anon
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:22pm
First Street in Southie??
Could be, there was an oil
By kvn
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 1:26pm
Could be, there was an oil terminal there , between D and E , before the split at the Pappas building. Truck leasing companies had been renting there, think it was Cities Services tank farm.
Love
By anon
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:22pm
these old pics. No idea where this is. I assume bleak is a clue?
No, just a description
By adamg
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:50pm
The City Archives post photos like this once or twice a week but they never give me any advance info about them, so I'm as much in the dark as everybody else :-).
A
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:39pm
Dirty Dot Ave?
I think you could be right,
By anon
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 1:21pm
I think you could be right, possibly Dot ave at Hancock street looking inbound
Route 99/Sullivan Area?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:55pm
There are some areas over by where the rotary is now that once had that sort of mishmash of housing, heavy rail, trolley rail, and electrical and phone line sorts of stuff.
Condor Street East Boston.
By jack
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 1:24pm
Condor Street East Boston.
The Answer!
By City of Boston ...
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 4:15pm
Thanks for playing folks! This is Saratoga Street in East Boston. Date is June 1906
Well done, BostonUrbEx!
By John-W
Thu, 07/24/2014 - 4:53pm
..or should we call you....Nancy Drew?
Woo-hoo!
By BostonUrbEx
Fri, 07/25/2014 - 12:17pm
Thank you, thank you! There's so many people I would like to thank! Firstly, I'd like to thank Adam for creating UniversalHub . . .
Awesome ID work
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 07/25/2014 - 2:02pm
Very impressive.
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