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Trolleys rarely delayed due to horses these days

By adamg on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 10:58am

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

Earlier:
This used to be more of a problem.
A major problem.

Neighborhoods: 
Boston
Topics: 
History
The T
Free tagging: 
Horses


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Comments

By Waquiot on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:02am.

Common on the right, Public Garden on the left.

By Gary C on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:02pm.

The two tall buildings in the distance (at Beacon & Charles) are still there.

By Brent Jeffries on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:12am.

Horse shoes come off, riders scoff.

By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:48pm.

IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/charles-st.jpg)

By MattyC on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:45am.

What on earth is that subject line? 2-lambda? The font makes it look vaguely Hangul-esque.

By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:19pm.

I can never see his subjects.. shows up as a box.

Are you posting from a phone elmer? (or a Mac?)

By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:43pm.

With Safari on a Mac, it's completely blank — indicating no subject at all is intended for the post.

However, on Chrome and Opera, it's a blank box; and on Firefox, it's a rectangle with "F076" inside. Of course, everyone should be using Safari on a Mac, but since they don't, I'll try to find another character for this purpose that appears more consistent, but which also means nothing at all.

By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:52pm.

I'm on a Windows machine using Chrome. (On Windows IE, it shows up as nothing)

You have to be careful with extended characters like that. Many are OS-specific. (those emoticons from Facebook also come to mine). The web page encoding will ignore OS-specific extended characters and convert them to ISO-standard ones or a box or empty to display if nothing comparable is avaliable.

Not saying don't do that.. just saying that non-Mac Safari peeps can't decode them to know what to display in it's place.

By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:01pm.

By anon on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:06pm.

Phone no - looks like a blue box. And, no, I, like 80% of the world's smartphone owners, don't have an iPhone and don't plan to get one.

By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:11pm.

There's an equivalent on other OS's for that font.

the Ⓣ according to Microsoft Word is "MS Gothic" font. The more obscure font you have, the less likely others will be able to see it. MS Gothic is a Unicode font so it's pretty universal across platforms.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html

But things like icons that are fonts usually are less supported across platforms. (Webdings, Wingdings, etc are a few that come to mind)

By MattyC on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:54pm.

So happy I asked. :) I had to do some unicode unit tests for a JVM in a prior job. What a pain. Each new version of unicode adds approximately 20 million new characters and I don't care about any of them. Latin alphabet FTMFW!

By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:13pm.

I changed that original subject to another character. Do you see nothing now?

Actually, the Ⓣ can vary, depending on the font:

     IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/the-e29389.jpg)

By cybah on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:35pm.

It's blank now.

And yes it has variations depending on the font you used. The one you used above.... I pasted into Microsoft Word. Word said it was MS Gothic, which is what Microsoft Windows translates that to. Unless you tell me which font you are using, I can only go by what Unicode translates it to on a Windows machine. So for me, it's MS Gothic since I'm on Windows.

Some of it may have to do with how Adam's page is displayed too. I don't think drupal hard-sets the font for display. (i.e. he TELLS everything to be in a certain font). It's probably set to 'fixed width' because for me, everything on his page is in Arial (or Helvetica for you mac people), not MS Gothic. But Arial/Helvetica is a standard "web font", which is the defacto "fixed width" font for web pages.

Okay we're way off topic now.. ;)

By Elmer on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:40pm.

By blues_lead on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 1:16am.

Opera on Windows, it's currently blank.

By baustin on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:13pm.

Probably a rental cart driven by some New York parent dropping their kid off at lumber school.

By Michael on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:22pm.

"Put a horse anywhere near our tracks and we'll find a way to make it delay service"

By roadman on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:27pm.

on the tracks, the T would use it as an excuse to delay service.

By octr202 on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:12pm.

...is upon us!

By HenryAlan on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:49pm.

Waquiot win the prize on this, but definitely the most recognizable location I've seen so far in one of these pictures. The buildings haven't even changed!

By Lecil on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:41pm.

What would explain why it look 70 minutes to get from Sutherland to Park St on the Greenline late this morning... :/

By Mattatonic on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:47pm.

Are we sure this isn't just an example of what the MBTA is planning if winter service is disrupted?

By noahproblem on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:55pm.

...we can't shoot Green Line trains when they become disabled...

By Boston City Archives on Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:13pm.

Thanks for playing, folks! This does indeed show Charles Street between the Common and the Public Garden. It was taken in February of 1920.