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Haven't had much call for lung protectors this winter
By adamg on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 10:32am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
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Kenmore Square?
Where the Uno's is/was?Nope
50 Washington Street
This is the headquarters of the C.P. Jaynes Drug store chain, apparently before the merger with Riker-Hegeman pharmacy chain. It was located at 50 Washington St (corner of Hanover St.). This would be approximately in the area of modern Congress St/Hanover St. I'm guessing the date would be sometime around 1900-1905.
Wherever it is,
Wherever it is, if they're still offering Double Stamp Tuesdays, sign me up.
46-50 Washington St
Historical records indicate that's where the Jaynes laboratory was around the turn of the century. But where is that today? None of the current locations with that address match the photo, nor are they anywhere near downtown. My guess is that it's somewhere in the Tufts Medical Center area and the building has since been demolished, and the block renumbered.
Yep-- Summer & Washington
From 1906
https://books.google.com/books?id=EXRPAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA334&ots=2ysYDtZa8m&...
Oops, I misread
"three on Washington Street, and two on summer"
And here's what happened to the company
It was absorbed by Rikers Drug in 1907
https://books.google.com/books?id=ab7mAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA290&ots=0FpIBtokkg&...
City Hall Plaza
I think that building was where the side steps of City Hall are now.
A vast improvement in the realm of pleasing architecture. Long live brutalism.
Close to the Holocaust Memorial
Hanover Street is still there today, just north of the Holocaust Memorial. Washington Street extended all the way from State Street to Haymarket Square, and crossed Hanover near where Congress meets Hanover today.
The lowest number on Washington Street today is 206, which is the Old State House at the corner of State Street. Number 1 Washington used to be at Haymarket Square.
Actually 201 Washington is
Actually 201 Washington is the lowest number. AKA 1 Boston Pl.
Lung Protectors?
Trying to find info on what those lung protectors were. Anyone have any info?
Wool vests to keep your chest
Wool vests to keep your chest warm so one wouldn't come down with deadly pneumonia from chilled lungs.
Marketing spin
It was a sales pitch based on ignorance of physiology. The belief was that cold air or being chilled caused illness.
True "lung protectors" would have prevented toxic coal and tobacco smoke, toxic fumes from industrial emissions, and exhaled tuberculosis from entering the lungs.
Boston's last...
Marijuana dispensary?
where do i sign up
to be a druggist
That photo looks heavily
That photo looks heavily retouched. If it hasn't been shopped post scan, it's a sterling example of the developer's art. If it has been shopped, it's a travesty, although no worse than the usual hdred rubbish that seems to be the modern craze.
It's real.
Found the exact photo in a book from the era.
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! This shows the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets on November 12, 1905.
"Double Legal Stamps"
Legal Cash Stamps were similar to S&H Green Stamps in an earlier era. The original Legal Seafood market in Inman Square got its name because they gave out the stamps when you bought something, and may also have accepted them as payment for your fish. Too bad you can't get Double Legal Stamps with your chowder next Tuesday.