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Boylston Street
By Annon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 12:21pm
Right next to the Apple Store.
Correct
By Allstonian
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 1:32pm
Funny - I thought it looked familiar (it should! I worked on that block for a total of more than 15 years!) But the only building that remains is the Fisk Rubber building. The Century Tires building on the left was Copy Cop for several decades, until it was torn down and replaced by the Apple Store glass box.
That block
By anon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 2:07pm
Next to the Copy Cop was a gas station, if you can believe that. The old Paris Cinema was also on that block I think. And the building still standing next to the Apple Store was the old New England Music City, a great record store where I bought many classic albums when they were new in the early 70s. Years later it became Zoundz a used record store. Downstairs was the Bulkie, a great deli of the old style. Sometimes hookers would congregate there at night. The place had a lot more character before that bland Apple glass box.
Boylston Street
By Allstonian
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 3:57pm
The gas station was actually to the right of the Fisk Rubber building, closer to the corner of Fairfield Street. The Paris Cinema was a few buildings off to the left, where the Walgreen's is now.
IIRC, New England Music City became a
By roadman
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 4:41pm
Strawberries before it became Zoundz. And one of my favorite haunts on that section of Boylston Street in the early 1980s was Olson Electronics. Olson was a national chain similar to Radio Shack, but had a greater variety of specality parts, and usually at lower prices, than R/S did.
Strawberries
By anon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 5:56pm
The Strawberries was on the previous block, closer to Boylston and Exeter. Pretty much where the Crate & Barrel is. The square footage of the Strawberries was much larger than the NE Music City/Zounds location. The building where Strawberries was, or right near it, had previously been a record store called Soundscape. It's long forgotten, but it was great.
That was a nice building
By johnmcboston
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 1:50pm
So what happened to the corner building that it was replaced with a gas station....
Boylston Street
By JF
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 12:33pm
The Fisk Rubber building still existing. It's next to the Apple Store on Boylston.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/811+boylston+str...@42.3487957,-71.0821457,3a,90y,343.73h,87.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srb_SiTq7AxMpu1ainZJ-EA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb5fb087d309b821e!6m1!1e1
By Elmer
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 5:21pm
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/818boylston.jpg[/img]
[sup] Google Maps — Street View[/sup]
That looks just like a
By anon
Wed, 04/06/2016 - 6:41pm
That looks just like a Government Center headhouse!
Boylston St. -- as the
By anon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 12:58pm
Boylston St. -- as the previous commenter said. These posts are among my favorite at Uhub -- keep 'em coming! Thank you Boston City Archives for the great work.
The Original Automile...
By Grant Young
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 1:38pm
Boylston St. next to the train yards...
Early automile
By Zip
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 2:00pm
This stretch of Boylston was across from the railyards and had a lot of early car-related biz, in fact I think the Century Tire place to the left (Apple Store site) had been one of the first car dealerships. Great exposure as rail passengers and workers went by.
Now a Sleepys next to the
By anon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 2:47pm
Now a Sleepys next to the Apple Store and the Fidelity branch originally built for the never opened Boston location of Planet Hollywood.
811 boyleston https://www
By anon
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 3:35pm
811 boyleston https://www.google.com/maps/place/811+boylston+str...@42.3487957,-71.0821457,3a,75y,337.89h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srb_SiTq7AxMpu1ainZJ-EA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x44e9beb330778f1b?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic3pCOn_jLAhUHuIMKHanUBSoQxB0IIDAA
Thanks for playing folks!
By Boston City Archives
Tue, 04/05/2016 - 6:08pm
Thanks for playing folks! This is 801-815 Boylston Street on April 5, 1912. Here are 2 more photos we love of Boylston Street taken on the same day.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives...
Look at the parking.
By voicefromthehood
Wed, 04/06/2016 - 4:41pm
Look at the parking.
The other side of the Apple Store
By downtown-anon
Wed, 04/06/2016 - 6:49am
Was a mystery photo 4 years back.
http://www.universalhub.com/2012/if-you-remember-m...
Overlooking the huge Back Bay rail yard
By downtown-anon
Sat, 04/09/2016 - 9:02am
This picture was taken the same year. If you look at the large size you can see the same buildings sort of just left of the center of the photo. From the topic photo you don't get the impression of the chaos you see in this picture.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives...
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