What Boston City Hall (now Old City Hall, of course) looked like on the 400th-anniversary Columbus Day back in 1892, via the Boston City Archives.
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What Boston City Hall (now Old City Hall, of course) looked like on the 400th-anniversary Columbus Day back in 1892, via the Boston City Archives.
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That's Indigenous People's Day to you, Mac!
By Elmer Fudd
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 11:57am
And don't you forget it!
No its not
By anon
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 1:19pm
It Columbus Day bub... Its incredibly naive to think that is it wasn't for Columbus in the year 2016 this land mass would be solely inhabited by natives.
Columbus, cheers to you for getting lost !
Two things....
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 1:42pm
1) Pretty sure Elmer F was being whimsical,
2) Yes, it's likely that if Columbus had not brought slavery, etc to the new world someone else would have gotten around to it. So why are we celebrating him?
Well
By MostlyHarmless
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 4:27pm
Yes, you're quite right! It would be incredibly naive to think that. Someone else would almost certainly have come along in short order to murder them all those natives just as efficiently.
Not sure how that helps you here, though?
And also for the genocide!
No fireworks
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 12:27pm
No fireworks, I hope.
5,000 lights
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 10/10/2016 - 1:47pm
Electric company applied for permission to decorate with 5,000 lights-some can be seen on the sign. Found this info in a Boston Magazine blog entry from 2013, they posted the application, which is also in the City Archives.
Is there a high-res version?
By Scratchie
Tue, 10/11/2016 - 4:48pm
I can't see if there are any chopped-off hands hanging from the bunting.
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