Comm Ave is miles from this location. Do you mean the antenna tower behind the New Balance store? That's the former TV38 tower on Leo Birmingham Parkway.

no

By SFPD12 on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 1:56pm.

looks more like a water tower.
I think com ave is in that direction.
unless I'm looking down market and not north beacon

If this is the Pig & Whistle, you're looking towards Watertown. Your back is to the Dunkin Donuts, WGBH is on your right across the street, and the street ahead will take you out opposite the McDonalds on Leo B. Pkway.

you're looking down north

By greenlinetobrooklyn on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 3:58pm.

you're looking down north beacon, but comm ave is still parallel and way left of the vantage point. I tried to find the water tower thingy, but its tough to pick something like that out on historic aerials.

Weld Street & Centre, West Rox (looking towards Belgrade Hill?)

By JP Runner on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 3:06pm.

It seems like the water tower is awfully close in this photo, but it kind of makes sense...

Yeah, it sort of reminds me of that intersection ...

By adamg on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 3:47pm.

The station being where the Weld American used to be.

I was thinking that, too

By Waquiot on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 3:53pm.

But the tower in the distance makes me doubt it.

The Answer

By Boston City Archives on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 4:29pm.

Thanks for playing, folks! This is the Winthrop Ave crossing at the Beachmont Station site in 1952

Hey, not fair ;-)

By Ron Newman on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:54pm.

I thought all of your locations had to be within the city of Boston. That is Revere.

Yes — Even Those Tanks In The Background Were In Revere

By Elmer on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 3:59pm.

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_{They've pulled this on us before.}

^{Apparently, anything on the Blue Line is considered part of Boston.}

Not the Pig and Whistle, not Brighton

By Charles Bahne on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 5:08pm.

There used to be lots of diners around greater Boston, which have vanished without a trace. This diner does not resemble the Pig & Whistle.

I can't figure it out myself, but I can offer the following clues, all of which also indicate that this was not the Pig & Whistle and probably not in Brighton.

Someone else has already pointed out that the full (not cropped) view of the image shows trackless trolley wires above the street in the foreground, that runs from right to left. Market Street in Brighton never had trackless trolleys. Western Avenue did, but this doesn't look like Western.

The large sign with the diagonal brace, under the street lamp in the center, is an old-fashioned railroad crossing sign. So there must have been a rail line immediately behind the photographer. But it couldn't have been either the Boston & Albany (now Framingham-Worcester) line or the Providence line, both of which were fully grade-separated by the early 1900s. It was most probably a branch line or an industrial spur.

The highway sign to the left of that, which can't be read because we're looking at the back, is the shape that Massachusetts used along numbered highways, meaning that the foreground (right to left) street was probably a numbered highway. Of course, numbered highways have been rerouted a number of times since the 1950s.

Possible trackless trolley routes that come to mind include the 36 (Spring St.), 34 (Washington St.), 32 (Hyde Park Ave.), and 20 (Neponset Ave.). The latter had a state highway and a railroad spur near its end. So I'm guessing maybe somewhere near Neponset Circle??

I'm shocked

By Gary C on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 8:07pm.

I was SO sure! Oh well, better luck (for me) next time.

Love the detailed post Charles!

Eat at the Shamrock, then get gas

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I'm gonna go with East Boston

Market St. at N. Beacon

Yep!

this was my guess

Photo cropped

Boston? Or Mayberry?

What

Comm Ave?

no

looking in opposite direction