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When Stop & Shops were small
By adamg on Tue, 05/08/2018 - 11:36am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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Oak Square
Washington and Bigelow?
Oak Square
Looking from Washington St. by the former church.
Breck Ave.
The street going up the hill on the right is Breck Ave. There's a liquor store on that corner now.
When First National existed.
When First National existed.
Roughly the view today:https:
Roughly the view today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3508405,-71.1676888,3a,75y,153.05h,78.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqN3DM0gjuHauXOo2CBhUfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The loop was one-way it looks like so that outbound trolley would make the turn to go around the park, or maybe that was just a turnaround point for what became the 57A. The second house on the hill in both pictures has a distinctive roof line that also helps identify.
A real shame that section is a gas station exclusively now...It looks like ti could have been a nice block of businesses.
Car barn was somewhere off
Car barn was somewhere off-frame to the left, wasn't it? The new YMCA swallowed the last vestiges of that about 15-20 years ago, after the last PCC rebuild and ripping out the "A" rails.
agreed
that gas station is such an eye sore compared to that picture. Probably in the 70s (presumably) when it was erected it was seen as modern and a necessity.. today it is just ugly.
Oak Square Brighton
I can still smell the sawdust on the floor...
Hunnewell Market
So guessing where Hunnewell Meets Faneuil etc. per the others who said the road is a loop (Is that Oak Square?).
The Answer!
Thanks for playing, folks! This is Oak Square in Brighton in 1948