Who are you? Who, who, who, who?

By adamg on Sat, 09/09/2006 - 3:31pm

WHO!

You can tell the building that now houses the Bank of America in Coolidge Corner predates the bank by eons because it has all sorts of interesting details, including the sorts of friezes you'd normally expect to see on old buildings in downtown Boston.

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Gorgeous photos

By Rhea on Sat, 09/09/2006 - 9:30pm.

Wow, what a great collection of architectural details. I took a tour once of Art Deco Boston and it really opened my eyes to some of this. But your collection is amazing!

Call me crazy, but ...

By Borderline on Sun, 09/10/2006 - 8:36pm.

... wouldn't an animal symbol next to three letters with at least one from the Greek alphabet be the calling cards of a frat? Or the Masons? Or the Mormons? Or some other secretive group?

Hey, that was our logo!

By Ron Newman on Sun, 09/10/2006 - 10:47pm.

MIT's Project Athena, where I worked from 1984 to 1988, used a logo almost identical to that one.

This may explain its origin.

If memory serves--and I'm

By JCS on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 6:21am.

If memory serves--and I'm reaching back twenty years to a college course I took called "The Hellenistic World and Rome"--the owl and the letters Alpha Theta Epsilon are the symbol for Athens.

Athenian coin

By Ron Newman on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 9:02am.

And this is an ancient coin, which is why it makes sense to put it on a bank.