Dump the debt: Elect Gibbons mayor

Gibbons ran in '75 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Boston_mayoral_...

August 18 was a Monday in 1975, also in 1969 and 1980. '75 seems most likely.

The "street number" 1841-1843 is a problem. There are only a few streets in the City of Boston that have numbers going up to the 1800s. I checked most of them on old real estate atlases, and none had any wooden buildings resembling this one at that address. Streets I ruled out were Beacon Street (Brighton, south of the reservoir), Centre Street (West Roxbury), Columbia Road (Southie), Columbus Avenue (near Egleston Sq.), Commonwealth Avenue (Brighton), Dorchester Avenue, Hyde Park Avenue, River Street (Hyde Park), Soldiers Field Road, and V.F.W. Parkway. [Blue Hill Avenue and Tremont Street only go up to the 1600s.]

Surprisingly, the best match seems to be Washington Street in the South End, between Camden and Lenox, which actually did have a wooden building at 1843. But the old atlases say that it was just a 2-story building, and they don't show any bay windows. On the other hand, the general state of decrepitude would match that location; so many buildings there had been abandoned in that era, assuming that the Inner Belt was coming their way.

Is there any chance that the number may refer to something other than the address?

Since no one has suggested this yet, I thought it looked like the old Carroll building on the corner of Lamartine and Paul Gore Streets in Jamaica Plain, before it was renovated into the Nate Smith House.