In 1962, Edmund L. Mitchell captured a bride being escorted into church in Jamaica Plain as a couple of streetcars passed by.
Anybody know what church is this close to the old Arborway line? Lindsay Popperson suggests St. Thomas Aquinas Parish on South Street; the current Google street view sure looks similar.
From the BPL's Edmund L. Mitchell Collection.
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St. Thomas Aquinas on South St?
By tblade
Mon, 09/05/2022 - 9:32pm
?
Don't have an answer to the
By Christine Langhoff
Mon, 09/05/2022 - 10:11pm
Don't have an answer to the question, but am reminded of a story an aunt told me when I was about 6, as we took the escalator, it was the old wooden slat kind, out of Maverick Station in East Boston:
"Once, there was a bride who didn't hold on to the handrail. Her train got caught in the escalator and she was pulled underneath and died!"
Not sure if my mean old auntie could forsee what the T would become.
Looks like it
By anon
Mon, 09/05/2022 - 10:30pm
stairs to sidewalk and trolley on South Street.
Great photo. Beautiful bride, gown and bouquet. The coats on the women on the sidewalk belong in MOMA.
I agree - looks like St.
By anon
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 8:47am
I agree - looks like St. Thomas's.
St Thomas Aquinas
By Jeremy Waterfall
Mon, 09/05/2022 - 9:38pm
That's gotta be St Thomas Aquinas on South St. Doesn't even look like the metal railing have changed https://www.google.com/maps/@42.306634,-71.1152733,3a,73.5y,247.19h,73.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soKHLU2bptd7WupJ5IGTgaw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Looks like
By perruptor
Mon, 09/05/2022 - 10:41pm
She arrived in the Batmobile.
If she was like my MIL
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:16am
Going to her wedding may have been one of the few times she had been in a car.
I like this one too
By Gary C
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 11:08am
From the same web page:
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