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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDirty Old Boston
Found a Facebook page called Dirty Old Boston, all pics before the 80s.
Check this out.
Tremont St. at the Park Street station:
The Blizzard of '78 in Cambridge:
Park Street Church:
The Hatch Shell:
The Combat Zone, 1973:
Kenmore Square, mid-1950s. Citgo sign now where "Cities Service" sign is:
...I'm going to lose my whole day looking at these pics. So cool.
Here: http://www.facebook.com/DirtyOldBoston
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Dirty Old Boston (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Jan 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,615 posts)1. These are cool, my dear Will!
Thank you for sharing them.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)2. Thought this was going to be
about the water there...
Or maybe even the band...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. The Park Street Church is beautiful.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. Thanks for this!
I now live in Boston and I could look at these photos for hours days even!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)5. Love this!
I'm addicted to the Lynn Ma fb page.
Maine-ah
(9,902 posts)6. great pics!
the ones from the storm of '78 made me want to share this one - Storm of '78, in N.H. when I was a kid. I'm the little one, the other two are my brothers.