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In 1887, Edward Bellamy published. He was looking at his own era from the vantage point of the future (the year 2000). We’re looking at the past, also with the benefit of hindsight. This site pages back through the streets, scraps and happenings of a city known for its history. The goal: to recover the layers. Just from the Colonial period to the Revolutionary War, but the decades from those years to the present. Suggestions and questions welcome at bostonlookingbackward (at) gmail (dot) com.
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How Boston got its first airline route | Looking Backward
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June 18, 2012. How Boston got its first airline route. The flight from Boston to New York would take one hour forty-five minutes. It was the mid 1920s: a happening time between world wars. The United State Postal Service had successfully proved its experiment. In putting excess planes to work ferrying mail from coast to coast, so that the government felt confident putting its airmail routes out to bid to private aviation companies. Photo: Boston Public Library/via Flickr. You can peek inside the airl...
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Thirsty horses and trolley cars | Looking Backward
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July 12, 2011. Thirsty horses and trolley cars. Photo of a downtown fountain for thirsty horses via Boston Public Library’s Flickr stream. Would take one of these for people right about now. The ASPCA, founded in 1866 spread to many American cities, and lobbied on behalf of draft horses.This scene was already on the wane in the 1920s. Horses were superseded by electric trolley lines through expanding cities (What’s that off in the background? Between 1742, when horses were taxed for the first time, and 1...
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Preservation and affordability advocates call truce in JP | Looking Backward
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June 19, 2012. Preservation and affordability advocates call truce in JP. It’s an odd alliance at first glance. The Boston Preservation Alliance and Occupy JP have united to oppose demolishing the “Knight’s Children’s Center” on Huntington Ave. The Home for Little Wanderers is relocating to Walpole, and the latest plan for its site is to tear the buildings down and put up a high-end apartment building. Here are the basics of the dispute from the. It’s worth pointing out that the proponents of histo...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner turns 173 | Looking Backward
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April 14, 2013. Isabella Stewart Gardner turns 173. 8220;Every year,” writes Patricia Vigderman, “on her birthday, April 14, a Mass is still said in the chapel. The opening lines of. The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This entry was posted in Boston. Preservation and affordability advocates call truce in JP. I have sometimes wished it was my destiny…. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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The first home of Sylvia Plath | Looking Backward
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August 5, 2011. The first home of Sylvia Plath. One of the disappointing realities of historical signage campaigns is the signs themselves just don’t have all that much impact unless you know what you’re looking for. We expect them as part of any normal historical preservation effort, but a discreet metal plaque on a wall with some dates – it’s sort of anti-climactic.The backstory’s usually better told in detail, told aloud. And the book of poems,. Was born in a Boston hospital on October 27 of 1932.
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August 3, 2013. I have sometimes wished it was my destiny…. In the spirit of. Pointing you to this letter featured on the Paleofuture blog. Written by Benjamin Franklin to the Reverend John Lothrop of Boston, May 31, 1788. April 14, 2013. Isabella Stewart Gardner turns 173. 8220;Every year,” writes Patricia Vigderman, “on her birthday, April 14, a Mass is still said in the chapel. The opening lines of. The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. June 19, 2012. Occupy JP calls for the space to b...
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I have sometimes wished it was my destiny… | Looking Backward
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August 3, 2013. I have sometimes wished it was my destiny…. In the spirit of. Pointing you to this letter featured on the Paleofuture blog. Written by Benjamin Franklin to the Reverend John Lothrop of Boston, May 31, 1788. This entry was posted in Ephemeral Boston. And tagged Ben Franklin. Isabella Stewart Gardner turns 173. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Get ever...
