Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part XIX (2025)

[kz1000ps]

 

[Charlie_mta]

A light beige paint job would help it to not look like a dystopian ruin.

 

[FormFollowsBudget]

A light beige paint job would help it to not look like a dystopian ruin.

Eh, paint doesn't look great on this stuff, especially with that finish on the concrete. A quick power washing would help substantially.

 

[kz1000ps]

Shooting a condo with a lovely roof deck last week

 

[kz1000ps]

Another condo with another awesome roof deck!

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Amazing that Star Market is still kicking around.

 

[RandomWalk]

We dodged a heck of a bullet when they gave up on the plan to replace Fenway with a new stadium at Brookline and Boylston. Everything in the middle of that photo would a be a stadium.

 

[DZH22]

IMG_0293 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0374 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[kz1000ps]

Quick trip through Northeastern

 

[kz1000ps]

Leftovers from last week

 

[kz1000ps]

Back to the vintage stuff... these are from late June into early July 2005

 

[stick n move]

What I wouldnt give to pay the rent of the time in those pictures!

 

[Arenacale]

If only you could have known then what that Star Market view would look like now. Amazing.

I didn't realize the Big Dig fencing was up that late (2005) in front of the InterContinental. Seems kind of anachronistic in a sense.

 

[FormFollowsBudget]

 

[kz1000ps]

More vintage July 2005, starting with the view from my apartment

 

[Arenacale]

I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out where this was, since it looked oddly familiar and had plausible locations in multiple spots in the metro area. Enough Google Map sleuthing led me to realize I had never actually been there - it's University Park Commons in Cambridge. I almost thought it was a spot in the Seaport for a second. I was a fill-in mailman as a summer job in Cambridge in 2004 but never had a route in that area - they were all either north/west of this or out by Fresh Pond. A shame, I would have liked to experience the space like this back in the day.

MapJunction has a 2005 aerial that's fun to cross-reference with these photos, specifically those empty Boylston Street shots, a lot has changed in 20 years: https://mapjunction.com/?lat=42.342...&zoom=15.0436860&mode=overlay&b=0.000&p=0.000

 

[chrisbrat]

More vintage July 2005, starting with the view from my apartment

Cool. I lived in that same building when I was at Berklee six years before you.

 

[kz1000ps]

Cool. I lived in that same building when I was at Berklee six years before you.

Uhhhhh no way? 1088?

 

[chrisbrat]

Uhhhhh no way? 1088?

I should have written "block," rather than "building." I was the further end of that block, near Hemenway Street: 1126 Boylston St. I did hang out at 1088 a lot, though (though they were more often at our spot b/c we had roof access and we'd all hang out on the roof (wish I had taken ANY pictures of that view and am kind of surprised I didn't).

 

[stick n move]

I know its been posted before, but…

“This photo of Boston, taken from a hot air balloon in 1860, holds a special place in history—it’s the oldest known aerial photograph in the world. Captured by James Wallace Black on October 13, it shows the city from 2,000 feet above, long before drones or satellites. Look closely and you’ll see the rooftops and winding streets of a very different Boston, just a few years before the Civil War. A remarkable view of the past—suspended in midair.”

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