Recent content by tobyjug

Lucas is pukeass

Need less Peebles, need more Bam-Bam.

I guess I’d vote for the flag in Trumbull’s Bunker Hill painting. The painting depicts one of the most stirring moments in local history, and it represents something that was “our moment”. https://www.americanrevolution.org/battle-of-bunkers-hill-painting/

Old pictures of the site lifted from an Old Bostonian Facebook post. The bank looks better in the rendering than it ever did in my 68 years of going past it!

Yup, you’re right. In early days they worked it hard as a sort of “B Stage”. But was never sure where the “A Stage” was!

The steps always seemed like the goofiest thing in the neighborhood (well, maybe the maudlin Famine Memorial is in the running there.) But it is a used comfortably by the Washington Street Irregulars and others in the April-November time frame. I would not want to go on it in super cold slippery...

What was there before was one of the most mediocre buildings in town, so no loss there. The new building design has grown on me. I get the concern and wouldn’t want a whole block of it, But as a specimen piece it might be just fine.

Cousin Carlo is on a roll

The asymmetry of the massing bothered me in the renderings. But as you approach the building from different neighborhoods, well, it doesn’t seem obvious from the “man in the street” view.

Probably true. But tofu dreg risk worry.

Reminds me a bit of 28 St James, where I had an office for many years.

Need more bike lanes.

Perhaps “saddle bag” or “mud flap” tickles your torpedo?

Wish I hadn’t loved the original design so much. Also wish tumescence hadn’t become a Boston design crutch.