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This is fantastic. My father came to this country in 1964 and started working on the T a year later. He told me that the Tremont Street run (#49 Bus) at the time was known as The Burma Road at that time because of the war like atmosphere along the route. That police map is great material.

The lower part of that building is a Juvie lockup.

This is a substation for the area, isn't it? Built with some sort of munificence don't you say? Edison has buildings like this that blend in across from the Roma Bakery in the North End, behind NE School of Law, and though it does not blend, on High Street.

You are speaking of the Ferdinand Building, which if you hold your breath until the City moves offices there, you will be dead. The city has been trying to force certain city offices there into a proposed renovated building for years but the unions are not budging over the unsavory character of...

My caloric intake chart breakdown for 1985 agrees with you. Bickford's Gallivan Blvd right there with Johnny's Pizza across from Ashmont and what I could stuff in my mouth at the BK on Morrissey while I was working the afternoon shift.

Boston 02124 - Bickford's replaced, not IHOP on Gallivan Blvd.

Stonehill is a former Ames estate. The main building at Stonehill was known as Stone Hill House, on Stone Hill House Hill, when the Ames owned it. They gave up on it when two Ames kids plowed their aeroplane into a farmer's field in Randolph in the 20's. This is one part of their current...

If one ever watches the movie "The Last Detail" with Jack Nicholson, you can see what Deer Island used to look like. Near the end of the movie when they drop Randy McQuaid off in "Portsmouth" it is really the old Suffolk County House of Correction in the background. The prison was knocked for...

Re: Developer plans $300M project for Fenway Luxury style and moderate price apartments have been built at Ashmont and Milton on the Red Line, and at Sullivan Square and Wellington on the Orange Line in recent years. The T is begging people to take land off their hands at Forest Hills...

Re: Developer plans $300M project for Fenway This is horrible. How does Steve Samuels live with himself by building mixed use projects in not so long ago lousy areas like the Hingham Shipyard and the Fenway? How dare he build a functional supermarket in South Bay that served four...

No the Cohasset assessor once gave me something when I asked her that question. It was a deliberate decsion to go with Norfolk County based on travel to and from Dedham over Plymouth. I know I have it somewhere, if I ever find it I will post it.

There is a Kingstown Station in Rhode Island, all courtesy of Claiborne Pell. Go on you tube and watch the videos of the Acela bombing through. Very few people are going to walk from the corner of Train Street and South Munroe Terrace and then cross Morrissey Boulevard to get to a station...

If there was logic in municipal boundries there would be no more Brookline.

Perhaps the boundries between muncipalities really didn't matter when they were drawn. Maybe the part of Charlestown that stayed Charlestown and the part the became Somerville was where it was drawn on the ward maps at the time of the split? The T or I-93 have nothing to do with it. Maybe the...

The Silver Line should be trolley from Mattapan to Boylston. There is a huge difference in populations that would be served. Port Norfolk and Clam Point are much smaller than the number of people that would be served by a trolley line along Blue Hill Avenue. Fields Corner station is a 5...

Yup, that is why there are Dorchester subdivision and land plans up until 1870 on file in Dedham and not Boston. Cohasset stayed in Norfolk County by choice because it was deemed easier to get to Dedham for county business than Plymouth, though Hull and Hingham are closer to Dedham.

Don't take this as gospel but an older verion of the Alford Street bridge used to go up to what is now Chemical Lane, the current line between Everett and Boston. Where the power plant and the other parts of the waterfront are landfill and taken by Everett. The area to the north of this was...

Ya ain't taking my old Little League field for no stinkin' train station. Both Victory Road and Port Norfolk are well within reasonable walking distance of the #20bus. Boston has a lot more transit priorities than a train station to serve people that have reasonable bus access that feeds...

You are correct (Said in my best Ed McMahon voice). Adams Street was known as the Lower Road and was an ancient way. When Gallivan Boulevard was laid out (First known as the Southern Artery), it incorporated a large part of Marsh Street east of Adams Corner, From Verdun Street west its was...

When did Adams Village come into vogue? It has been Adams Corner as long as I can remember. It was also referred to as Sunnyside briefly at the end of the 1800's when it was the trolley terminus for Adams Street cars. Things of note. The brick building in the rear of Photo #2 is the...