🔷 Open Thread

[BostonUrbEx]

Did anyone else see this fault line cutting through Boston? And people thought it was a shock that we had an earthquake...

http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/

 

[czsz]

^ +100.

 

[datadyne007]

11 Retro Photos of the Orange Line (El)

http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2012/10/17/11-cool-photos-original-orange-line/

 

[czsz]

I want that double-decker bridge back, please.

Also, what is that filthy canal!?

 

[datadyne007]

It would eventually become rail tracks between Back Bay and South Sta:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=0210...8a2bf:0x5881a6e75c63ac24,42.347464,-71.075846

The photo was taken from the Harrison Ave bridge.

 

[czsz]

Yes...but...I assume the canal connected to Fort Point? How far did it go? To Back Bay station?

 

[datadyne007]

To me it just looks like a giant dirty puddle. Maybe someone else has details...

 

[BostonUrbEx]

If I had to guess, it was what was left of the NEC when they blew it up to rebuild it and the new southwest corridor. Looks like a puddle filled it.

 

[Commuting Boston Student]

There's a dining car (an/the(?) Indianapolis) sandwiched between the baggage car and locomotive on Amtrak Regional #66 this morning.

Anyone have a better idea of why it's here / whether I could've boarded it were I business class?

 

[kmp1284]

F'ing prude ...

Mayor Thomas Menino aims to halt sex toy giveaway on Boston's City Hall Plaza

City officials are asking a sex toy manufacturer to keep their risqué products off the mayor’s lawn by scrapping a proposed handout of vibrators on City Hall Plaza...

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/downtown/2012/10/mayor_thomas_menino_aims_to_ha.html

 

[choo]

no word of his stance on the AA battery giveaway happening the next day...

 

[Lrfox]

One of the things I like to do when I have spare time is play with photoshop. I made a few "T" themed wallpapers for the iphone 5 (these are a perfect fit) if anyone has one.

 

[BostonUrbEx]

Epic Toronto timelapse:

http://vimeo.com/51137834

To be watched in full screen with volume up!

 

[statler]

Why blueprints are (were) blue.

 

[datadyne007]

/mapgasm

**Note: I did not create this. It's been floating around the Boston Blogosphere today.

 

[KentXie]

/mapgasm

**Note: I did not create this. It's been floating around the Boston Blogosphere today.

It's been on wikipedia for awhile and occasionally it gets updated by the author.

 

[kmp1284]

The trashification of Boston, and Downtown Crossing specifically, continues....

Locke-Ober owner David Ray explains his decision to close.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...cVhhLvb5AM/story.html?comments=all#readerComm

 

[statler]

How long before Emmanuel, Wheelock and Simmons combine their administrations and re-brand as College of the Fens or Fenway College?

 

[statler]

The trashification of Boston, and Downtown Crossing specifically, continues....

Locke-Ober owner David Ray explains his decision to close.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...cVhhLvb5AM/story.html?comments=all#readerComm

There are just as many upper class people and upscale businesses that cater to them in Boston as always (if not more). It's just that they are getting younger and have vastly different tastes than the generation before them.

Edit: Unless you are referring to the current generation of upper class as 'trashy', in which case, sure.

 

[BostonUrbEx]

/mapgasm

**Note: I did not create this. It's been floating around the Boston Blogosphere today.

This reminds me of how Kz's Sim City wasn't discovered until 5 years later. This map is at least 4 years old (ignoring updates).