"Dirty Old Boston"

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Never knew old ironsides had an upper structure and roof installed on it at one time to be used as a supply ship. Luckily it was restored.

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“The former T Wharf, a historic pier in Boston, was originally constructed between 1708 and 1718 as an extension of Long Wharf. Over the years, it evolved into a bustling hub for the fishing industry, with numerous fishing boats docked along its edges. In the 1880s, fishermen built the long yellow loft buildings to serve as their headquarters. However, as Boston’s fishing industry shifted to South Boston in the early 20th century, the yellow buildings were converted primarily into residential spaces. By 1961, the wharf had deteriorated so severely that all tenants were to be evicted, and the entire wharf demolished.”

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BronsonShore said:
What a damn shame. That would've made one hell of a little market pier with shops and restaurants, a la Nantucket Harbor.
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that's why we should start wharfing the harbor again. More land, more space for housing, more protection from rising sea levels. And more waterside little shacks where they sell just oysters or just lobster or whatever else.
 
stick n move said:
“The former T Wharf, a historic pier in Boston, was originally constructed between 1708 and 1718 as an extension of Long Wharf. Over the years, it evolved into a bustling hub for the fishing industry, with numerous fishing boats docked along its edges. In the 1880s, fishermen built the long yellow loft buildings to serve as their headquarters. However, as Boston’s fishing industry shifted to South Boston in the early 20th century, the yellow buildings were converted primarily into residential spaces. By 1961, the wharf had deteriorated so severely that all tenants were to be evicted, and the entire wharf demolished.”


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My father and uncle spent their infancy (1944-1949) on T Wharf before my grandparents moved them to the 'burbs. At the time, it was a real proto-Fort Point (before Fort Point got effaced by the post-2010 Seaport gentrification, of course)--a truly bohemian artists' colony. Perhaps Boston's counterpart to NYC's Greenwich Village or SF's North Beach, in that regard.

At one point, Sterling Hayden lived there; his career as an actor, author, sailor, and Marine epitomized the creative energies that flourished there.

Fun fact!: despite its founding during the heyday of the East India Company, which worked so diligently to addict the British Empire to tea-drinking, T Wharf was NOT originally named after that key staple of Boston's colonial maritime economy, and thus the modern name is NOT a corruption of "Tea Wharf"; rather, it alludes to the fact of its "T"-shaped configuration--or so I've been told.
 
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Love the density of the urban fabric, but damn that Central Artery. Really, they should have followed through with earlier plans and built a 4-track elevated railway link between North and South stations (instead of the expressway) along the same alignment, with just a surface road beneath it.
 
The Globe's Camberville newsletter today had this cool photo of trolleybuses (RIP) in Somerville from a storm on Dec. 12, 1960.

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