"Dirty Old Boston"

#bancars said:
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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Based on the 1-28-38 stack of three route markers and the Somerville Ave/Union Square directional sign on the left, this photo looks like it's on McGrath Hwy northbound on the north side of the junction with Washington St.
Google streetview of that location matches the buildings:

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A vampire clearly bought the white house on the right, since all the windows have been replaced with smaller ones.
 
I was looking for photos of the old Roggi's in Cleveland Circle and found these pics online. That building (that I think must be owned by the T) has always, in my lifetime, been such a blight on Cleveland Circle, and I never knew it had a small storefront, an Esso, a beauty shop, and a Chinese food place, no less. Also cool to see people boarding right in the middle of the circle, and some sort of no man's land in the actual intersection. The only pic of these that has a date says 1953. Im guessing they're all early 50s.



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FK4 said:
I was looking for photos of the old Roggi's in Cleveland Circle and found these pics online. That building (that I think must be owned by the T)
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I'm in the middle of a mapping project of all T/MassDOT owned properties, and I can tell you with some certainty that the T never owned that building - BERy owned the site in the early 1910s, but by 1920 or so it'd been partioned out as a garage. That building was explicitly drawn into the Aberdeen Architectural Conservation District, so TBD if replacing it will ever happen, but It's still privately owned to this day.
 
Stlin said:
I'm in the middle of a mapping project of all T/MassDOT owned properties, and I can tell you with some certainty that the T never owned that building - BERy owned the site in the early 1910s, but by 1920 or so it'd been partioned out as a garage. That building was explicitly drawn into the Aberdeen Architectural Conservation District, so TBD if replacing it will ever happen, but It's still privately owned to this day.
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That is totally wild. Is there any active use of it whatsoever today? I mean, if it was converted to residences with some commercial fronts it would be fine, it’s just a big hulking semi abandoned building and always has been.
 
There's space available! Think I'll open my insurance sales and vacuum repair shop there.
 
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