Dorchester Infill and Small Developments

tonite from my front yard in dot
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Two blondes are sitting on a doorstep in Dot.
One says to the other:
"Which is closer? The Moon or Floridah?"
To which the other one says:
"Duh! Can you see Floridah from here?"
 
I don't get it. Are Dorchester people supposed to be stupid? Is this a blonde joke or a Dorchester joke or both? I am assuming the the blondes are from Dorchester because Florida is spelled out in a way that makes fun of people who are from Boston and some of its suburbs. Is this forum now open to racist, ethinic, and religion jokes as well? Please let me know when you have the chance, I would love to post childish remarks just like you. Thanks.
 
John, this is much more a "blonde joke" than anything else. Most people everywhere pronounce the name of the Sunshine State as "Floridah", which I believe to be correct, although I believe natives of that state pronounce it, "FLOOR-DUH"!

I think you over-reacted JUST A BIT.
 
No, it was a Dorchester joke as well. I am thin skinned when it comes to people picking on Dot. I've heard a lot of them. What another name for Cheetos? Dorchester Shrimp. Ha ha. They (Myself by birth and development) are all white trash, small time Vietnamese storekeepers, and gun toting blacks. Ha Ha it's all very funny, we and our petty little lives with not enough time to be esoteric in our thoughts like the people on this board. Ha Ha.
 
Florida in Bostonian is "Florider" anyway.
 
I watched a documentary on Marky Mark the other day.
 
I assumed that Toby interjected Dot into the joke because this forum is titled "Dorchester Developments". If someone had posted a picture of the moon in a North End post it probably would have been two blondes in the North End . . .
 
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 original Supreme Market. It was built in 1935 just after Marsh Street was widened into what is now Gallivan Boulevard. Supreme Market later merged with Purity to become Purity Supreme. The store lasted there until the mid-1980's. It was briefly a Flanagan's and the retail space within the building became a Brooks / Rite Aid. When it was a grocery store your bags would be sent down a level on a conveyer belt through the storage area and out to the parking area on the north side of the building.

This has been a hard to get through intersection for years but the city recently redid the lights and traffic moves at a slightly faster pace.

The ODP is an 1870's GAR post now covered in mid-1960's faux stone. The same exact pattern is on my mother's house.

I wish you had posted a wider shot of the Soda Hut. It is a great example of a building conforming to its site limitations, rather than a cookie cutter building planted on a site.
 
John Costello answered an old question of mine - why are there 2 Adams Streets. Apparently part of Gallivan Blvd was the missing portion of Adams Street, so there's really only one.
 
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 the old Codman Street, and between Vedun and Marsh it was part of Adams Street. All the streets that became part of the boulevard were widened at the time of the layout. You can also notice that the housing stock, St. Brenden's Church, and the commercial development along the road east of Adams Corner is post 1930 while the housing on Minot Street just to the north has a number pre-civil war Greek Revivial and Colonial styles hidden amount the two and three family structures.
 
Funny that nobody protests the shadow implications of large looming billboards over major Dot squares.
 
I think they all are eyesores and adds to the mess that Dorchester is!
 
I live in Port Norfolk (next to Neponset) wanted to get opinions on if there should be a Red line stop in between JFK and N. Quincy on the Braintree line or if one was ever considered. Its frustrating seeing the trains go by my house roughly 200 ft away but having to treck a over mile to get to the closest T stop. The distance between the two stops is a good distance (3 or 4 miles) and skips the neponset/popes hill neighborhoods. Ashmont is also a roughly a mile & 1/2 away. I feel the density is definately good enough for a stop. And walking over the Neponset bridge is scary.

Was any research done on this back in the 70s? I'm thinking the DD rotary on Morrissey as a potential stop? Boston Bowling, Stop & Shop and Lamberts are all right there, as are the hotels, tenean beach and easy access to Pope John Paul II park.

(sorry if have been discussed before)
 
would luv to live in that neighborhood if there was a T stop,but being close to the highway ,they must figure it's a car oriented neighborhood
 
portnorfolk said:
I live in Port Norfolk (next to Neponset) wanted to get opinions on if there should be a Red line stop in between JFK and N. Quincy on the Braintree line or if one was ever considered. Its frustrating seeing the trains go by my house roughly 200 ft away but having to treck a over mile to get to the closest T stop. The distance between the two stops is a good distance (3 or 4 miles) and skips the neponset/popes hill neighborhoods. Ashmont is also a roughly a mile & 1/2 away. I feel the density is definately good enough for a stop. And walking over the Neponset bridge is scary.
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Before the Red Line was extended to Braintree the old Old Colony RR ran that line and in fact did have a few stops in southern Dorchester. When the Red Line extension was being planned (as far back as 1945) there were no plans to have any stations through Dorchester. The entire extension had always been planned as a sort of suburban express subway to serve Quincy and Braintree only. I guess the powers that be (powers that... were?) figured Dot residents would just take a bus to Fields Corner or something.

I for one think that they should build an infill station seeing that they restored Old Colony service on the commuter rail.
 
Until the very late 1980s the Braintree trains didn't even stop at JFK/UMass -- the tracks bypassed the station entirely.
 
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