Flickr Finds & Social Media Pics

[Ron Newman]

Thailand? The sidewalk at the bottom gets too dirty.

The photo caption says Tokyo.

 

[blade_bltz]

It's Tachikawa station, a large "suburban" transit hub about 30 km west of central Tokyo.

Also, that top level is the Tama monorail.

 

[BostonUrbEx]

Amtrak map, rapid transit style:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/senexprime/4785807080/sizes/o/in/photostream/

 

[JohnAKeith]

I like this.

Maybe it's a ripoff copy-cat of Trafalgar Square but who cares?

This is a water color painting by Ralph Adams Cram from the Boston Public Library's Flickr stream.

Boston-based architect Ralph Adams Cram became the leading proponent of the Gothic Revival in the United States in the 1900s. However his proposed design for Copley Square, Boston, done early in his career, is classical in style, as well as monumental, elegant and dignified. The architect writes about the design competition in his 1936 autobiography, My Life in Architecture: ?The award went to Rotch and Tilden for a sunken garden project; but, of course, this was never carried out and I dare say fifty years hence there will be another competition (as there have been several during the last forty years), and with the same negative result.?

 

[czsz]

Wow, that's gorgeous. For some reason it makes me think of squares in Paris rather than Trafalgar. And Cram was right, of course, about Copley needing to be redesigned again - more right than he knew, since it happened several times!

 

[Ron Newman]

I like it, but it would preclude the square's current use for summer concerts.

The handsome three-story building on the right (Boylston Street side) is sorely missed today ... if in fact it ever existed.

 

[kz1000ps]

^ It never existed; the north side of Copley has always been hodge podge. But IMO the best part of Cram's plan is that building, and it's too bad nothing even close to it was ever attempted on that block.

 

[czsz]

From an architectural/aesthetic standpoint I agree the building would have been a nice addition, but from an urbanist one I think it would have deadened the square. It's good that Copley has some active city life to draw people into it as well as large institutional buildings.

 

[kz1000ps]

I thought about that, but in this case I chose big, beautiful and potentially deadening over bustling hodge podge.

 

[Charlie_mta]

The winged tower in the rendering reminds me somewhat of the Third Reich; something out of WW II Berlin.

 

[kz1000ps]

Kendall Square and the Back Bay, 1967:

cunningba

 

[kz1000ps]

Boylston Street, 1971:

Jon Delorey

 

[kz1000ps]

Canal Street, some time in the '70s:

AntyDiluvian

 

[Boston02124]

they should have never torn down the garden or at least saved the front! Great finds!

 

[kz1000ps]

Pru Plaza, May 1979:

AntyDiluvian

 

[TheRifleman]

Good Old BEANTOWN...............LOVE the PICS.

 

[gooseberry]

I like this.

AntyDiluvian

There's lots of good stuff in the "Boston: The 70s" set.

 

[gooseberry]

The Vendome Hotel after the fire!

AntyDiluvian

 

[kz1000ps]

More AntyDiluvian, this time Kenmore Square in early 1973:

Allston, looking towards where Marty's used to be, July 1976:

chetkres

A rainy day in the mid-'70s...

denizen8

Stuck on the Artery, 1984:

cjo1961

The Garden's backside (and check out those shadows!)

Ron's Log

1988:

JC Garcia Caparros

Before 125 High Street ever existed, there was the Travelers Insurance Building, and it met its fate on the morning of March 6th, 1988:

bye bye

Now this is how you do HDR...

Amar Raavi

 

[Beton Brut]

Love that rainy day shot of Washington Street. At that point, an old family friend owned Sallingers. I think my Communion suit came from there.

And that shot of the Vendome...It's one of the heaviest shots anyone's ever posted on here. I think a Globe photographer was shortlisted for a Pulitzer for capturing the collapse. My dad was there with the State Police. He still talks about it.