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Joe Pesaturo just tweeted these pix of the headhouse:

https://twitter.com/JoePesaturo/status/773905110384709632

Joe Pesaturo @JoePesaturo
Workers are putting the final touches on Franklin St entrance to #MBTA #DowntownCrossing #OrangeLine Opens #Monday

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Flag just in case you forget that you're in America.
 
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datadyne007 said:
Joe Pesaturo just tweeted these pix of the headhouse:


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Flag just in case you forget that you're in America.
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DataDyne --it is after all at the corner of Washington and Franklin -- if you can't have Flag there -- then where? [perhaps they should use one with a circle of 13 stars?]
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whighlander said:
DataDyne --it is after all at the corner of Washington and Franklin -- if you can't have Flag there -- then where? [perhaps they should use one with a circle of 13 stars?]
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Whigh.... did you know that was my great, great, great, great, great great grandaddy who led the first major act of rebellion against the British?

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sons.html


The Sons of Liberty

In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty. And grow it did! These were not the leading men of Boston, but rather workers and tradesmen. It was unseemly that they would be so agitated by a parliamentary act. Though their ranks did not include Samuel and John Adams, the fact may have been a result of a mutually beneficial agreement. The Adams' and other radical members of the legislature were daily in the public eye; they could not afford to be too closely associated with violence, neither could the secretive Sons of Liberty afford much public exposure. However, amongst the members were two men who could generate much public sentiment about the Act. Benjamin Edes, a printer, and John Gill of the Boston Gazette produced a steady stream of news and opinion. Within a very short time a group of some two thousand men had been organized under Ebenezer McIntosh, a South Boston shoemaker.

The first widely known acts of the Sons took place on August 14, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver (who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree on Newbury street, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it. The boot was a play on the name of the Earl of Bute and the whole display was intended to establish an evil connection between Oliver and the Stamp Act. The sheriffs were told to remove the display but protested in fear of their lives, for a large crowd had formed at the scene. Before the evening a mob burned Oliver's property on Kilby street, then moved on to his house. There they beheaded the effigy and stoned the house as its occupants looked out in horror. They then moved to nearby Fort Hill were they built a large fire and burned what was left of the effigy. Most of the crowd dissipated at that point, however McIntosh and crew, then under cover of darkness, ransacked Oliver's abandoned home until midnight. On that evening it became very clear who ruled Boston. The British Militia, the Sheriffs and Justices, kept a low profile. No one dared respond to such violent force.

By the end of that year the Sons of Liberty existed in every colony. Their most popular objective was to force Stamp Distributors throughout the colonies to resign. The groups also applied pressure to any Merchants who did not comply with the non-importation associations. Wherever these groups existed they were either directed in secret by leading men in the community or actually lead by them. However, there were opportunists everywhere, too, who would use the name Sons of Liberty to carry out acts of revenge and other violence not related to the cause
 
The Shoppers Park headhouse is open. The escalator is out of service... of course. Seems like they redid the stairs & non-slip treads. Much better now, but they kept the ugly brick sides on the stairs. Was hoping they'd resurface it with metal/alucobond for something sleeker.
 
Its a wonderful tower I just wish it looked better from the south I was thinking this today as I was looking at it. We have by far the worst angle of the tower, but at least it adds a new peak and is very visible from many places here. Basically all other angles of the tower are borderline iconic, we just have pretty decent. Either way still a win for the city as a whole and the southern neighborhoods aren't necessarily the crown jewels of Boston anyways. They are good in their own ways not knocking us, but you know what I mean.
 
odurandina said:
Thank you very much for these awesome pics.
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thank you! always nice to hear folks appreciate our(photograhers) work 🙂 Some more from today and yesterday I thought they washed this thing, tonite from Dorchester it was glowing orange but I was on the train and couldn't get a pix
 
Boston02124 said:
thank you! always nice to hear folks appreciate our(photograhers) work 🙂 Some more from today and yesterday
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Boston -- you are becoming a specialist in the cloud reflection shots -- Bravo

I also really like the juxtapositions of well known facades and architectural features against the glass wall -- especially Old South's tower and steeple

There's got to be a place to stand, to paraphrase Archimedes, where you can see in the same frame Old South and the reflection of Old South.

The best example of something similar is a photo with both the former Hancock with the weather Beacon [now the Berkeley Building] and its reflection in the former JHT [now 200 Clarendon]

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-- I managed to get one with the Celtics pennant flying after the most recent NBA title by standing on the edge of the Public Garden near to the Make Way for Duckling statue group
 
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