Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

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Thanks ckb!

Use Next Door (all these from parcel N)
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Can I just write a script for vBulletin that posts "That's stunning" after every endus post?
It would say a lot of wear and tear on my keyboard. :)
 
kz1000ps said:
He's referring to the fact that no change has happened to that view since 1992.

Actually, there is a little bit of change: Independence Wharf and the Moakley.
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AH ! !

Roger. I gotcha.. yeah not much has changed on the skyline I hear ya.

Sorry I missed the reference. Sorta new here. ;- )
 
Thanks, endus and catstevens. I love the way 1 Lincoln looks at night. It's just a pretty building and the lighting does a great job of showing it.
 
This one taken about 40 minutes later might show the lighting on 1 Lincoln a little better:

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This faded photo shows the Charlestown Navy Yard on March 19, 1920. In the foreground is the destroyer U.S.S. Preble, which was commissioned that day. Behind her is the U.S.S. Constitution. In the background, you can see the cage masts and three funnel arrangements of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Virginia or Connecticut class.

In those days, the Yard was a busy and interesting place, and Boston had militarily significance. For example, pre-WW1, Germany had colonial aspirations in the Caribbean and South America. A significant piece of the Kaiser's war plan involved detaching part of the German fleet to shell Boston and New York, while the army occupied Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone. He counted on "shock and awe" to knock a panicked America out of the war. Boston would have played the role that Pearl Harbor played three or four decades later.

Anyway, the photo gives an idea of what we would have fought with.

Toby
 
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Is this from somewhere in the Boston Marine Industrial Park? Must be a Sunday, with that huge parking lot empty.
 
It's the MMT Soil Facility and with the exception of a few occasional piles of dirt and a lone security guard, it's always this huge waste of space.

M1
 
What is "MMT" and what is a "soil facility"? Does anyone ever park in that parking lot?
 
AC - You don't happen to have any history on Parcel N do you? I have been curious about what was there.

Cannibalization Parts
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