Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part XIX (2025)

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Leftovers from yesterday

 

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Happy Patriot Day! From my archives, here's another lookback to 20 years ago, the day before and day of the 2005 Boston Marathon

Day of, the view from my old apartment at 1088 Boylston

 

[Arenacale]

Once again, incredible stuff! You managed to find the perfect angle of the Pru from the Harvard Bridge that completely blocks 111 Huntington. I thought to myself that the skyline looked oddly barren for 2005 in that photo.

There's a bit of lost innocence to the Marathon photos, especially the the one taken by Exeter.

 

[gorox]

Speaking of innocence lost... I've been lurking on here for about a year now, and truly enjoying all the thoughtful discussions, updates, and photo essays. Similar to KZ, I've come across some old photos of mine spanning the crucial hours of that dreadful day in 2013. Even though it's not Boston today (thankfully), I thought it would be fitting to post them given that it's the Patriots Day. And I thought this might be a good incentive for a first post... I hope the photos don't bring back bad memories or emotions.

 

[DZH22]

4/20 From Buck Hill, Blue Hills

IMG_0080 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0128 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0166 by David Z, on Flickr

 

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[kz1000ps]

More flashbacks to 20 years ago, this time to April 2005. Here's the view from the backside of my building

4/20.... I definitely took this in a *proper* state of mind (that mural was niiiiiiiice)

I watched so much St. Elsewhere reruns on TV Land and once I moved here I had to go see the building for myself. Super exciting!

 

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Yesterday I wandered into Danehy Park and..... I had no idea? Work brought me to the area and with it being so beautiful out I decided to grab the camera and walk a bit. It's rare for an area of Boston to genuinely surprise me these days, but this park did. It feels so unlike anything else in Cambridge, simultaneously so remote and yet right next to all these areas I know inside out.

 

[Charlie_mta]

That's my old neighborhood, and I personally knew Mr. Danehy. I'm really grateful that the old hellhole city dump was filled and capped to create this gem of a park, and named after a fine man. Thank you for the great photos

 

[brazile]

It's a great park, but hoo boy is it windy up on top of that capped fill. Makes geezer ultimate pretty wearing sometimes!

 

[Charlie_mta]

It's a great park, but hoo boy is it windy up on top of that capped fill. Makes geezer ultimate pretty wearing sometimes!

WTF?

 

[brazile]

WTF?

Ha ha, that sentence is probably parseable only if you are familiar with a) ultimate frisbee, and b) "grand master" or ("great grand master" more like) ultimate frisbee at that. Old folks "running" around remembering being 30, but constantly being reminded that they are not. Not that I would know or anything.

 

[#bancars]

Yesterday I wandered into Danehy Park and..... I had no idea? Work brought me to the area and with it being so beautiful out I decided to grab the camera and walk a bit. It's rare for an area of Boston to genuinely surprise me these days, but this park did. It feels so unlike anything else in Cambridge, simultaneously so remote and yet right next to all these areas I know inside out.

Danehy is a gem. It contains one of the two publicly-planted Miyawaki forests in Cambridge!

 

[themissinglink]

This is an older pic from February 2022 that I forgot to share. It shows the view from my Dad's office in the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse. Interestingly, I was in this office when I first discovered archBoston while surfing the web in 2017.

 

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(She was aware, I showed her the shot as soon as she crossed busy Summer St and she approved)

 

[DZH22]

4/24 From Pine Banks, Melrose

IMG_0182 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0256 by David Z, on Flickr

 

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Leftovers from last week