Post Cards of Boston 1900's-1990

[Scott]

Okay, blue stripe- Ho Chi Minh is looking (our) left. The long strand is his beard and you can see the tip of his nose.

 

[Corey]

Man, those were the days.

 

[atlantaden]

"those were the days"

Words made famous by Archie and Edith Bunker!!

BTW, the green patch in the North End. What is that?

 

[Padre Mike]

^Looks like Copps Hill burial ground to me.

 

[atlantaden]

Thanks Padre, I didn't realize that Copp's Hill was so large a space.

 

[Boston02124]

more cards these you see alot of.

Quincy's oldest and best highrise.[

 

[Boston02124]

some more

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[JohnAKeith]

I liked the "Boston in the future" postcard so much that I put it up on the Boston Herald's Getting Real blog. I hope you don't mind.

 

[czsz]

Some things never change: tacky trolley tours, the boredom of Kendall Square...

 

[kz1000ps]

I raided CardCow's website last summer... here's the State House as it was in the 1890s:

The 1900s:

The teens:

The twenties:

Now in the thirties, things are looking very moderne:

Postcards from the '50s and later are coming!

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Damn, we've lost some real gems.

 

[kz1000ps]

Same view roughly ten years later:

The sixties are in full effect:

Pru lobby:

1970:

1974:

1978:

The eighties:

 

[statler]

 

[ablarc]

Fabulous. I particularly enjoyed the pics of Kenmore Square and Copley. They keep re-doing both.

Boston buses and streetcars should be orange.

 

[czsz]

I believe they were officially colored "orange and cream".

No idea if there was any significance to that.

 

[JohnAKeith]

Oh, TOC brings such beauty to Boston Common!

Also, the Statler building in Buffalo looks similar to the Park Plaza in Boston. You'll have to take my word for it, I deleted all my photos.

 

[czsz]

Buffalo Statler:

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

WOW. Would GC be any nicer if it was a lawn? Actually I think it would, but brick is too easy to take care of (and they don't even do that).

 

[JohnAKeith]

Well, both have three parts.

 

[czsz]

WOW. Would GC be any nicer if it was a lawn?

At first I thought that was a drawing of the UMass-Amherst campus.