Rose Kennedy Greenway

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O hai!

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hockey92 said:
The cactus from the hilltop steakhouse on rt. 1 would be great right in boston
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That's it -- a permanent Virtual and perhaps later Physical Museum of "Greater Boston Dead Signs and Miscellaneous Exotic Advertisement Fixtures" - -- starts right here with the initial inductees:

1) Citgo Sign - --still there but no longer connected to anything
2) Script CokaCola -- used to welcome you to Boston at the Alston-Brighton Exit from the Pike
3) Cains Mayonnaise Potato Chips -- perhaps the most hacked neon sign -- Vassar St. behind MIT athletic Field
4) Giant Suarjo Cactus on Rt 1 former Hill Top SteakHouse
5) Grazing Cows -- RT 1 Former Hilltop SteakHouse
6) White Fuel Oil Derick -- Kenmore Square
7) Steaming Kettle -- Government Center
8) Giant Milk Bottle -- Childrens' Museum
9) Anything with Scollay Square on it -- such as Sollay Under in tile on the wall on the Blue Line just beyond Gov Center Station
10) PRUDENTIAL --- atop the eponymous tower no longer having any connection to the Insurance Company


Open to other suggestions.......


PS: Bos --- Very Niice --- early Autumn on the Greenway
 
^Rt. 1? Sadly, they don't make em funky like this anymore.
Shell station sign on Memorial Drive still going strong.

There was a large freestanding neon chicken on a pole with flapping wings (Fontaine's restaurant?) on the VFW parkway in W. Roxbury. A classic!

kz if you don't mind my asking what's your camera/megapixels? Your photos often have a hyper realism to them.
 
Brad, I have a Canon T3i fast approaching the 2 year old mark and it has 18 megapixels.
 
How about the big 'Shell' sign on Memorial Drive?
 
Roxxma said:
Where is that?
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It looks like it was at the railroad crossing on Rt 1 in Peabody. I can see the tracks behind it. Must be long gone, because I don't remember ever seeing this in my life. Pretty sure they store box trucks and boats there now.
 
My grandmother lived a quarter mile from that spot and I definitely don't remember it. Seems I was born just a wee bit too late ('83) to be entranced by it as brucepf's link says it was removed in '88.
 
Bay Village or bust!

And I have no particular love for the RKG. Besides that one walk where I covered it from top to bottom I never purposely go to it; it's just one of those places you happen upon once in a while.
 
You're all too young.

Approximate location is coming north on Rte 1 in Danvers/Peabody near the Lowell Street exit. Right *before you go over a set of railroad tracks, it was on the right. It was there long after the store behind it was gone.

The Seawitch restaurant is right near where it was.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=203+...=m&z=19&iwloc=A&panoid=ikF8EmoMMks_meWIrjT_hg

You all don't remember the Green Apple either, then.
 
cca said:
nuff said.
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When I was at MIT there was a plan [don't ask how I know as I would have to pull your heart out through your left nostril] --- But I digress -- there was a plan to "borrow" a long sign that said "Interstate Tool and Die" and temporarily install it atop the small dome at 77 Mass Ave.

To properly understand the hack that never was -- MIT denizens refer to studying as "Tooling" and those particularly dedicated to studying Gnurds as Tools and primary ensconcement of those which was the East Campus dorms as the Tool Box

Well anyway the bolts holding the sign to the building were really tight and the darkness ended and well .....
 
coleslaw said:
you know statute of limitations is probably up by now and this is an anonymous forum you can admit you guilt man, itll feel good.
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OK -- I needed a longer 13/16 inch wrench -- Even hanging on the wrench with both hands -- the bolts wouldn't budge -- I suspect the plot had been plotted at least once before --- the bolts were real strong and real tight -- perhaps a pneumatic impact wrench should have been included in the tool kit ... oh well ... you are right -- it does feel better

It reminds me of the old late lamented wooden chairs in 10-250 [several floors under the Big Dome]

On the back of one chair someone had carved "Science is a Communist Plot" -- age was uncertain other than the functional 10-250 auditorium and the USSR both dated to 1917

Later -- since it appeared that the new inscription slightly overlapped the original carving --- someone had replied somewhat enigmatically -- "Plotting is a Communist Science"

Now nothing but upholstery resides in that hallowed space -- although I'm told that the back of that chair has been preserved in the MIT archives
 
Just going through some old greenway district planning paperwork... I've got two questions: First, has any progress ever been made on the tallest of possible greenway developments, the site adjacent to 125 High Street, which has an allowable height of 600'? Second, how on Earth was the Radian allowed to put its huge wall of death up when the study specifically asks for more active street space in that one area?
 
New Greenway chief wants to add art, new attractions

“We want to give people more reasons to come to the Greenway,” said executive director Jesse Brackenbury.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

“We want to give people more reasons to come to the Greenway,” said executive director Jesse Brackenbury.

By Casey Ross / Globe Staff / January 28, 2014

The next leader of Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway said he wants to significantly increase the presence of public art and other new features in the downtown park network to attract more visitors and boost annual income.


Jesse Brackenbury was approved as executive director of the nonprofit that runs the Greenway during a board meeting Tuesday night. Brackenbury, who has served as interim director for the past year, said he wants to bring new art exhibitions and other upgrades over the next several years.


“We want to give people more reasons to come to the Greenway,” said Brackenbury, 38. “We are now beginning to line up support for an expanded
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This was in the Globe today.

http://www.boston.com/real-estate/n...attractions/qfFQCMUMPZdE84BtuYVT0I/story.html

Not sure how this guy will end up doing.
But the Greenway needs a couple of things.
**Ice Skating Rink
**New Aquarium
**Winter Greenhouse
Greenway should take different shapes every season.
 
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