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Back in the day, storks delivered Boston babies
By adamg on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:45pm
What? It's just a myth? Explain the storks that still adorn the exterior of the old Boston Lying-In Hospital on Longwood Avenue (part of Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1980).
The storks were there in 1927, when Thomas Marr photographed the hospital.
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Yeah, a myth
I know, because I was born there, and If there were any big birds involved, I'd still be having nightmares about it.
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You order an infant, then go there and punch in a code to get your stork delivery.
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People in olden times had no sense of humor!
Seriously, this must refer to something else -- perhaps one of the patrician Yankee benefactors was a bird enthusiast? It can't be whimsy, it just can't!
Nonsense
The Victorians were all about whimsy in architecture, and I love them for it. Look at Boston Ivy railings, or the Cochituate Standpipe at Fort Hill!
(Psst, I think your sarcasm detector is broken)
No, until the 1950s, all children were born by stork delivery!
Expert testimony
My mom says you're wrong. No stork when I was born.