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Road work back in the day

By adamg on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 10:14am

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.

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By kvn on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 5:06pm.

It's Hugh Nawn at work !

And I have that Minot street feeling , might have something to do with the Erie Pub...........

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By tcf098 on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 11:02am.

This must've been taken from way back in the Google Street View archives.

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By Markk02474 on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 11:06am.

Three guys standing around looking at the road with nobody appearing to be doing work.

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By anon on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 11:10am.

There's a work crew working in a trench in the background. Not easily visible unless you open the "see it larger" version.

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By anon on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 11:19am.

Apparently this is the same construction company that built Suffolk Downs and whose steam shovel (and perhaps the exact same truck) was previously featured on UHub.

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By anon on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 11:21am.

one of the many side streets off Dot Ave. I just cant figure which one. Probably the area between Columbia Rd and Fields Corner.

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By anon on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 12:07pm.

looks like Adams and Elmer Rd maybe

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By John Costello on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 12:38pm.

The road does not bend that way either. It isn't Semont, nor St. Mark's Road either. The street in the picture is too short for those and the housing placement is wrong on the corner.

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By mseskin on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 3:17pm.

St. Alphonsus, possibly?

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By Dave on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 3:41pm.

https://books.google.com/books?id=C8g1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=sam...

https://books.google.com/books?id=Bdw2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=sam...

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By BGM617 on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 4:40pm.

The neighborhood where a whole couple blocks burned down in the late 70's Early 80's in north Dorchester. Can't remember the street names, but I think it was up more toward Andrew station on Dot Ave. I haven't lived over there in a while, so I might be confused.

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By Sober Sam on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 8:35pm.

There was a huge fire on Bellflower Street

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By BGM617 on Tue, 01/26/2016 - 8:45am.

That's exactly what I was thinking of.

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By Boston City Archives on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 5:32pm.

Thanks for playing folks! This is Hubbard Road taken from Savin Hill Avenue on November 16, 1927. Here's a link to the original uncropped photo with the caption: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives/15430028844/

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By John Costello on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 6:27pm.

Why nobody could get this is that these houses are all gone. The houses on the right at now the right hand lane of the northbound expressway across from Savin Hill Station. The street is now known as Hubbardston Street.

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By anon on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 10:21pm.

Thanks John. Standing at Savin Hill Station, I often thought those houses up there looked like only one side of a street.

Here is a map of Hubbard Rd in 1933. Zoom in to see the houses now gone.
http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=1733

If you go back to 1910 it looks like it was called Donkin Terrace. See also Rockdale St which looks like and idea that never happened.
http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=1216

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