Podcasts
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Landmaking in the Back Bay - Nancy Seasholes
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Landmaking in Boston - Nancy Seasholes
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The Development of Landmaking Techniques - Part 1 - Nancy Seasholes
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The Development of Land Making Techniques - Part 2 - Nancy Seasholes
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The Innovation of the Back Bay - Douglass Shand-Tucci
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The Back Bay Part 1 - Nancy Seasholes
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The Back Bay Part 2 - Nancy Seasholes
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Description
ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Things change slowly in the Back Bay. Boston, after all, is the city where women were once said to hide their new clothes from Paris in the closet for a year, so as not to look too fashionable. The earlier photo was made in 1962 from a construction crane atop the new Prudential Center's tower; the second, in 1993, was made from the Pru's observation floor. We notice few changes. Huntington Avenue, which once angled through Copley Square, at lower right, w...
Things change slowly in the Back Bay. Boston, after all, is the city where women were once said to hide their new clothes from Paris in the closet for a year, so as not to look too fashionable. The earlier photo was made in 1962 from a construction crane atop the new Prudential Center's tower; the second, in 1993, was made from the Pru's observation floor. We notice few changes. Huntington Avenue, which once angled through Copley Square, at lower right, w...
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Location
Boston, MA
United States
United States
Nearby Items
| 118 Beacon Street | 279 feet |  | ||
| Gibson House Museum | 423 feet | | ||
| Arthur Fiedler Memorial | 641 feet | | ||
| Charles River Esplanade, MIT | 671 feet | | ||
| David Ignatius Walsh | 867 feet | | ||
| Maurice J. Tobin | 933 feet | | ||
| 17 Marlborough Street | 988 feet | |
