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- Rear View
- Way in the back --
- Button It Up
- And with an eye on the time ...
- Working in an enclosed ashtray
- Rear View Mirror?
- Tobacco cam
- Basic fact I learned only later in life
- Put a Lid on it!
- Pinstripes in the Tower
- Sound enhancement
- 3438 in '38
- Second Career
- Their days are numbered
- Only the Sensor
- Train control mechanism
- Rarest of the Rare?? & Classy 3400 Class
- Control Mechanism
- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
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Old North Church: 1909
PAUL REVERE
DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE OF THIS CHURCH
APRIL 18 1775
WARNED THE COUNTRY OF THE MARCH
OF BRITISH TROOPS TO
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.
Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1909. "Christ Church (Old North)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The steeple
The steeple was toppled by Hurricane Carol in 1954, captured in a famous news photograph. There's also more here.
Hull Street
This is Hull Street on the way to Copp's Hill Cemetery. Named for Mint Master Hull of the Pine Tree Shilling. He married off his daughter to Judge Sewall (of the Salem witch trials) with a dowry of her weight in Pine Tree Shillings, or so I tell the tourists.
Slack Barrels
Those are light duty "slack" barrels, for dry goods. They wouldn't even hold water. Staves were likely made of fir 1/4" thick, with elm or willow hoops nailed in place, or even without nails - held in place by notching the ends and interweaving them.
Still a parish
Some tourists are apparently surprised to learn that it is still an Episcopal parish church. Revere had the keys to the tower because he was captain of the bell team.
Pre-plastic days.
Love those heavy duty garbage cans.
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