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- 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
- Notch shot
- Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)
- Ship lifespans
- New service
- You Say Station, I Say Potato ...
- Iron Age
- Thank you, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Grand Central Terminal
- If they made a movie of it
- Obsolete by then.
- Half the tonnage at the NYPANO dock
- Ravages escaped, bank notes signed and dated
- Chatham expansion
- Steepled in History
- Made by York
- No Summer Vacation
- Wait a minute ...
- $$$
- Joad on the Road
- Street Lights Survive
- Now & then
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Scenic Swampscott: 1907
1907. "The beach and lobster traps -- Swampscott, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
My hometown
That is indeed the steeple of St. John's Church. Swampscott is my hometown, I grew up there from 1958-1976 before leaving home. My boyhood home is about a block or so past the houses visible at the end of the beach. As a kid I used to go to this beach all the time, until it got polluted and stinky and I went to another beach farther away.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this photograph before somewhere, as I remember my reaction to it: "I sure hope the Lynn Fire Dept. has their hand trucks out fighting that fire on the horizon!"
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... in the Shorpy mode: "Finding Dory"
Right out of a Howard Chapelle book
The Swampscott dory has to be one of the prettiest fishing boats around.
Fisherman's Beach
If you look directly up from the man with the black umbrella, you can see the tip of a steeple -- probably St. John the Evangelist church. I've zoomed in on it in the street view below, you can back up to look around. I can't match any buildings, but the contour of the beach matches, as does the topography. To the left is an industrial area.
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