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A brief History
A brief History
A brief History
The Old Howard
A brief History
A brief History
Sally Keith
A brief History
Joe and Nemo
Joe and Nemo
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
Joe and Nemo
Scollay Square post-war
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
The Square today (including the 1987 renaming)
SS in movies, TV, and radio
SS in movies, TV, and radio
SS in movies, TV, and radio
SS in books
SS in movies, TV, and radio
SS in movies, TV, and radio
The Scollay Square Station
SS in movies, TV, and radio
The Scollay Square Station
Adams Square
Hotel Manger/Madison
The Scollay Square Station
Hotel Manger/Madison
Hotel Manger/Madison
Hotel Manger/Madison
Fred Allen
Hotel Manger/Madison
Hotel Manger/Madison
Antique Postcards
Francis Dahl cartoons
Francis Dahl cartoons
Francis Dahl cartoons
Francis Dahl cartoons
Francis Dahl cartoons
Errata
Francis Dahl cartoons
Errata
October 2, 1903: the British invade Scollay Square
Crab Cakes and... The Ancient and Honorable Artillery?
My wife and I were taking lunch at the Union Oyster House when, as I walked around looking at all the exhibits & decorations (being nosy is a habit picked up from my father) I saw this picture of Scollay Square which I had NEVER seen. It was taken on October 2, 1903 when the British A&HA came to Boston. In this fantastic panorama we see the Scollay Square subway kiosk and the Sears Crescent Building along Cambridge Street.
Parade Route
Based on the size of the crowds this parade was clearly a big deal. Fun to see they started in Scollay Square at Young's Hotel, looped around the Common, Public Garden, and the Back Bay before ending on School Street by City Hall.
Two firsts
October 3, 1903 was special not just for the first visit of the A&HA to Boston but, as we see from the front page of the October 3, 1903 Globe, also the very first World Series, one which the Red Sox would win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Adams Square
Though I could not find a newspaper picture of the parade in Scollay Square, there was this remarkable shot in Adams Square (today along Congress Street between City Hall and Faneuil Hall.)
Another fun find....
From gamers Jennifer and Amber comes this screenshot from an XBox game called FALLOUT4. It takes place in an alternate post-apocolyptic version of history, one which (according to its Wikipedia page) features 1940s and 1950s aesthetics, resulting in a retro-futuristic universe largely unchanged since the 1950s,
We were tickled to see the designers included the Scollay Square theater, rendered to look a lot like it did in our own, (only slightly less apocalyptic) universe as it was in 1961. This was just before the theater - and the rest of Scollay Square - were razed to make way for Government Center.