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Ed Spadoni > Boston, looking north, with landmarks Z - Zakim Bridge, the best part of the "Big Dig". For a closer look, see Diane's recent daily here: http://bit.ly/9pYqhc B - TD Banknorth Garden (always the Boston Garden to we Bostonians), home of the Celtics and Bruins, ice shows, circuses, conventions and more G - Government Center K - John F. Kennedy Federal Building, location of the office of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy C - Boston City Hall
Ed Spadoni > Boston, looking North The last in the Boston series, for now 2/6/2010 Thank you all for your comments on this series from Boston. It's a great city, and as many of you have expressed an interest to visit or re-visit, I would highly recommend. (No, I don't work for the Office of Tourism!). For another look at this view with landmarks identified, please click here: http://bit.ly/bgYgTW
Ed Spadoni > H.A. Hovey Co. 2/4/2010 These signs are hung inside the Great Rotunda of Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. I did some research of H.A. Hovey Co. and found: The earliest reference I found was of Horatio Atwell Hovey who was born in 1820 and "worked for several years in the butter trade in his father's stall in the Faneuil Hall market... and at 21 became a partner with his father." [Google Books] The latest reference was this: Varnum Russell Mead, retired owner of H. A. Hovey Co. of Boston and Cambridge, died Dec. 18 [2006] after suffering a fall near his home on Martha's Vineyard. Following World War II, Mr. Mead went into business with his late father, Francis V. Mead, at H.A. Hovey Co. located next door to Durgin Park in the Quincy Market. Mr. Mead sold his business and retired in 1984. [The Martha's Vineyard Times, posted Dec. 18, 2006.]
Ed Spadoni > Boston Harbor 2/5/2010 In the lower left of this image you can see the building that marks the entrance to the Callahan Tunnel, which was featured in my daily photo of 2/3. Here is the harbor under which the Callahan and Sumner Tunnels run. That's East Boston on the far side. Thank you for all the comments on yesterday's H.A. Hovey photo.
Ed Spadoni > The Lieutenant William F. Callahan Tunnel... 2/3/2010 ... is one of three tunnels beneath Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. It carries motor vehicles from the North End to Logan International Airport. The tunnel was opened in 1961. It was named for the son of Turnpike chairman William F. Callahan, who was killed in Italy just days before the end of World War II. Operatic Tenor, William Flavin, of Milton Mass. sang the Star Spangled Banner and Oh Danny Boy at the opening of the Callahan Tunnel in 1961. [Wikipedia]
Ed Spadoni > Faneuil Hall & the Test of the Gilded Grasshopper (View X2) 1/30/2010 Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain, and is now part of Boston National Historical Park and a well known stop on the Freedom Trail. It is sometimes referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty". The gilded grasshopper weather vane on top of the building was created by silversmith Shem Drowne in 1742. Gilded with gold leaf the copper weather vane weighs eighty pounds and is four feet long. Knowledge of the grasshopper was used as a test to determine if people were spies during the Revolution period. The people would ask suspected spies the identity of the object on the top of Faneuil Hall; if they answered correctly, then they were free; if not, they were convicted as British spies. (Wikipedia)
Ed Spadoni > The North End of Boston 1/31/2010 From Wikipedia: Boston's North End is the city's oldest residential community, where people have lived continuously since it was settled in the 1630s. Though small (⅓ mi²), the neighborhood has approximately 100 eating establishments, and a variety of tourist attractions. It is known as the city's Little Italy for its Italian-American population. The Old North Church (the white steeple seen in the center of this image), at 193 Salem Street, in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, is the location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent. This phrase is related to Paul Revere's midnight ride, of April 18, 1775, which preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
Ed Spadoni > Off season 11/25/09
Ed Spadoni > Champions 11/27/09
Boston, looking north, with landmarks

Z - Zakim Bridge, the best part of the "Big Dig". For a closer look, see Diane's recent daily here: http://bit.ly/9pYqhc
B - TD Banknorth Garden (always the Boston Garden to we Bostonians), home of the Celtics and Bruins, ice shows, circuses, conventions and more
G - Government Center
K - John F. Kennedy Federal Building, location of the office of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy
C - Boston City Hall
Ed Spadoni > Boston, looking north, with landmarks Z - Zakim Bridge, the best part of the "Big Dig". For a closer look, see Diane's recent daily here: http://bit.ly/9pYqhc B - TD Banknorth Garden (always the Boston Garden to we Bostonians), home of the Celtics and Bruins, ice shows, circuses, conventions and more G - Government Center K - John F. Kennedy Federal Building, location of the office of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy C - Boston City Hall
Boston, looking north, with landmarks

Z - Zakim Bridge, the best part of the "Big Dig". For a closer look, see Diane's recent daily here: http://bit.ly/9pYqhc
B - TD Banknorth Garden (always the Boston Garden to we Bostonians), home of the Celtics and Bruins, ice shows, circuses, conventions and more
G - Government Center
K - John F. Kennedy Federal Building, location of the office of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy
C - Boston City Hall
See photo in original gallery.
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