limeduck » Jules Aarons http://www.limeduck.com Raising the pH of your blogwater since 2006 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:38:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 North Station to North Station in 50 years http://www.limeduck.com/2009/10/04/north-station-to-north-station-in-50-years/ http://www.limeduck.com/2009/10/04/north-station-to-north-station-in-50-years/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:22:58 +0000 David http://www.limeduck.com/?p=2706 I set out last week from North Station, taking the commuter rail with legions of downtown office-workers headed home to the suburbs like Don Draper.  But wasn’t headed for scotch and family, I was taking my first car-free trip to the DeCordova museum for the opening of three new shows.

When I arrived at the museum an hour later, I found myself looking at where I started, fifty years ago.

That’s North Station in the ’40s, photographed by Jules Aarons, part of an exhibition at DeCordova called “In the Jewish Neighborhoods” consisting of pictures of Boston’s North and West ends as well as Paris and New York in the 1940s.  The green line trolley is just about the only thing recognizable in this picture now, even though the tracks have been sunk underground and North Station has been subsumed (literally) in the TD BankNorth Garden.

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